Oculus Rift - virtual reality headset for video games
ngon master
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game
$300 for the kit, its integrated with unity and UDK, low latency, high field of view, sounds like it could be awesome.
$300 for the kit, its integrated with unity and UDK, low latency, high field of view, sounds like it could be awesome.
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680x800 per eye is way too low for today´s standards
Isn't 1280 x 800 the lower end of HD (at least for youtube)
I'm sure if the initial version is 1280 x 800, it'll be fine and have it improve over time.
The tracking-speed looks to be fantastic! I want to day-z on a pair of these!
Anyways I'll be following this closely. Could be cool if it could be substituted for a regular montior.
That it would be! With a mountain of bacon.
Alssooo the link to your portfolio is broken has a , instead of a .
Unless that was intended?
strange, no one has pointed that out and that has been there for maybe a year+
Throw one of these at one of the emulator devs and they probably will.
(and yeah, metroid prime with this one!)
You'll get a working prototype by the end of this year.
Now this is an actual interesting question.
Here's from their faq:
Point of note, getting this thing in an affordable price range would also be a much better method for watching 3D movies. Part of the issue with current 3D screen setups is that wearing shutter-based glasses actively decreases the brightness of the image. With a virtual reality rig, it should be possible to display full stereoscopic 3D without any image degradation.
Me too, $300 was a bit much for a first generation toy like this, can't wait to see what they try to do with v2, but I love this idea for 3d, and head tracking. Did they ever say if it allows for forward/back and strafing movements? Or just rotation in the xyz?
It only tracks rotation, not absolute position. Though, this with some Kinect hackery could be pretty amazing
Considering their available positions I think we're in for really awesome solutions in the future to come. I can't wait for my devkit to arrive, I'm happy the kits were delayed so we will get slightly better sensors.
I would definitely pledge if I had the money.
Seems to have been received positively. I would be concerned though with that 30/ms issue they were talking about, I dislike motion blur in my games, and always turn it off. Is it heading to consoles too? Is the consumer headset going to be fully wireless?
I personally feel no traslation senors is a bigger issue than 30/ms of lag, I feel I'd get a little bit sick if leaning left and right didn't do anything. I'm sure they'll cut the lag pretty quickly, depending on how much of it is sensor based and how much is display based.
The unit seems much bigger than I imagined, is the consumer version to be smaller?
Shit, just imagining playing dead space with this makes me already poop in my pants
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/valve-to-show-off-oculus-rift-ready-team-fortress-2-at-gdc-20130116/
Mixing this with the Novint Falcon seemed like a good idea...too bad it looks like Novint is dropping the falcon.
Apparently one of the only guys keeping the falcon alive at Novint quit because the direction they were going was not good for those who bought the device.
What's wrong with the XIO then ?
Same. I've been so hyped for this ever since hearing about it during the kickstarter. Still not sure if I want to order the dev kit to mess around with though or wait for the more fleshed out consumer version.