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Sun 30/07/00 at 11:12
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YAY!

Surposedly someone is developing a VR headset for the Playstation 2.
If you have ever read any of my other posts, mainly the first post in this discussion slot right down at the bottom, you will know that i really want VR to become more mainstream. Surposedly the VR headset should work in conjuction with the controller. I don't see why VR headsets arn't that common at the moment because really with games like first person shooters, all they should have to do is make the tilt mechanism in the headset act like a mouse to look, which i don't think should be that hard a task. Perhaps the reason there not mainstream yet is because of the costs of them. Hopefully with the constant advances in technology, they should be able to produce VR headsets relitively cheaply! Here's hoping because playing games in VR is SOOO much fun because you really feel like your there. Just imagine playing Perfect Dark in VR! It'd be absolutly brilliant being totally submerged in a different world moving your head to look around instead of having to tilt some little stick.

What are other peoples views on the new devlopments into VR?

One last thing. I just hope that the people that make the VR headset bring it out on the Dolphin because i'm gonna be getting one of them ages before i bother to get a Playstation 2, that's if i ever bother to get a Playstation 2.

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Fri 16/11/01 at 16:27
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Then again, 20 years ago it was going to take a lot of technology to make a game with lots of colour, let alone full 3D gameplay with photorealistic graphics!
Fri 16/11/01 at 16:23
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"Hoo Har"
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Its going to take alot of technology. You'd have to be able to somehow kinda' hack into someones brain. Maybe be there might be some kinda' of new energy. Like safe Readiation or somthing like that.

By the way, I wont be on later this evening as its my Dads 40th party, so I'll check you all laters.
I'm out...
Fri 16/11/01 at 16:21
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Lol, a small flaw I remembered AFTER I pressed post...

I didn't mean the Matrix exactly, the film just put that in for tension and danger, it wouldn't have been very exciting if the characters couldn't die.

I think that future systems could allow you to go into the game, and when it ends, for whatever reason, you would wake up like it was a dream.

Should happen within the next 50 years or so...

In m frail 66 year old body, I'll be able to plug into a computer machine and feel young again...
Fri 16/11/01 at 16:03
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"Hoo Har"
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Strafex, when you die in the Matrix you die in the real world. Sorry to have to tell you this tragic news. :(
Fri 16/11/01 at 15:41
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I think its creators realised how flawed and limited it was.

You were their in the output (it sort of felt like you were there through vision and sound), although not through input (no walking or moving - just a standard controller).

REAL VR (Real Virtual Reality???) will come in the form of a Matrix style thing where you think you're there (your brain is connected to the computer) and you are there, only when you die or finish playing, you can switch back to your usual life.
Fri 16/11/01 at 15:24
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"Devotion 2The Ocean"
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I wrote this a while back!

Does anyone know what happened to the VR head sets which were surpose to come out for the new consoles?

Also what do think of the idea of VR in games nowadays?

:)
Sun 30/07/00 at 23:50
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i agree with you mate with this vr thing, i think it would really boost todays gaming rather having to use a control pad with an analogue stick it would really set the mood for a first person shoot 'em up but the only game it would suit if you think about it but it would make it feel alot more if they had an a rumble pack feature fitted in with it. Wouldn't it be good if they mixed a console with a virtual reality head set were instead of a pad you could buy these special gloves and guns and attach them to the VR head set and instead of using discs it could be internet compatible and you just download the games. That would good for your wallets so instead of forking out wads of money on games you could be spending it on other stuff. Or instead of that downloading business you could link it up to your Dolphin or PS2 and just play the games of that.
Sun 30/07/00 at 17:55
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I just hope they (Nintendo) do a better job than they did with the Virtual Boy.
Sun 30/07/00 at 11:12
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"Devotion 2The Ocean"
Posts: 6,658
YAY!

Surposedly someone is developing a VR headset for the Playstation 2.
If you have ever read any of my other posts, mainly the first post in this discussion slot right down at the bottom, you will know that i really want VR to become more mainstream. Surposedly the VR headset should work in conjuction with the controller. I don't see why VR headsets arn't that common at the moment because really with games like first person shooters, all they should have to do is make the tilt mechanism in the headset act like a mouse to look, which i don't think should be that hard a task. Perhaps the reason there not mainstream yet is because of the costs of them. Hopefully with the constant advances in technology, they should be able to produce VR headsets relitively cheaply! Here's hoping because playing games in VR is SOOO much fun because you really feel like your there. Just imagine playing Perfect Dark in VR! It'd be absolutly brilliant being totally submerged in a different world moving your head to look around instead of having to tilt some little stick.

What are other peoples views on the new devlopments into VR?

One last thing. I just hope that the people that make the VR headset bring it out on the Dolphin because i'm gonna be getting one of them ages before i bother to get a Playstation 2, that's if i ever bother to get a Playstation 2.

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