Virtual Reality and MMORPGs

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If anyone is familiar with .HACK series/game or Sword Art what are your opinions on a device that would allow us to explore our world of XIV in VR? Is it possible in the future, and if the price was a steep $300+ (estimate) would you buy it? Pros vs Cons? Opinions?

lol As long as it noting like sword art if i die ingame i die in real life then i play it the only problem i see would it have a health issue i see people wanting to stay in the VR world vs living there real life but i guess that a issue now with games anyways.

I would buy it if it A save and B does not cost so much.

I have used something like this. The university I went to had something like this that allowed you to explore 3D renderings (Architectual). It would be exhorbitantly expensive. This kind of technology is long way off outside of advanced research facilities. You wouldn't believe what was required to run the one I tried out, and that was nowhere near what it would take to pull off in a MMO

It would be cool, but yeah, as above poster stated, I think it'll be quite a while before the technology is accessible enough to make it cost-effective.

I've wondered if it would it be good enough to use something like the Kinnect motion control together with a visor type of display. Might be kind of fun. ^^

Something like Sword Art Online would be badass, death upon death, that'll bring new meaning to gaming.

Just wait for the Oculus Rift to come out. I'm buying one on day one. It won't be true VR, but dammit it's a step in the right direction.

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Originally Posted by LlenCoram

Just wait for the Oculus Rift to come out. I'm buying one on day one. It won't be true VR, but dammit it's a step in the right direction.

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I just looked that up. Wow I'm sold.

only problem with VR is that once you log off for the night, people tend to suffer nausea from their eyes readjusting to actual reality. This is one of the main reasons why the technology has never caught on.

Case in point: Virtual Boy Aka the only Nintedo console that ever bombed

Not going to happen anytime within the next 20 years.

It'll be cool if I actually FEEL or AM my character.

Look at myself in the mirror in-game and it's my character. His voice, his body, etc.

That'll be rad.

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Originally Posted by Punainen

Not going to happen anytime within the next 20 years.

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20? I'd say atleast 40-50 years.. lol, atleast for something similiar to .hack.

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Originally Posted by Kagalli

20? I'd say atleast 40-50 years.. lol, atleast for something similiar to .hack.

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seeing how fast technology is growing and does not seem to be stoping anytime soon i have to agree maybe 20 years from now for testing and stuff but for us to pay i don't see that happening for 40-50+years and for a company to make a mmo using it that would take even longer so i don't think we see a mmo in our life time using it :( which is pretty sad.

Kinda wish i was immortal, bleh.

I am set on getting the Oculus Rift as well. I think it will definitely take gaming closer to that VR feeling. Check it out for yourselves!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...-into-the-game

Ya definitely be awesome, when it is truly possible I have always thought there needs to be some safety protocols so that you have to eat and drink and the like.

When I think of mmo vr, I think of star ocean till the end of time.

Instead of kinect, maybe someone could figure a way to mix the Oculus Rift with the Leap Motion thingy?