Greetings: Hmm. Interesting. I know at one point the OculusRift was going for some kickstarter funding. Some of those were game publishers for online gaming. Names that surfaced included ID Software, Activison, and Sony. I wouldn't be to suprised if one of the things they're devs could help lower development cost. Real time response being a big thing for game publishers I wouldn't be suprised if they could bring that to the table as well. Android though isn't known for being consistant with realtime response. Can google get android right on the phone? Dodgy at that. This makes me skeptical that android would pan out well for the Rift stuff.
Steve you may know the name, and have some insight. At a some dev confrence, A MS Dev had said that it's on the table for the Kinect to have some sort of imersive environment doodad- that didn't require having a tv screen on your face. I bring it up because that kind of thing may have more longevity in terms of extended use. I'd love to here your insight and experience with either one. On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > Does anyone in this group (including remote/non-SFe folks) own or have > had some direct experience with the Oculus Rift pre-consumer models? > > Matt and Janire (last year's Artists in Residence at SFx) have one now (in > the UK) and I've a collaborator using one for viewing OmniStereo still > images captured by the CaveCAM. > > My experience with (even professional grade) HMDs has always been > disappointing, especially because of tracking lag/error. > > It looks > like<http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/18/oculus-rift-john-carmack-interview/>the > consumer model may be a System On a Chip (sorry Owen, not in a browser) > running Android, available mid 2014. Not clear how that plays *with* a > computer, but is conceivable that the Android SoC has a "passthrough mode" > that just displays whatever is coming in on it's video interface. > > I almost pulled the trigger this week and ordered a Dev Kit but there is > indication that the next hardware rev will have improved tracking. > > And *then* I discovered there is a new player on the > (KickStarter<http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/technicalillusions/castar-the-most-versatile-ar-and-vr-system>) > block... This Technical Illusions > castAR<http://technicalillusions.com/?incsub_wiki=home>system is a > glasses-mounted pair of pico-projectors that project onto a > retroreflective screen surface. It is sortof a proto-AnySurface(tm) > system. A head mounted projector (pair) with tracking, if you will. A > multi-view, shared space. And *bonus*, a clip-on mini-screen turns these > into an HMD very much like the Oculus Rift. > > Their KickStarter video has a lot of obfuscating hype (live testimonials > of people who have just seen it for the first time) but it looks like a > very promising Alpha example of, as I said, AnySurface(tm) experience. > > - Steve > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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