Not true, the amount of impact is not dependant on the amount of gamers using it, more the ultilisation of the technology in your gaming experience.

There was a lot of scepticism about TIR as most people didn't get how it could improve their gaming experience which was to essentially ehhance their SA to compensate for the fact that you were flying in 3D but viewing a small monitor.
So for the few early adopters the potential was more than evident, the fact that people were slow to take up TIR was purely down to Naturalpoint being overly cautious to enter the simming market.
Roll on to Occulous which is essentially TIR on steroids and there isn't the same problem with early adoption and investment primarily because the guys behind the project know exactly how to market themselves effectively.

So to sum up, this will have the same impact on gamers as TIR did 20 years ago to those that saw the potential and adopted early.

The early adopters of TIR were the ones that purchased it in 2001 when it hit the market.

You can't "early adopt" Oculus Rift until it's commercially unavailable.

Your statement is both inaccurate and pointless.

i am excited for oculus rift. i have trackir, and it did not do it for me. the moment i got trackir in 2007, i was like what is this crap. i tried many of times to give it another chance, i just didnt work for me. im all about 1:1 translation

I meant commercially available. I was typing up a sentence to say that Oculus Rift can't be early adopted if it's commercially unavailable but edited to be shorter and forgot to change unavailable to available.

But yes, good luck adopting the Oculus Rift before it's commercially available and any program has been designed to use it.

What on earth has that got to do with the impact of both devices on consumers; my original point is that they both have/will have a similar impact on the gaming experience and now you're banging on about early adoption.
If you can't contribute anything worthwhile to a forum then leave it to people who can.

I purchased Track IR when it first came out, and remember having a conversion with the Natural Point developer. He was asking if I thought the product would be adopted by the flight sim community. I told him their product was far more realistic and immersive than using a switch to change views, that I didn't see how it wouldn't be a success. The same is true with the Occulus, only the Oculus has far more immersive features.

The price if kept around their proposed three hundred dollar range is unbelievably cheap.

The advances in small screen resolutions make having a 1080 resolution very possible.

A 110* field of view with no borders, have users feeling like they've been dropped into another world

3D, I'm not sold on this yet, but have seen 3D aircraft/cloud scenes that look amazing

Their very low latency 6DOF tracking appears to have address some of the nausea associated with these devices. I used to get a slight case of this when I first used TrackIR, but it quickly went away.

Any flight sim developer would be crazy not to spend three hundred dollars on the current Oculus development kit, as this is the future. They could atleast give the Oculus Rift development team ideas on what they'd like to see in the hardware/software that would best suit their needs in their current or future developments.

A goldfish has better memory than you.

You said TrackIr had an impact on gaming 20 years ago, I said it didn't citing it's commercial availability. And then you clamored at some extraneous "pre-commercial two people may have had the product almost 20 years ago" nonsense. You also were the individual to start on about early adoption.

So, pretty much you're just a cranky pants poopy head because you were wrong on all fronts and have contributed all of nothing other than self-aggrandizing because of your delusional play in TrackIr's "early adoption" based on your own comments.

I walked into their office a couple weeks ago. Got the ole' everyone is unavailable to talk treatment by the receptionist so I didn't get to see a demo. Left my card and a few copies of ROF. So far no attempt to reach out to me, not that I really expected it. Honestly, they already seem to have the big shooter engine folks (Unreal and Crytek etc.) behind it already so I doubt they are going to beat down my door to talk to us simmers. I ordered a developer unit and will send to the team to check out.

What annoying to me is that you could already do all the tracking stuff with TrackIR years ago, but all of the major engine makers laughed when I tried to explain the concept of head tracking in FPS-style games to them. View control separate from the gun etc. Put some good goggles on the idea and they are into it. Back in the day these guys including Gabe Newell told me it was a cheat so they wouldn't support head tracking where you could peek around corners in their engines. Ohwell... I tried.

What's evident by their office location and from what I saw they appear to have some money behind them.

Jason

Looks really promissing.
How would a person control there HOTAS/keyboard if eyes are emersed in VR?

the only way is to have AI do all the chores for you, all!

Map everything to the HOTAS?

Maybe a future model will have a camera (or two) on it, activated by a button, so one can look around? I think I read somewhere it was being considered.

i get funny looks just playing the game, wait till i strap that tv to my head

They might come up with a provision to see your Hota/keyboard, but I have most everything I need programmed to my Hota system.

MSFF2 Joystick
Cougar Throttle
Saitek Throttle quadrant
Saitek Pro Rudder Pedals

If I needed more, I would place another button/rotary bay between my Cougar Throttle and Saitek throttle quadrant.

Wait, this hardware also gives you real 3D view?!? I didn't see that!

That puts thing in...
*puts sun glasses*

...a whole different perspective.

YEEAAAAAAAAH!

me too.

Not seeing my keyboard is not a problem.
in fact I find using the keyboard an immersion killer. I prefer switches on my HOTAS.

You would be able see your the cockpit switches/dials in game. It would only be a problem if you've built a home cockpit with device/linked gauges etc. Not being able to see a keyboard would not be a realism killer.

http://www.oculusvr.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-of-the-pilot-run/

Another interesting Blog from the developer of the Oculus Rift.

I would imagine people with full pits would be a very small minority of the genre. That said I'm quite sure all of the pit builders would be able to quickly find all their switches/levers without having to look for them. Using the game gauges would be a small price to pay for the immersion of the RIFT. Clickable cockpits should still work. I doubt many people are currently using touch screens at the moment. Anyway we don't really know how its all going to roll out, but they certainly have the financial backing for a great start, building a product for gamers, built by gamers.

I'm sure that after reading your post they'll scrap the project and develop another one, thinking in the majority of the simmers out there, the ones that have full pits... almost 99% I think...

Seriously dude, you know how the market works, don't you? You don't hope that someone will mass produce something this costly to sell 5k units tops? I'm sorry for you, but I think you'll have to wait until more people have pits or do the project yourself. Anyway, I think you'll lose nothing, because you have a pit for immersion... it's just a trade, or the pit, or the VR set, sooner or later someone will do both, like the "mouse gloves", etc.