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Oculus Rift - is VR gaming finally coming of age?

By Jonathan Fincher
August 03, 2012
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The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset that promises to bring VR gaming into the modern age with full stereoscopic 3D and accurate head tracking
The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset that promises to bring VR gaming into the modern age with full stereoscopic 3D and accurate head tracking
Users report using the Rift actually feels more accurate than a mouse, since you simply look at a target to aim as naturally as you would look at anything in the real world

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Jonathan Fincher
Jonathan grew up in Norway, China, and Trinidad before graduating film school and becoming an online writer covering green technology, history and design, as well as contributing to video game news sites like Filefront and 1Up. He currently resides in Texas, where his passions include video games, comics, and boring people who don't want to talk about either of those things.
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christopher
As an owner of numerous of these things, including one of those $100k mil versions, I can say with almost certainty that this will follow in their footsteps, and the rhetoric will forever remain unfulfilled promises, like all the rest. Devices need compatibility and software. To-Date, nobody has figured that out!
but the company has plans to adapt the device...
developers who have voiced their support...
Epic Games talking about integrating ...
but will be improved for the consumer version...
a more consumer-ready design is in the works...
only compatible with PCs...
Ian Bruce
They look like Eric Howlett's LEEP optics system. I visited LEEP in Massachusetts years ago and I recognize the optical hardware. The only limitations of the LEEP system was weight, bulk, LCD display resolution, processor speed, and tracking. That's actually a long list. However, most of those items have been overcome by Moore's Law, and lighter materials may have solved some of the weight issues.
If these guys can put Eric's vision (sorry) in a lightweight, affordable package, my hat's off to them.
Chris Legasse
@christopher: This model is a developer kit. meaning that they fully understand that hardware needs software to support it. They've said time and again that they wont release a consumer model until well after the developers have had a chance to experiment with it to produce some really awesome content for it. so by the time any regular joe can get their hands on it, there will be plenty of software to support it.
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