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video will be a bit of a a bit of a Blog
style of the first time for both me and slick with the Omni by virtuix so uh
guys uh feel free to come along for the ride so the first thing is you want to
get kitted up with the appropriate Footwear so um I I was very disappointed
when I didn't get to wear the the moccasins that the unit was demoed with
but I got some stylish Converse shoes which I don't think I've seen anything
like in at least 10 years um at least not on people's
feet but uh you've got the special felt on the toes and then you've got the uh
the the slippy Parts on the on the rest of the bottom of the shoe and then once
you're once you're in the shoes uh getting into the getting into the device
can be a bit of a trip so to speak more of a more of a more of a slip you want
to be really careful support yourself on the ring because if you don't then you
might accidentally give a heart attack to the uh to the creator of the Omni
while you uh while you get into the device whoa no no I'm just kidding oh my
God my my heart
stopped that was a good one I'm sorry
could you hand me the pen please yeah sure
left but um there's a bit of a there's a bit of an orientation process so so even
once you're in there you want to kind of put some weight on the ring and take
really small steps now this is before the connect is involved this is before
you put any kind of other VR device on
anything like that you don't want to put the Oculus on before you've actually practiced a few steps but honestly I got
it pretty quickly it was quoted that you need about 10 to 15 minutes before you
kind of get the hang of it and uh I'd say by the time I was done playing the
game I probably had 10 or 15 minutes on it and it was feeling much more already
compared to when I first got on but the the slipperiness of part of your feet
and the and the grippiness of part of them doesn't feel quite right unless
unless you're you're moving or you're standing but not really anywhere in
between if you're standing like talking to people around the device then it's going to be a little bit unnatural now
one thing that I noticed immediately is that I wanted a little bit more grip on
the toes but it looks like it may be possible to find tune that with
different Felts and and things like that so next up you put on the Belt which has
a a strap in the middle that I think I'm going to call the crotch Crusher because
I mean the the Design's totally not final and hopefully it'll be something
more like a climbing belt where there's like two straps in a V rather than like
one thick you know that holds you up but
it's important to have the belt tight because what you'll find what I found
myself doing at least as a as a noob with it is putting a little bit of
weight on the ring as I moved myself forward whereas I think once with a
little bit more practice I could avoid putting so much weight on it and I
wouldn't need need the belt nearly as much actually slick will be going
straight onto it with no belt so that'll be that'll be interesting stay tuned for
that um The Connect judges how fast you move
by how quickly your legs travel so you could cheat the system by just kind of
taking your feet and going like this in all likelihood but that's not really the
point I mean I see this as not only a device that makes the game more
immersive but I see it as also a way to
you know uh put your pedometer on and go for a bit of a walk go for a Brisk
stroke heck go for a run because once I spent a little bit of time on it I was
able to take much bigger steps and and
move at a much faster Pace without without just kind of gaming it um so
then next up is you put on the Oculus so
now you're oh no next upep yeah the Buns of the belts on next step is you put on
the Oculus and then you want to calibrate the connect so make sure it's
only picking up you because if other people are in the field of you you're going to have some issues where you know
your guy might just keep running cuz someone else is moving around in the room then you hold the gun now for me
where this is really going to come to life is when the gun aiming is decoupled
from looking is decoupled from moving because right now I was able to do it I
was able to kill dudes and get through the level but what you have to do is you
you could actually Walk In One Direction and look like this to go around corners
but what I want is to be able to walk around a
corner but moving my body around so with
like a wireless Oculus this will be a very immersive experience
um and had no idea especially the first time I had no idea where I was looking
in the room once I actually took the Oculus off because of how immersed in
the gameplay experience I was one thing that I I made a mistake I didn't think
the Oculus was stereo 3D the first time I was playing with it it's kind of low
res it's a developer kit and all that kind of stuff but but once things are
higher res and you can actually adjust the depth of the picture it hadn't been adjusted it was quite flat then the sky
is pretty much the limit on this now this is the first time that I've tried
virtual reality since a random like low reses crappy game at plaum and let me
tell you it has come a long way and with that one basically you just like stood
there and like looked and it was like a shooting range it was like ski shooting
but this is totally different now we're playing an actual triaa title where
instead of being impressed by halflife 2's ragd doll physics we're impressed by
the ability that we get to walk around in this game environment shooting things
and it's just totally totally totally
totally different
um I think that's pretty much it for me so slicks up
next all right so my use case was kind of um withdrawn I guess a little bit
because I had to use shoes that were much smaller than my size will they kind
of fit I was using size 11 shoes I wear size 13 shoes so my toes were really
curled up inside it was a really tight fit that wasn't comfortable and then the
waistband while they will have different sizes the one here is the right size for
me so I couldn't wear it so I was using shoes that weren't the right size and I
was not using the waistband in a situation where I would ideally be
running so all that put aside it was
freaking amazing um stepping into it I
just stepped right into the middle which made it so that it didn't slip I don't
know I'm not too worried about that there's also supports on the sides you can hold some of your weight up with it
um taking your first few steps is kind
of surreal especially especially because that was the first time that I had ever
worn Oculus Rift so walking around in it is interesting when you can see
everything around you and you're like oh this is kind of cool I'm walking but not
actually moving anywhere that's interesting then you put the Oculus Rift on and you're like holy crap I'm walking
and I'm not moving but I am moving and I can look and shoot and do all this kind
of stuff all at the same time so it definitely adds to the experience which is awesome um one thing I did was I kind
of was a little bit more static because I had trouble turning because I didn't
have the angular weight support of the
belt to kind of keep me where I was supposed to go turning was difficult so
whenever I saw enemies I'd kind of just stand there and shoot Which is less fun
than it could be but then again you will have the belt that fits your size so I
wouldn't worry too much about that um
the gun lonus brought up something it would be nice if there was a good reload
function but then I know on Kickstarter right now there's another gun called I
believe the Delta 6 sorry if I'm wrong uh where you can actually just take the
magazine out put the magazine back in and that acts as a Reload function so
while the gun we were using might not have been the exact perfect gun for that
situation that we were using they are out there and you can use any one you
want so I wouldn't worry too much about that um I almost fell a few times again
I wasn't wearing the belt I really don't think I would have fallen if I wore the
belt I don't think it would have fallen anyways but I might have possibly damaged some of the arms sorry um
I beat it on my second try but like I said um lonus was kind of running around
a lot more than I was if I saw enemies I would sit static and shoot them um that
was crazy I I get nauseous sometimes when I drive in cars so I was a little
bit worried about this I kind of kind of
threw it away when they brought it up but I do actually get nauseous sometimes
in cars I get car sick so I was a little bit worried like I just said but I
didn't I didn't get car sick at all because and I think it helped that I had
the Omni because I was I did have the feeling that I was moving myself so
while people have trouble with oculus rift getting nauseous if you actually
feel like you're moving and you get the visual response of moving I don't
actually feel it that bad if I tilt my head to the left the screen tilts to the
left if I walk forward I walk forward so
I don't know at least for myself I feel the Omni would help if you get nauseous
when using Oculus Rift and H honestly I think that's about
it