[4eyes] Oculus Rift

[Jonathan Ventura]

Oh that sounds cool.  I guess it is just provides relative orientation, although they can at least determine gravity using accelerometer / gyroscopes.  And you don't really notice it drifting.

On Aug 9, 2012, at 10:29 PM, Domagoj wrote:

> AFAIK, the low latency is due to heavy software/driver optimization. John Carmack (of id Software - Doom, Quake, etc.) worked with these guys on building the HMD, with special effort to reduce latency.
> 
> On 2012-08-09 22:23, Jonathan Ventura wrote:
>> I am probably late to the party here, but have you guys seen this?
>> 
>> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game
>> 
>> Is it a LCD screen with lenses in front of it?
>> 
>> I am not sure how they achieve the claimed low latency, but I guess it
>> is nice sensors built into the hardware?
>> 
>> I think the 4EYES lab should order a dev kit :)
>> 
>> -Jon
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