Video Crazy J-pop music is the best demonstration yet Oculus Rift

Video Crazy J-pop music is the best demonstration yet Oculus Rift ,

I got kind of tired lately Oculus Rift. I know it's a stupid thing to say about a product that is not even out yet, and that my job puts me in contact with the helmet VR Facebook gained a lot more than most people. It's just that, well, without much in the way of real games to play on the thing, there are so many tech demos you can sit around and enjoy tracking the precise head.

Thank God for J-pop, then. Koda Kumi, a singer, I have not thought about since it caused last few years of controversy by urging women to have children at the age of 35 fear that their amniotic fluid rot away, has a music video for his new song, "Dance in the Rain," which is filmed in 360 degrees and visible in VR. I saw at Tokyo Designers Week today and it reminded me why I find the Oculus Rift so cool the first time I used it there for almost two years.

The problem to talk about the cool things about the Oculus Rift is you can only say, do not show.

The version Oculus Rift is a bit like that, but everything is floating in the air and fly in front of you. It looks like a level Myst blown into pieces and thrown in a wind tunnel. Sometimes Koda stops the music, you circles so you move your head, and said something in English before restarting the song. All very obvious and demo-y technique, as visible in scenes Avatar and Gravity where things flying in the screen for the benefit of 3D public viewing. It is not really high-resolution enough to be truly immersive, even if it is running on the device Oculus Rift DK2 later. And the song is, of course, not great.

it is clear to me that the liabilities of the Oculus Rift experiences will be equally important

But taken in its full, "Dance in the Rain" is pretty amazing. Director Masashi Yokobe aka YKBX, had obviously a lot of fun to do, and the way turns out to be ideal for the overworked futurism average J-pop ballad. Between this and another large demonstration in Tokyo Designers Rift Kohei Nawa Week, one of the greatest contemporary artists from Japan, it is clear to me that passive experiences Oculus Rift will be equally important for RVs that interactive video games .

Once the Rift is in the hands of several people, the race is on to create music videos, art exhibitions, and - inevitably - quite compelling ads to get you to strap a screen your face.