Anybody considering picking up an Oculus Rift..?

[pmprog]

I'm going to the Play Expo again this year (Oct 11), hopefully I'll have a go at one of the newer devkits

 

[Asmo]

Affordable 2D 360 cameras are ready to roll - there's the Panocam (aka panoball) among others, but this new one is set to be even more reasonably priced and has some nifty options (check out the light bulb mounting!) -

http://www.360.tv/


Virtual tourism - even live - has a lot of potential, instead of surfing the web in the evening, you could find yourself hopping all over the globe to see what's happening, as if there. Transitions from one location to another could be coupled with a Star Trek transporter effect!


There are lots of 360 samples already, like -

https://www.youtube.com/embed/aITB8-ZtrCs?feature=oembed

I prefer the FOV of the camera used in the Japanese demo - full coverage except for the position of the camera itself, so the operator remains more or less unseen with it held in front at head height. The 360cam above gives 360x150 degrees, so it's blind spots are at the extreme top and bottom. I suppose you could wear it on your head....

 

[Klumpen]

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[Klumpen]

http://www.amazon.de/Oculus-VR-Rift-Development-Kit/dp/B00F5CWD0I/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

999€ for dev kit 1, lol.

Besides:

Oculus:

"We do not allow resale of our development kits for any reason as they are meant for developers and are not consumer products."

 

[Granitehead]

Besides:

Oculus:

"We do not allow resale of our development kits for any reason as they are meant for developers and are not consumer products."

Sick. If that's really enforceable then you don't own the hardware you bought. I thought stuff like that only existed for software (i.e. DRM/Steam-like).

 

[fusion_power]

A new KS campaign for an VR input system, arms/hands/fingers tracking via data glove. Looks really promising, at least better than the old Glove from Nintendo.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/controlvr/control-vr-motion-capture-for-vr-animation-and-mor

Nice video.

 

[Klumpen]

A new KS campaign for an VR input system, arms/hands/fingers tracking via data glove. Looks really promising, at least better than the old Glove from Nintendo.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/controlvr/control-vr-motion-capture-for-vr-animation-and-mor

Nice video.

Iron Man at 2:10 and 5:00.

 

[rygD]

Looks really promising, at least better than the old Glove from Nintendo. 

But you look cooler with the Power Glove.  also: http://boards.openpandora.org/topic/11543-anybody-considering-picking-up-an-oculus-rift/?p=337307

 

[fusion_power]

Looks really promising, at least better than the old Glove from Nintendo. 

But you look cooler with the Power Glove.  also: http://boards.openpandora.org/topic/11543-anybody-considering-picking-up-an-oculus-rift/?p=337307

Good point. At least you look more "80's" with it.

 

[Asmo]

The guy behind an 80s computer room VR simulation, Memorift, mentioned previously here has now unveiled something many of us have anticipated, a VR arcade - behold 'Memorift Arcade':

https://www.youtube.com/embed/W-5gBX3LsMM?feature=oembed

Now all we need is for these things to be arranged as 'rooms' linked by virtual corridors, so we can assemble our dream VR homes!

 

[PokeParadox]

Looks really promising, at least better than the old Glove from Nintendo. 

But you look cooler with the Power Glove.  also: http://boards.openpandora.org/topic/11543-anybody-considering-picking-up-an-oculus-rift/?p=337307

That's because the Power Glove is "so bad".

 

[Asmo]

Hands-on report from the E3 booth -

https://www.youtube.com/embed/XEDdOFTN6P4?feature=oembed

Criterion's new first-person only multi-racer (land, air & sea vehicles, wingsuits & more) - as hoped - is being created with VR in mind:


http://za.ign.com/e3-2014/75252/news/e3-2014-need-for-speed-burnout-developer-criterion


Palmer Luckey interview with Stuff magazine - he's not impressed by AntVR's claims -


http://www.stuff.tv/oculus/oculus-founder-tells-stuff-were-going-sell-rift-cost-price/news

 

[Asmo]

The BBC are experimenting with 360 degree video (SKY have a David Attenborough 2-parter coming, with a part 180 3D/part 360 VR version) and have put up a sample to download for rift owners, of the news studio in operation:

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/internetblog/bbc_news_rift_2k_win.zip


Edit: the BBC blog with the above link and background details:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/posts/Virtual-Reality-the-future-of-TV

 

[Asmo]

Oculus are in the process of acquiring 'Carbon Design' -

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game/posts/888597

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve agreed to acquire the Carbon Design team, one of the premier industrial design and product engineering teams in the country (...) The Carbon team brings their expertise around building great feeling, great looking consumer products like the Xbox 360 controller. We’ve been working with Carbon for nearly a year on multiple unannounced projects.

Sounds like they'll be doing the CV1 design - and more besides. Controllers must be high on the list of suspects.

Edit: NeoGaf thread on it features some interesting links and discussion vis-a-vis Oculus and their plans for VR control systems -

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=843656

 

[pmprog]

Okay, two things bother me:

1. "Multiple unannounced projects" - Can't they just focus on getting the Rift ready?

2. Oculus "acquired" another company after being "acquired" by Facebook - Do companies only exist to be acquired these days?

 

[Asmo]

Presumably (& based on things said by various Oculus sources) many of those unannounced projects are motion-controllers of one sort or another (& dealing with ease of use when unseen), one of the things that will need to be addressed rather than having a plethora of incompatible 3rd party offerings from the get-go. A joypad with no motion sensors isn't going to cut it for long...

 

[Klumpen]

I've seen several motion control gloves in the making one including the whole arms, I'm sure it's about stuff like that.

They probably buy the Virtuix Omni too (if they haven't already).

https://www.youtube.com/embed/aTtfAQEeAJI?feature=oembed

No more fat gamers.

I'd like to play Doom2 with this. ^^

 

[pmprog]

Interesting, but I certainly don't have the space for that in my house

 

[fusion_power]

Oculus are in the process of acquiring 'Carbon Design' -

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game/posts/888597

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve agreed to acquire the Carbon Design team, one of the premier industrial design and product engineering teams in the country (...) The Carbon team brings their expertise around building great feeling, great looking consumer products like the Xbox 360 controller. We’ve been working with Carbon for nearly a year on multiple unannounced projects.

Sounds like they'll be doing the CV1 design - and more besides. Controllers must be high on the list of suspects.

Edit: NeoGaf thread on it features some interesting links and discussion vis-a-vis Oculus and their plans for VR control systems -

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=843656

Looks like this Design Company knows what they are doing. I personaly like the XBox360 Controller, it's "my style" of Controller in contrary of the Playstation Controllers. This Carbon Team does not look "cheap" but with Facebook in the Back, I guess this doesn't really matter. I'm sure they will design something good for the final Occulus appearence.

I'd like to play Doom2 with this. ^^

Was it Doom or Quake Series where you actualy run over 70 km/h fast ingame?  If this is not a fat-burner then I don't know. ^^

 

[sebt3]

I personaly like the XBox360 Controller, it's "my style" of Controller in contrary of the Playstation Controllers.

I would guess you have relativly large hands (American have larger hands than japaneses, just being taller, aand xb controler have been done with american in head while the ps controler, well you know japaneses designers ;P)