Virtual reality support

[philpax]

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What if you could play the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV in virtual reality?

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[karashiiro]

I mean, you can do it with Oculus Home, sort of. It's actually pretty nice tbqh

[Arcitec]

It's possible with BlueSkyDefender's Depth3D reshade shader.

https://github.com/BlueSkyDefender/Depth3D

The exact file is called: SuperDepth3D.fx (NOT SuperDepth3D_VR+.fx)

You can create a deep "3D TV" style image with this.

You also need a program such as Bigscreen, which lets you view your desktop and set it to SBS 3D (side by side) mode, to see the image properly.

Edit: I have never used it with FF14 but have with many other games.

[philpax]

I'm fairly certain that's using the depth buffer to reproject a mono image into stereo, which is non-ideal (you're not actually receiving any new visual information with your second eye so you won't be able to see behind an object that's occluding your left eye but not your right).

I've been working on true stereo rendering and think I have a way forward, but need to solve some other technical issues first.

[Arcitec]

Yeah that is what it does and it looks perfect for light amounts of depth, which is what you want for flat screen games (to make them comfortable to play in VR). The process also only uses like 1% GPU.

If you are going to create 2 cameras and somehow extract the UI texture and render it in 2 eyes, I would be impressed but it would probably take a beefy GPU and break Gshade/Reshade... I also wonder if it would cause nausea to play an MMO with that much depth. 🤔

[philpax]

gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet

[rrbailey89]

this sounds pretty cool, I have used bigscreen on my oculus to play FFXIV but the GUI is super tiny playing that way.

[karashiiro]

Any updates?

[philpax]

on hold while I get my mojo back