I recently made the financial sacrifice and bought a PC the other day. It was bound to happen, most of my friends have moved to PC and I felt like I was sort of being left behind. When I bought my PC, I also bought the Oculus Rift. After playing Project Cars 2 and Assetto Corsa for hours in VR, I’m scared to even go back to playing on a screen again. Like the title says, Forza needs VR support. VR completely changes the realm of sim racing. I could sit here and write a 5 page paper on why VR is great, and you still wouldn’t understand the sensations, immersion, and added fun one feels when using it. It’s truly something you must experience for yourself. Make VR happen Turn 10!! I highly recommend anyone who is on the fence about VR, or who has a thick enough wallet, to purchase it and experience first hand the future of sim racing.
VR is mildly interesting when it has the support of a moving pod to add physical sensation. Beyond that it’s mostly worthless in its current state. I’ll be interested when we have Holodeck or Deep Dive technology.
You sound like a friend of mine, before he tried mine then completely back pedaled on mimself.
And it is not worthless at all, its an incredibly I immersive tool. Saying VR is useless without a motion platform is like saying a wheel is useless without a triple screen setup, they all have their place and all offer something unique.
I would absolutely love to play forza in VR, and I’ve said it before forza vista if done right would be amazing in VR.
VR is far from worthless in it’s current state. There definitely are situations where one would need a moving rig, such as oval racing. When racing on an oval, the angle that your car changes to while in the banking, coupled with your head still pointing in the “straight” position, kind of messes up the immersion. But that’s just one example that I’ve found so far. Also the price of motion rigs is just not plausible yet. But I disagree 100% about VR being “worthless” in it’s current state. The added immersion outweighs some of the cons of VR.
I normally would put this in the wishlist thread. But this isn’t a wish, this is a PSA to Turn 10 that they have now fallen slightly behind the curve. Practically every major sim has implemented VR. Forza and Dirt 4 (don’t know about the latest F1 title) are the only “sims” that come to mind who don’t have VR yet.
In my mind, this is just the next step in the evolution of sim racing. First it was the games themselves, next it was the option to use a wheel, and now it is VR. Maybe in the next decade, motion rigs will become more affordable, but I highly doubt that.
I don’t find having a screen strapped to my face particularly immersive, particularly (not to sound like a sort of VR hipster) when I’ve experienced more proper VR setups back when there was a VR arcade of sorts in the mall well before it became a home fad. The faint reflection of my own eyes on the screen splits my focus and I believe is a contributing factor to the nausea. Without the nausea, having a screen so close to my eyes for the length of time I frequently play games would cause vision fatigue and headaches even faster than when I used to game on PC. But it’s at least more worthwhile than the Kinect. And games where you’re basically sitting in place are certainly a better use for it than games where you’re character is more active.
Dude, today’s VR is nothing like that at all. You are not focusing on a screen in front of your face, you are looking at virtual world in stereoscopic 3D, you look beyond the screen completely. My eyes are much more relaxed in VR than they are typing this post on my phone.
It doesn’t matter how people explain it, you’ll never get it, never understand until you’ve actually experienced it. Like I said earlier I had a friend, one friend who was extremely sceptical and critical of it before he tried it, not 5 seconds into it and he said “oh wow, this is not what I was expecting”. He had convinced himself that it would be terrible, but as soon as he experienced it only then did he understand what I and my other friends (who tried it before him) were trying to tell him.
Personally this feature is of no interest to me and I would rather Turn 10 devote development time to other things. The cost alone would be enough to deter the vast majority of users so this feature would be useful to a small subset of all Forza users.
