Second Life and Virtual Worlds
I’ve been interested in the LEAP Motion controller since I first heard about it and the Oculus Rift. So, seeing Engadget’s review appear online I had to check it out.
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Obviously they found some problems. You can read more about their experience at their web site: Leap Motion controller review.
There is a recent video up of an interview by Engadget with Oculus VR’s Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell talking about Oculus Share. 13 minutes.
It seems the task of sharing has come up for the Oculus developers. Consider. Have you thought of how often we take screen captures to share with others? How would you do that while using the Rift?
There is also the challenge of how will you use stores, find Rift games… all the basic tasks, in and out of game, we perform when preparing to, playing, exploring, and sharing games. This will apparently some like KOINUP, but for Rift users and developers.
You had to know this was coming… no pun intended. I think it is basic human nature to wonder how sex would be with or if… and add your whatever here… It’s like which is more fun peanut butter, Nutella, or chocolate syrup? And if you include an ice cube and …
So, the question has to have run through some minds regarding how sex would be with the Oculus Rift. A lot of people seem to play the game of ‘breaking in’ new things. When I first thought of it I guessed people would be dodging when Tango Lolas went by.
Well it is not just running through some minds. A company in Irvine, California named Sinful Robot is developing a ‘sex’ game for the Oculus Rift: Sinful Robot is hiring people and moving ahead in developing an erotic game that will have as its basic quest as sexual gratification. AND this has been in progress for almost a year. Nobody told me…
Loki Eliot has an article up: The Big Black Box Arrived – Updated. The Black Box is one containing the Oculus Rift Developers Kit.
Loki has hands on. He has some interesting comments on the Rift.
Michelle Leckrone tipped me off to the new trailer out for SIMS 4.
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I think most people that know about the Oculus Rift know that just a few months ago this was a small startup company trying to get crowd source funding. Now I see an article where one of the titans of the game world has come on board as the company’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
The video here is an older video. 1 hour. It is NOT related to the article about John as Oculus’s CTO. But, it has a load of information about the people involved with Oculus Rift and their accomplishments.
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The titan is: John Carmack. Type “John Carmack” into Google and you’ll get about 1.9 million hits. That’s about two-hundred times more than me. John is considered a gaming pioneer, visionary, and somewhat a legend among gamers and game designers. He was the lead programmer on Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and others.