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Oculus Rift will have the ability to "stream Xbox One games" in "virtual cinema"
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myharlequin
Member
this is so cool.!!! I am so excited about this, people are just mad I do no why, but they are mad.... maybe it is just irrational hate...just like always when is related to Xbox One
This are also big news
SoulUnison
Banned
I don't think that term *should be used.*
Nobody is going to buy in just because of this feature. But yeah, Virtual Desktop is what I use and I think it's dope. Nobody that I demo'd it for thought about the resolution or anything, just "holy shit!". Also there were a lot of people in the Oculus reddit that liked playing through Virtual Desktop so at least I'm not to totally alone, lol. But I respect that a lot of people won't like it. Hell, lots of people hate 3D and I loved it. Now 3D has pretty much nothing in common with Virtual Cinema except for the part where the open nature of PCs means that for the people who DO like it it'll always be there and that's good enough for me. It doesn't need to be maintained or anything, it's just forever an option now and that makes me pretty happy
ProvenDeadly
Member
That's an obvious mix up in communication because, what?
That's not right
Xbox Wire Article said:
http://news.xbox.com/2015/06/xbox-xbox-and-oculus-partner-to-change-the-face-of-virtual-reality
its not even about hate or being mad. What is there to be mad about??? Its just so random that its hilarious in a way.
Banjo-Kazooie
Member
He's going off of the video in that article where Kudo says you can stream "xbox one games straight to Oculus Rift"
He is misspeaking though
Most certainly.
Banjo-Kazooie
Member
Updated the quote wth what he actually says. He uses the word "straight" so I understand why some are getting confused
Ha, I was just agreeing that he misspoke.
Aceofspades
Banned
MS just want to show anything VR at E3...literally anything.
HomerSimpson-Man
Member
Oh, man. I don't think I can handle that. I'll crap my pants.
Sunnington
Banned
What I'm assuming is, you can play a game with your headset while freeing up the TV. I don't think current gen consoles are capable of doing proper VR. Aren't the headsets supposed to be 4k or something?
BigTnaples
Todd Howard's Secret GAF Account
I dunno. I mean if you are gaming on a small screen, it could be nice to put the Rift on and suddenly have a 100 foot display in front of you. Like you're at the theater instead of your small living room.
rokkerkory
Member
Please no VR stuff MS ugh
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
This seems really gimmicky.
travisbickle
Member
Virtual reality: sitting in a living room has never looked so real!
look the whole reason is because vr functionality isn't coded for those games.
With vr, when you look left or right, it's supposed to coincide with the game.
However, if you're in a virtual room, you can look around and it will pan around the room, instead of in the game.
Basically, it's a "cheap trick" to enable vr gaming on all xboxone games.
With vr, when you look left or right, it's supposed to coincide with the game.
However, if you're in a virtual room, you can look around and it will pan around the room, instead of in the game.
Basically, it's a "cheap trick" to enable vr gaming on all xboxone games.
Honestly, above guy though he is joking does actually point out something some one might actually want to use this for.
If you could customize the room the tv was in to whatever you wanted (on the moon, on some sunny tropical beach, in the middle of Skyrim, etc) , I could see that having some appeal. I'm not sure enough to actually buy a high end PC, occulus Rift, and xbox one to do. But if you already have those three I could see the appeal of doing that.
angrywoodchuck
Member
This is similar to playing your Wii U games on the Wii U touch screen controller. I think it's cool, especially if you have people watching something on your TV or if you want to play it while in bed away from the TV.
Hydrargyrus
Member
Game changer for forever alone gamers.
Now you could simulate that you have a family and they enjoy watching you play videogames
Now you could simulate that you have a family and they enjoy watching you play videogames
Night Angel
Member
You're the one who can't read, here. I said that you should buy a goddamn TV to play your XB1 games instead of buying a rift and a PC to stream it in shit quality on a fake TV. Your amazing rebuttal was for a post no one was making, so congratulations.
Oh, and of COURSE the whole argument was about space. Yeah, totes. Because it's more important to pretend to play on an imax screen in shitty resolution than to actually own a TV with good resolution and less input lag/latency. Sure thing, bro.
Head.spawn
Junior Member
They'll be showing Hololens.
MilkyJoe
Member
flaxknuckles
Member
The resolution or graphics would be horrible beyond imagination trying to render a game and a virtual space at the same time on a PS4.
Would that really be so taxing? Actually, yeah I could see there being overhead. Gotta have that flawless tracking and surely that would take some power. I'm sure they are thinking about these things but I'm interested to see what they're doing.
Crayon
Member
Nah not with a fake room or environment or avatar, just a black void with a personal floating screen.
I think the point is not the virtual screen. It's just a marketing ploy to trigger this kind of press: http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/11/oculus-and-microsoft-love/ (tl;dr: the rift is to the xbox one what morpheus is to the ps4)
What they wanted is to put "Xbox One" and "VR" in the same sentence. I guess it's a success.
What they wanted is to put "Xbox One" and "VR" in the same sentence. I guess it's a success.
You really don't get it, huh?i just realized that Sony already did this in PlayStation Home like six-seven years ago
Zambayoshi
Member
So hang on, if you can run a PS4 through an Xbox One via HDMI-in, does that mean you can play PS4 games in a virtual cinema using Oculus? No need for Morpheus at all!
Edit: Beaten http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=167412720&postcount=601
Edit: Beaten http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=167412720&postcount=601
SkoomaSuckinSwit
Member
Virtually being in that Playstation Home theater room, and playing a PS3 game that's streaming to the big tv. That's not what's going on with XboxOne games and Rift?
How About No
Member
Look, after the Oculus, XBone, and PC you won't be able to even afford a living room, so it's great they're doing this!
16 pages, someone probably beat me to that joke
16 pages, someone probably beat me to that joke
It would be like you were actually one of those avatars occupying that virtual Home space and looking at that screen scaled the way it would be in real life. It may not be amazing to some but they're 2 totally different things.
aygomyownroad
Member
Would be cool if your tv was occupied and you wanted to play.... But as you need a pc just stream to that via Windows 10.
Its lame. But key thing its just a feature of the rift not the intention of the whole unit.
Its lame. But key thing its just a feature of the rift not the intention of the whole unit.
Americanmushroom
Banned
Lol thought you were serious first and I was like 'wtf this is so wrong lol'. But yeah pretty sure its gonna happen lol. Pre order now and get an exclusive VR virtual cinema Call Of Duty Room! With a soldier sitting next to you looking at the screen
Alx
Member
While I can see the cool aspect of having a virtual living room on the moon or any other crazy place, it makes you wonder if it is not counter-productive to add information outside the (virtual) screen. You're supposed to focus on what's happening on the screen and forget about the environment, most games do their best to immerse you in their world for that (and that's also the base idea of VR). An interesting virtual environment would be at best ignored, at worst a distraction from the game.
It's even worse for movies in such virtual theaters, at least with a game you could have a virtual crowd cheering you, in a theater the quieter they are, the better.
boredandlazy
Member
But wouldn't this have problems with resolution and aliasing/anti-aliasing ?
e.g. given the rift has a physical resolution of 1200 vertical, I assume the effective resolution of the rift is substantially lower - and it obviously pixels will not align with the virtual display of the XB1.
[and whilst XB1 games tend to run sub-1080P, afaik the UI itself always runs at 1080P]
?e.g. given the rift has a physical resolution of 1200 vertical, I assume the effective resolution of the rift is substantially lower - and it obviously pixels will not align with the virtual display of the XB1.
[and whilst XB1 games tend to run sub-1080P, afaik the UI itself always runs at 1080P]
Vindicator
Member
I hope they include Splitscreen multiplayer with other Oculus users.
You can throw some avatars in the space, and have their head gestures mapped to their rift. That would be enough to make you feel like you were in the same physical space as these people. But, since everybody has their own screen, you wouldn't really need splitscreen. Everybody would be looking at the same screen in VR, but they would see different images.
It would be neat to be able to play games online with friends and feel like you're actually in the room with them. The only time I play games online these days anyways is with my old college friends who are half a country away. We mainly play as a way to chat and catch up.