Oculus Rift | Domača navidezna resničnost a.k.a. pravi next-gen

[Anduril]

Oculus Rift | Domača navidezna resničnost a.k.a. pravi next-gen

Kako o temle še nimamo topica?

http://www.oculusvr.com/

Oculus Rift je naglavni prikazovalnik / head-mounted display moderne dobe, v osnovi podoben stvaritvam iz 80ih in 90ih, ki smo jih gledali v filmih in okušali doma (*kreh*Virtual Boy*kreh*), vendar nafilan z moderno tehnologijo, ki očitno dejansko pričara fenomenalen efekt virtualne resničnosti.

Razvil ga je nek stric Palmer Luckey, dolgotrajni navdušenec nad HMDji, nad njim navdušil idjevega šefeta in vizionarja Johna Carmacka, s katerim sta zadevo nadaljno izpilila, potem pa je za dodatna sredstva ponucal Kickstarter in namesto zaželjenih 250 tisoč dolarjev pridobil dobra 2 milijona. Sledili so prikazi na parih sejmih, navdušenje drugih razvijalcev (npr. Valvea) in prve javne predstavitve, kjer folk ostaja brez besed. No, ne, najbolj pogosta je očitno "Holy fucking shit".

Oculus so v osnovi očala, sestavljena iz dveh malih LCDjev, vsakega z resolucijo 640x800 (v trenutni razvijalski verziji, končna prodajna naj bi imela 960x1080 za full HD resolucijo), ki združena prikažeta popoln 3d efekt. Obenem je sistem natrpan z giroskopi, akcelerometri in magnetometri, ki zaznajo vsak najmanjši gib glave in ga izjemno hitro pretvorijo v premik v špilu. Baje je efekt neverjeten, možgani pa se dejansko odločijo, da je uporabnik v nekem drugem svetu.

Dovolj brbljanja, najbolje si je pogledati kak video, ko folk to prvič sproba:

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KJo12Hz_BVI

Ali pa prebrati vtise špilavnih razvijalcev:

"What I've got now, is, I honestly think the best VR demo probably the world has ever seen."John Carmack, id Software

"Needless to say, I'm a believer... We're extremely excited here at Epic Games to get the Unreal Engine integrated with Oculus."

Cliff Bleszinski, Design Director Epic Games

"I think this will be the coolest way to experience games in the future. Simply that... that big."

David Helgason, CEO Unity

"I’m really looking forward to getting a chance to program with it and see what we can do.”

Michael Abrash, Valve

"It looks incredibly exciting, if anybody’s going to tackle this set of hard problems, we think that Palmer’s going to do it. So we’d strongly encourage you to support this Kickstarter.”

Gabe Newell, President and Owner Valve

... in ostale tehnološke/gaming sfere:

From PopSci Article titled "CES 2013: Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset Is Freaking Amazing": "It's impossible to really get across how world-shifting the Rift is; it's exactly like we'd dreamed virtual reality would be. You put on these goggles and you slip into a completely new world, in which your body movements respond pretty much the way they would in the real world. It's comfortable, too, and not particularly heavy, which I was worried about. Feels mostly like ski goggles."

From PopSci: "The Rift is certainly one of the most amazing things I've seen at CES this year--hell, in any year. It's not really possible to describe what it's like to use it, but as soon as I put the goggles on and turned my head, I think my mouth dropped. It's flat-out awesome."

From PCWorld: "Oculus Rift VR headset prototype works so well it’s a little scary"

From PCMag: "After the 3D effect of the Oculus Rift, the head tracking provided the most sense of immersion. I didn't just see objects with depth, I saw them as if I was looking at them with my own eyes. The Oculus Rift tracked every movement of my head as I looked around, tilting and shifting the picture appropriately. I found myself watching a snowflake fall from the sky and moving my head to follow it. I looked from high above my head down to the ground as the snowflake fell. I couldn't see my feet or any other part of my body, but, again, this is a software issue. The effect was still incredible."

From TechRadar: "The experience is extremely fluid and natural, to an amazing degree. And in less than a minute, one comes to the realization that this is the bold face of the future of gaming that so many have longed for."

From IGN: "This virtual world became more palpable, more real, more believable and instantly became more of a character than just about any other game world I had ever played through. And perhaps that’s the best way to phrase it. In the past, I simply played through worlds. I moved through them. This one made me feel like I was physically in that space. Living in it. Unable to look away, because it was all around me. It’s immersion on an entirely different level."

From CNET: "guess what it comes down to is this: the Oculus Rift is the virtual reality we've been promised since the dawn of video gaming, and really, the early days of science fiction. It leaps past all other attempts at the technology and moves into the realm of total immersion. The feeling is so natural that it's effortless to suspend disbelief that you are standing in that place, in that world. And that's with the prototype's crappy LCD screen and early pre-pre-preproduction software and drivers.

When this thing finally ships, with a better screen (can a boy dream for OLED?), and a bunch of software available, it could be a radical shift in gaming and who knows what else."

Makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck to think about the possibilities."

Resno, zadevo je treba očitno sprobati v živo, da postaneš čisti believer, ampak glede na napisano in videno, sem jaz nad Oculusom 124x bolj nahypean kot nad katerokoli prihajajočo next-gen konzolo.

This is the future of gaming in the making, folks.

Urejano Maj 4, 2015 od matej1990

[Jackobi]

Letos obvezna udeležba gamescona! Že lani Na E3ju al paxu je zadeva baje že čist noro izpadla. Sedaj, ko pa so patentirali svoj hardware in osveževanje dvignili iz 250 na 1000Hz pa je baje že prav jaw dropping.

[matej1990]

Da še tukaj naredim malo promocije, če že obstaja namenska tema:

Igra leta 2012 Journey in Oculus VR v Udarniku Maribor

Danes, 21.11 od 21. do 24. ure in v nedeljo od 15. do 17. ure, bo v Udarniku, na Grajskem trgu 1, Maribor, demonstracija očal za virtualno resničnost Oculus VR.

Po uspešni pridobitvi sredstev na Kickstarterju, ameriško podjetje Oculus VR načrtuje komercialno različico v naslednjem letu, že zdaj pa lahko preverite zgodnji prototip, ki ga posoja podjetje Motiviti. Skupaj s skupino za promocijo interaktivnih medijev Maribor Score bomo ugotavljali uporabnost tehnologije za nove oblike virtualne izkušnje.

[matej1990]

No, včeraj sem bil na "predstavitvi" Oculus očal.

Moram rečt da sem bil razočaran, pa ne ravno nad delovanjem očal, ampak zaradi izjemno prekratkega preizkušanja očal.

Sprva so uvodno predstavili kratko zgodbo očal, kako se je hype začel na letošnjem E3. Vse lepo in prav, ampak... med tem razlaganjem se je nato zbralo okoli 50 ljudi in vsi so hoteli preizkusiti očala... predvidenega časa za očala pa je bil samo 1h! Tako sem lahko imel nadeta očala le 2 minuti, več pa ni bilo časa. Ker je celotna zadeva še v krepki beti (demoti se redno obešajo, zatikajo,...), sem imel izjemno slab 3D, kar je popolnoma uničilo celotno Oculus izkušnjo. Tako da nisem ravno izkusil pozitivnih občutkov, ki so jih vsi opisovali ob prvih izkušnjah z očali na E3 in kasnejših eventih. Zadevo bi moral v miru stestirati in pravilno skalibrirati, da bi izkusil pravilne učinke, ampak žal v nedeljo nimam časa da bi se ponovno udeležil dogodka.

Je pa sama zadeva res TOP, kar se ideje tiče in prinaša čisto novo dimenzijo doživljanja okolice v igrah. Z obračanjem glave lahko veliko bolj naravno opazuješ okolico. Počutiš se kot v središču okolice, saj imaš ekran čisto pred očmi, vsak gib glave pa se takoj odrazi s premikom pogleda v igri.

Ampak takoj sem opazil težavo. Večina ljudi ni navajena obračanja glave ob igranju in tako si se moral v igri dejansko osredotočit, da si premikal glavo namesto premikal miško (predvsem v FPS demotu).

Kot drugo pomanjkljivost sem opazil da ko si nadaneš očala nimaš pojma kje sta miška in tipkovnica in ju slepo tipaš (po domače: slep si kot kura ). K sreči je zraven bil pomočnik, ki je moral popolnoma vsakemu postaviti prste na WASD tipke in roko pomakniti na miško.

Najzanimivejši so bili raziskovalni demoti, kjer si se sprehajal po pokrajini in jo v miru opazoval. Tu si se lahko najlažje preizkusil zmogljivost očal. Imeli so tudi demo kure, kjer si pobiral zrna s tal tako kot to delajo kokoši. Čuden ampak zabaven demo. Baje obstaja tudi demo vlakca smrti, ki je zelo dober, a ga žal ni bilo nameščenega na PC-ju.

Težava je, da bi naj zadeva stala 300$ ob splavitvi in bi že naj bila na tržišču, a se je izdaja zavlekla in jo sedaj obljubljajo v v 2014.

Da pa niso očala samo še ena eksotika pripomočkov za PC, pa dokazuje, da so zadevo zagreto prijela v roke priznana podjetja kot so: ID software, Valve, DICE,... vsi ti nameravajo vgraditi native podporo v svoje igralne pogone! BF4 in Oculus!

[Bessie]

Ej super, a fotke pa nimaš nobene, da spravimo v obliko članka?

[matej1990]

Ne žal nič nimam. Vse je potekalo tako na hitro, da ni bilo časa.

[Bessie]

Jaoj...vsaj neki bi stisnu eno fotko, za arhiv...če bo še kdo hodil v nedeljo tam okrog naj naredi forko ali dve, pa še kaj doda pa anredimo double report

Tenks za infote, kolk je pa kaj teža očal oz. kolk je kaj moteče imet to na nosu/glavi?

[matej1990]

Ma, skoraj popolna tema je bila v sobi, pa še nisem hotel izpasti kot edini ki tam slika naokoli.

Glede teže očal se sploh nisem zavzel, tako da bi rekel da niso težke, čeprav izgledajo velike. Tudi nisem zaznal da bi mi pritiskale na nos.

Ampak sej pravim, vse skupaj sem jih imel 2 minuti na glavi, ostalo pa sem lahko le opazoval druge. Kako se zadeva obnese ko jih imaš 2h na glavi je pa verjetno drugače.

So pa bile takšne:

[Bessie]

Bi se mogel znajti in rečt, da pišeš reportažo za KSi portal...

[Anduril]

Škoda, da si mel samo tako malo časa, bi me prav zanimali malo bolj obsežni in nate-skalibrirani vtisi. Kej veš, kako se OR obnese z nami, špeglarji? Se mi še ni dalo iti raziskovati v dosedanjih člankih ...

[matej1990]

En pred menoj je imel enako dilemo, ali naj ima očala gor ali jih naj raje da dol. No, potem mu je ta ki je vsakemu pomagal z miško in tipkovnico predlagal naj jih ima gor. Nič ni pojamral ko je končal s predstavitvijo. Ima pa Oculus ob strani kolešček z možnostjo nastavljanja od 0 navzdol ali navzgor, tako da predvidevam da je ravno ta namenjen dioptriji.

[matej1990]

Nov mejnik... podjetje, ki želi Oculus očala pripeljati do realnosti, je zbralo vrtoglavih 75 milijonov dolarjev!

Oculus VR will have a very merry Christmas indeed after it raised $75 million to help complete the consumer version of the Rift headset.

Oculus began life after it raised an impressive $2.4 million through crowd-funding website Kickstarter. It then raised another $16 million in a Series A funding round. Over 40,000 development kits have been sold. The consumer version is still without a release date.

40,000 developers and enthusiasts, as well as a number of great partners, have joined our cause and helped us bring the seemingly impossible to life. This additional infusion of capital, as well as the leadership and experience of Marc Andreessen, will help us take the final steps toward our ultimate goal: making virtual reality something consumers everywhere can enjoy.

[matej1990]

Tudi NASA uporablja Oculus:

Kinect + Oculus + robot = awesome!

>http://youtu.be/pqNC72fgetc

[matej1990]

Nov CES, nov model Oculus prototipa:

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kdcEwias1Y&feature=share

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMPFXYGoNHI&feature=share

Zadeva je boljša in boljša!

Globinsko premikanje je definitivno zelo dobrodošla funkcija, je pa žal potrebna dodatna oprema - kamera.

[matej1990]

Valve je v novem Steam beta clientu dodal VR podporo za Oculus! Sedaj se je s to podporo možno sprehajati po Steam knjižnici iger, brez da bi morali sneti Oculus očala.

Navodila za vklop VR vmesnika: KLIK! Ampak preden bo kdo nabavil Oculus, bo zadeva že verjetno izven bete.

[matej1990]

Oculus eksperiment - zamenjava spola:

A collective of artists and scientists called Be Another Lab have created a way to use the Oculus Rift to see what it would be like to occupy someone else's body.

Be Another Lab has created the next best thing by staging a symmetrical set of two identical spaces, then having two participants wear Oculus Rifts to see what the other person is seeing. By doing this the participants are able to virtually body swap

>http://vimeo.com/84150219

Unfortunately, the only way to get the simulation to work is if both parties follow the same movements, lest the illusion be broken. Still, it's a neat way to at least catch a fleeting glimpse of what it's like to be someone else.

Ali pa kar kot kinki predigra.

[Bessie]

Zelda VR

>http://youtu.be/6gzXHUyfdyM

[Bessie]

>http://youtu.be/INDKNA7kXoo

[Anduril]

Dbest. Nej že dajo ven komercialno verzijo, jebojiiiih.

Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk

[Bessie]

Sej Sony kmal dal ven svojo varianto

[matej1990]

Izšel je Oculus Rift Development Kit 2, ki temelji na Crystal Cove protipu:

Oculus has opened up pre-orders for its new improved dev kit, DK2, with a price-tag of $350 and with units expected to ship in July.

>http://youtu.be/uVoAz6L_cBc

>http://youtu.be/lzJUcdYQBj8

>http://youtu.be/QKTcsfUQM8M

Urejano Marec 20, 2014 od matej1990

[matej1990]

Izgleda ZELO zabavno!

obrazložitev: deminer je v VR svetu z bombo in nima pojma kako pravilno defuzati. Ekipa "strokovnjakov" z branjem navodil, govorom, feedbackom,... usmerja deminerja, kako pravilno defuzati. Aja, keč je, da je bomba časovno tempirana.

>http://youtu.be/_WYs3Xxh3XE

[matej1990]

Slow motion bullet dodging:

>http://youtu.be/rPnjnwWWxTY

[matej1990]

>http://youtu.be/aZCEMr7IfZE

[matej1990]

Na iFixit so pod drobnogled dobili DK2 in ga seveda razstavili. Kot najbolj zanimiva komponenta se je izkazal ekran, ki ga izdeluje Samsung.

Jup, gre kar za popolnoma enak 5.7" Super AMOLED 1080p ekran, ki ga Samsung uporablja v svojem Note 3 z rahlo sfrizirano frekvenco osveževanja (iz 60 na 75Hz).

Urejano Avgust 4, 2014 od matej1990