How immersive would you want your VR?

[Matcam89]

Yeah the vive looks good I just don’t have the room for that kind of setup so that’s why I was looking at the rift which on eBay is selling at a decent price

[JackofTears]

I have a vive and I love it. Unfortunately, I don't have room to put it up in my new place, so it sits in storage. You can get a hell of a workout playing some of those games; I was playing a Gladiator-themed game and my arms were dead within 15 minutes.

[JackofTears]

I am really looking forward to full immersion VR, though I suspect it won't truly hit until we start getting neural implants, but I'm holding out hope that'll still happen in the twenty years or so before I die of a heart attack.

I would imagine that such a device would allow you to adjust your input the same way you can adjust your settings in games, now. You could turn your pain all the way up, partially up, or completely off. I expect there will be limiters built into those games by law, however, so you'd never actually have the experience of being sawed in half - unless you were stupid and bought a third-party hack which removed limiters.

I would play with pain set to about 15%, enough so I'd recognize it and want to avoid it, but not so much that it'd really and truly hurt. I'm playing to have fun, after all.

Now, here's the harder question: If Pain and Pleasure were on the same setting - so you could experience exquisite pleasure but at the cost of risking horrific pain, would you do it? What if the game only allowed access if they were turned on? How much is the promise of pleasure worth to you? (Though really, I imagine there'd be plenty of erotic games to get off on, so it wouldn't be necessary to make this choice)

[isturbo1984]

I just want my VR to not require you to use waggle controls like it was a fucking Wii. We did this already. VR has some great supporters, but sales dictates it is a dead fad. Just give me first-person modes in regular games with the option to use a VR headset. It goesn't have to be anything else.

[Ultimate Goose]

The pain option should be a vibration on the point of impact (would be pretty funny if kept getting shot in the groin area), actual pain would never be allowed, or at least I hope not, sounds scary!

[Matcam89]

No I think I can do without the pain or even smells - do you really want to know what a zombie smells like?

VR is a blast I am really hoping it gains traction - btw which setup do you have I’ve been thinking of getting the oculus rift?

[aileron]

Awesome thoughts/speculation. In reality I think we're a ways away from what you describe. I would so try it though, yes, full feedback. Sorry, let me correct myself, I have a family. If it were safe I'd try it. I'd be worried a complete "feeling" of getting shot or eaten or something would trigger a real shock reaction in your body.

[Tech_0ne]

Ha that's a good point, I don't think I'd opt for the pain option of being shot. It reminds me of the Star Trek holodeck when inevitably the safety would be turned off for plot reasons.

Smell on the other hand would be good to have on, the stench if walking through a medieval city, or the sweet smell of cherry blossoms in spring. Or even the rotting corpses in a survival horror game.

I guess the real question is how real you want a game to be? Is it escapism or a realistic experience.... I can see the appeal in both.

Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?