EVE General Discussion

How do you find the beer and pizza?

I can see the headlines now, "EVE Online player's house burgled while 'virtually' elsewhere." You just look through the window, and if you see this guy wearing a bubble-head helmet...his stereo is YOURS...TV (assuming EVE players own these things)...his dog will probably just jump in the van as the burglars pull away. (woof woof).

The cops...yeah..."Where were you, again?"
"Right here, officer."
"And...you didn't see a thing."
"?!?!?!?"

Only if and when CCP decides to kill Eve Online.

It would be epic if it did. Imagine using HUD mode, but having the ability to "look around".

BUT


Let it be optional. With the cost of a headset these days, I don't want to log in and be told I can't play because I didn't fork over hundreds of bucks for a headset.

We also need more market for the headsets. Right now I'm not giving Suckerberg the high cost of an Occulus. When the headsets are down to $150 or less then we'll see traction in the market. We need to be able to plug one in and use it just like we use an audio headset or joystick: without attachments, needing "some account somewhere", or any crap like that.

I've written programs with OpenCV code that could "detect round" objects such that it's not entirely off the table to be able to detect a pizza in the RL sphere and then overlay that into the game viewpoint.

Of course once you took a slice out of it then you need a new algorithm or would need to use the same "curves" recognition used to detect fingers and hands.

Having never had an original idea in my life, expect to see people already doing this on Hackaday within the month.

I have the HTC Vive and would love if Eve online supported it fully.

Already I can join two virtual monitors seemlessly in a VR environment to give myself a massive widescreen which I can spread eve across, looks /amazing/

What would be incredible is a VR interface, not even trying to pretend eve is an arcade game or something, but so I have access to my ship fitting, markets, chat channels, ship controls, targets all in a nice UI designed for VR so that I can just look at something or swivel in my chair to access a particular part of eve.

Adding head tracking so that I can see ships and targets from the center of my ship would work wonders as well for a VR positional tactical opportunity.

It sounds like something out of those anime where the sit down and have a 360 degree angle to observe tactical data and make command decisions, would be a hell of a lot of fun I think.

Not everyone can do VR well though, as in people, persons. I actually do some work from home which I do in a VR environment for part of the time as there are advantages, such as not feeling like I'm stuck in my small office, massive screens etc.

I can do it all day, no problem. Some people get sick or don't live having the equipment on them. Eve definitely needs to support traditional flat screen playing still and for a long time. Unless eve survives until the day where all of society uses VR for everything anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contact_Lens

Will do.

$400 hardware used to make spreadsheets 3d....

vr has always been a niche market and it will stay that way due to the price of the hardware. this fad will die out like they always do, once the companies that are selling the hardware pull the plug. it doesn't matter how good it is if the price isn't right. there is also no way game developers will support vr if only .05% of their potential market has vr hardware.

ccp requiring the use of vr hardware would kill their cashcow... that's not going to happen.

op is smoking something amazing, or is a ccp employee trying to "stealthily" gauge the playerbase's reaction to vr in eve.

Dude, have you even tried roomscale VR yet?

I wouldn't be so optimisic


Many things are technologically possible, but only a few are economically possible.