Duo Sneak an Oculus Rift Onto Roller Coaster For a Wild Ride 81
New submitter bobbrocolli (3647945) writes "Equipped with a hidden laptop and Oculus Rift, O'Driscoll may be the first person to have ever gone on a 'Real VR' roller coaster with perfect motion feedback. The duo's system displayed a virtual version of the exact same roller coaster that O'Driscoll and Forder were on. With some practice they managed to sync the virtual reality roller coaster to the real rollercoaster."
WHERE THE HELL... (Score:1, Funny)
IS THE FUCKING ARTICLE? As of now this is no better than a horse's shit.
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Re:WHERE THE HELL... (Score:5, Informative)
The actual link:
http://www.roadtovr.com/two-indie-devs-snuck-concealed-oculus-rift-laptop-onto-rollercoaster-ride-lifetime/ [roadtovr.com]
No reason to give kotaku clicks for their brief summary of another article.
Re:WHERE THE HELL... (Score:4, Funny)
You know what's bad if you have motion sickness?
Watching a video of a guy on a roller coaster watching a video of being on a roller coaster.
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Put on your damn goggles!
Yo dawg, We heard you like rollercoasters (Score:5, Funny)
Where's the story part of this story? (Score:1)
seriously. No links? Someone named O'Driscoll? This is starting to be as informative as CNN.
article link after some googling - you're welcome (Score:5, Informative)
http://kotaku.com/they-took-an-oculus-rift-on-a-real-roller-coaster-for-s-1574145196
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Zoom in and watch the Oculus video with your eyes crossed then you get the 3D experience. Warning: you might end up with a headache.
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It is weird though to use VR to simulate a 3D experience in the real, physical world which is by nature 3D. >_>
Why bother with a pesky link (Score:1)
we'll take your word for it.
PIRATING ROLLERCOASTERS IS A CRIME!!!! (Score:4, Funny)
Staged (Score:5, Insightful)
Ah yes. I forgot how easy it was to sneak a laptop and a VR headset onto a rollercoaster. This is almost certainly planned by a PR agency. It probably happened but quite deliberately to get us to pay attention to their VR tech.
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staged...but why? (Score:3)
makes sense...I get that companies stage these "user made video" things...and I do think the video is bullshit
what I don't get is **why** whoever put this on would think that this is an attractive or interesting demonstration...
it's like watching VR porn while you have sex in real life
And the point is ... (Score:5, Insightful)
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And someone doesn't get it....
Re:And the point is ... (Score:5, Insightful)
I thought so too, until I read why they did it. They weren't just doing it for the lulz by riding a virtual coaster at the same time they were on it. The point was that you could use the coaster's tactile feedback with anything at all in VR. They used a virtual coaster because it was the simplest thing to test, but that is by no means where they want to see it end.
Put differently, people could make tracks in VR that sync up to a roller coaster track, but then change out the scenario entirely. So instead of just riding a virtual coaster while on the coaster, you're suddenly piloting a jet in a dogfight, riding on the back of a dragon, swimming through blood vessels, or chasing a bounty target in space. It'd be the same tactile experience for all of them, but they would all seem wildly different.
It seems like exactly the sort of thing that might have applications in a theme park. It may also be useful for training purposes or for some weirder applications, such as trying to acclimate people to the nausea that might come from keeping the video out of sync with the tactile sensations.
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We already do this. Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk has a ride like that; you all pack into a canister with a screen on the front, and pneumatic arms lift and shake it. Most of the available...track?...choices aren't synced up all that well, and make you sick pretty quickly, but one or two are perfect.
Pretty sure the Air Force has a huge robot arm with a chair and a screen on the end on the same principle, for running fighter jet simulations at high-Gs.
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The Sum of All Thrills ride at Epcot basically does this. It's not a roller coaster, it's a two person capsule on the end of a multi axis robotic arm. But the result is the same. All sorts of video and audio options synchronized to multidirectional movements and spins.
For our next trick.... (Score:2)
we're going to drive a car!
We could pay I guess (Score:1)
"Our next project, VR while real sex, is behind schedule due to difficulties finding a 'roller coaster' that will let us ride it."
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Am I the only one thinking Brainstorm ?
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Am I the only one thinking Brainstorm ?
Nope. But Oculus Rift won't give you indefinite orgasms.
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You could feel every hair of the bearskin rug. [shmoop.com]
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Now you can wear beer goggles without actually getting drunk! It's a brave new world, my friend...
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wouldn't be that hard to find some actress for it. a thousand bucks should cover all production expenses, even buying the rift.
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Total darkness already does that.
Google Street View (Score:3)
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I have an Oculus Rift and there actually is a browser plug-in that lets you use Google street view with the oculus. You don't get 3D images, but everything is to scale and the headtracking works perfectly. It's very very cool. I went back to the house I grew up in, some cities, etc.
An interesting sensation, though, was that you were seeing everything from the height of the Google car cameras. And it was pretty strange feeling so tall. [wikimedia.org]
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What's next? (Score:4, Insightful)
Donning a Rift so you can enjoy virtual sex while your body does the real thing with your wife? FFS. People need to spend less time interacting with their gadgets.
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Yeah, if I was banging your wife, I'd want to make her look like someone else too.
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Moderated not Funny, but Insightful. I love that.
What will they think of next (Score:1)
Wow, it must have been just like riding a roller coaster.
Re:What will they think of next (Score:4, Insightful)
If that's the best they can do, it's doomed. (Score:1)
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Wow. Skinnable rollercoaster rides. That's so cool, it's like WinAmp!
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The idea was that once they had the track synched, they could change the virtual world they were moving through (airforce dogfight, space shooter, ride in a barrel down some rapids, etc). The visuals would be more entertaining, but the force feedback would fit perfectly.
Actually, I can see this being a great ride at a coaster park -- keep one coaster, but everyone dons a headset so you can cycle through a bunch of "experiences" using the same track. Keeps people coming back for more.
The only tricky bit wo
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Hey... you could even apply this to movie shorts, where the viewer moves through the scene and the force feedback lines up. Movie Theatres meet Roller Coasters... hmm :)
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I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride!
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The point of is was...what exactly? How does this make the experience better than what everyone else experiences when actually riding a freakin' roller coaster? Next thing we'll hear about was how they had VR sex while actually having, you know, real sex.
Don't be silly, anyone who would setup and sync VR sex with meatspace sex isn't going to be having sex anyways. Well... with other humans that is.
Ya? (Score:1)
Safety? (Score:1)
I'd be a bit nervous putting that much extra load on my neck and then getting on an inertia ride. Seems like there would be a very literal breaking point.
Definitely not the first, not by a long shot... (Score:4, Insightful)
LaRonde (SixFlags) in Montreal did experiments with this nearly a year ago:
https://developer.oculusvr.com... [oculusvr.com]