Tag Archives: Virtual Reality

Virtuix makes omni-directional treadmills, which may not seem relevant to your life interests until you see it in partnership with Oculus Rift and Kinect, bringing us one step closer to 1980′s sci-fi virtual reality experiences.

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In a lengthy and involved blog post, legendary engineer John Carmack has gone into detail on the problems he and the Oculus Rift team face trying to achieve the virtual reality dream. The headset-tech requires a maximum latency of about 20 milliseconds to feel like genuine head movement, Carmack said, but current systems only achieve average response times of 100 milliseconds. Carmack’s discussion of how he’s tackling this issue is technical but fascinating. Valve’s Michael Abrash has shared similar thoughts in the past.

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San Francisco Game Developers Conference organisers have begun announcing some of this year’s panels and exhibitions, shedding light on an interesting development from Valve. A pair of talks appear to focus on the building of head-mounted displays, with particular attention on a free-to-play virtual reality port of Team Fortress 2.

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Valve’s Chet Faliszek has revealed the company is working on virtual reality technology. In an interview with VG247, Faliszek also claimed other organisations are “definitely” doing the same.

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Oculus Rift, a virtual reality head-mounted display (HMD) designed by Palmer Luckey and backed by John Carmack, will see its Kickstarter appeal begin around July 19, according to the designer.

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SCEE 3D chief Mick Hocking has told Develop that games creatives still need educating on the benefits of 3D, speaking ahead of his Develop Conference keynote in Brighton this week.

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Sony Vice President Mike Hocking was quoted this week in a video interview as saying that we now have the technology to make virtual reality work, and that it could make a comeback.
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