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.
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
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Microsoft Flight Simulator X is almost universally considered to be amazing on the Rift.
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?