Visionary Realms, support for Virtual Reality! Mouse Look ties to headset still use keyboard to input commands still use mouse for clickies and targeting ultra basic support however... for more indepth vr support select abilities and movement with left controller right controller for flicking and targeting abilities more ways to get motion sickness. more ways to game! moar ways to innovate!
ooh let me pitch it better, one u can bring in players from the vr community, two u can use it as a sales pitch for potential investors, three vrvr baby!
I have and love VR. I think it would be way too expensive to build around the game in any meaningful way. Just remember the cash cow kickstarter game with well over 300 million dollars invested worth of backing dropped VR from their core goals because it was too hard to implement along side the normal game. Even VR games like Elite Dangerous have dropped VR from their expansion to save time/money.
I would pay way too much money for blade and sorcery combat in elder scrolls 6 but not the millions they would need to make it work.
The thing about VR changing over to support VR is VR would need to build the VR features to be more integrated and not just tacked on.
VR coding is a whole different beast complared to the coding VR has done up till now and would just add way more time/work onto VRs plate.
Plus all that standing around for 2+ hours sounds exausting, also would Joppa go full Sword Art Online on us and trap us in the VR?
stellarmind said: it isn't expensive if you attract the right investors.... lets go occulus rift, invest 80million into visionary realms
Sadly, Occulus Rift was bought by Facebook, one of the big tech companies that I would LEAST expect to accept having no creative control over Pantheon while pouring a boatload of money into it. Not to mention that 'the Zuck' is more interested in making vr a part of social media -think: hanging on a virtual beach with your friends - than a gaming platform.
Of course if Pantheon is wildly successful and 5 years after release is flush with money and looking for its next expansion theme, adding vr support wouldn't offend me none.
stellarmind said: muh immersion is worth a sneeze of death
As usual, I enjoy your enthusiasm and perspective.
I love the idea of a VR MMORPG. I think one can be made with current VR tech or at least within the next couple of hardware iterations. I however do not thing it can be blended properly with a traditional screen mmorpg.
Virtual reality has different strengths and needs. The total polygon count that VR headsets can handle is much lower than a top of the line screen and GPU, maybe by as many as 3 orders of magnitude. This drives both the models and the target clipping plane, both hard and soft limits. Something that will run well and look good on VR headsets will look like crap on a 4k gaming screen.
VR is also better suited to vector mechanics and action style rather than turn based or tab target + button powers. Not that you can’t do tab target style of play but its not really playing to its strength.
The only way I can think to blend the two is if you go for a low poly non realistic stylized art theme and then still use a keyboard and mouse. The headset would need to be able to know the location of your mouse, keyboard and hands so that you could look down and actually see them in virtual space without taking your headset off. Then you could use a much more traditional interface control system rather than wands. In this way you could choose to either use a headset or a screen.
It ends up being a lot of tech pioneering work that VR really just isn’t large enough or well funded enough to take on.
Yakuza series by Sega (real Yakuza use controllers- they even say so in game!)
Amazon: Controller purchase with PC to controller interface. usb-type antenea you plug into PC and controller, viola can use controller on PC (although PC is master race, controllers are for the lesser-thans that could not fathom the sophistication of PC's)
going on
Those cheapo "VR" goggles your grandparents get from the side stall at a fair and send you as a gift where you put your smart phone in sideways in front of your eyes? jack in the speakers... scan the sqrl code for content- move head see 3-D environment change- yeah... thanks grandma *hug tight*
-hang on- Pokemon Go
Pokemon Go Coding, Controller to PC interface, Cheapo-grandma Sideways Phone "VR" that works- disn't someone at EQ next or somewhere say "doesn't everyone have smart phones?". Slap them together and...maybe? you'll be walking around your living room with a phone in front of your eyes and a controller using both hands, but.... you can swivel your head around and depending on your Signal and maps, go outside a bit? Give a whole new meaning to LAN parties- WIFI parties- you've seen the picture with the guy duct-taped to the ceiling. You have also seen Promos- well I have- when Pokemon Go was big at Jaguars stadium they had a pokemon go "hunt" in the stadium for the fans- all around the stadium in the general bowl and around "allowed" areas in back- along the side of the field- it was cool. That would mean conventions or fantheons could be....remember laser tag? how about a twist on paintball? Im talking dedicated spaces.
From a sub perspective keep it lean, can opt for the VR set or stay as is. add a + to your sub to kickstart funding for possible exploration for legit VR that includes- mapping the space you want to play in OR- cross selling a walk-pad. That way PC players can still play with VR players, it will all look the same- I think- a bit grey here. How will this rig handle the input from other Player characters over Wifi?
I think you will still need a controller that will use up both hands *sigh*
Wait- FitBit- there's where you get Step tracking- yeah? link link link and ta da? Maybe get a something with Samsung- put some competition squeeze on Oculus. I mean if you can run your whole kitchen with Samsung, how hard would it be to link your samsung phone with your samsung watch to your controller and interface with your PC with your google account.
The puzzle pieces are already there it seems, with the cut-outs to fit?
Skip VR and go Straight for Full Dive. VR should hook up with Elon Musk and work something out :3 imagine actually being in Terminus with all 5 senses.