Re:Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you ...
by andybak on Friday August 04, 2017 @08:24PM
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Agreed. Owned a Vive since last October and still have a "wow!" moment at least once a week.
And that's even without the continual joy of demoing to people who've never tried proper VR. It's genuinely rewarding every time you pop a headset on someone new.
The last two months have seen a flood of incredible VR gaming experiences for the Oculus Rift. I highly suggest you give the current generation of consumer VR another try:
* Lone Echo - Amazing space story line, one of the highest ranked PC games on Metacritic right now: http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/lone-echo
* Echo Arena - Basically the Enders Game zero-g arena in space, multiplayer. Really addictive: http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/echo-arena
* The Unspoken - You're a wizard, with magic, and you use your hands in different combinations with the Oculus Touch controllers to battle other mages, including real people via multiplayer gaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVD1O853aSw
* Robo Recall - Battle robots, grab them with your hands, tear them apart, grab bullets from the air. Epic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIK4D0kVlIs
* Star Trek Bridge Command - You are literally on the bridge of a Star Trek spaceship.
* Mages Tale - VR RPG from the creator of the classic Bards Tale, makes me feel like I'm embedded into a classic AD&D dungeon crawl.
Anyway, that's just a small selection! I picked up an Oculus Rift + Touch Controllers the last two months and have been blown away at the developments lately.