VR is not a gimmick!

[The_Yoda]

John2290 said:

The_Yoda said:

Did you even read the last line , I'll paste it for you and bold it: "As I've stated before I am a person that is interested in VR for some games."

What I am criticizing is the ridiculous claim by Habam of "Cool thing with VR is: Everything you can imagine is possible in VR."  again in it's current iterations not everything I can imagine is possible.  Taste and smell can not be convened in the living room at present. Even touch cannot currently be fully realized.  A little force feed back does not mean that I can feel the difference between silk and stainless steel in a VR setting.  To be crass can VR allow me to know what Pam Anderson's pussy tastes like? The answer is now no and when it comes to taste in particular there is a fair chance VR will never get there. Although very cool in my opinion in no way is "Everything you can imagine is possible in VR."  Agree or disagree?

It is far from drivel, as I've already said VR in it's current form is still intriguing.  I will likely buy PSVR this year for resident evil 7 alone because I think that game would be kick ass in VR.  Don't think because I am criticizing his over zealous statement that i am some hater.  I'm simply calling bullshit on that particular claim as well as a couple other incorrect or cherry picked examples.

I don't want to get in on this discussion but I just want to say that VR may only effect 2 of the 5 big senses but there is a lot more it effects through those two such as propioception, balance etc the only other one that matters to current games is touch, smell and taste might be a nice touch but that would truly be the definition of gimmick by today's gaming standards and design. Touch can be added through haptic feedback gloves for your hands, pretty much the only part of your body that matters to today's current games. 

No worries, I agree sight and sound are the big two, touch would be next, smell then taste in my opinion. 

I don't know that being able to add smell would be any more of a gimmick than the sensation of touch.  Not a necessity but yet another element that adds to immersion and brings the overall experience closer to reality. I also think it would be easier to implement than taste which as I stated earlier I think would be near impossible.  The only way I can see taste getting pulled off is some sort of neural interface.

 

Again as I said to Errorist76 my response in this thread was more to curb Habam enthusiastic claims of "everything is possible".  As much as I hate to give him this out, he may have been talking of the future of VR rather than what is possible in the here and now. Even then the Everything is an awfully big claim to make even when talking of the future.

Last edited by The_Yoda - on 22 January 2018