Romdo Episode 3: The One About VR

Overall topic this episode is VR and why it’s coming back. (Recorded on August 5th, 2015)

Panel

• Alex Reis (twitter)
• Eric Hartin (twitter)
• Jim Myhrberg (twitter)

Intro

• What are we playing? (2:06)

News

• Tomb Raider Xbox One exclusive details. [Correction: PC release “early 2016”, PS4 relase “holiday 2016”] (10:30)
• Various EA Gamescom related annoucements/rants. Mostly about Unravel, indie developers, and Kickstarted games. (12:30)
• Blizzcon accouncements. (22:49)
• The death of Dinklebot in Destiny. Nolan North replaces Peter Dinklage as the voice of Ghost. (24:27)
• The (new) Doom multiplayer looks awesome. (26:05)

Virtual Reality

• Why is VR important now compared to the 90s? (28:20)
• VR input schemes and systems that work and don’t work for shooters. (33:36)
• Killer apps: Horror, cockpit/racing-based, shooters. (36:57)
• Why are people interested in VR again now? (40:32)
• VR in Sci-fi. Our discussion almost plays out as a list of anime and book suggestions rather than being on topic :P (45:23)
• Reality is broken. (57:49)
• VR Hardare faceoff. (1:00:01)
• Is our reality a virtual reality already? (1:06:13)

P.S.

Due to summer holiday trips, and otherwise heat-induced chaos, this episode is published just over a month after it we recorded it. With summer heat strokes and obligatory “zomg its hot must have holiday kthxbye” craziness out of the way, new episodes should come on a more regular basis in the future :)

Originally published at romdo.io on September 8, 2015.