Ronnie O'Sullivan is testing a pool game in virtual reality

Hahaha nice to see Ronnie take the **** without making it obvious he hates it. Half of any billiard game involves leaning on the table. I don't see how you can play pool without leaning on the table and Ronnie, being a professional is the one who seems to understand how much of a gimmick it is.

I'd rather play real snooker and I'm sure Ronnie thinks its just as crap as any real player does, professional or not. This crap is nothing like real snooker/pool.
 
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asim18 said:
Hahaha nice to see Ronnie take the **** without making it obvious he hates it. Half of any billiard game involves leaning on the table. I don't see how you can play pool without leaning on the table and Ronnie, being a professional is the only one who seems to understand how much of a gimmick it is.

I'd rather play real snooker and I'm sure Ronnie thinks its just as crap as any real player does, professional or not. This crap is nothing like real snooker/pool.
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I don't get the purpose to it to be honest. Tables aren't that costly or people can go out and play on full size tables.
 
V F said:
I don't get the purpose to it to be honest. Tables aren't that costly or people can go out and play on full size tables.
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Space, I guess. The table might not be all that expensive but a house with a spare room big enough to play properly would be.

I think the best fit for VR for entertainment is stuff that is not realistic, though. I think it's a mistake to try to realistically replicate real games in VR because, as you and others point out, all it does is emphasise the inherent flaws. Like the lack of a table to lean on in this case.

What I'd be after from a VR game is the same as I'm after from a non-VR computer game - heroic fantasy with a veneer of realism, not an insipid and deeply flawed copy of reality (which is the best that can be done without direct neural feeds a la The Matrix or at the very least a Star Trek Holodeck). I want a game in which I can, for example, race a Lancia Stratos and, with practice and care, put in a decent time on a rally. I want it to have a veneer of realism in its presentation and VR could be used to make a better veneer, but I don't want it to be realistic because I'd have no chance of doing that in reality and would end up in a ditch/tree/rock/morgue if I tried.
 
Could have told you that years ago, as any skier could attest if they ever used a Wii balance board thing. Try and ski down a hill "properly" and you'll fail abysmally. :p
 
If they had a real table, they could then superimpose the VR onto it. Then People wouldn't end up on the floor like Ronnie. It might look cool, but without a real table it's just not quite VR enough imo.
 
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I got this on sale and its very difficult not being able to lean on the table. I'm not very good at pool anyway so for me this is on a par.
In this though, I can use the cue to throw bar stools and smash beer bottles, its frowned upon in a real bar.
 
Diddums said:
Can you not use your own table? ie. play at your dinner table? No idea if it'd work, just an idea :)
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Surely the dinner table would have to be exactly the same size as a pool table or it's gonna break immersion / not work.

That's before you take into account the pockets and cushion.
 
McGray said:
Surely the dinner table would have to be exactly the same size as a pool table or it's gonna break immersion / not work.

That's before you take into account the pockets and cushion.
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You could have an accessory which is just a single pocket and a piece of a table which you put on top of a table. You could just walk around it using the controller rather than physically walking around.

It's totally pointless in VR, in my opinion.
 
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