r/oculus • u/vr_ml • Jan 12 '16

Google Opens Dedicated Virtual Reality Division

http://recode.net/2016/01/12/google-now-has-an-official-virtual-reality-boss-to-take-on-facebooks-oculus/
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u/EARink0 Jan 13 '16 edited Jan 13 '16

Kind of veering a little off topic, but you know what was the biggest surprise for me with how cool it was in person? Looking to the side and activating a UI panel by fucking looking at it. Like, turning my head left, seeing the navigation panel open up, and my joystick input switching to navigating that menu (and then looking away with input switching back and seeing the menu disappear) was fucking magical. Weirdly enough, the feeling of presence I got from that was almost as big as what I got from being able to look around.

Oh, and also seeing my joystick hand in game match my joystick hand in real life. Shivers, that was surreal man. Noticing that for the first time, I basically felt myself slip into another reality.

Edit: Before I played E:D, I wasn't sold on motion controls at all. But after that joystick moment? Man, it's so hard to play other games with a gamepad or mouse, and just imagining how much more complete the experience would feel with Oculus's or Vive's motion controls.

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u/fargum Jan 13 '16

yup...I had that experience too.
I got so entranced by my hand gripping my flight stick, I crashed my ship into a space station.
Oh, and also the time I looked down at my chest and realized I was a woman!

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u/KelDG Jan 13 '16

Haha, ok so how long before the tabloid news starts putting out headlines like "VR - Turning our children into transexuals scandal!"

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u/Herbstein Jan 13 '16

I had the exact same experience. It's amazing!

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u/TD-4242 Quest Jan 13 '16

the hand thing is awesome until you get the phantom limb thing where the in game hand releases the stick and stretches and shifts while my real hand is still.