I hope these guys do: Crash Course Music (evolution and different types of music) Crash Course Art History Crash Course Animation (evolutions of the cartoons we watch today and various types of animation) Crash Course Film (evolution of the film industry) Crash Course Technology (evolutions of technology and appliances) Crash Course Festivals (stories behind popular holidays)
I predict that VR will take off in 10-20 years, and I will be the old guy who complains about how kids don't get a real childhood anymore, like in the good old days when we played on a screen with a controller.
VR is definitely here to stay! The products on the market now are good enough for early adopters and the games/experiences being released are really cool and compelling. And it isn't that hard to make games/experineces for VR compared to making other 3D modelled applications. So it really is just a matter of time.
VR has also been a prominent part of the defense industry for a while. Simulators for everything from vehicles to firearms has allowed for more realistic practice at lower cost. The creators of Oculus actually planned to market their device to the US government first before realizing the device could be viably sold on the consumer market.
I tried the game at 7:34 on the hololense. it was really fun! You can literally duck out of the way of the flying robots. They spawn 360 around you and come out of the walls and it can be really hard to find them before the shoot you.
You should have mentioned NASA's use of Microsoft's VR headset to navigate and send commands to the mars Rover. I've seen it in real life - it's amazing.
VR might maybe be here to stay is all you get. We know it will get better, cheaper and there will be more blockbuster games in the future. There will be no cables on your vive and oculus headset in the future and you might see more social experiences presented to you by facebook.
Soooo cool - can you imagine VR combined with a real world maze with a haunted house theme?! I miss Hanks gaming channel when he used to try VR out and had his heart monitor strapped on - some of that was sooo heartstartingly fun!
I remember playing a VR games like the one shown @ 3:29 at a local mall as a kid. While it was an interesting wow-factor experience, it was also very disorienting and not much fun. In retrospect, it's no surprise those didn't last.
I for one am very excited about VR. It does bring about challenges however, like motion sickness and the baffling aspect of controling your feet with a joystick, your hands with buttons, and the lack of tactile feed back from your environnement. I hope that they figure out a way to fix some of these issues, like requiring you to shuffle your feet and knees to move at faster speeds, the integration of motion controls and hand 3d captures and translation into the game world, as well as some way to for directional motion to not make you barf.
TH-cam's 360 View only works well on Cardboard. It is one of those cardboard compliant applications (being google's video service and all). It's not in anyway it's own platform, as there's no physical device for it other than cardboard, and I can't get it to work on PC VR. You have to manually pan the camera through set intervals, which breaks the immersion aspect.
Very cool :D It will definitely be interesting to see VR grow and improve with time. I doubt I'll see a holodeck level experience in my lifetime, but it would be a dream come true.
I recently got to have the VR rollercoaster experience on the superman ride at six flags new england. Part way through an error message appeared and the "camera angle" glitched out so that I was able to the entirety of the avatar that was supposed to be representing my body... which did not have a head, since I was never supposed to be able to SEE the area where the head should be. Every single person on the ride experienced the same glitch because we were all watching the same feed. Terrible glitching aside, it was still very fun. Seeing Superman "save you" as you are "falling to your death" in the simulation was pretty sweet.
I have a Vive myself, and enough computer power to run it well. I'm looking forward to some developer coming out with a game that's open world and really, like a proper game but with VR mechanics. Yeah, you can make games like Skyrim and Fallout work in VR via an injector, but I want something built from the ground up with that experience. It won't likely be the case for a few years, as the cost of entry is just too high at the moment. You not only need an expensive headset like a Vive or Rift, but also the processing power to back it up, which isn't cheap. I think VR is here to stay, the question is whether it becomes mainstream, or remains more niche. Personally, I want something like the Oasis from Ready Player One (And yes, I know it was basically a means for people to ignore problems in the real world, which was distopian, in favour of a glorious, but ultimately fake life. I still want it. We can have both a better real world and awesome VR world.).
around 1995 there was crappy VR headsets kicking around. I remember seeing them in stores and my copy for mechwarrior 2 DOS talking about how you can use it. All it did was project images though.
An easy way to have a player move around is to put them on a vehicle. This way they can traverse the world while also having a realistic reason why they don't keep walking. That, or things like JRPG battle grounds wherein the map and battle map are separate things. As such, you'd battle in the room, but move via your device.
The VR Thempark idea looks and sounds amazing. If it works like that id give that an: "almost as cool as a holodeck". Because obviously only a holodeck is as cool as a holodeck.
The indie game industry next? Flash, unity, and emulation are huge parts of our video game culture. But I'm just trying to help and I don't know crash course's plans. So it's just a suggestion! :)
I was excited to learn about the VR roller coaster and theme park. I was actually just wondering whether VR could rekindle the interest in the video arcade experience. The heavy demand of the technology puts a lot of boundaries around consumer usage, but it seems like a dedicated VR video arcade with all the required technology (headsets, surround sound, controller analogs, omni-directional treadmills, etc) in a space tailor made for the experience for individual or multiple people, would be ideally suited for the technology. It may be that currents costs are still too prohibitive, but I doubt it'll stay that way for long.
Actually Palmer Lucky was being paid to develop a VR headset by another company but he disagreed with certain design decisions and then decided to build his own. The company even filed for lawsuit later claiming he stole that idea.
I'm A bit skeptical about VR. Even when I use the newer ones, the games don't play well. Every time I die it seems like its because of some error of the control, rather than something in the game. Or my characters would vaguely drift to One side. I hope to be proven wrong, otherwise it might be like that meme "stop trying to make VR happen. It's not gonna happen."
i think that the VR devices can also grow as a work tool with in industries that already uses ROV,s and they gan have a major effect on the functionality of a VR
I'm cautiously optimistic about virtual reality. the problem I see with it is: it's inherently limited to first person perspective and maybe third person perspective games. imagine what a VR Madden would look like; you're in first person perspective of whoever is carrying the ball, if you're on offense but how do you do the defense? and how do you transition from a defensive position, which would probably be the classic top down view to a first person view upon an interception, without drawing the player and make them wonder where is the end zone? Now ask yourself how would do VR with baseball or soccer and you'll see how difficult it would be to do traditional sports games in VR. What about VR Mario, DOTA, Tetris, or Crusader Kings? would VR help these games in any way? are these games even possible to do in VR? now you can start seeing the problem from a design perspective and if they can address some of these issues, VR has a hope. if not I'll just be another gimmick peripheral
So when is this series going to end? Don't get me wrong, I love CC Games, I'm just worried there aren't any more episodes left...they said there were going to be twenty at the start.
Intel dropping their tick-tock cycle implies that Moore's Law may finally be at an end. Its funny that happened right about the time the VR resurgence happened; the timing was terrible. VR needs smaller, more powerful processors to succeed. The end of Moore's Law will most likely be the death of modern VR.
I would love a harry potter game but you have to wave your hand and say the spell and not just click a button. This will work so well in vr, vr headsets can already track your hands and have microphones
i played that dactle game when i was younger, im talking 10 or so, at a movie theater once bu the helmet didnt fit sobi died pretty quick. but its cool to relearn the name of the game
ok I live in provo utah which is litterly 10 minutes away from pleasent grove and is had no idea that there was a virtual reality amusment park being built there
Andre... :( why didn't you mention the Atari Jaguar VR set? There are two working prototypes in fans hands, would be better than the Sega VR :( jokes aside though, another great video! XD
Home Vr, I think, is a dead end. unless they develop something like .hack// or Sword Art Online, Vr at home will require large and very much safe areas to operate. Roller coasters and virtual reality arenas like what we saw in the video will be where it will succeed the most. Augmented reality will, I think, work a lot better at home and has the additional bonus of having practical uses. It can also be used with more traditional means. It CAN supplement, for instance, traditional screens.
To me, virtual reality games will have succeeded when certain games for it are mainstream and have storylines like other types of video games. I want a virtual reality game to be the next Bioshock, not just a gimmick that will be used by consumers for five minutes before they forget about it and leave it unused for years. I really want virtual reality to be respected, so it would be a shame for it to just be a gimmick.
"Sorry Pikachu i'll gonna catch you later" -No one ever
I hope these guys do:
Crash Course Music (evolution and different types of music)
Crash Course Art History
Crash Course Animation (evolutions of the cartoons we watch today and various types of animation)
Crash Course Film (evolution of the film industry)
Crash Course Technology (evolutions of technology and appliances)
Crash Course Festivals (stories behind popular holidays)
If they do music, I really hope they actually explain all the terminology in a way that connects it to actual properties of the audio signal.
I predict that VR will take off in 10-20 years, and I will be the old guy who complains about how kids don't get a real childhood anymore, like in the good old days when we played on a screen with a controller.
VR is definitely here to stay! The products on the market now are good enough for early adopters and the games/experiences being released are really cool and compelling. And it isn't that hard to make games/experineces for VR compared to making other 3D modelled applications. So it really is just a matter of time.
VR on a roller coaster is the coolest fuckign thing i have ever heard. Eat it, Universal Studios Hollywood!
VR Horror stories are even better... if done well, ofc.
You should try No Limits 2 Coaster in VR, bloody amazing!
nah, nothing beats a live VR hatsune miku concert on my rift
VR has also been a prominent part of the defense industry for a while. Simulators for everything from vehicles to firearms has allowed for more realistic practice at lower cost. The creators of Oculus actually planned to market their device to the US government first before realizing the device could be viably sold on the consumer market.
I tried the game at 7:34 on the hololense. it was really fun! You can literally duck out of the way of the flying robots. They spawn 360 around you and come out of the walls and it can be really hard to find them before the shoot you.
You should have mentioned NASA's use of Microsoft's VR headset to navigate and send commands to the mars Rover. I've seen it in real life - it's amazing.
6:57 "That's where they get cha" xD
We Are VR -- Troopers!
Giggity!
Perfect timing with Palmer Luckey hahaha.
That was the Past and Present of Virtual Reality. I was genuinely hoping to hear more speculation and predictions for the Future of VR.
Search for 'Ray Kurzweil virtual reality' and watch the Big Think video. If you manage to be disappointed, i'll eat my hat.
VR might maybe be here to stay is all you get.
We know it will get better, cheaper and there will be more blockbuster games in the future. There will be no cables on your vive and oculus headset in the future and you might see more social experiences presented to you by facebook.
Christoph G. It will be more than just that, by the 2030's we will have virtual reality from our nervous system. You should watch that video too.
Ray Kurzweil is the deepak chopra of the scientific world.
Deepak Chopra is the Deepak Chopra of the scientific world
Not even a passing mention of the VFX1?
It was a landmark, to anyone who remembers Doom..
Soooo cool - can you imagine VR combined with a real world maze with a haunted house theme?!
I miss Hanks gaming channel when he used to try VR out and had his heart monitor strapped on - some of that was sooo heartstartingly fun!
I remember playing a VR games like the one shown @ 3:29 at a local mall as a kid. While it was an interesting wow-factor experience, it was also very disorienting and not much fun. In retrospect, it's no surprise those didn't last.
Great video. Excellent presentation and succinctly insightful.
I for one am very excited about VR. It does bring about challenges however, like motion sickness and the baffling aspect of controling your feet with a joystick, your hands with buttons, and the lack of tactile feed back from your environnement.
I hope that they figure out a way to fix some of these issues, like requiring you to shuffle your feet and knees to move at faster speeds, the integration of motion controls and hand 3d captures and translation into the game world, as well as some way to for directional motion to not make you barf.
Timely with Palmet Luckey currently in the news...
Nothing about Hololens or about TH-cam's own 360 degree video (not interactive, but still cool)?
Hololens is AR, not VR
I know. That's why I expected it to be mentioned in the section on AR :-).
TH-cam's 360 View only works well on Cardboard. It is one of those cardboard compliant applications (being google's video service and all). It's not in anyway it's own platform, as there's no physical device for it other than cardboard, and I can't get it to work on PC VR. You have to manually pan the camera through set intervals, which breaks the immersion aspect.
It works fine on any (android) phone regardless of whether you're using google cardboard, just hold the phone up and move it around.
Very cool :D
It will definitely be interesting to see VR grow and improve with time. I doubt I'll see a holodeck level experience in my lifetime, but it would be a dream come true.
I recently got to have the VR rollercoaster experience on the superman ride at six flags new england. Part way through an error message appeared and the "camera angle" glitched out so that I was able to the entirety of the avatar that was supposed to be representing my body... which did not have a head, since I was never supposed to be able to SEE the area where the head should be. Every single person on the ride experienced the same glitch because we were all watching the same feed.
Terrible glitching aside, it was still very fun. Seeing Superman "save you" as you are "falling to your death" in the simulation was pretty sweet.
I've said it before and you can bet I'll say it a million times more: I love this series!
Things only advance as far as people are willing to pay for it. No investors, no solutions.
Pretty good video!
I have a Vive myself, and enough computer power to run it well. I'm looking forward to some developer coming out with a game that's open world and really, like a proper game but with VR mechanics. Yeah, you can make games like Skyrim and Fallout work in VR via an injector, but I want something built from the ground up with that experience. It won't likely be the case for a few years, as the cost of entry is just too high at the moment. You not only need an expensive headset like a Vive or Rift, but also the processing power to back it up, which isn't cheap.
I think VR is here to stay, the question is whether it becomes mainstream, or remains more niche.
Personally, I want something like the Oasis from Ready Player One (And yes, I know it was basically a means for people to ignore problems in the real world, which was distopian, in favour of a glorious, but ultimately fake life. I still want it. We can have both a better real world and awesome VR world.).
Thank you for making this video!
the jokes in this episode made me LOL, props to the writers.
around 1995 there was crappy VR headsets kicking around. I remember seeing them in stores and my copy for mechwarrior 2 DOS talking about how you can use it. All it did was project images though.
An easy way to have a player move around is to put them on a vehicle. This way they can traverse the world while also having a realistic reason why they don't keep walking. That, or things like JRPG battle grounds wherein the map and battle map are separate things. As such, you'd battle in the room, but move via your device.
this channel has everything I could ever dream of
The VR Thempark idea looks and sounds amazing.
If it works like that id give that an: "almost as cool as a holodeck". Because obviously only a holodeck is as cool as a holodeck.
"I'm a coca cola bottle". I genuinely lol'd. Great documentary, well done. You've got yourselves a new subscriber.
Early TH-cam comments are always terrible
agreed. but the later ones are also terrible.
The comment section on TH-cam in general are bad
I too, think the comment section is bad.
*TH-cam comments are always terrible
TH-cam comments are terrible at being great
excellent and thoroughly researched history lesson
There's a Crash Course Games? With Andre? These are two of my favorite things!
Hey André. Have you seen my 3D videos from Vidicon and Comic Con? Be sure to watch them on your Google Cardboard!
I feel the title of this video is a little misleading, there was very little said about the *future* of VR... and that was what I came for !
You came for a TH-cam video? That's a hardcore fetish. ;)
Are you going to do a crash course on competitive/esports games?
Great job!
The indie game industry next? Flash, unity, and emulation are huge parts of our video game culture. But I'm just trying to help and I don't know crash course's plans. So it's just a suggestion! :)
I was excited to learn about the VR roller coaster and theme park. I was actually just wondering whether VR could rekindle the interest in the video arcade experience. The heavy demand of the technology puts a lot of boundaries around consumer usage, but it seems like a dedicated VR video arcade with all the required technology (headsets, surround sound, controller analogs, omni-directional treadmills, etc) in a space tailor made for the experience for individual or multiple people, would be ideally suited for the technology. It may be that currents costs are still too prohibitive, but I doubt it'll stay that way for long.
8:25 So we got to the point where we call seeing someone on a video seeing him in real life.
"Sorry Pikachu, i'll catch you later"!? WHAT ARE YOU SAYING MAN.
Please do an episode on game sound design!
How to treat current VR:
1. Buy a Vive
2. Play Audioshield
3. Get all your money's worth
(post may suffer from bias)
As always, a great episode, but you didn't mention HoloLens, which is pretty awesome
Actually Palmer Lucky was being paid to develop a VR headset by another company but he disagreed with certain design decisions and then decided to build his own. The company even filed for lawsuit later claiming he stole that idea.
Otherland by Tad Williams is terrifyingly prophetic for being written around 1992/95 or so.
VR was huge in the nineties and we all forgot about it for a long time idk why
love ur videos, can u guys do a crash course on computer science
In which episode will the good oll' pinballtable finally get some love?
that was good. it was well written and it made me laugh a few times.
I'm
A bit skeptical about VR. Even when I use the newer ones, the games don't play well. Every time I die it seems like its because of some error of the control, rather than something in the game. Or my characters would vaguely drift to
One side.
I hope to be proven wrong, otherwise it might be like that meme "stop trying to make VR happen. It's not gonna happen."
I have an oculus rift an the games play fine
KCircuit8 do you ever find yourself saying. "Oh I didn't mean to die, they controls are just a bit buggy"
Isn't pokemon go considered as augmented reality?
Exellent video
i think that the VR devices can also grow as a work tool with in industries that already uses ROV,s and they gan have a major effect on the functionality of a VR
I find it hilarious that this came out the same day I received my oculus rift in the post
Dactyl Nightmare sounds a bit like multiplayer Joust!
I played Dactyle Nightmare at a mall in Cincinnati when I was like, nine-years-old!
I also screwed around with a Virtual Boy at Walmart back in the day. Lol
Crash Course is like Pokemon, "Gotta watch them all".
AR and VR is the only way the gaming industry will move forward. CGI is as good as it's going to get.
Please make a playlist for algebra!!!!!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Since this channel is doing a crash course gaming series, may I suggest crash course movies/tv. I wonder who the speaker will be though.
on of the screenjunkies maybe? or André could do that too
Oh my goodness! It's Andre!
No mention of Lawnmower Man? That's the main way a lot of people know about Virtual Reality.
I am literally developing for the cardboard as I watch! So meta...
I played Dactyl Nightmare!
SAO incoming!
LOOOL 'Future' of VR, but he spends the whole time falling about past and present. This video has been flagged as bait, I am a 3rd tier TH-cam HERO
I wish I could experience the image Kratos saw, because I don't think he puked from motion sickness.
I'm cautiously optimistic about virtual reality. the problem I see with it is: it's inherently limited to first person perspective and maybe third person perspective games. imagine what a VR Madden would look like; you're in first person perspective of whoever is carrying the ball, if you're on offense but how do you do the defense? and how do you transition from a defensive position, which would probably be the classic top down view to a first person view upon an interception, without drawing the player and make them wonder where is the end zone? Now ask yourself how would do VR with baseball or soccer and you'll see how difficult it would be to do traditional sports games in VR.
What about VR Mario, DOTA, Tetris, or Crusader Kings? would VR help these games in any way? are these games even possible to do in VR?
now you can start seeing the problem from a design perspective and if they can address some of these issues, VR has a hope. if not I'll just be another gimmick peripheral
I reckon we will be able to create/customize our own 3D-HD-VR worlds using 2D pixelated 'Terraria' built worlds as a base model
So when is this series going to end? Don't get me wrong, I love CC Games, I'm just worried there aren't any more episodes left...they said there were going to be twenty at the start.
No mention of the OSVR or the fove? :(
Intel dropping their tick-tock cycle implies that Moore's Law may finally be at an end. Its funny that happened right about the time the VR resurgence happened; the timing was terrible. VR needs smaller, more powerful processors to succeed. The end of Moore's Law will most likely be the death of modern VR.
Thanks Mike Hunt.
VR scares the hell outta me
No mention of omnidirectional threadmills?
FUTURE of VR?? this is HISTORY of VR
I would love a harry potter game but you have to wave your hand and say the spell and not just click a button. This will work so well in vr, vr headsets can already track your hands and have microphones
More like the history of VR
i played that dactle game when i was younger, im talking 10 or so, at a movie theater once bu the helmet didnt fit sobi died pretty quick. but its cool to relearn the name of the game
ok I live in provo utah which is litterly 10 minutes away from pleasent grove and is had no idea that there was a virtual reality amusment park being built there
Andre... :( why didn't you mention the Atari Jaguar VR set? There are two working prototypes in fans hands, would be better than the Sega VR :( jokes aside though, another great video! XD
I've got the Gear VR, and it's nice, but it makes the phone overheat really quickly.
No mention of OASIS in Ready Player One?
I'd like you to talk about vr tech as seen in anime series swordartonline and the possibilities of artificial sensory input.
i tried thos vr pods way back when x)
epilepsy warning at 8:51
I watched this video with my google cardboard. The cardboard has come a long way so mine is a headset (with straps) and it's pretty good for £20!
So how long will it be before I can have a nerve gear?
I want that wall to be the wall in my room
Home Vr, I think, is a dead end. unless they develop something like .hack// or Sword Art Online, Vr at home will require large and very much safe areas to operate.
Roller coasters and virtual reality arenas like what we saw in the video will be where it will succeed the most.
Augmented reality will, I think, work a lot better at home and has the additional bonus of having practical uses. It can also be used with more traditional means. It CAN supplement, for instance, traditional screens.
I like how my add was a ps vr ad lol
giving Luckey a bit too much credit with the whole ZeniMax thing going on...
To me, virtual reality games will have succeeded when certain games for it are mainstream and have storylines like other types of video games. I want a virtual reality game to be the next Bioshock, not just a gimmick that will be used by consumers for five minutes before they forget about it and leave it unused for years. I really want virtual reality to be respected, so it would be a shame for it to just be a gimmick.
This might sound crazy but something that would probably get VR big investors is to take it to the porn industry.
You're not wrong, that's how VCR and the internet became big things. Porn
The porn industry is way ahead of you. It's been happening for nearly a year now. There are actually VR porn reaction videos on youtube already.
A friend of a friend of my cousin's friend told me that pornhub has a VR category... but idk what pornhub is :C
Never Forget Rule 34 of Internet .... Same goes for VR !!
This is called the Rule of First Adopters
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheRuleOfFirstAdopters
"Belly dancing", and "A date with Sabrina", wow mankind's quest for top quality porn is the driving force behind every media advancement
Misleading title!
Palmer Unluckey timing.
Troopers VR. Virtaulity Reality.