Okay, Imagine what you just saw above (Oculus Rift), combined with this, and a better version of this. Last but not least, tracking your body and animating the character accordingly with either the Kinect or the next generation of the Kinect.Well? Wouldn't that be the most amazing thing our human brains have ever experienced?It would for me.
Dude it'd be like reality… wooaaaahhhhh.
We're so close to achieving ultimate immersion.
Man, I love living in the future.All those years of spinning in a swivel chair have prepared me for this moment.
While playing
this?I got that game with Christmas gift money!
I've yet to play it though because I think my computer will go into a convulsive seizure.I need to get a good graphics card, then I'll be able to enjoy Mirror's Edge and Krater.I don't know, Mirrors edge doesn't look very graphically intensive to me. It also looks and runs great on Xbox, and well know how under powered that is compared to a semi decent modern pc.
I wouldn't be that surprised if one of the new consoles did a head-mounted display for the following reasons:
1. It would be a competitive alternative to the Wii U's use of a secondary display2. Oculus Rift has proven that there's some kind of demand3. Oculus Rift has proven that the tech is affordable4. Sony will have a policy to release all next-gen games in 3D - it would make sense to have an affordable 3D-display peripheral5. As you said, Microsoft will have a new version of Kinect which would compliment this tech very well indeed.It's more likely however that they'll opt for a variation on the theme which ensures the console's place remains under the living-room TV, particularly with emphasis being increasingly placed on all-round entertainment rather than just games.Regardless, the Oculus Rift is looking very interesting indeed. Providing there isn't something more interesting in the meantime (new consoles, google glass, steambox, etc, etc, etc) I'll definitely be getting the consumer version.Mirrors edge on PC has PhysX, and much higher res textures, so you do need a pretty good system.
The physX in the game was programmed really badly, so you need to delete a certain file to make your graphics driver take over and stop the 0.5 fps momentsNever really encountered that issue with the PC version and maxed out + PhysX myself, so that's news to me.
You're not alone, man. I totally would if I had the money.