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Re:Oculus Rift is Shipping by 2muchcoffeeman on Monday March 28, 2016 @06:52PM (#11378119)
> Instead of thinking about awesome scenarios where VR will fall short of the status quo, we should think of fun scenarios where VP will be a big step up from the status quo.

Does anyone have links to actual examples? The Rift dev kit has been available for a while now. Developers should have gotten past the 'VR makes too many people sick' phase and started looking at new ideas. What are these new ideas?

Re:Oculus Rift is Shipping by josephg on Monday March 28, 2016 @07:58PM (#11378496)
Altspace ( http://altvr.com/ ) and Tilt Brush ( http://www.tiltbrush.com/ ) jump out at me. Industrial Lights and Magic has been playing with using this stuff professionally as part of their movie making process: ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeaLgPMGzkQ ).

Personally I'm a little disappointed that most of the hype around VR has been explicitly focusing on the gaming aspect. The non-gaming applications of VR are much more exciting to me. I want a meditation room, where I can sit on a stormy mountain to think. I want to program in a virtual room with monitors on every surface, and pieces of code fixed in space, where I move to the code instead of the other way around. Maybe it'll work and maybe it won't - its impossible to know until the hardware gets good enough to try.

Re:Oculus Rift is Shipping by jkaunisv1 on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @02:01PM (#11383442)
I think the meditation/therapy angle is going to be a big one. Being able to get away to a happy place of your choice, maybe with a guided breathing exercise, could be very powerful.
Re:Oculus Rift is Shipping by Blackthorn on Monday March 28, 2016 @10:02PM (#11379019)
Microsoft Flight Simulator X is almost universally considered to be amazing on the Rift.
Re:Oculus Rift is Shipping by marvin on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @02:50AM (#11379911)
Digital Combat Simulator is excellent, apart from the difficulty of reading some of the instruments. Completely new simulator feeling.