Kinda sorta. I like the idea, but it will only be useful when
A) more games support it, and
B) You can use it to fire in a direction that is not the one you're moving

I'm personally waiting for someone to hack together something using the Move and the Rift (I figure the Move has the best setup for motion controls with the Rift.)

>>172392
Point B has been addressed by Valve.

Testing the Oculus Rift Develo…

>>172394
As far as I can tell, you can look and move independently (so I can look behind myself as I run away) with some modes, but you still appear to be firing in the same direction you're facing, given a certain cone of freedom when firing (like Metroid Prime 3). I'm talking moving forward, but shooting to the side.

Though I didn't watch the whole video, just the opening part with Heavy. Do they show off moving in one direction and firing in another later on?

>>172396
Yeah. I think 7 different experimental control modes.

I'm friggin' stoked for this. No longer will I have to even think about investing in TrackIR. I'll just build a FreeTrack set up as a stopgap. Any word on whether or not it's 6 degrees of freedom?

X-Plane 10 & TrackIR
Prueba Trackir 4 en Falcon BMS
Falcon BMS 4.32 AAR Dusk practice
TrackIR5 & ArmA2 Premiere …
Strike Fighters 2 - F-105D Thunderchief SEAD

>>172420
The video talks about how it's only spherical, i.e. no Z-axis movement. It only moves your vision around a spherical plane within a game. However, an Oculus Rift guy in the video says that they want the final product to include Z-axis.

Dirt3 6DOF Oculus Rift + Virieo + Hydra

I AM THROWING MY MONEY AT THE SCREEN AND NOTHING IS HAPPENING

I have to praise the OR guys for finding a shittier way of playing FPS than a controller.

>>174894
Yeah, I can't imagine this being enjoyable outside of sims, to be honest. I'd keep it to my flight sims and ArmA where you benefit from head movement.

>>174915
As soon as games can disconnect aim, FOV, and movement, FPSes will take on a new level in ability and strategy. Currently all of these are locked into the same area (with some games maybe offering a bit of freedom with aim), but being able to do cover fire or weapon ready in one direction, while you move in a second, and check your surroundings in a third to make sure no one is getting the drop on you is extremely important in real-world tactical situations.

From what I've seen (with admittedly little digging) is that we've been able to get to two directions, but not yet three. Still better than nothing.

>>174894
I wish I could remember the name of that fancy gun shaped controller.
I bet those that would go well with Oculus Rift.

>>174943
Are you talking about the Falcon. Tell me you aren't.

>>174938
That is currently possible in the ArmA's if you free up your head movement by hitting asterisk.

However, I think the FPS Market is a bad place to be trying to wedge this in. The Sim market makes more sense from a practical standpoint, but not so much a financial one, obviously.

I'm curious to see what the OR offers up in regards to Strike Suit Zero, since it supports the OR.

>>174944
Oh yeah, that's what it's called.

Two words:
Survival Horror

My body is ready.

>>174948
The first person perspective does tend lend itself to that genre rather well.

>>174946
Realistically, you'd be better off getting a Wii remote, blue tooth dongle, and downloading GlovePIE.

>>174949
Indeed. A huge part of good survival horror is the feeling of vulnerability. Having the less-than-omnisicient first person point of view is a good step.

>>174950
But that doesn't provide feedback!
You can't let go of the controller and watch it fall and then bounce back up a little because your virtual gun arm landed on something.

I wanna use this in tandem with my wiimote and this thing
http://www.emotiv.com/

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/orange_county&id=9122999

Welp, they just lost a co-founder to some asshole running from the cops.

>>175102
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!?

>>175102
Pretty shitty. I'm hoping that a portion of my eventual purchase goes towards helping his family, honestly.