Atomic Systems

I wonder what this could mean??

http://youtu.be/BWhM_oHr558?t=26m22s

From 26 mins if the link doesn't point to the correct bit.

HTC Vive...

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/03/h ... xperience/

TrackIR on steroids??

I'm suspicious of these kind of things including 3D glasses, if used to much you could have eye problems later on in life, but nobody really knows as they haven't been around long enough, a bit like cell phones causing brain tumors.

Trev123 wrote:I'm suspicious of these kind of things including 3D glasses, if used to much you could have eye problems later on in life, but nobody really knows as they haven't been around long enough, a bit like cell phones causing brain tumors.

Cell phones have been around long enough to discover if they cause tumours or not, and just because you're suspicious it doesn't mean there's anything to be suspicious of.

Quite like the look of this device and am curious how it works in reality, especially with it being lower resolution than full screen monitors.

gptech wrote:HTC Vive...

HTC reVive

Dave

deltic009 wrote:

Trev123 wrote:I'm suspicious of these kind of things including 3D glasses, if used to much you could have eye problems later on in life, but nobody really knows as they haven't been around long enough, a bit like cell phones causing brain tumors.

Cell phones have been around long enough to discover if they cause tumours or not, and just because you're suspicious it doesn't mean there's anything to be suspicious of.

Quite like the look of this device and am curious how it works in reality, especially with it being lower resolution than full screen monitors.

While off topic slightly, we had a cavity magnetron microwave oven from the 1960s and it worked on the same frequency range as the GSM900, but then again the microwave was 6kW

There are quite a few companies rolling out various different VR headsets, had a few emails from kickstarter about some too. About 10 years ago I tried a VR headset at a flight sim show, it made me feel really uncomfortable and we could not get the image to converge into a single one, it was like seeing double. My eyes are not straight and as I also wear glasses wearing 3D glasses over the top of them is not something I enjoy. I have a very good audio visual/cinema set up at home here and most of the components are 3D compatible I don't use the 3D at all.

This is all fascinating, but something I'd want to try out before committing to an expensive purchase, whenever it actually gets to the mass market.

To achieve real immersion you'd want some kind of kinetic feedback as well. Then I wonder if I'd ever come back out into the real world...

Martin

If you have Oculus Rift or similar you can test your train models in 3D very easily in unreal engine editor. It seems the engine has native support for head mounted displays since latest 4.7 version. As TS2015 will be built around the unreal engine it is likely that it will have the same support from the start. In order to use it smoothly prepare to buy a computer that generates 180 fps(90 fps per eye)

SaMa1 wrote: As TS2015 will be built around the unreal engine..........

TS2015 has already been built, around the old engine....

So far we don't know which release of TS will be the 'Unreal' one.

gptech wrote:

SaMa1 wrote: As TS2015 will be built around the unreal engine..........

TS2015 has already been built, around the old engine....

So far we don't know which release of TS will be the 'Unreal' one.

Maybe there was some wishful thinking and I am still living in year 2014. Seriously, if the old TS series is going to be developed in parallel with unreal version then I hope new version is called unREAL Train Simulator 2016

SaMa1 wrote:If you have Oculus Rift or similar you can test your train models in 3D very easily in unreal engine editor.

Or just test them in the current game engine -Oculus should be the command line (I haven't tried it recently) Ctrl & O enables/disables it

Dave