Here Is Super Mario 64 In First Person Mode With Oculus Rift Support

DSOGaming writes: "Super Mario 64 is considered one of the best games of all time. Hell, even Valve’s Gabe Newell loves it. And today we bring you something really special. YouTube’s member ‘Chadtronic’ has managed to run the game – via the Dolphin emulator – in first person mode with Oculus Rift support. "

[randomass171]

That looks freaky as hell but just as fun.

[nveenio]

Wish he would have put both eyes up so I could cross mine and get a taste of the 3D. Oh well.

[ATi_Elite]

Enough of the kiddie stuff, how about Doom using the Rift!

[justSumDood]

Doom already has Rift support.

[randomass171]

I'm pretty sure Doom already happened on Oculus Rift. :P Let's get F.E.A.R. with the Rift.

[DialgaMarine]

Neat, but SM64 could never work in FP.

[elhebbo16]

Well this video literally shows that it can, it being fun is another topic though.

[KonsoruMasuta]

This video shows that it can't. He says himself that he had to cut a lot of thing out because of certain issues he was running into, even admitting he had to switch to third person just to finish some parts.

[BullyMangler]

true, i see the VR headsets working wonders with cockpit flyers and races . some metroid .

seems like Nintendo games are sought after the most when it comes to VR Head Set fantasy fulfillment

[Apollo1]

Wow Amazing, I want to play it.

[jambola]

I'd love to see one of the Bowser fights on this

[The_Truth_24_7]

#teamsony #projectmorpheus

[Dan_scruggs]

#isaneedlessknockoff #sonyhasnorealideas

[elhebbo16]

get ready for the "Sony already had patents for VR HMD's since back in 1997!!"

edit: sic_chops proved my point.

[DragonKnight]

If you think Oculus Rift is new, then you must be new to gaming and technology which means you have no place to say who has "real" ideas and who doesn't.

[randomass171]

VR isn't really new at all. They're both new projects based on really old ideas.

[elhebbo16]

wtf that has to do with this?

[Dante81]

That's actually pretty awesome to watch. However, this might be a sure-fire method to get me puking.

[colonel179]

From what I see, The use of VR is going to be more like a "new" genre, because there are some style of games that will never fit VR. Obviously, the most immersive games will be FPS. Other than that, I don't see a practical use of VR unless is something gimmicky or tacked on just to use it.

With the release of Project Morpheus, I fear that games will have VR implemented just because, like when the moved was released even though a lot of games that used it, would have been much better without it.

I also fear that they begin to change games that would work much better in third person (such as God of War) into first person, just so they can implement VR.

I don't know, but I think VR is something that will not last as long, just like motion controls and 3D gaming, but let's see what happens. At least I am interested in trying it out!.

[Dante81]

I'm mostly interested in VR + cockpit view in racing games. It's OK to be skeptical about it, and you're right that compatible genres will be limited. Well, at least initially.

[grailly]

cockpit view is actually the only great thing I can see VR doing, I don't even think FPS would be great with VR.

It would be about the first person view for me, not the shooting which would be weird.

[UnHoly_One]

Agreed. Cockpit view for a racing game, or flight simulator is the only thing I can see working well.

UNLESS you strap yourself into one of those omnidirectional treadmill things, I don't get how an FPS will feel right at all.

I don't get the appeal of having this super immersive display, but then your movement is still controlled via conventional mouse/keyboard. It just doesn't appeal to me at all.

[CrowbaitBob]

I feel like merely mapping camera control to the VR headset is a perfectly fine use of VR.

It may not be terribly compelling, but if you can control where you look without having to take your thumb off the face buttons then it's at least somewhat beneficial even for third-person games.

[Rickgrimes95]

VR has been a dream of mine ever since I saw it in First Kid with sinbad

[nope111]

That's vomit inducing, but totally worth it!

[sic_chops]

@dan Sony has been working on theirs before Oculus Rift. Go away. You don't know what you are talking about.

[link2Dpast]

Pokemon snap VR or pokemon ....anyone else hyper ventilate to that idea

[colonel179]

Pokemon Snap VR is an amazing idea!

[randomass171]

Already hyperventilating. Holy crap I would play the heck out of that!

[LightDiego]

They are ruining a classic with that.

[EliteGameKnight]

the camera is better on the DS version right? maybe he should try that to see if it can solve some of the laggieness

[cheetah]

Doesn't work and looks clunky. The game was designed around the N64 controller and has never been improved on.

[ChickeyCantor]

"load it into view"

Heard this one before so many times on oculus rift videos and emulators.
Objects in the game are already loaded, there is simply no reason to render them when you look at them. This speeds up rendering. Pretty much every game engine does this. It doesn't load or unload them, that would be sluggish as hell.

[Edsword]

Sould have done metroid prime.

[X-Alchemist]

Looks fun, I got to try Oculus rift at my work place, it's surreal but I felt very sick afterwards

[TitanUp]

crazy what these VR tech duded can do with these old games. maybe they could have goldeneye 64 in VR also.