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[Tain]

Standalone headset with inside-out tracking, huh

 

[Bookoo]

ha oh man what a hype killer right there. I was nervous for my wallet for a second.

 

[Doc Holliday]

That looked really cool! The future is going to be so sexy

 

[MiamiWesker]

Oh damn wireless vr

 

[GuitarAtomik]

Standalone headset was a pretty obvious move after they tried the locked down store approach. I think it's a smart move though.

 

[Tain]

VR web talk. After trying that goober browser from the DK2 days, this is pretty legitimately interesting.

edit: lol ReactVR

 

[Zalusithix]

Standalone headset was a pretty obvious move after they tried the locked down store approach. I think it's a smart move though.

More interested in how it would integrate with Touch (if at all).

 

[Doc Holliday]

I bet Zuckeberg basically delivered Lucky's presentation lol

 

[Foggy]

VR web talk. After trying that goober browser from the DK2 days, this is pretty legitimately interesting.

Yeah this is incredibly promising

 

[Will the Thrill]

Oh damn wireless vr

Did they go into detail on it? Like shit man a wireless headset for PC is fucking crazy this fast

 

[GamerKingFaiz]

At work, any price/release date announced for Touch?

 

[Tain]

Did they go into detail on it? Like shit man a wireless headset for PC is fucking crazy this fast

It's standalone. Something like GearVR but with more focused hardware and inside-out tracking. Not as exciting as a wireless PC headset to me, but it's still pretty awesome.

 

[Zalusithix]

Yeah this is incredibly promising

I thought the same about VRML when I was a kid. I'm a bit gunshy on the virtual 3D web as a whole. I see applications, but limited in scope, and many of those requiring much higher headset fidelity to be really useful.

 

[Will the Thrill]

It's standalone. Something like GearVR but with more focused hardware and inside-out tracking.

ohhh ok, so akin to phone VR but with positional tracking? That's still pretty awesome

 

[Bookoo]

Did they go into detail on it? Like shit man a wireless headset for PC is fucking crazy this fast

It's actually a standalone headset that uses inside out tracking. I don't think it is transmitting from the PC although that would be ideal.

 

[Tain]

ohhh ok, so akin to phone VR but with positional tracking?

Yup, that's about all they showed: someone wearing a development prototype (it looked like the CV1 with something attached to the back) and briefly walking around the papercraft city from the Dreamdeck demo.

 

[MiamiWesker]

Avatars look cool.

 

[jett]

lol at Luckey being MIA.

 

[_woLf]

Any chances of a Rift 2 (or rather, new iteration of it for PC) being announced here?

 

[Will the Thrill]

I feel like avatars is something you release as a small press release and not as a main stage thing. I mean it's cool, but everyone knows what an avatar is.

 

[Iced_Eagle]

At work, any price/release date announced for Touch?

Not yet

Any chances of a Rift 2 (or rather, new iteration of it for PC) being announced here?

Considering Rift 1 came out 7 months ago and hasn't even gotten Touch? Unbelievably unlikely.

They showed a prototype / demo for a wireless Rift with inside-out tracking which was cool. That's likely what will become Rift 2.

 

[AbundantChoice]

I thought the same about VRML when I was a kid. I'm a bit gunshy on the virtual 3D web as a whole. I see applications, but limited in scope, and many of those requiring much higher headset fidelity to be really useful.

Oh god, VRML, don't remind me. I was doing some stuff at the NCSA at the time, and there was this core group of ACM SigVR-heads there who were swearing up and down that VRML was the future of the web. Same sort of people who were saying in 10 years every home would have a CAVE, etc. Yeesh.

VRML was such a nightmare.

 

[pj]

allergies are a bitch

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

Any chances of a Rift 2 (or rather, new iteration of it for PC) being announced here?

No way.

 

[MiamiWesker]

Oculus parties and rooms. This would be great if people actually owned the rift.

 

[GuitarAtomik]

I feel like they should have unified the social app avatars and the other version. The official avatars are kind of underwhelming after the social demo. Maybe it's a performance thing though.

 

[The Elite]

Oculus parties and rooms. This would be great if people actually owned the rift.

There are dozens of us. Dozens.

 

[Psykoboy2]

I really feel for this woman on stage right now. She's fighting back some horrible allergies or a cold or something. Good work on her.

 

[Wrestlemania]

Touch can be used for gamepad games - that's good. I love split controllers.

 

[Tain]

lol you can hear a dude in the audience loudly laughing at "Asynchronous Spacewarp"

 

[Wallach]

holy shit oculus solved positional reprojection

 

[The Elite]

holy shit oculus solved positional reprojection

So now we can travel in time and space?

 

[Will the Thrill]

"This is a big deal" cuts to audience members not giving a fuck lol

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

Soo, does the game have to run at native 45 to utilize Spacewarp? Does a game fall back to it if it drops from 90?

 

[Tain]

Pretty wild that this lets them actually reduce their min spec to a 960.

 

[Foggy]

Whoa that min spec

 

[MiamiWesker]

This is amazing! This synthetic framerate!

 

[The Elite]

I wonder if they get aggressive and drop the price of the Rift today.

 

[Wallach]

Soo, does the game have to run at native 45 to utilize Spacewarp? Does a game fall back to it if it drops from 90?

Unclear from what he said, but it sounds like an automatic fallback.

 

[vermadas]

Hopefully it works like other reprojection techniques where it only kicks in if 90 FPS isn't being met.

 

[cleveridea]

wow so boring so far. Expected some cool touch controller demos, hopefully comes later.

 

[Seiru]

I bet Zuckeberg basically delivered Lucky's presentation lol

I was thinking this at first as well, but the stuff with Zuckerburg's wife, office, and dog would have been planned months in advance.

 

[Iced_Eagle]

Soo, does the game have to run at native 45 to utilize Spacewarp? Does a game fall back to it if it drops from 90?

We'll see, but I sincerely doubt it. It would defeat the point. Vive's method is that it runs at native 90, but if you start dropping a certain amount of frames, then it forces the game to run at 45 until it can sense that you are back up to 90. Granted, Vive's method doesn't do the positional warping like this new technique does, so there may be some differences in how this handles. However, it really would defeat the point if it made your game run at 45 all the time. As he emphasized, there is no substitute for 90fps native.

 

[Fret]

Even though I don't like oculus as a company, this is very heavy competition for Valve. Good times incoming for PC VR

 

[DieH@rd]

So they are emulating PSVR, but since they dont have screen that is capable of 120hz refresh, they are going with the 45>90fps upscale. The effect of ghosting for nearby objects will be stronger, but I guess, better this than nothing.

 

[Sleeping Lesson]

Wait, why would I want earbuds? Do people like earbuds?

 

[AllIsOneIsNone]

Any chances of a Rift 2 (or rather, new iteration of it for PC) being announced here?

I'd say that may not even happen for a couple years. They put a lot of effort into the CV1 and they probably want it to gain way more momentum before they drop seconds on our plate.

 

[Tain]

Wait, why would I want earbuds? Do people like earbuds?

lol yeah that's been the most baffling part of this keynote so far

 

[Bookoo]

Nice the facial plate is getting opened up. Maybe someone will develop one that is better with glasses.

 

[Wrestlemania]

Wait, why would I want earbuds? Do people like earbuds?

If they want better noise isolation, yeah. Nice to have the option, $49 is a good price