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Leaked Footage: DestinyVR (Destiny)

by Ragashingo ⌂, Official DBO Cryptarch, Sunday, January 31, 2016, 20:35 (3058 days ago)

I don't have many sources within Bungie, what fun would it be to speculate if I knew everything, but I do have some and late last night one of them delivered a whooper! Apparently, Sony is pushing Bungie hard to adapt Destiny to work with the up and coming PlayStation VR headgear. This, my source says, has been the real cause of the supposed delays in new content. Here's what little info he sent me:

What you are looking at here is a early test of the new DestinyVR system. This is a direct feed taken from what would be shown through the PlayStation VR headset. Everything you see is a virtual environment rendered to the highest fidelity. Some notable features:

-The big, obvious feature of DestinyVR is separating look from aiming and movement. With DestinyVR, if you look off to the side you will no longer be able to see the game. Look up or down and you'll be able to see the virtual ceiling and floor, just as you'd expect. We've worked very hard to make this feel as real as possible.

-Our animation team is very excited about our ability to accurately render finger and hand movement when you "look" down to your virtual controller. We also have a variety of immersive excitement and anger animations. (You'll spot one of the more dramatic ones near the end of the clip.)

- By augmenting the PlayStation VR's headset with additional GPS and reflector based movement tracking we've attempted to further smooth out looking around the VR environment. It's still a work in progress as you can still see some slight tracking jitter at times.

-Right now, the version of Destiny being played on the virtual television is running at reduced resolution and frame rate since we have to render the surrounding virtual environment. We are pretty confident that with some more optimization we'll be able to outperform regular (non-VR) Destiny running on the Xbox One by a wide margin thanks to the PlayStation 4's additional processing power.

- We do not have sound up and running yet, so I overlaid Reborn from the Destiny soundtrack to hint at the symbolism of Destiny moving into the new, exciting VR age. Be sure you note that bit of cleverness. ;)

And here's the video he attached. I don't know about you, but it looks to me like Bungie is very serious about entering the VR space!

You're two months early, dude.

by Claude Errera @, Sunday, January 31, 2016, 21:21 (3058 days ago) @ Ragashingo

I think it's pretty cool he's playing on your gamertag for this footage. :)

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Basic Spycraft, Dude.

by Ragashingo ⌂, Official DBO Cryptarch, Sunday, January 31, 2016, 21:47 (3058 days ago) @ Claude Errera

When you leak something from a highly secretive employer do you put your name or identifying information all over it? Of course not! I allowed my source to borrow my Xbox Live account for his own safety.

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Am I the only one who finds this totally believable?

by CruelLEGACEY @, Toronto, Sunday, January 31, 2016, 22:17 (3058 days ago) @ Ragashingo

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No. It's all over the news now. Big story!

by Ragashingo ⌂, Official DBO Cryptarch, Sunday, January 31, 2016, 22:57 (3058 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

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No. It's all over the news now. Big story!

by Cody Miller @, Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Monday, February 01, 2016, 01:46 (3057 days ago) @ Ragashingo

Some time ago, a friend of mine once added a bit in George Lucas' wikipedia page that said he never learned how to swim. He listed as a citation this really long 25+ page interview with him from the 80s. There was nothing in the interview at all about swimming, but since there was a citation and the editors were too lazy to check it stayed on for a long time.

So long in fact, that he saw a report about when Lucas got a new house, and the report made a humorous remark about him not getting much use out of that swimming pool since he couldn't swim.

As for Lucas, who once said he never learned how to swim, we hope he enjoys his new abode inside and out.

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It was believable until he linked it to the content delays.

by CyberKN ⌂ @, Oh no, Destiny 2 is bad, Monday, February 01, 2016, 00:00 (3058 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

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It's so realistic!

by Funkmon @, Monday, February 01, 2016, 00:46 (3058 days ago) @ Ragashingo

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Immersion failed. Doesn't look like my living room.

by Quirel, Monday, February 01, 2016, 02:02 (3057 days ago) @ Ragashingo

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One would assume Tess Everis will sell Room DLC...

by Ragashingo ⌂, Official DBO Cryptarch, Monday, February 01, 2016, 02:25 (3057 days ago) @ Quirel

(That's not confirmed, just Rampant Speculation.)

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Fixed that for you.

by CruelLEGACEY @, Toronto, Monday, February 01, 2016, 02:32 (3057 days ago) @ Ragashingo

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PlayStation VR uses Xbox controllers?

by Schedonnardus, Texas, Tuesday, February 02, 2016, 01:56 (3056 days ago) @ Ragashingo

Also, if this was leaked by a Bungie dev, wouldn't someone recognize his living room, or hairy arms?

Troll fail

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PlayStation VR uses Xbox controllers?

by Ragashingo ⌂, Official DBO Cryptarch, Tuesday, February 02, 2016, 03:25 (3056 days ago) @ Schedonnardus

It's a dev unit, and the open secret is that all the PlayStation devs actually prefer the Xbone controller. Also, did you not read the post. That isn't anyone's living room. Those aren't anyone's arms. That a highly immersive virtual living room and highly immersive virtual arms. :)

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PlayStation VR uses Xbox controllers?

by ZackDark @, Not behind you. NO! Don't look., Tuesday, February 02, 2016, 06:23 (3056 days ago) @ Ragashingo

Why would anyone in their right mind choose that avatar?!

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I should sue you..

by MartyTheElder, Tuesday, February 02, 2016, 02:49 (3056 days ago) @ Ragashingo

...for using my music.

'cuz that's how I roll.

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I should sue you..

by Ragashingo ⌂, Official DBO Cryptarch, Tuesday, February 02, 2016, 03:22 (3056 days ago) @ MartyTheElder

I did briefly wonder if it was going to get muted. :)

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