Oculus Rift Impressions

There are moments in all entertainment mediums that stop you dead in your tracks, mouth hanging open in pure, awe struck amazement. I usually think my standards are slightly higher than most as while I considered Quake, Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Assassin’s Creed very impressive to downright amazing, I didn’t sit, stare and go ‘wow’.

The first time I saw something in a video game and said ‘wow’ was watching footage of Super Mario 64. It was certainly impressive, running around a fully realized environment so fluidly, but the moment I went ‘wow’ was when Mario jumped into a painting and seeing it ripple like water from the point he jumped in.

Physics and details tend to be the things that really get me going wow. The next time I felt such a ‘wow’ moment was playing Unreal Tournament 2003 in Bombing Run Mode. I scored and immediately fell down a pit directly underneath the goal and watched in awe as my dead character bounced off all the poles spread across said pit as he fell, bouncing off each and every one. Next came Half-Life 2, which wowed me twice with fully expressive and realistic characters and fantastic water effects. 

Now, I’m adding a moment in iRacing.com while using the Oculus Rift.

Checking in + mini-Singapore review

I've noticed on a few considerably more popular blogs then this one if the author suddenly doesn't update the thing, people start to come up with ideas about how they met their grisly end. Luckily for me, I haven't met it yet, I've just been a bit ill.

Just so you know, I didn't avoid writing a review for the Singapore GP because Vettel won by so much. I do have chunks written about how the whole was was a simple equation: 

Best car + moulded around one of the best drivers / opposition in clearly inferior cars and unable to push * Vettel in a position where he could push 100% (which these days rarely happens) = very easy win.

I was surprised he got venomous boos in a place not renown for it's F1 passion, but the fact he has to separate literally every win as if it was his first and/or most challenging is grating on a lot of people. As for the idea the Red Bull has something potentially illegal on it, it's more likely to be something that's not actually covered by the rules then out right illegal.

Anyway, blog. I've decided I'm not going to do individual reviews of the races for the rest of this season to focus on some story writing, some of which might just make it here. I'll do a season review after Brazil (which likely won't have much to do with Vettel besides acknowledgement of him being there as he's very much the uninteresting part of this season) as well as a few game reviews then I can pull myself away from them.

So there you have it, I'm still here and I will be continuing to update this thing. In the mean time, be good!