Saturday, 3 August 2013
What is Oculus Rift?
The Oculus Rift is a next-generation virtual reality headset designed for immersive gaming. This history-defining 3D headset lets you mentally feel that you are actually inside a video game.
In the Rift’s virtual world, you could turn your head around with
ultra-low latency to view the world in high resolution display.
Developer :
The Oculus Rift is an upcoming virtual reality head-mounted display. It is being developed by Oculus VR. The company was founded by Palmer Luckey and the co-founders of Scaleform.
Features of Oculus Rift:
7 inch screen
Resolution : 1920x1080
Weight : 379 gm
It uses a combination of 3-axis - gyrometers, accelerometers and magnetometers.
USB Interface
Software:
Games and game platforms must be specifically designed to work correctly with the Oculus Rift. Oculus is producing an SDK (software development kit) to assist developers with integrating the Oculus Rift with their games.
Team Fortress 2 was the first game to add support for the Oculus Rift, and can be played right now with the Oculus Rift dev kit by use of a command line option. The second title to support the Oculus Rift was the Oculus only version of "Museum of the Microstar" which was released in April 2013. Half-life 2 was the third, and Hawken is likely to be the fourth game to support the Rift; Doom 3: BFG Edition was originally going to be the first game to officially support the Oculus Rift, but after the change of tracker and the change to the 7" panel, id has not yet updated the game to support it.
Price :
This history-defining 3D headset will be available for approximately $300.
Release date:
"Consumer release-wise they haven’t set a date yet – it’s not going to be this year but it would be next year" - As said by Oculus VR.
Developer :
The Oculus Rift is an upcoming virtual reality head-mounted display. It is being developed by Oculus VR. The company was founded by Palmer Luckey and the co-founders of Scaleform.
Features of Oculus Rift:
7 inch screen
Resolution : 1920x1080
Weight : 379 gm
It uses a combination of 3-axis - gyrometers, accelerometers and magnetometers.
USB Interface
Software:
Games and game platforms must be specifically designed to work correctly with the Oculus Rift. Oculus is producing an SDK (software development kit) to assist developers with integrating the Oculus Rift with their games.
Team Fortress 2 was the first game to add support for the Oculus Rift, and can be played right now with the Oculus Rift dev kit by use of a command line option. The second title to support the Oculus Rift was the Oculus only version of "Museum of the Microstar" which was released in April 2013. Half-life 2 was the third, and Hawken is likely to be the fourth game to support the Rift; Doom 3: BFG Edition was originally going to be the first game to officially support the Oculus Rift, but after the change of tracker and the change to the 7" panel, id has not yet updated the game to support it.
Price :
This history-defining 3D headset will be available for approximately $300.
Release date:
"Consumer release-wise they haven’t set a date yet – it’s not going to be this year but it would be next year" - As said by Oculus VR.
