The devkit is $300 .. does that also include the HW? If so thats quite a deal!
-- Owen On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> 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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