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| Topic | Does being unable to see your character's body in a first person game bother you |
| sellerdore 01/21/21 11:50:24 PM #7: | generally speaking no, but in VR, the addition of a virtual body really helps a ton with immersion. A lot of VR games end up making you feel like a pair of disembodied hands and a head... Which to their credit is understandable -- since it is extremely tricky to get this right. Even something as simple as simulating the arm becomes hairy quickly, because, unless your arm is extended all the way out (or, unless you use some additional tracking setup beyond just a headset + 2 controllers) the game has no way of knowing where the bend of your elbow is IRL -- and so it has to guess. If that guess isn't accurate, you get a mismatch between your IRL body and your virtual body, which totally fucks with immersion. Extrapolate that to the rest of the body and its easy to see how complex it can become from a technical perspective. A few games however have done this with a surprising amount of fidelity, and those games benefit significantly from it. VR is all about detail; every little bit adds to the experience. --- "Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..." http://www.last.fm/user/kmal415 ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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