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@ 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.
It would certainly be easier to leave all features intact this way. But whether it’s easier overall, well, most likely not. As you experienced yourself with the ENB wrapper, doing a wrapper that with broad compatibility isn’t as easy as it might sound. Definitely something to consider though.
Generally it’s possible, although not by using the same shaders as DX9+ uses, which would have to be simplified severely.
I’m not even sure anymore whether DX8 supported HLSL or not, I don’t think so. But since I had to do some assembler shader programming for vorpX’s geometry mode lately for the first time after a long time anyway, it would even be fun in a way to do that some more.
So, no promises. But I will look at it after the initial release.
Depending on the amount you are willing to pay, I might consider to work faster. ;)
Seriously, everything is still on track. As soon as I know for a date sure, I will communicate it.
Yeah, I originally hoped it would be possible to find a good one size fits all visible area, but obviously it’s not. Making the circles just larger, so that they are perfect for you has a negative effect for others and vice versa.
So there will be a setting to adjust the size of the visible area to everyones eyesight perfectly.
@ MrGeddings : In terms of software development cycles 4 weeks is ‘extremely shortly’ after. ;) vorpX will be released as soon as it is ready for a public release. Rest assured that having something ready for you guys as fast as possible has high priority, that’s also the reason why website updates are a bit behind.
@ daniel, Valez: The introduction price will be $40, as announced in an previous interview – or 50 cent for each supported game, is that really that steep?. The $45 are a slight typo in the RoadToVR article.
@ mike : We had numerous articles in Germanys IT-press from people who used vorpX. And I mean the true press, magazines and websites with more than 100.000 readers. People played with vorpX for hours. There are videos showing it in action. If that is possible with vaporware, I would be happy to wait for that kind of vaporware. ;)
@ mhe : That’s always important, and it’s in many ways more helpful to get feedback from people who are primarily interested in the gaming experience, than feedback from people who are more focused on tech-specs.