PSP Oculus Rift Emulator Puts Players Inside of Virtual Reality PSP Games

An anonymous reader writes: PPSSPP VR is an emulator that specifically adapts PSP games for use in the Oculus Rift VR headset. Going beyond merely showing a large screen view of the game in a virtual environment, PPSSPP actually puts you inside of the game with a full field of view, just like made-for-VR titles, including headtracking and true stereoscopic 3D. The emulator comes from the same author as Dolphin VR, the Wii & Gamecube emulator with VR support.

Players in the Game

[MountainLogic]

Wow, really in the Game? Just like Fantastic Voyage?

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[TheRealMindChild]

slide slide slippity slide

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[mccalli]

Sadly, Racquel Welsh is not included.

Obligatory Futurama

[R3d M3rcury]

When I read the "Puts Players Inside of Virtual Reality PSP Games," it made me think of Virtual Virtual Skeeball [youtube.com].

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[gl4ss]

probably to avoid long talk times with the maintainers, if the original project even has maintainers.. emulators tend to be like that.

How?

[manu0601]

I understand they added 3D rendering to titles that did not have it, without modifying original code. How did they do that?

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[safetyinnumbers]

I'd guess that if the emulator intercepts the system's rendering calls it would have access to everything needed (textures, models, etc) to render a scene from any viewpoint. It could then combine the game's camera with two separate eye viewpoints to render two images for the stereoscopic scene (or even ignore the game's camera position entirely).

This would not work well if the game optimizes the scene before rendering, by removing or not animating anything out-of-view for its intended camera.

Think of the possibilities...

[Type44Q]

Put me inside Battle Arena: Toshinden... I'll show that KGB blonde what's what. ;)

Vomit-inducing?

[RogueyWon]

Isn't this going to be incredibly nausea-inducing to use? My understanding of what's needed for a "pleasant" VR experience in terms of resolution, image quality and framerate does not align with my experience of most PSP games.

Now sure, you can use emulation to upscale the resolution and - in some cases - increase the framerate. But that's not going to get around boarder issues with PSP games in general.

First of all, a good number of PSP games tied the game's logic to framerate (Square-Enix games in particu

Old School

[osswmi]

Time to break out the Ratchet and Clank games again! :D

I only want one thing from VR

[U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M]

Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball VR.