Paperdude VR rides into the neighborhood with Oculus Rift, Kinect
by
David Hinkle 
on Jul 30th 2013 9:30PM
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Globacore, a creative technology company specializing in large multi-touch displays, has come up with an interesting marriage of
Kinect and
Oculus Rift. Dubbed
Paperdude VR, this work-in-progress is a first-person homage to Atari's 1984 classic,
Paperboy.
As demonstrated in the video above, a player rides a stationary bike and attempts to toss newspapers into peoples' mailboxes. Except for sawhorses, the current version of
Paperdude VR lacks many of the distractions and dangers the original paperboy had to pedal through in the '80s.
Depending on your perspective,
Paperboy tells one of two different stories: It's either about a courageous suburban paperboy dodging vicious dogs and insane old ladies seemingly hellbent on preventing the flow of news from reaching the public, or it's about an evil kid on a bike who enjoys breaking windows and damaging private property. It's open to interpretation.
