UE3 - UT3 Custom Oculus Rift UT3 Level wanted - can share my rift

What I would like to offer is the chance for any UT modder who lives in the DFW area to try out my oculus rift headset when it arrives in late april. I understand their is still a decent amount of warranted skepticism for VR gaming, and perhaps UT3 is not the ideal environment.

I dunno, as I have never played any VR games. I just know this is the best thing to happen to games since the jump to 3d with the N64.

Anyway, if their are skeptical modders that do not plan on modding for the rift, but would like to try out my headset in late April (or whenever I get it, still not sure) message me!

I would love to play a Ut3 level designed for VR, not for the normal interface of the PC or xbox.

For example, often levels are not designed to a human scale - the actors might be 4 feet tall. There are many many other factors to consider. I plan on watching Valve's presentation at GDC 13 to gain more insight in to the problems and promise of VR games.

-Matthew

I take it that means you don't have the requisite knowledge?

Well, I don't mean to sound like a know it all given your knowledge and experience, but the oculus rift is supported by unity and unreal engine and comes with an SDK to ease integration.

Valve already has an early version of it working with tf2.

But you are right, this isn't something someone would do to be nice. They would have to really want to make a level in VR for the oculus rift. And kits won't be arriving for another month (for me anyway).

sigh

I think you are pulling teeth at this point.

I am simply talking about making a level to scale and with slower motion of the players so as to not get sick. It's probably true that the SDK hasn't been updated yet (or maybe it has) but again, I don't think you are telling me or anyone on this thread anything that I didn't know.


Just in case someone gets confused and thinks making an oculus rift enabled ut3 level is a waste of time due to lack of UDK support, here ya go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN-m3e41iOI

sigh

Guys, i get all of my info from MTBS where if you dig around, you can read about the history of oculus.

But I do understand your skepticism.

I get it now

I get it now. All development so far has proceeded from games that have had the source code released.

CliffyB is on the board of directors or is an early investor/advisor at oculusvr.

He has also stated publicly that he likes the idea of an open world shooter rpg, and now he is involved with oculus, so who knows where that could lead.

Thanks for the posts ambershee and the skepticism Sir_Brizz. I've changed my mind about the idea.

hmm

ambershee said:

Not quite - the Rift guys have access to the UE3 source code and have built an integration - but if you also wanted to use it you also have to have licensed the UE3 source (at this time), much like Hawken.



You really just need to wait and see what happens

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Yep, and yep.

When the mid console cycle refresh occurs, one can only hope they include oculus or some other VR peripheral as an upgrade. I kinda doubt it, but who knows what will happen in the next few years.

Announced today:

Today, we're announcing that we've partnered with Epic Games to release a custom, Oculus-ready version of the Unreal Development Kit (UDK), the free edition of Unreal Engine 3 (UE3). The Oculus-ready UDK will be available to all Oculus developers. We're also releasing an Oculus integration for UE3, available to the full source Unreal Engine 3 licensees out there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpTSK9aBP1c


We've also added a "VR Mode" to the Unreal Tournament sample game, included with this exclusive UDK release, to help you get started quickly.


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"ohhhhh I get it" so ummm, I new it was an assumption but frankly I am not surprised based upon the wait and see comment.