Virtual Reality of Roller Coaster

[Freiday]

Oculus

After reading the article about Oculus and VR in Wired Magazine,

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/oculus-rift-4/

 

I wonder what if there's VR(Virtual Reality)of roller coasters like this?

Skyscraper Theme Park

http://juhyunkim.com/archives/category/skyscraper-theme-park

 

Are there any recent development for VR and roller coaster?

Edited June 11, 2014 by Freiday

[Her0ofLime]

Theme Park Studio will have Oculus Rift support.

[canadianparkfan]

Well, if imagine that those moments where you can almost feel the airtime on well shot vids will be even more awesome with something like this.

[A.J.]

I don't see using Oculus / Morpheus / etc on an actual roller coaster video for a very long time - you'd pretty much have to mount a spherical camera at eye level in a coaster car, shoot basically a bunch of videos at once, and composite them all together in a spherical viewport to get the effect right. To do it on a regular mounted on-ride video, you'd have to restrain the viewer's head to a fixed position otherwise they could get motion sick.

 

On the other hand, software applications like NoLimits Coaster and / or Theme Park Studio can easily make this happen.

[canadianparkfan]

I don't see using Oculus / Morpheus / etc on an actual roller coaster video for a very long time - you'd pretty much have to mount a spherical camera at eye level in a coaster car, shoot basically a bunch of videos at once, and composite them all together in a spherical viewport to get the effect right. To do it on a regular mounted on-ride video, you'd have to restrain the viewer's head to a fixed position otherwise they could get motion sick.

 

On the other hand, software applications like NoLimits Coaster and / or Theme Park Studio can easily make this happen.

Yeah, was thinking it'd probably be way easier to do on something like NL than an actual vid, but if someone were able to take the time and money to be able to try it with a real coaster, and did it right, that'd be amazing!

 

Also remember a while back, la ronde was testing some sort of VR system to go with their B&M hyper, Goliath. Guess it didn't work though, as I haven't heard anything about it in the last while. It's too bad, that would've been kind of cool.

[Freiday]

But, I don't know how advanced is theme park studio. Looks like Oculus is doing something totally different.

[cal1br3tto]

Also remember a while back, la ronde was testing some sort of VR system to go with their B&M hyper, Goliath. Guess it didn't work though, as I haven't heard anything about it in the last while. It's too bad, that would've been kind of cool.

That sounds bizarre! Does anyone have more details?

[Freiday]

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/oculus-virtual-reality-will-spread-like-wildfire/1100-6420623/

 

Oculus: Virtual Reality Will Spread "Like Wildfire" !

[cfc]

No thanks--VR makes me feel ill.

[Freiday]

INTERSTELLAR'S OCULUS RIFT EXPERIENCE: THIS IS THE FUTURE... OF SOMETHING !!

 

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/10/09/interstellars-oculus-rift-experience-this-is-the-future-of-something