Monday, April 22, 2013

Applications and uses wishlist for the Oculus Rift

The Oculus Rift is an upcoming HMD (Head-mounted display) device that aims to revolutionize the way we experience video games, and possibly even change human life.

Up until now I was slightly intrigued by the Rift but recently when I began thinking of the possibilities my innards screamed and ever since the daydreams haven't gone away.
I am obsessed and will not be happy until the Rift is released commercially so I can escape the wretched 3DPD reality and enter a new realm, where I can find happiness and excitement.

In this blog post I will list various uses for the Rift that I hope become reality ... virtual reality (badum tssh etc).

21st century tamagotchi
Did you ever use one of those little devices as a child. The ones where you take care for a virtual pet. You fed it, cleaned its shit and made sure that it didn't suffer an awful death because of your laziness and indifference. I sure did. Mine died. I forgot that my little tamagotchi device was stored in the outdoor storage at the apartment complex and over winter he suffered a very slow and painful death.

Imagine that with the Rift you could have your very own virtual 3D-like (but not 3DPD) tamagotchi waifu or husbando.

In this video we see an example of a truly revolutionary use of modern technology and augmented reality:
Watch as the person wearing their HMD device interacts with Miku in a 3DPD setting.

She is really there, waiting for your embrace and loving.

Imagine the use something like this could have.
Take the technology that powers AR-Miku and include the Rift, possibly even the Kinect or a similar device.

Imagine you're in your room wearing the Rift, along with a Kinect device on the wall and Miku-chan or another person of your choice walking about.
With the Rift you can view the room and Miku, and with the Kinect you can interact with her.
The possibilities for this type of application are endless but I can name a few such as being able to truly immerse yourself in the friendship with your waifu or husbando or bff, having sex with them or just casual things like movie watching.

Oculus tamagotchi doesn't have to be limited to the ugly 3DPD world either. You could possibly spend time with Miku in a virtual setting too.
Imagine importing AR-Miku into a game and having the ability to use her as a multiplayer partner. 


Silent Hill/horror games

This is one of my biggest wishes and expectations for the Rift.

Silent Hill (games 1 - 4) has always been about immersion in this world.
Silent Hill's strongest aspects are its atmosphere and sound.

When I started playing Silent Hill 3 at the ripe and young age of 13 I experienced sensations and feels that sadly will never be experienced again.
Walking through the dim hallways, as the radio static kicked in my delicate little body went into panic mode and as I walked closer to the mission path the sounds of monsters screaming and choking on flesh would send violent fear and pain throughout my body.

Silent Hill is about exploring your surroundings and the fear comes not from having enemies surround you and cause chaos (like stupid plebeian games such as resident evil) but from creeping about causing the sensation and thought of "What could possibly be waiting for me?".

With the Rift the atmosphere and psychology of Silent Hill would be turned up to 11.
Instead of viewing someone from the third person walking through a dark hallway you would be the one in those shoes.
Imagine as your making your way through a level you hear the sounds of monsters eating dead bodies or just walking about minding their own business.
Slowly as you make your way to the end of the hall a fucking corpsezombiedogthing jumps right in your field of view, on the Rift, in 3D.
You're guaranteed to shit your pants or die of a heart attack.
Now imagine playing something like that on weed or something.

Another interesting use for Silent Hill on the Rift could be that instead of hearing radio static you would have to look down to see if the radio is flashing or perhaps to be aware of the presence of enemies you would have to look around for their shadows.

Honestly if I was playing Silent Hill on the Rift I would just get high and walk around imagining myself living in this otherworld, this world of misery and despair.
I would crawl into a corner and embrace the raping cock of zombiedogs and giantmanthingsiwthoversizeddeformedhands.
I have always wanted to live in the otherworld and the Rift would make that wish come true :3

Dating simulators

 Well this is a no-brainer. 

The Japanese dating simulator industry is going to boom when the Rift is commercially released.

It's guaranteed that dozens and dozens of developers will design games to work around the Rift.

With dating sims, the Rift and an onahole you will never need to waste time on a 3D pig again.

Space Engine

While NASA and co. await tax payers to cough up enough money to send some wankers up to outer space you can be exploring the great unknown in the comfort of your hikikomori lair.

Space engine is a glorious piece of software designed by some guy from Russia.
I'm not gonna really go into detail about what it is so google for yourself.


Fuck yes.
Imagine playing this glorious space simulator on the Oculus Rift ... while .... BLAZED.
Fuck NASA and fuck ever leaving my bedroom, nigga I am in outer space!

Space Engine on the Rift is perhaps the most glorious thing that could ever happen to that device and will ensure that I never leave my room ever again.

The only thing that could make this even better is if you're also listening to some perfectly fitting music


Saturday, April 20, 2013

Manga You've Never Heard Of: Annarasumanara

Hello, welcome to Pantsucafe. And, welcome to my first installment of 'Manga You've Never Heard Of.' My first title to introduce you to, with all honestly, is an interesting choice considering the title. Annarasumanara isn't actually a manga as the title would imply. Rather, it's a manhwa, which is pretty much the same thing as a manga, just Korean. I was scrolling myanimelist a few months back and my computer was freezing up. I lost my cool and started to rapidly click my mouse ('cuz, you know, that'll help you soooo much), got fed up and left the room. When I came back, my computer was no longer frozen and was on some random page I must have accidentally clicked about Annarasumanara. It has been a pretty golden discovery and has lead me to dig deeper into manhwa.



In the world of Annarasumanara (try saying that ten times fast), we follow the high school lady known as Ah-ee Yoon. Having lost her mother to death and having her father on the run from loan sharks, she lives alone with her younger sister and struggles to keep a roof over her head and food on their plates. One day, while at school, she overhears her fellow classmates talking about a magician who wanders an abandoned circus. As she listens in, she hears a tale of a good looking magician who asks his targets whether they believe in magic; when met with doubts, they are the subject of a disappearing act...never to be seen again. Ah-ee frowns at their stories. Believing in such stories is childish. She doesn't have the time to be childish. But, after some mishaps, Ah-ee finds herself at an old circus she remembers from her childhood and face to face with a handsome magician who asks her, "Do you believe in magic?" Annarasumanara is a story that challenges the ideas of "growing up" and what truly is childish along side trying to get you to honor the mystique and beauty of the unknown.



The story of Annarasumanara isn't the greatest thing ever. Its morals are obvious and somewhat preachy. But, despite such, it's a fine journey to read through. It holds a certain mystique that just grabs you and holds onto you for all three volumes (yes, it only has three volumes). I believe this mystique is largely due to the art that accompanies the story. The majority of the art is rather grayscale, but will occasionally have full colored images or colored moments within all the grayscale. Or, entire pages that break the typical system of panels and just become what look to be a canvas of art. Both are used as interesting symbolism that coincides with the story at hand. These artistic methods intertwine with an emotional story to deliver a hard hit to your heart. I highly recommend Annarasumanara. Even if it isn't the greatest manga/manwha you ever read, I'm more than sure you'll find it to be a hidden, almost magical, gem.