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muterobert writes:
The True Player Gear Totem is a VR headset with similar specs to the Oculus Rift DK2. The final spec is planned to include a 1080p OLED display with low persistence and a 90 degree field of view. Unlike the Rift, it also has two 1080p cameras on the front that will allow for passthrough video and positional tracking. It contains onboard stereo surround sound and will have compatibility with PCs as well as game consoles.
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muterobert writes:
The Oculus Rift has competition, and it's incredible. The InfinitEye has a 210 Field of View (compared with the Oculus Rift's 90) and surrounds your peripheral vision in the game completely.
Paul James from RoadToVR goes in-depth with the team behind the new device and finds out how high FOV Virtual Reality really works.
At the present time, we are using 4 renders, 2 per eye. Left eye renders are centered on left eye, the first render is rotated 90 left and the second looks straight ahead, building two sides of a cube. Right eye renders are centered on its position, the first is rotated 90 degree right and the second looks straight ahead, two sides of another cube. We then process those renders in a final pass, building the distorted image.
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An anonymous reader writes:
The itinerary for Steam Dev Days 2014 lists two talks by Valve's internal virtual and augmented reality researchers, Michael Abrash and Joe Ludwig. Abrash's talk, titled 'What VR Could, Should, and Almost Certainly Will Be within Two Years' will feature a demonstration of Valve's secret prototype VR headset that is "capable of stunning experiences." Ludwig's talk 'Virtual Reality and Steam' will discuss how Valve will be adapting Steam to VR to "support and promote Virtual Reality games."
Rift inventor and Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey will also be taking to the stage at Steam Dev Days to speak on best-practice for VR development.
Steam Dev Days Talks: http://www.steamdevdays.com/?p=sessions
Additional details on speakers and their past involvement with VR: http://www.roadtovr.com/vr-headset-valve-virtual-reality-steam/
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Hesh writes:
Now that all 10,000 developers will have received their dev kits by the end of May (http://www.oculusvr.com/blog/shipping-update-replacement-rewards-vr-meet-ups-and-half-life-2-in-vr/) completely new experiences and updates to popular games are flooding in. Valve's classic, Half-Life 2, has finally gained VR support that actually works beautifully (http://www.roadtovr.com/2013/05/11/how-to-configure-half-life-2-beta-for-your-oculus-rift-gameplay-video-5730). Also, the open-world 3D engine Outerra has added initial support for the Rift which will open up the possibility of planet-sized procedurally generated environments (http://www.roadtovr.com/2013/05/19/outerra-oculus-rift-support-coming-soon-5996). Lastly, a fly through generated with Boxplorer2 tailored for the Oculus Rift gives the mind-blowing experience of what it is like to fly through 3D fractal worlds (http://www.roadtovr.com/2013/05/20/boxplorer-2-oculus-rift-support-3d-fractal-6004); realtime support for this should be possible on today's hardware so hopefully it will arrive sooner rather than later!
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Benz145 writes:
MakeVR is a forthcoming piece of software from Sixense, creators of the Razer Hydra. The software pairs the Hydra with an intuitive two-hand interface design where you reach out and manipulate objects in a highly natural way (http://youtu.be/VvPb7Lo6S-I). Even more exciting is out-of-the-box support for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset (http://www.oculusvr.com/) which, when combined with MakeVR, makes it feels as though you are really grabbing objects with your own hands thanks to the first person perspective and the Hydra's 1:1 tracking. Sixense says that the Hydra can detect positional movements of as little as 1mm and rotational movements down to 1 degree. The company intends to launch a Kickstarter this month (http://www.roadtovr.com/2013/04/03/gdc-2013-sixense-makevr-virtual-reality-cad-kickstarter-4495) to fund some exciting features for the software like multiplayer, physics, animation, and more.
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Hesh writes:
The makers of the Razer Hydra are staging a comeback of sorts with the renewed interest in VR from the recent release of the Oculus Rift dev kits (http://oculusvr.com). They showed off an update for the Oculus Tuscany demo that shows off accurate virtual hands that can pick up objects and interact with the world beautifully, even up to the point of picking up objects and setting them on fire from a virtual fireplace and juggling (badly, http://www.roadtovr.com/2013/03/30/gdc-2013-oculus-rift-razer-hydra-tuscany-unity-demo-4401). They have also decided to throw their hat into the Kickstarter ring to get funding for a VR CAD game that is the first of its kind for the and should be a great Legos replacement for the younger generation! (http://www.roadtovr.com/2013/04/03/gdc-2013-sixense-makevr-virtual-reality-cad-kickstarter-4495)
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Zothecula writes:
Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have claimed a first by successfully using a single session of gene therapy to cure dogs of type 1 diabetes. The work has shown that it is possible to cure the disease in large animals with a minimally-invasive procedure – potentially leading the way to further developments in studies for human treatment of the disease.
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Benz145 writes:
Sony's dual-720p OLED head mounted display (model: HMZ-T1) is going on sale 11/11/11 (next to a certain game people may be looking forward to). Though not yet for sale, the documentation for the HMD has gone online early revealing previously unannounced technical details. Such details include: accepting input/output signals, included accessories, audio details, interpupillary distance (just in case you are an optometrist), and more.
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Benz145 writes:
Silicon Micro Display has announced a head mounted display that uses dual 1080p LCoS (liquid crystal on silicon) displays. This display technology allows the HMD (called the ST1080) to be 10% transparent, making it a potential augmented reality / wearable computing platform. Thanks to the dual displays, 3D is obviously supported as well. Pricing for the retail model of the ST1080 will be announced on 12/1 alongside pre-order availability, and an ST1080 display development kit (DDK) will begin selling in December.
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Benz145 writes:
[Fixed link!] Fusion Garage, which had been teasing the tech world with a fake company (TabCo) for the last few weeks, revealed themselves on Monday, along with a new 10" tablet and a smartphone, powered by their own in-house operating system called 'Grid'. Grid is based on the Android kernel and can run Android applications natively, but won't have official access to the Android Market. CEO Chandra Rathakrishna said during the reveal that Apple's iPad is the only real tablet in town, that companies offering Android tablets showed nothing but "parody" and "sameness". Chandra then said that Grid was the answer to this sameness. I have to wholeheartedly disagree with Chandra’s remarks. There not only IS innovation in the Android tablet market, but even if there wasn’t, Grid is not the answer.
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Benz145 writes:
Fusion Garage, which had been teasing the tech world with a fake company (TabCo) for the last few weeks, revealed themselves on Monday, along with a new 10" tablet and a smartphone, powered by their own in-house operating system called 'Grid'. Grid is based on the Android kernel and can run Android applications natively, but won't have official access to the Android Market. CEO Chandra Rathakrishna said during the reveal that Apple's iPad is the only real tablet in town, that companies offering Android tablets showed nothing but "parody" and "sameness". Chandra then said that Grid was the answer to this sameness. I have to wholeheartedly disagree with Chandra’s remarks. There not only IS innovation in the Android tablet market, but even if there wasn’t, Grid is not the answer.
