Half Life 3 confirmed at Gamescom!

[RobDickinson]

smartypants seems to be someone progress is leaving far behind.

[Turn7]

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[p1stonhead]

Have you played a modern racing sim in VR? It’s fking incredible.

I can’t wait for Alyx. Having been built from the ground up as VR and given it’s a major publisher, I’d imagine it’ll be immense.

[Digger]

p1stonhead said:

Have you played a modern racing sim in VR? It’s fking incredible.

I can’t wait for Alyx. Having been built from the ground up as VR and given it’s a major publisher, I’d imagine it’ll be immense.

Tell us about your VR setup, and the costs?

[p1stonhead]

Digger said:

p1stonhead said:

Have you played a modern racing sim in VR? It’s fking incredible.

I can’t wait for Alyx. Having been built from the ground up as VR and given it’s a major publisher, I’d imagine it’ll be immense.

Tell us about your VR setup, and the costs?

I don’t have one of my own yet!

Budgeting about £2k for incoming setup for it. My friend says that should get a capable setup and an index

[RobDickinson]

Valve always push the boundaries. If you want standard monitor games theres about a billion of them.

You can get a rift headset/controls for £400 or so, not cheap but cheaper than a good flight or racing setup

[Digger]

I’d just like to remind everyone we are still awaiting Half Life 3.

[castex]

Digger said:

Tell us about your VR setup, and the costs?

Alienware 15r3: c. £1,200 from dell outlet ages ago.
An extra !6gb RAM: £50
Oculus Rift: long-term loan from a friend who can't run it.

I'm super-stoked about this. Roll-on 23/03.

[Gary C]

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[Gary C]

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[Gary C]

I imagine that with VR you will get something of speed from your peripheral vision rather than just the fairly stationary ahead view

[p1stonhead]

Just being able to look at apex’s and the like rather than having a fixed camera sold it to me. It was so much more natural to just drive vs a normal screen.

[Gary C]

p1stonhead said:

Just being able to look at apex’s and the like rather than having a fixed camera sold it to me. It was so much more natural to just drive vs a normal screen.

do you also get a better sense of speed ?

[p1stonhead]

Gary C said:

p1stonhead said:

Just being able to look at apex’s and the like rather than having a fixed camera sold it to me. It was so much more natural to just drive vs a normal screen.

do you also get a better sense of speed ?

Debatable. Probably not much actually.

If you had a chair that moved etc I guess you might.

[Bullett]

Interstingly I was at a coporate thing Thursday evening and they had an F1 type shell with a VR headset running laps of Laguna Seca on PCars2 in VR.
Most people I spoke to as VR newbies said it was amazing very realistic/sense of speed/scary etc. One said it was as if you could feel the g-force.
It will never be as good as real-life but it is as close as we can get at the moment.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Gary C said:

do you also get a better sense of speed ?

Well, I get motion sickness from VR if there is too much yaw movement, so possibly.

p1stonhead said:

If you had a chair that moved etc I guess you might.

Very true. It takes surprisingly little physical movement to fool the brain when the visual cues also line up.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Digger said:

Tell us about your VR setup, and the costs?

My PC was already more than capable of driving VR, so my costs were £399 for an Oculus Rift and controllers.

I'd say the cost was worth it for the initial "wow" factor alone.

VR lends itself to experiences more - the BBC's Space VR thing and their Lancaster bombing raid. Also, Titanic VR.
Elite Dangerous is quite an experience in VR too.

I'm really looking forward to Alyx. What's going to make or break it is the UI, though. For example, Subnautica is very immersive (no pun intended) but pretty much unplayable in VR due to the UI.

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Sunday 16th February 16:27

[rosetank]

Digger said:

I’d just like to remind everyone we are still awaiting Half Life 3.

It’ll be a while yet :/

[p1stonhead]

rosetank said:

Digger said:

I’d just like to remind everyone we are still awaiting Half Life 3.

It’ll be a while yet :/

I think Alyx is basically it. They didn’t want the pressure of continuing the story so waited until they could use cutting edge tech instead.

The writer of the series already released what they story would have been.

[Shadow R1]

Subnautica, skyrim and fallout 4 only really work when using a game pad.
I know some people wont get on with them, however It's the best way I've found controlling the above games.