VIRTUAL REALITY #Helpful Post

you don't think they're gonna notice my

supercool band-aid right hey guys this

is Austin this is the oculus rift and

huge shout out to oculus for sponsoring

this video is mostly thanks to the rift

the VR even exists today but what is

virtual reality people have been

experimenting with VR experiences dating

all the way back to the 50s where things

were let's just say a little bit more

creative than they are today

now you can fast-forward to the 90s

where Nintendo launched the Virtual Boy

this wonderful headset which

spectacularly crashed and burns but how

does VR actually work as core virtual

reality is all about giving you the most

immersive experience possible

so think the holodeck from Star Trek and

not the TV on your wall

now that TV is a good example of a VR

just isn't sure with both of them you

can watch video and play games but with

the TV you're eliminated by the size of

that panel

whereas with virtual reality no matter

where you look as long as you have that

headset on you were completely immersed

the virtual boy achieved this with some

pretty basic tech uses a pair of single

color displays and two mirrors to flip

back and forth incredibly fast give you

a decent 3d effect but being limited by

1995 technology meant that this was not

a true VR experience back in 2011 the

first prototype for the rift was

completed duct tape and all now what

made this special was that for the first

time a head mounted display was paired

with not only a 90 degree field of view

that was wide enough to look convincing

but also motion tracking to allow you to

move your head in real life and

translate it into the game

you know like in real life when I move

my head left and right the world stays

with me I remember back in 2013 where I

first got to try not only an early

prototype of the rift but also of a

Valkyrie I put the headset on and I was

transported into a cockpit of a

spaceship and a giant dogfight in the

middle of space it was seriously one of

the most impressive tech moments I have

ever seen right afterwards I walked out

of the demo room pulled my phone out and

pre-ordered my own oculus dev kit don't

get me wrong though at this point the

tech was still very early one of the

biggest issues with the first dev kit

was its fairly low resolution of 1280 by

800 it was enough to get the idea across

the actual level of detail was really

low at this point

fast forward to 2017 and beyond as a

whole has seen some huge improvements so

take the rift for example now it has a

pair of super high resolution pen 80 by

1200 displays one per eye they have a

faster 90 Hertz refresh rate pair with

being based on OLED which 11

a lot of the earlier issues with

smoothness and persistence which is

important when the goal is total

immersion even a little stutter in a

game can cause you to be totally ripped

out of the experience there is a lot

more tech inside though

Laurette headset is filled with infrared

tracking dots which pair with the sensor

that it comes with is able to track your

head in full 3d space with a lot more

detail than the original dev kits well

there are some headsets like PlayStation

VR which take advantage of a console or

things like gear VR which actually use a

mobile device such as your smartphone to

be able to power them with the oculus

rift you are using a PC to power it

there are several advantages here most

notably you can have a ton of graphics

horsepower to push now like the graphics

but also to keep that performance stable

all this tech is great but the

controllers are also important

now the oculus does support these

standard Xbox one gamepad which is fine

for some games but what really stands

out are the oculus touch controllers you

can think of these as an evolution of

the original Wii Remote sure they do

have motion tracking what's more

impressive is the fact that these will

fully positionally track your hands

which will actually allow you to put

your hands inside the game this is

important a lot of games such as the

climb will use hand tracking in

combination with the buttons to simulate

actually climbing a cliff

it's a neat effect and can do a lot to

add to the immersion and immersion

really is the key to making sure that VR

feels right so you might be okay with a

little glitch or stutter when you're

playing on a PC monitor when it comes to

VR you're essentially tricking your

brain into thinking that the game world

is real there's essentially no margin

for error one of my favourite VR games

is job simulator so this is a great

example of how the touch controllers

works you can see that my hands are

completely one-to-one in the game but

reach over and pick up this cartridge

drop it in it feels very realistic when

you pair the rift with the touch

controllers it really does give you an

immersive experience so I look around

this office building it feels like I'm

actually here I can walk around I can

move my head I can pick things up and it

just feels right well it lets you do

some cool stuff like say copy some

resumes just drop it on a copy machine

hit that I can start brewing some coffee

start hitting buttons on my keyboard

into the phone I mean this stuff is

really cool it really does feel so

natural so simple I don't have to think

about it I can just literally reach over

hit something done next we have super

hot VR

have to stand very still because as I

move time will actually start playing

and have to okay here here we go and oh

no no get away that one and grab it

got it boom dude this is so much fun it

is easy to forget that just over eight

years ago consumer headsets like The

rifts weren't even a thing and this

really only went on sale a year ago so

there is a long way to go but if you

have not experienced virtual reality you

absolutely owe it to yourself to give it

a try so what do you guys think about VR

let me know in the comments below and I

will catch you in the next one