I'm rounding up a "group purchase" here if anyone wants to go in...
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game
I've got 2 folks already and need 3 more to go in on the 5x Developer
kits for $1400... ($280 each vs $300 otherwise)
I hope to have an early development set of parts coming in from USC/ICT
(cross our fingers) and the formal Kickstarter project is due to deliver
in December (although with 6x oversubscription so early, they may have
some problems maintaining the timeline?)...
Let me know if you are ready to commit and I'll throw down for a 5x (or
10x?)...
Gang -
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game
I can promise you, this is one heck of a deal by any standards up to
today. And I can also vouch for it's credibility. When I saw this
on Kickstarter I got in touch with my old buddies at FakeSpace
Laboratories who built something called the Wide5 about 6 years ago
which had a few features in common with this $300 kit. Theirs cost
about $25K for *them* to build (one offs) but had higher resolution,
wider field of view and *two* sets of image planes and optics, one for
the full peripheral vision and one for the foveal. It was a killer
concept that never got funded for more than a handful of one-offs.
Well, it seems that the project actually got it's start at the USC
Interactive Media Division (lead by legendary Scott Fisher) Where Mark
Bolas (FakeSpace founder) works.
http://projects.ict.usc.edu/mxr/blog/it%E2%80%99s-alive/
Bolas endorses this project heartily and even offered to send me some
pieces-parts from their original project to get a headstart before the
Kickstarter comes in. I took him up on it since they are already up
to 4 times their goal with 27 days left. It looks like a landslide,
which of course, may delay their ability to actually deliver (5000 and
counting? Units).
Maybe we can have a series of WedTech sessions to assemble and test.
Matter and Interactions in Stereoscopic 360 anyone?
If anyone else is tempted to buy one of these, let me know, it would
be fun to coordinate a small group of developers around this.
- Steve
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