Awesome video, and a great overview of the history of interactive movie games.
Yeah, I think there’s a lot of potential there for some interesting high-fidelity VR experiences that are a blended mix of agency and narrative. It’s an interesting to consider dynamically swapping out the green screen alpha layers with dynamic content. There’s a lot of potential there, and the biggest concern would be file sizes. So perhaps going the lower-fidelity route would help with maximizing the file compression and allow for longer and more rich experiences. The best part could be that it might open up types of experiences on mobile that would otherwise only be possible on a desktop machine. Especially if you’re able to get the stereoscopy working correctly without positional tracking and within the existing yaw & pitch-only rotation constraints of existing 360-video.

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I think this is a good idea. I’ve imagined an experience in which you have a set of waypoints and travel between them using short video segments, then have a looping video for each waypoint. It’s a lot of filesize, but the fidelity could be very high (even live action) at very low GPU requirements. You can also use green screen techniques to create 360 videos with alpha layers, which get superimposed on top of other videos – with proper stereoscopy this can be quite convincing, and if you additionally infer depth buffers (to get an RGBD video) you can even handle things like occlusion correctly. These ideas would work as well in traditional monitor-based games but interactive movie games haven’t been really explored or expanded much since the 90s – here is a good video on the history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XifwlVjuCT0

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It’s a freakin’ joke, you humorless bore. RPS is a “humorous” site. They like making with the funny. No need responding to your other points if you’re so disingenuous.

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Any idea?
Did you solve that issue back then?
Thanks

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I don’t even know if you are answering question, doesn’t seeom so! 😀

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I got it working with VR gamemanager. However, I get a lot of judder. My system is as follows:

i5 2500k @4.2GHZ
970 @980
8 GB Ram

I’m trying to record with OBS but as soo as I start the recording, I get significant stutter. I am now trying to find out what is the reason for that or if it’s just the performance impact of the recording and it can’t be any better. The weird thing is, that often the recording is fine and smooth the first few seconds and then the judder begins. Also, lowering the settings, say 720/30FPS instead of 1080/60 doesn’t seem to affect the issue at all. In both cases there is the same amount of judder.

Any idea where this comes from and what to do against it?

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I’d desperately need your help, because I just can’t get the recording to work. My problem is that I run into issues with the extended mode. I set my Rift to primary display but the apps will always open on my 2nd display, my monitor. I have no idea why this is happening. Switching things up doesn’t help either, because it seems that I can’t record my second monitor with OBS. No matter what I try, it always seems wrong. 😦

I successfully recorded games with the Nvidia Shadowplay feature, but that is a limited feature.

Thank you!

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Your Crane operator concept is pretty cool, “day in the life of” experience. We were jamming here on Social-emotional learning (SEL) simulation concepts and came up with a narrative based game where the player is a nursing home resident or someone with a physical disability and is confronted with some sort of othering or role-taking” challenge. Putting together a Unity team!

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