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>> cool so it includes a controller mapper too?
Yep, very nice for playing titles without gamepad support. No need for extra software, and configurable directly in the game. Btw: you can also use the Rift tracker for simulating gamepad axis movement, which can give you headtracking in games without mouselook (usually driving games and such). Not 100% perfect in some cases, depending on the way a game handles gamepad input, but clearly better than nothing.
>> but I think you said you have an option to make the “circles” bigger or
>> smaller too which will be nice.That is the case. You can scale the circles all the way up until they touch the screen edges. The best setting though is the smallest size that does not let you see the circles in the Rift. So just don’t crank it up, thinking bigger is always better. ;) The optimal size is very dependent on individual eyesight.
These are just two of the many smaller and bigger things that make vorpX more than just a 3d-driver. It really is specifically geared towards VR in many things.
Quite simple: the reason for this are the considerably lower sales taxes in many parts of the US. This makes it possible to sell slightly cheaper over there. If you live elsewhere, your local tax rate applies, regardless of the currency you pay something in. So unfortunately that wouldn’t change anything.
A profile for X3 (demo version) was just added :) . Provided that there aren’t huge differences between the demo and the final game, it should work just fine.
In general, yes. There might be (and are) cases though where someone would want to adjust more than that, so that is possible too. But not mandatory, of course. Usually it’s just plug and play.
Yes. You can customize everything that is needed to make vorpX’s output a perfect fit for your individual eyesight (and in your case lensmod). Standard settings do work great for most people, but if needed, there are enough advanced tweaking options to spend half a day experimenting with them. ;)
Yes, using a X-Box 360 gamepad is possible. Even for games that don’t have gamepad support. A good chunk of time went into this, since I think playing with a gamepad helps to improve immersion.
How many vorpX features you want to map to the gamepad is your choice, so I would say it’s usually possible to find a good mapping for every game.
Yes, something like that is there. And there is lot more that is focusing on making games actually playable on the Rift instead of just adding 3D.
That’s the intention behind vorpX, and that’s why it’s called ‘3D Driver and more’.
@ Happy: Thanks for your continued interest in vorpX, although you already seem to know that other solutions are superior. ;) We all know your opinion by now though. Please advertise other products elsewhere, especially if you have nothing more to say than just assumptions based on nothing. Thank you.
A firm release date for a vorpX beta version will be announced within the next few weeks. Please keep an eye (or both if you like) on the announcement sticky above.
@ All, and especially Mr. Geddings: The forum was so utterly cluttered with ‘release it already’-threads that it got next to unusable. Because of this those threads were all merged into this one and every new thread regarding this will be merged into this one too. Nothing wrong with discussing the matter, but please discuss it here instead of opening the same thread over and over again. Thanks. :-)
…the profit will continue to dwindle…
Either that, … or something else. ;) I might decide to broaden the approach towards stereoscopic displays for example, which I didn’t do on purpose until now.
Hi Kris,
Halo 1 is DirectX8, so unfortunately it won’t work for the first release version (might change in the future), but I will look into Halo 2, which uses DX9, I believe. No promises though. ;)
As much as I can understand that some of you are getting impatiant, complaining every few days won’t speed up anything. I would really like to work exclusively on vorpX, but like most of you I have to work for (serious) money too, which is eating away nearly all of my time ATM.
Getting something ready for a broader audience has still high priority, but things take as long as they take. Sorry. :)
@ Mr Geddings : No problem if you want to complain, but please do so in a civilized manner. And please don’t open new theads with the same complaint over and over again. Use this one for further discussion of this matter. Thanks.
Hi Jomm, welcome!
I thought about that, but unfortunately Kickstarter ist not really an option for commercial software. To my understanding software projects (with the exception of games) have to be open source.