If you want to enjoy the sensations of Virtual Reality in the world of video games, it is necessary to use a lot of money on glasses such as Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. So we come up with the solution, VRidge. The cardboard of Google or such types cost you less than $ 15. And they only serve to execute an application “interesting” that can help us understand what is Virtual Reality and understand its possibilities. But the experience can not be compared with the big and expensive platforms of today.
VRidge allows you to play Oculus Rift and Steam VR titles with a simple Google Cardboard
VRidge is a particular software currently in beta that involves both your PC, your smartphone and a low-cost voucher-like Google Cardboard or one of its many clones. In essence, VRidge adapts the stereoscopic output and traction head traction sensors typical of video games dedicated to Oculus Rift to send them to an app devoted to Android. So, allowing the user to play without the help of the expensive Oculus home viewer.
How to make the connection of VRidge to mobile?
Start a server program on your PC, connect to your Wi-Fi and launch or a demo explicitly made by RiftCat, the software house that’s “hiding” behind VRidge, or manually launching a VR-compatible video game from your library.
However, the project is currently in the beta phase. And it is therefore not possible to exclude various kinds of problems or incompatibilities with certain games (or only smartphones). Here you are, however, served with the badge to download the app for free from the Play Store and the web page for more information about VRidge.
What titles can we have on this platform?
What VRidge offers is precisely that, an opportunity. It is a program for Windows that tricks the computer into thinking that we are using an Oculus Rift when in reality we only use cardboard or any other similar viewer. Get the image of the game and adapt it so that our phone can play without problems. So, allowing us to play the high titles for Oculus, also being compatible with SteamVR.
PC Specifications
The application can be tested for free and has a game management system. So that we can run them from there. Although it is important to remember that to enjoy the experience without problems. Also, the PC must have an i5-4590 processor or higher. That must have more than eight gigs of RAM and NVidia GeForce GTX 970 graphics card or higher with NVENC support (or AMD Radeon 290 with VCE 1.0+ support). The link between the computer and the mobile is through a 5GHz wifi or USB 3.0 cable.
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The development community of Bridge is already working to offer more possibilities. Also, that includes simulating the better experience of the Virtual Reality. As well as opening the doors to mobiles that are not yet compatible. For example like the Asus ZenFone 2, that already we have on Intel.