Oculus Rift

The Oculus Rift represents a paradigm shift for the FPS genre. Imagine first person shooters with the ability to engage combatants in real time, no need for a controller! Imagine using your arms to dismantle an enemy tank and feel the tactile response. Such is the possibilities that devices such as Microsoft’s Oculus Rift bring to the technological table, and the potential cannot remain overstated. Imagine performing cooperative missions with friends in a virtual world designed with VR technology, playing call-outs with your voice and having AI squadmates cover you and follow orders in a split second!

The Oculus Rift also has the potential to revolutionize how we interact with our home devices. In a similar vein to Google Glass, the interface allows for context sensitive information to become mapped to the headset. I envision a future in which all VR games enable you to interact with your email, social media, and other plugins as you play so you can multitask as you game. FPS video games are all about immersion, and with virtual reality becoming more sophisticated technology than in the days of Nintendo’s failed Virtual Boy; there remains no limit to how far this new technology may become stretched and applied both to modern console and PC gaming, and our computer software applications.