A Virtually Amazing Experience

During QuakeCon 2012 a company named Oculus showed up with their product called Rift which is a virtual reality headset with high resolution, large field of view, and low latency. Oculus teamed up with id Software's John Carmack to bring some software to the VR Headset and thus put Doom 3 BFG Edition as the first playable game. This article details Palmer Luckey (creator), Oculus, the panel at QuakeCon over this new tech, and my personal experience through the demo shown at QuakeCon. Complete with video and pictures of it in action.

[BitbyDeath]

What the hell is that supposed to be? It is certainly not VR.
They should just call them game goggles or something.
Mega Fail.

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

I think you're confusing VR for AR. They are vastly different things.

[Cyb3r]

Im sorry but how can this be a Mega Fail when it has already raised over 1 million dollars in only a few days. Do you even know what you are talking about.

[GmrsNewsNetwork]

The other commenters are right. VR uses a headset to encase your entire view making you immersed in the game.

[g-nome]

What is your definition of VR then ?

[BitbyDeath]

I would have expected at the very least head movement detection and also no controller being involved at all.

This is just a headset i could replicate the same thing by sitting directly in front of my TV.

[milohighclub]

It says in the article that it has head tracking

[GmrsNewsNetwork]

Yeah it does have head tracking, and you need a controller to give a good gaming experience. VR enhances the game experience, not replaces it. Although if used with the Kinect then that will fulfill your desire to not use a controller and game. Feel free to get a Kinect and the Oculus Rift and program some stuff for it and put it out there.