Earlier this week we showed you a video of Metroid Prime played with Oculus Rift; now it's the turn of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker to take a step into virtual reality.
It is, once again, the work of YouTube user Chadtronic, and like all of these demonstrations admittedly uses slightly naughty means to bring us the end result using the GameCube original. It's intriguing, though, and the vibrant world is throbbing with life and shows off the environment and characters we all know and love.
Although the first-person point of view seems a bit dizzying at times, it adds a lot of dimension to gameplay; it's a natural extension of the first-person camera we could use in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD. It is especially thrilling when Link glides around with a Deku Leaf or is facing brutal attacks during sword training.
Take a look at the video below and let us know what you think of the demo. Which game would you like to see next on the Oculus Rift?
[source kotaku.com]
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THIS IS THE START OF A NEW ERA OF CONSOLES! Cmon, I really want a console that does this! Nerve gear… lol.
Now do F-Zero GX.
Or Sunshine.
He can see inside of the video game world?! faints
call me stupid but now I want soooooo bad to see a sidescroller in first person!!!!!!!!!!!!
it must be the most crazy awesome insanity in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@JubilifeRival Oh no and then we will all be trapped in a world where the smallest mistake can get us killed lol
@Ernest_The_Crab YEHHHHH BRO
WOW! every game will be a first person view. This is a MicroSony fanboys wet dream... Looks like MAB's eye melting, brain exploding nightmare
I wouldn't mind playing through it like that. Exploring in first person view and then switching to third person while fighting would be an interesting mechanic.
Edit: Oh. Well, until he said you couldn't play through it like that...
Sonic advance 3 in First person
Or really any 2D sonic but I'm biased towards my first sonic game
The best part jus that sine of the first games that these guys are "porting" onto the rift are Nintendo games . And I just want to buy everything I need today to do this...and I think I might.
nintendo should implement the oculus rift to wii u and possibly 3ds
If you die in the game, you die in real life.
What? It doesn't work like that? Okay then.
@JubilifeRival
Oh My GOODNESS.... that was what I was thinking when watching the video.... not this a true next generation era.
Now do Pikmin!!!
So how many more games will the Oculus Rift ruins until we decided to take it seriously? How bout next a Tetris or maybe a Pong game while we're at it.
With Wii U's capacity to send images to another device, like the gamepad, i think its likely they will release something similar to this Occulus. I always though they would, and, actually, we could find out about it pretty soon as they reveal Zelda U next e3.
anybody have a guess as to when OR will be released? I WANT ONE!!!
@Manaphy2007
Native resolution for 3DS games are far, far too low for VR. You'd either get a very tiny image displayed to your eyes, or the image would be really stretched out and you'd see an extremely pixellated image.
What amazes me is a lot of the people who hated the Wii Motion control and Kinnect (and standing up playing games), think OR is marvelous. Seems like it would be very draining and disorientating to me.
saw this ages ago x)
@WaveBoy I know you want to get up close and personal with Saddlers tentacle
MORE proof that a first person zelda would be an awesome idea. this looks amazing and i want it.
This seems really gimmicky to me (So much headgear!). I think the worst part is when he looks down and you can see inside Link's model instead of just the ground in front of you.
Trying something like this with the Rift has me much more curious than all the demos that lean towards reality in the visual department.
Though truth be told, the couple times I've tried the Rift out, it wasn't exactly a revelation. Both the software and hardware need to improve, and more manufacturers need to step up for this technology to have much other than a decidedly niche future.
Makes me wish Nintendo would give a full first person Zelda game a try. Or at least let you play fully through a Zelda game in either third or first person depending on your preference.
I would go insane for an Oculus Rift now as Wind Waker is my favorite game, but it looks way unfinished.
I think it really looks bad, and it doesn't seem immersive at all.
This looks awfully bad and clumsy.
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