2001: A Space Oculus

Category	Rank	Score	Count
Coolness	1864	20

gilmore606 2013-04-29 20:14

Curse you for reminding me that my Rift has not yet arrived. :) Really wish I could be playing this.

gertjohnny 2013-04-29 23:37

I want to play this so bad - yet another reason I should buy an Oculus...

hamster_mk_4 2013-05-01 01:20

Well I don't have one, it is a shame this looked interesting.

jod 2013-05-01 12:26

Damn, this seems cool. Great that the Rift has a Ludum Dare entry :). Sad I can't play this.

zeh 2013-05-01 14:30

Thanks for the support guys. I realize I was restricting myself quite a bit by making an Oculus Rift-only entry, but so it goes with experiments.

I'll probably have a non-Oculus version ready by next week.

There's also a couple of other Rift-ready games. I'm surprised by the low number, considering how easy it is to create a Rift experience in Unity, but they still seem fun (haven't tried them yet)! Full list here:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?sortby=default&q=oculus

prelucid 2013-05-02 21:33

I tried this on my Oculus. The right camera is all white and washed out.

prelucid 2013-05-02 21:35

I tried this on my Oculus. The right camera is all white and washed out.

Edit - using a Mac

zeh 2013-05-03 13:41

Sorry Prelucid. It may be a Unity Oculus SDK problem, considering it has just been released for OSX. I'll test it out on Macs next week.

prelucid 2013-05-03 18:49

Cool. If you're using Unity. You could try changing the depth of both eyes to something higher (1 or 2), and disable any other cameras. Maybe there's a problem related to that. I would love to try this out.

minionstudios 2013-05-06 03:58

I am a huge fan of 2001 and this definitely captures the mood. I hope one day for a Rift, but until then I will cross my eyes and hope.

radmars 2013-05-07 18:06

The controls are pretty hard to use(especially with the oculus on your face), but the overall feeling is magical. There's not much game there, but its surprisingly entertaining to just try to scoot around and try to grab the floating space marine guy, and look at things. great mood. :D

zim-the-fox 2013-05-19 06:27

This looks interesting, all right. Alas, no Rift :c

Ingenious, though!