Gadgetory

is rossman with the verge and we are hanging out with Cliff Bleszinski at South by Southwest he just got off the oculus rift panel so actually want to ask you is what was your first experience oculus how do you get introduced to the head side okay so I know Brendan rebe who's the big guy over there because he worked at guy kinda course he worked the Scaleform which is the UI system that epic and everybody in the industry used he's a very smart businessman he has a tendency to find something good latch on to it and ride it up and just make it a big thing which is what he did with those previous businesses so he came to epic and he actually brought what was their first piece male version of it which was so just like trashy rig it was so sad hey I'm walk into the room with mark rain and I'm like what is this thing it's like literally like you know those old school theater glasses the little old ladies would have right oh this is a wonderful production of Phantom of the Opera right that's what it looked like but you put it on and immediately you're like oh okay I could see you know you ignore the fact that it's not attached to your head the fact that the tracking stuff i could i'm like i felt like i was just gazing into a different world right there and i felt like i was there like teleported and immediately right and that was when i was like okay this might have a lot of potential and then when I saw the later versions of it is when I really started to click from you and I was incredibly impressed the set up what was your first reaction like to meeting palmer luckey ah he reminded me he was kind of a half way between myself and tim sweeney a little bit you know and I saw have this like young budding designer who's doing it because he loves it and I was like wow okay we're gonna be seeing some great things from this kid in the next 20 years and starting with this and you know it's the classic American Dream everybody talks about oh the economy is not doing that well you know you can't really get a job and here's the kid out of his own garage you put this thing together himself and he should be an example for the youth of America yeah I don't know where that way anything so you were just on the panel talked about like different genres that would work well obviously simulation you actually mentioned stimulation and some kind of word fashionable way what Turner's do you think specifically word would work the best here we're actually be better than ever before I think exploration genre right and i deluded to like the Miss type game and I believe Paul was mentioning that that actually be kind of a lonely experience which is a very good point I think horror could be good but i think the horror could actually be too intense for most people like i was saying slender man is already scary on a monitor imagine if you turn around slenderman's right in your face like people would like throw the headset off and stomp on in the ground I think those are kind of games have to be patient with wonder if maybe some sort of fighting game experience could be very interesting you know it's got a first-person yeah and you know movement would be an issue but in fighting games are basically just going like that right so if you depend on how close you are in bobbing but again you'd have to be careful with physical fatigue and so I think when it comes down to flow games games such as a flying games driving games or scuba diving ish games I think those could be very very compelling and I think those are the genres I think had the most potential right obviously put a lot of life changes is here your huge investment oculus are you gonna be developing for it and what can we see from that right now my plans of what I'm working on are still way up in the air I mean my agents talking to different people and there's certainly parties that are interested but right now I'm enjoying just getting up and pissing off the entire internet every day by blogging so we'll see all right cliff thank you so much good seeing