Square/enix Huge Virtual World Project

All they need now is to develop a real working Nerve Gear......

Mix this with Kinect technology, remake FFXI in high-res graphics, and make it so all combat/magic abilities are determined by user gestures/actions, instead of macro commands. They could literally add NPC trainers to the game just to teach you how to fight in various styles and how to cast spells.

The one downside to playing an MMO in VR would be fighting large mobs - I'd probably have a permanent crink in my neck.

SE beeeeeeen trying to fully render FFXIV again and hopefully when they get it to work then they can implement it to FFXI (after a billion bug fixes) ^O^

Mix this with Kinect technology, remake FFXI in high-res graphics, and make it so all combat/magic abilities are determined by user gestures/actions, instead of macro commands. They could literally add NPC trainers to the game just to teach you how to fight in various styles and how to cast spells.

The one downside to playing an MMO in VR would be fighting large mobs - I'd probably have a permanent crink in my neck.

Navok claims that Project Flare will allow for every player to be on a single server rather than split into shards like in current MMOs. It also allows for a fully dynamic, deformable and modifiable world without the need for patches or updates. He also brags that hacking and cheating would no longer be possible.

I LOL'd @ this. That has 'challenge accepted' all over it. I'd be interested in just how this world would go to ruin once people were introduced. Maybe we'll see FF17: Skycrystal or something.

Mix this with Kinect technology, remake FFXI in high-res graphics, and make it so all combat/magic abilities are determined by user gestures/actions, instead of macro commands. They could literally add NPC trainers to the game just to teach you how to fight in various styles and how to cast spells.

The one downside to playing an MMO in VR would be fighting large mobs - I'd probably have a permanent crink in my neck.

supercomputer or not, rendering visuals for an entire mmo playerbase through the cloud is difficult(especially when you consider many will expect 1920x1080 and possible oversample).. and if you don't have fast internet, you won't be able to keep a high quality stream.. it's much much more traffic than any current online game uses as well, terrible for anyone with a bandwidth cap

the way i see it, this is a demo designed to grab attention more than an idea that'll be usable in the near future

not only that. but if you plan to use gesters.. god forbid your playing on MNK and want to hundred fist stuff and spam asuran fists...

I’d be interested to see more technical details on this, but either the presenters have been misleading or the reporter has not really understood and reported incorrectly.

Example, …
Saying the entire world is rendered at once. … This just makes no sense, you would only render what is visible to the viewport, you don’t render a rock 5km behind the viewport. Rendering is the act of drawing the image, that is viewed from the geometry, lighting and textures.

Assuming the super computer isn't actually rendering the image and streaming it to a client, the rendering would be done client side. So there would still be LOD (Pop-in, lower detail at distance), it would be loading required data on the fly, as move around. There’s no way around this if using a limited power GPU, and if using the Super Computer to render, you’d need 1 Super Computer per User.

All I can assume is, they’re using the Supercomputer for tracking in world assets. In a typical single player game, if there’s a deer walking through the woods, if you get far enough away from it it stops existing and stops having its path finding and AI handled.

Where as, this might be handling all the AI and World Assets etc, off on a large computer. Which suggests they’re working on an MMPOG or something similar, but that has a level of persistence.