4K fingers crossed.
They can't even render 1080p with low enough latency and high enough frame rate currently. Are you going hooking your Occulus up to a super computer?
First Look at the Rift, Shipping Q1 2016
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#22I'm so impressed by their restraint on waiting until the product was right before going to market.
I guess they don't want it to be a flop, or lacklustre. I think apple have raised the bar with what consumers expect from a 'gadget'...
I hope input is good. I trust that the VR will be good, but input, need good input.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, I figured running two high def screens would require a beefy graphics card.
The current development kit prototype is just 1920×1080, which is split horizontally into 960x1080 per eye. So it's really not "two high def screens". Hopefully they will be able to improve this further before shipping the consumer version.
The consumer version of the Rift has been confirmed to have multiple screens. Resolution is not confirmed yet.
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#24Argh, the title of the post has the exact same amount of info as the article does. I was hoping for details on the changes to the hardware different from the current dev kit. Or more importantly, I was hoping to read why I should still care when Valve's offering is planned to come out this year and is supposedly the bee's knees.
If Valve's timing on their VR is anything like their timing for, well, everything else they do... I think the Rift will be out first.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, I figured running two high def screens would require a beefy graphics card.
The current development kit prototype is just 1920×1080, which is split horizontally into 960x1080 per eye. So it's really not "two high def screens". Hopefully they will be able to improve this further before shipping the consumer version.
Due to lens distorsion, rendering are done at higher resolution in order to get 1:1 pixel density at the center of the screens.
Re: First Look at the Rift, Shipping Q1 2016
#26I was able to get a demo of the Crescent Bay prototype (hand-built tech demo of the consumer version) at PAX East this year. I've also tried the DK1 and DK2.
If you've been playing with the DK1 or DK2, the consumer version is fundamentally better. Do not assume you know what the state of the art is until you've gotten your hands on a preview. I don't know exactly what the resolution differences are, and I don't care - it's not the relevant spec to compare. It's gotten to the point where resolution is "good enough" to trick the mind and anyone who says otherwise is bikeshedding. They've gotten the screen door effect under control. With head tracking implemented and drift solved as a side effect, two huge problems are gone. Their low-latency head tracking stops people from feeling nauseated like they did with DK1. I could barely stand without wanting to vomit after playing the Doom demo. The only game I could play for any length of time was a simple platform jumping game called Rift Rush.
I don't know what they consider their largest hurdles, but from my perspective the hardware/software problems are solved for now and they need excellent made-for-VR content. When done well, the effect is stunning - in one of that calmer, more exploration-oriented demos I just stared at the light glinting off a metal bowl as I moved around it for at least 30 seconds.
But the difference between "good" and "mind blowing" was often the result of things that nobody has thought about before. In the movie-like demos, sometimes I missed things because I had my back to the action. In VR movies, the user controls the camera and needs to be told where to look; that's a problem nobody making movies has ever faced before. Even Pixar's demo suffered from this - the action was too spread out for the screen's field of view.
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#27I'm so impressed by their restraint on waiting until the product was right before going to market.
Too many people getting motion sickness could kill the VR market for years.
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#29I'm so impressed by their restraint on waiting until the product was right before going to market.
I guess they don't want it to be a flop, or lacklustre. I think apple have raised the bar with what consumers expect from a 'gadget'... I hope input is good. I trust that the VR will be good, but input, need good input.
Or Google has shown what happens when a 'gadget' doesn't meet expectations.
Re: First Look at the Rift, Shipping Q1 2016
#30I was able to get a demo of the Crescent Bay prototype (hand-built tech demo of the consumer version) at PAX East this year. I've also tried the DK1 and DK2. If you've been playing with the DK1 or DK2, the consumer version is fundamentally better. Do not assume you know what the state of the art is until you've gotten your hands on a preview. I don't know exactly what the resolution differences are, and I don't care…
I never got to use Crescent Bay, but I've got a DK2 at home. Resolution for me will be a non-issue once I can read smallish text on virtual signs/displays. I'm thinking mostly for games like Elite Dangerous and other simulators like that, where a cockpit display is part of the game. Do you think the crescent bay prototype is at that point? (this might be a naive question as it's been awhile since I've looked up anything on the newest prototypes)
Otherwise I'm with you. Positional tracking was the thing that really made it awesome for me. There are so many tiny head movements that you make when you're looking around; if positional tracking isn't pretty much 100%, then it just feels wrong.