Oculous Rift just added DRM their store

Occulus isnt the only VR device

Yet we will still get VR shills here, mark my words

What's there to shill, it's good for simulator type games and not much else

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Facebook was a mistake.

All of VR is a stupid gimmick that has already been tried several times in the past. They didnt have the tech for it then and they dont have the tech for it now. Try again in 25 years

VR shills are trying to sell it like it's the fucking matrix when it's just two cameras and a gyroscope strapped to your head.

Thats some nice speculation and all, but have you tried it?
Where were you during the Doomed general?

man I've only been seeing people using the hive and other shit

I was in there calling the shills out on every point they tried to make, why are you defending VR? Its all good on paper but if you really think this generation of VR will work out you are delusional

I never defended Gen1, its still pretty barebones and Im not getting one.
Labeling it as a gimmick is childish at best thought.

I think the discount versions, copy pastes, knock-off chinese replicas etc will get to the point where they're good enough at what VR in the current consumer-grade tech level is best at.

A few simulators, few comfy games and sandboxes, virtual cinemas, some virtual work enviornments and then porn stuff. I think it'll be a sitting experience where it shines. That walking around stuff is just more wagglan.

AR is going to be where it's at for truly changing the game, though. Most notably for actually MAKING games rather than playing them. Full map of your enviornment with virtual, accurate rulers, gridlines, projections, notes etc. Gimme that for some home projects.

Every VR ecosystem is like this which means there will never be a 'wild west' experience that the creation of the internet caused.

Anyone can type 'jewwatch.com' into a browser. It might be blocked at an individual ISP or national firewall level but it's there for most people. Even CP and copyright infringement is permitted in several jurisdictions.

In VR what Valve, Facebook, Sony and Google decides is appropriate and acceptable is what 99.9% of VR users will have access to. They're the de facto gatekeepers of a new digital realm from the get go. The new Second Life they're developing for VR is going to be locked down and proprietary as well.

If you're on 8ch you might be part of the 0.1% outlier group that will experience VR content not approved by a conglomerate. Most of it is probably going to be pornographic in nature.

Kill it. Kill all VR.

Let the industry mature another 10 years, and we'll try again then.

Oh look, my feelings on Western society.

normalfags won't buy this shit, why bother with all of that?

???????

You mean anything fun?

oh hey, someone was working on a vive and OR emulator for cardboard, guess they'll have to become vive only
riftcat.com/vridge

granted, first gen definitely isn't worth the money unless you get it second hand for cheap or you already had a cardboard capable phone, but that comparison just makes you look purposefully ignorant.

I desperately need sauce on this

Willing to trade for my waifu pics

Are you crazy? Just look at fun and zany they are!

Its like people forgot that its owned by facebook or something.

No. Unlike other fads from the past nobody actually cares about VR enough for them to have poured so much money on it. I feel bad for Carmack though.

I have three different lithuanian cave paintings depicting tales of one who consorts with the pure.

I'm willing to trade them in exchange of the source.

You guys were warned.

DON'T LISTEN TO HIS LIES

Tell me about Machiya, why does he wear the mask?

Because those piercings are disgusting.

user you can't just post something like that and not post a sauce…

I don't think anyone ever believed him. But back when Oculus initially got Kickstartered no one would in their wildest imagination have guessed they were going to be bought out by fucking Facebook. And yes people were angry. Very angry.

Source on pic OP?

It was like this for licensing with Oculus long before Facebook bought them.

Reminder that he did call the first 4,000 Facebook users dumbfucks for trusting him.

Fine, sheesh. It's a good'n.

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Have your lithuanian cave paintings

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Thanks user you are a godsend

Call it a Rorschach test but third pic is full of female bodies

You would think someone working on a music game would know something about music.

This is what convinced me its some meta humor level vid

Source on OP pic? Looks like some good shit

I have an account you nigger, I'm also not a fullblown retard, I know how to get sadpanda, thats just the message I get, and then it redirects me back to the frontpage

unless I am retarded and there's more to do

Could you please provide a name?

Working fine for me. Maybe your ISP is censoring you or your account got some red flags on it somehow?

Either way, here's an alt.

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Exhentai should really include non-personalized torrents, though.

Try this, its page 1. exhentai.org/s/0507412257/481615-1

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Artist's responsible for quite a few good'ns. Remember to use mcomix to handle your library, Anons.

These fuckers are just trying to rail uninformed consumerists into their platform like the manufacturers of those godawful coffee capsule machines did while anyone with half a brain will just wait another year and buy second generation products with open source APIs.

That's an unexpected turn of events

You know, the headset is actually good for the price when you compare it to Vive, the loss of motion controls and lighthouse is not that big of a deal when you are playing sitting games. But goddamn are they doing everything they can to be as shitty as possible outside of that, I blame Kikeberg, the liberal globalist shithead. I hope the race traitor faggot gets shots.

this is the only reason VR is being pushed – it gives people like Zuckerberg 100% control over all content that you view through it.

it's not that hard to figure out the plan is not to make you really, really happy that way

>implying there will still be non-mobile gaming industry in 10 years

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It's pretty funny.

The porn industry pretty much invented video streaming in the early days.
Then they pioneered video compression and to a lessor extent network management.
Then the porn industry caused DVD to be adopted over VHS…
Then didn't the same porn industry back blu-ray instead of HD-DVD?

And the porn industry will make or break VR.

You mean where in there as a paranoid fuck and being a shining beacon of why this board has gone to shit.

I don't even give a fuck about VR but that Doomed general was the most cancerous thing I've ever had the displease of seeing on any imageboard, it was like having tumblr in our backyard.

Faggots like you have murdered the word shill, its just a meaningless buzzword now for when you've lost an argument or just wanna shitpost further turning this place into Holla Forums with videogames.

Basically fuck you and everyone like you.

I thought Palmer Luckey was the one who "died in a car accident" for derailing the Judaism.

OR was dead after facebook and this shouldn't surprise you

Oh, no, nevermind.

I'm interested in VR for all the wrong reasons. I wanna play half life 1 in vr with mods. I hope it'll be possible. It'll just be cool having VR vision in They Hunger or Paranoia.

Well good thing we've got Xash3D. Based Russian techno-wizards.

The mobile port is also very good. I get about 60 fps on my phone.

*Based Russian techno-wizards and the power of FOSS

It's FLOSS.

You're part of the reason why we're all stuck on a prison planet with no means of escape.

gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html
gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html

You want FOSS? Microsoft, Facebook and Google are glad to provide that to you and boast about it. That alone should tell you how much it's worth.

s-sorry.

The porn industry was also why VHS beat betamax. Also, is it just me, or has the porn industry been embracing the Vive more than the Rift?

What was that thread about? Haven't been on Holla Forums much recently.

I think VR has too much attachment to gaming.
FPV drones seem to be a much better fit. I would rather look through these novel goggles and see an entirely new perspective, then see a poor emulation of a familiar perspective.

Call it DOOD or D44M, Doomed is only going to bring you pain because it was by all accounts a commercial success.

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Oh, it was about the new Doom game. Durp, I thought maybe it was about "VR being doomed". What happened in it though that was so cancerous?

:^)

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You ought to be.

The porn aspect of technology adoption and VR gets far too much attention when it comes to proprietary industry standards. Do you know anyone who owns porn on bluray? We're not in the late 90's anymore when porn was hard to come by; today a simple query on any search engine will provide a user with almost anything they desire for free. But from what I've seen the Oculus brand has more mindshare with the general public and is mentioned more often as being supported in commercial interactive VR porn projects. Typical porn filmed in a stereoscopic format will work on everything.

It's the furry community that's going to drive interactive VR porn forward with their collective cash. They've always been at the forefront of erotic art on the internet. They were posting it to newsgroups before HTML existed.

It's than not then if you're comparing something.

Everyone on Holla Forums is already sucking Steam cock daily, so I can't see this raising any eyebrows here.

why is Holla Forums so negative about vr?

I had the pleasure to test out some vr headseats about a week ago, and I found some to be quite good, mainly the vive, which only main problem I found was a little bit of screendoor effect.

These things are kind of like very good racing seats with steering wheels, they enable some genres of games to be so much better than they otherwise could be. Yes you can do driving sims with normal mouse and keyboard or controller, but they are just so much better with a racing wheel and the pedals. The same is true about vr atm. You can do many of its "games" (as of right now, most of them are glorified tech demos, but some exist, like job simulator) with mouse and keyboard, but they are just so much better with vr. In the case of vr, I think there will sooner or later be type of games which will not function in any way without vr.

I am just so fucking surprised so many people on Holla Forums hate them. There isn't as much backlash against things like steering wheels which are also just tools to enhance gameplay. And I would have though Holla Forums would have been happy to see some new hardware that once again requires devs to put some damn effort in. vr isn't a, "oh well, it framedrops here and there, but its good enough". Nah, framedrops are horrible and if your game isn't consistent 90fps+, it will just not work. Why is Holla Forums so unhappy that devs will finally have to put some effort in again?

Because is expensive, and might not be that good.

Yes, that's it. Holla Forums really is gay like that. Well, that and no nintendo support, be sure when NXVR is announced everyone will be like it's the ultimate gamechanger.

Well, its expensive, but its reasonably good. I assume we will see both much cheaper and much better come out within 2-5 years time, but having tested them, I do believe that a good standard has been set now.

I also assume its mostly because some faggots can't accept they won't be able to run it on their toasters or even worse, their consoles (you are a true faggot if you bought any consoles this gen, including, but certainly not limited to the wiiU). If we have to wait for nintendo to make hardware capable of vr, we are going to have to skip ahead several generations.

Also, for wiiU faggots, the damn console could be interested if they used the controller well. That thing screams out local multiplayer where one player is in a dungeon master style role, and yet there are barely any games that do anything good with it.

This is, a Rift is expensive as a console and doesn't really have any games on it's own yet (and Vive even more), and that's on top of the beefy PC you must have, so it's a lot of money on something that might as well be a gamble, I'm sure in around 2-5 years they would be cheaper and more attainable, but if there's not much support now there won't be any more VR 2-5 years from now.

Hey I liked Bloodborne, also Summer Lessons and Gran Turismo VR will be a thing for PSVR.

Not even nintendo is bothering with Gimmick U anymore, we have to wait to see if (an how) they fuck NX.

I saddens me that anyone getting VR would even consider the Rift.

Carmack got Zuckerberged by Luckey & Iribe, he really should have just left when FB took over.

Well, at least you chose the PS4, while sony is a shit company, the PS4 is by far the best console this generation. Kinda interested to see what PSVR will do, although I have my doubts in it being able to work.

Also, lets not even consider the rift. It should be dead to anybody here. The vive is good, OSVR will probably be a great lower cost headseat. And the rift will be the asshole that got a lot of advertisement from false promisses and having too much advertisement from having huge asshole companies behind them, probably selling pretty well to people who did not keep up with VR.

I also don't get why nintendo don't do more with the screen in the controller. Its can make some games that can't exist anywhere else, and local coop is making a resurgence, although more in PC than in consoles I guess.

What did you expect with facebook buying them off?

B-but muh Carmack!

Yeah, I'm not really going to buy anything VR until they get cheaper and have something that I feel like a must.

I don't think you understand what people are upset over. Palmer said pic related a while ago, and now he's pulling off this shit. And atleast Steam allows games that support Rift but not Vive on the store.

This.

I'm surprised that you guys didn't saw it coming

Palmer sold out, it isn't his call anymore.

does Palmer still have anything to say in the company now that its all facebook?

He still works on it but he has a boss now, he doesn't get the final word on anything.

There is still no killer app for VR.

But when there is you won't need those expensive headsets. Just any Android phone with good specs and one of the set holders.

VR will be wiped out when full body experience in virtual space is possible, which is where the real money and potential is.

I think you underestimate the headsets. For starters, android phones tend to have less resolution, they also are nowhere near powerful enough to render the content themselves, they are far from optimized for fast rendering, they tend to have screens which don't work well for vr and so on. Yes these things kind of work as a tech demo, but not really. What a phone needs to do is just so much different from what a vr headset needs to do, that its unlikely they will even be close enough to the same thing.

He's nothing more than a PR spokehole on reddit and twitter for Facebook. His word is worth nothing.

That is still decades away from being commercially viable.

Except for every decent simulator out there and they have the benefit of generally simulating things that are controlled from a seat removing the issues that come from walking around.
Throw in a steering wheel or flight stick and you have a great tool for making sims more immersive.

Sims are what VR does best, people thinking they will be great for any other genre are idiots.

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are you the "fix Holla Forums" austist?

nice that we gave up on flying or going to the moon

but hey, im sure the VR is sour right?

the fuckheads thout that VR is the next big thing in gaming

the next big thing in gaming will be the REAL "radiant AI" that is next big move

no he is not

thought*

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>log in e-hentai
>get on the main page of the forum when clicking the link
what?

How the mighty have fallen, John.

I never said it will never work, you might want to try improving your reading comprehension before posting.

I don´t care its way too expensive, it asks for way too much hardware for what it is and i don´t think its going to replace classic vidya

I still can't believe that rift decided to sell out to facebook. They literally lost the military and medical training industries which could have made them tons of money in the long run through partnerships.
Now because of facejew those industries are going to alternatives and the rift has to put DRM on their fucking glorified tech demos.

VR will only be worthwhile when you can combine playing with exercise (wanna dodge by roll? Then fucking roll yourself!). Until then, it'll remain an overpriced gimmick that CANNOT work due to controls – you can't really use a mouse or a keyborad, nor can you use a gaming pad as you control the camera with your head (unless you put a crossharir in the middle in the screen and aim with your head, which is just a shitty way to design it). You'd have to buy separate hardware that tracks this shit like those retarded plastic guns people sometimes use, which would have its own tracking device to know where it's pointing at. That's yet more hardware to buy in what is already an overpriced clusterfuck, plus you can't play RTS, GSG, platformers… really, anything that isn't FPS on it. It'll become 'that cool thing the kid next door plays CoD on' and then die.

Wow, I had no idea being locked to specific VR headsets was even a thing. I haven't really paid attention since I'm no no position to afford one and never buy the first generation of anything, but dang. I assumed they were pretty much like monitors are now - there might be differences like resolution and refresh rate and contrast quality, but still, you can play any game on any monitor. It just might not look quite as nice on a cheaper monitor compared to a better one.

So wow, great. Assuming this makes it to a second generation and I can afford one then, I'll have to choose which one to get depending on what it alone can work with?

Why are you so certain it can't be added to traditional control schemes? I don't see why it couldn't be an additional input alongside what you can already do with mouse and keyboard on a controller, and personally, that's all I'd really want out of it. I've wished I could alter where I'm looking and where I'm aiming in first person forever, but that was always impossible short of a third arm to move a different mouse. And in console-style third-person games, I would think that turning your head could take the place of the second stick for camera control, and great, I could finally move the camera and press face buttons at the same time.

The fact of the matter is this: The Rift is still incomplete from what their alleged .plan was. Cuckerburg pushed it out before it was finished to compete with the Vive because the Vive would have launched first. Valve is a smart company who has a lot of currency, and they were bankrolling the entire Vive project practically.

Now remember this: Valve was working on the Rift for the longest time, so why did the Vive come to be? Because Facebook bought Vive sooner than they announced it, they withheld that information publicly so that Valve looked like assholes (who were under an NDA) who just HAPPENED to take their money and go elsewhere. Cuckerburg is really good at exploiting NDAs and throwing money that he doesn't actually have at things, and OculusVR was no different.

The whole point of VR is camera control. That's literally everything it is about - moving the camera with your head. How are you going to, for example, aim a gun with it, though? Crosshairs are almost universally locked to the centre of the screen today, in which case you'd have to keep moving your fucking head to aim until you broke your neck. Or you could unlock the crosshair and move it with the mouse, but then you'd have to chase it across the screen from corner to corner, and every time you moved forward, you'd have to chase it again. It'd be technically possible, but it'd suck balls, not to mention what would happen if you moved your head too much - would the crosshair get stuck on sreen edge, getting moved along so that you have to reaim again, or would it go completely off screen, so that you actually lose sight of it and get boned by an enemy as you frantically search for where the fuck it is? If you had a model of the gun, you could fix some of these issues as you would know at what angle the gun is aimed, and from that infer the approximate point it is pointing at. You'd have no such luxury with a mouse or a gamepad.

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PLAYING GAMES ON NON-APPROVED PC HARDWARE, EVEN IF YOU PURCHASED THE GAME LEGALLY, IS NOW CONSIDERED PIRACY.

Aerospace is primarily a technical issue. As long as humans survive the process intact and conscious it's successful. Comfort and ease of use came later.
VR, on the other hand, is entertainment. It's all about ease of use and convenience. VR is yet green on the vine. Nobody's going to be successful trying to sell the Kitty Hawk version of virtual reality.

It's called free aim, you dumbfuck. It's a thing in literally every simulator that has first-person view in it. Ever played ArmA? Of course you didn't, or you would understand exactly how retarded you sound right now. Also, did you know that there now exist engine mods for free aim in Quake Engine, Gold Source and Source engine games? I don't know about UE yet, but I bet it's easy there, as well.

tl;dr stop talking out of your ass.

not necessarily, valve hasn't said anything about locking you out of oculus games yet

Actually, the VR platform on Steam does require specific headsets. SteamVR doesn't work for me, nor did it ever work for me. I bought the DK2 before the Facefuck buyout (boy was I thrilled when they announced the buyout), and when I heard that Steam had the SteamVR app I tried to load some VR games with it and lo and behold, it only accepts the HTC Vive.

If you go around Steam and look at the various VR offerings, they specifically name VR headsets. Because like NVidia vs ATI, or AMD vs Intel, no one wants to use a platform agnostic standard, instead everyone has their own APIs and their own interrupt calls and the such.

And VR is still a fucking nightmare.

I feel bad for Carmack. He left id to escape the filthy kikes at Bethesda only to have the Jews chase after him.

He could've left at any time.

And do what? Carmack is autism incarnate, all he cares is about the technology and making it go sanic.

You know what? Fuck Carrmack. There. I said it. I used to idolize that fucking guy, I wanted to work with him on making the next great Doom game or doing something super awesome, and I am just disgusted with the fucking guy. He sold the company to Bethesda for no reason, there was NO REASON to sell to Bethesda, id was a company that made a LOT of money on its middleware alone nevermind the games.

He gave up so he could fund his stupid fucking rocket project and stayed on as "technical advisor" and when they laughed him out of the board room when he said he wanted them to put more emphasis on VR, then he finally decided "I guess I shouldn't have sold, I'm fucking out of here."

And where does he go, he could have gone to Valve, Gabe Newell would have personally got on his knees and fucking blew Carmack on the spot to get him on his team, and instead he signs up with Oculus knowing full well of the Facebook buyout (and being unable to comment on it).

Carmack and his gook can fuck off, and so can their shit tier kids.

Then why feel bad for the autist? You know he doesn't give a shit.

I didn't know that, that's terrible.
are there even any games that support both?

Are you retarded or something? What the fuck was he gonna do at Valve, make hats?

I feel bad because humanity could use his autism for good. Instead kikes once again ruin it.

Hitler was right.

Some, but not many.

Develop technology and make games, I know it's a meme to say

But fuck off.

someone post the explanation of how Bethesda forces company buyouts.

Valve isn't in the business of making games anymore. They're in the business of turning all their costumers into gambling addicts.

I know some of you nimrods think Half Life 3 is coming, but let me make you understand that nothing of the sort is happening. Valve makes more money with hats and cards that it ever could with Half Life 3, and God forbid they allowed unpaid modding for it. Gabe might as well convert to Judaism.

And Carmack was never about making games, that wasn't why he invented the tech behind Wolfenstein and Doom.

Isn't Stallman versed in meme magic? Just Libre and Open Source Software would be better.

You realize that id Software used to self-publish all of their games for the longest time, right? They didn't need the fucking money from Bethesda to the point of desperation. Retard.

And I read nothing beyond the first sentence.

Where are the games then? They have, like, two people "working" on Half Life 3. All they've done for the past few years is somehow make the userbase of TF2 and Dota worse.

Go suck Gabe's circumcised dick.

And Carmack didn't care about id anymore because he thought that vidya graphics had reached a plateau. It's why he moved his focus on rockets and VR.

VR only has potential but no substance.
It's great for simulations. Besides that, what does it actually make better?

You can imagine all kind of things that would be great with VR or how great VR could be in general. But the proof is in the pudding and there's only complete shit on the market.

what bothers me isn't that article but the implication that someone on Holla Forums has an oculus by posting such news here

Dota 2 runs on Source Engine 2. You can read about it if you like. They keep all their documentation online, and they even released the Source engine source code WITH their OpenGL port code from when they used to port to Linux by haivng a real-time interpreter turn DirectX calls into OpenGL calls.

Also why do you know what Gabe's dick looks like? Have you been sucking Gabe's cock? Do you like the looks of fat people naked? What the fuck is wrong with you?

Implying Palmer has any will of his own in the company WHICH HE SOLD TO FUCKING FACEBOOK.

I hope he regrets this mistake until the day he dies.

Fucking finally.

I've been waiting for someone other than myself to finally abandon this "hero" of vidya to his own shame.

In the end, Carmack is like all the others. Full wallet, but no soul to guide it. There are no heroes left in man.

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he makes good code, that's it, why get so angry over this, one way or another.

He's sold himself not once, but twice.

No integrity.

Hello Schlomo.

Let's remember that Carmack is not a real human, he's a fucking robot in human form. He has no empathy and would do anything so long as he felt that he could get away with it. And he'd do it again too, no matter what the consequences of the first time were.

He fucking gave in like nothing, user. To have held onto everything, no matter what would be the right thing to do, but what he did was weak. He's a mess.

That's sort of confirming what I believe.

He's nothing more than a lamb who thinks he can play the system for his own profit.

would he pound me in the ass like the sissy i am?

I doubt it, to my knowledge the guy has no enthusiasm or sexual excitement, and he'd still be single if it weren't for the gook coming onto him.

Videogames are not videogames. There are only a bunch of I and O's making light dots shine in a monitor.

Don't underestimate the porn.

People have to remember that Carmack isn't a businessman, if he was he'd have never released the Doom and Quake engine code to the public under the GPL or ported them to Linux. 20 years later and the latest versions of doom or quake are still competing with the originals, that's unheard of in this industry.

He'd much rather be working on making his racing cars or rockets go faster by 0.003 seconds but instead he's stuck in the tech world trying to force progress in the industry going as slow as they can and unintentionally telling SJWs off with his autistic ways.

Valve was watching Facebook moving in on their territory with Farmville and fought back. Technically speaking Facebook is far more appealing place to work for, if he went to Valve he wouldn't be able to tell LCD driver engineers at Samsung what to do or have an Android team at Google devoted to implementing his suggestions. It would have slowed him down.

And the filename should read "Feminist BTFO by Carmack" because the filename now implies it was Carmack who got BTFO.

You couldn't possibly be any more of a faggot.

Mate, are you autistic?

A surprisingly large amount of advancements have been made thanks to entertainment. Regardless, there's also the adaptation of items from other fields to be considered.

If there's money in it, people will invest. And given that "gamers" spend 800+ bucks on shitty pre-built PCs, not to mention however much newfangled shitbox consoles cost, there's definitely money in it.

That video was incredibly embarrassing to watch.

Where the fuck did you absolute retards come from? Reread what I wrote without strawmanning

So, either you are a fucking moron what don't realize tech has improved quite a damn bit since the time of Nintendo's Virtual Boy, or you think tech doesn't improve.
Either way, you need to seek mental help, mate.

Oh so you are fucking retarded, thanks for confirming it.

I'm into RC aircraft. Years before this VR craze started, and years before RC aircraft started being called drones, there was HMDs for FPV aircraft except they had no relation to gaming and were a lot shittier.
Also I'm into flight sims and unlike what hypetards think, current VR is not very suitable for it. Sure, the experience of 3D is cool and all but the pixel density is so shit you can barely read the instruments. Spotting contacts in anything close to realistic range is out of question. VR still needs to bake more.

you can tbh.

Actually, what you're talking about is within the realm of head tracking (TrackIR and its friends). VR is that but more importantly also 3D.
I think you basically fell for the shilling. "VR" is really just 3D + head tracking which creates a cool "presence" feeling. That's all it is. It's not some complete replacement to reality as a whole or some bullshit like that. So jeez, you're kinda overcomplicating it. Treat it like a regular head tracking device (like within ARMA etc.). You use the mouse to orient the body and the gun, the HMD is for the position of the head itself. Put head down the gun sights and shoot.
Something like this basically: youtube.com/watch?v=m90pClrwjG0
If you are among the chosen people of vomit, you're kinda fucked for most VR games though lel.
And yes, for many classic genres, VR is pretty much a glorified 3D dispay maybe with some little additional capabilities thanks to head tracking.
well yeah, you'll probably do better with laser pointer style crosshairs. Or you know, there is a technique used IRL called aiming down the fucking sights to see what you're shooting at.

Basically, don't fall for the hype bullshit. Facebook and Valve needs to make it seem like some big shit but make no mistake, VR *is* a niche device. If pixel density ever gets beyond the equivalent of what's seen on current monitors I'll probably buy it just for BMS and DCS but for other games I play, it's unnecessary.

I think Valve maybe keeps Half-Life 3 technically "alive" as a just in case, emergency cash button. If one day Steam burns down or something, they can release some shitty game named HL3 and people will buy it in millions simply because of the "le HL3 confirmed XD" meme. The title's marketing was pretty much already done for free. They wouldn't want to throw that away.

I thought usually VR includes a pair of either gloves or joysticks or similar handles what act as "hands".
After all, without, it seems like it'd become a bother pretty quick as you spin away from your system ad have to reach behind you for your mouse.

Because no other site writes about this and would link this as source….

That's because open source misses the point. Full free/libre standards or bust. Only that way creators can have unrestricted freedom, and users get a product that doesn't try to constantly fuck them in the ass.