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I can't imagine (at least from watching demos I've given, I could be wrong) that many people walk around while looking upwards... so the focus of it being lower down seems like pure win, as it's not obstructing most of whats around you and above the horizon line.
personal opinions:
1- Squares = too dense visually
2- Beginner = better, but still cage-like
3- Intermediate = I get this uncomfortable chicken coop vibe now ;)
4- Advanced = blah blah, love it
5- Developer = Pretty dang cool, but not useful enough particularly when standing near walls and jamming my controller into windows and such.
Any chance we get and even more obious one? The lines in all the modes seem a lot thiner than before.
Or perhaps if you go very close to past boumds they get bolder?
4 - Advanced is definitely my favorite though wish I could adjust the thickness of the line more
5 - Didn't feel useful
My current office has almost the whole room (except for the closet where my desk and PC are) dedicated to roomscale, so I don't see the bounds fade in as often as before, but I still have a silly aversion to any bounds rendering methods suggestive of being in a cage.
Generally the walls took me by surprise (they didn't appear soon enough) when my controllers were at my side and I walked at a normal pace from one side of room to other. One time I actually hit my wall with a controller because I didn't have time to react when walking at a normal walking pace.
1. Squares: Felt weird to have them appear to my right and left, but not in front of me. (which happened sometimes when I approached the empty space between squares)
2. Beginner: Felt good because I'm 5'11.5" and the horizontal line always lined up pretty close to my center vision, so it was much more comfortable than the sparse squares appearing to my left and right.
3. Intermediate: Felt good, except that when approaching the beige wall in the "Valve office #2 demo room with aperture robot" I could totally miss the lines altogether. My center vision sometimes ended up in the exact center of the empty space, so the lines would only appear in my peripheral vision and the contrast was too low for me to notice them sometimes if I was moving quickly towards the bounds.
4. Advanced: Stubbed my toe a couple times with this one. It's also the one that I hit my controller against the wall with. If I happen to be looking right in between the middle and top lines as I approach the wall, I may notice them in time… except they quickly exit my FoV causing me to lose track of where the virtual plane is, and I often misjudge and go past where I meant to.
5. Developer: Gave me the most freedom, the least fear. Was able to dash and dance around the space rapidly and accurately without any hesitation. Would be very important for an action game or anything requiring fast movement. I believe "The Gallery" also implements something like this to aid in their free movement, except skinned a bit nicer to their colour pallet.
Hopefully those notes are helpful. Because my space was so large, I did my testing based on the idea of walking freely and seeing how I responded to the wall stopping me in time.
I guess overall I trusted the chaperon most when using Developer (though it was the least immersive), but I also felt fairly comfortable with Beginner. If I was to want more immersion without feeling like a cage, I might choose Intermediate or even Advanced... Except that I would be constantly thinking of/searching for the bounds if I chose this approach (depending on the game).
I'd be interested to see if you could use the vertical spacing of Beginner with horizontal spacing of Intermediate to create "wide" cells (or maybe just remove all but the corner vertical lines)... I feel that having something always appear directly above or below your center vision (or exactly in the center) is important, but things that appear to the left or right of center vision are not as useful. This approach may reduce the cage-like feeling: walking towards something more like a laser wall barrier, but with more "lasers": http://wiki.obeygame.com/images/8/8f/Item_laser_wall_active.jpg Maybe the line spacing could be more dense near where you expect the player's center-vision to be to give it some visual variety while increasing chance of it being close to center-vision without adding extra visual distraction close to the floor or ceiling.
Also, the colour definitely proved to be a contrast issue (try with the wall and window of Valve room #2)
Anyway, those are my exhaustive thoughts and opinions -- Let me know if there's anything that's unclear. Good luck! :)
Vertical stripes on walls can be used to make a room feel taller than it actually is (this technique was used in the "Diefenbunker" underground bomb shelter[hautevitrine.files.wordpress.com]). I'm not 100% sure, but I think horizontal stripes may make a wall feel longer than it actually is. Because VR space is limited in width and length, having only horizontal lines, like a laser fence[wiki.obeygame.com], might be doubly beneficial because it may reduce the "cage" feeling while also making the VR space feel larger than it actually is.
I haven't tried myself, but it might be interesting to see if people feel the space is wider or taller when the chaperon walls have only vertical lines, only horizontal lines, or both (aka "Beginner"). Maybe it just wouldn't matter because the chaperon is (hopefully) rarely visible.
I hope that helps! And thanks for asking for our feedback!
-Allen
1 - Since these were added I've had issues with them, I'm not a fan, they're too subtle for me
2/3 - I like these, they're nice and clear.
4 - Works and does the job but I feel like the aesthetic of this one puts me off more than it's functionality, It's gross.
5 - This one actually gave me the most confidence to move around freely, perhaps a persistent border should be incorporated into the beginner mode along side the walls that appear as you get closer?
With these new modes, I realise there's one thing I want that doesn't exist yet: optional ceiling calibration
I have a nice and high ceiling (somewhere between 8 and 9 foot) but I have a glass lampshade that hangs down and at it's lowest point is less than a foot above my head. I have plenty of space to raise my hands, but I have to be super careful to do it at the sides of the room.
Also, when can I change this to a yellow and black colour scheme? :p
As far as options, we'd like to be able to tint the color of the lines. We have environments of a variety of colors and would like to pick the complement for the grid lines.
I've set this up in my living room, and many of the people who have tried it have hit my hanging lamp while painting up above them in tilt brush (or that one guy shooting hoops with food in job simulator)... yeah.. I can only imagine how this would go with consumers and ceiling fans.
just saying. ;)