Make sure you save all your documentation of what you've done, obviously.
Haven't they already stopped selling the OG Rift in the USA? I'm sure I scrolled past that headline recently.
dunno about USA, but here in germany it's gone from the big sellers so I'm guessing it's old stock being sold.
That's not a good sign, I personally want to avoid inside out tracking.
Regular Rift is pretty much gone already, you may get lucky in some obscure store that still has them left, or buy a used one.
Rift S is most likely going on sale 2 days from now, which happens to be Rift's 3 year anniversary date.
Just today, the S has appeared on sites like Newegg and other stores as "coming soon", reinforcing this speculation.
Plus they probably don't want to keep much of a pause in sales now that they stopped selling OG Rifts.
Nimsony made a video with what looks like a dev version of the Rift S
I haven't watched it with sound yet but his videos are always amazing anyway so I'll share it here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KikggXgqR04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXmqHaiQXSQ
Lots of news on the quest game lineup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryvsAjCaKKk
https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/b67g12/all_games_shown_on_content_preview_in_order_bonus/
For a trailer, a lot of those moments look like they're performing really poorly. Not sure I'd want to even try out some of them in fear of nausea.
I love Blade and Sorcery
https://i.imgur.com/J7P6yYZ.png
I'd kill to see blade and sorcery on the PSVR.
Games must hit 72 frames to get on the oculus store and no tech reviewer complained about drops at GDC atleast. Also its a 30 fps video, hard to judge from that.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=21m41s&v=9S5aJy5aJ-8
firewall might be coming to the quest too, if this is an intentional teaser
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/valve-index-listing-02.jpg
Probably all seen it by now, but Valve just teased their new first-party HMD. Apparently May 2019 is the release date. I'm excited to see both external and inside-out tracking being used, personally.
I've been waiting for a reason to ditch my Vive. After terrible customer support from HTC I'm ready to jump to Valve. The question is should I sell it now before there's a flood on eBay or wait to see the details.
Looking forward to this one!
Wonder how they'll price it. Since it's a first-party HMD by Valve, they could do something similar as Oculus and subdue the cost of the hardware by offsetting it to software sales, unlike HTC. 600 euros seems like the sweetspot to me.
I'm more excited for the possibility of knuckles releasing at the same time.
it has inside-out tracking cameras yet it is covered in little infrared sensors just like the vive's outside-in tracking
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/110042/c9a230cd-e338-4000-8c87-cdb3928a0860/outside in tracking sensors.png
I would imagine it works with both tracking systems. If you already have lighthouses then it will use those, if you don't then you can use the inside-out tracking.
Isn't it possible those are just passthrough cameras?
Think bigger man. Valve wants to be like Nintendo, where the hardware facilitates unique experiences. I doubt that valve would release the Knuckles and have 0 games and experiences to utilize them.
I assume the cameras at the front will primarily be used for pass through, but it shouldn't stop developers from using it for inside out tracking and for AR applications, though it could also include hand and maybe even finger tracking. Who knows at this point.
It could even allow users to not have a light house setup and still be able to play games that way.
Without being involved at a firmware/hardware level, inside-out tracking is not likely to be a good user experience. It's possible in certain scenarios but it really depends on how the data from the camera is presented and what control the user has over the timing/settings of the camera. It'd be an interesting move for them to have both inside-out tacking and outside-in supported on the headset but it's tough to say. For all we know it could be entirely inside-out and those could actually be emitters rather than receivers, so headsets can automatically register other users in the same space.
How do you guys imagine inside out tracking with controllers that are useless without Lighthouse? It's obviously pass through camera, just like Vive, with maybe 3D mapping for room view in VR.
I definitely lean towards this being the case but there's no reason the knuckles coming with it couldn't be tracked by inside-out. Lighthouse tracked objects are massively more complicated than camera tracked ones, you're basically just replacing the IR receivers with IR transmitters and removing a bunch of the hardware that's no longer necessary (FPGA etc).
this isn't valvetime at all. what happened?
it is valve time. we've known that they've been working on this headset for years. knuckles previews were sent to developers in 2017, and images of this headset itself leaked in 2018.
For those who want to know, Valve accidentally put up the Index's store page (you can even search it on steam and get the result). People have saved the pages, when they inevitably get taken down in an hour or two (EDIT: already taken down) , but here's a picture for posterity;
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/210468/cc8c108e-6fbc-4ad4-a49b-59c2453a3252/image.png
Release date: June 15th
Probably not inside-out tracking if there are only the two cameras then.
they also accidentally put up the page for base stations, so it's 100% outside-in tracking (stolen from valve thread)
https://i.imgur.com/d5B9nNk.png
... One base station?
Without a pack-in game and a price of about 1k with the headset, controllers and base station …
What the fuck, Valve? Like are you seriously sitting there wondering why Epic is kicking your ass when you pull these bone-headed decisions? Yes, Boneworks will support the thing but few others will, and honestly it'd really sweeten the deal to have a pack-in title.
Oh god, when Epic goes into VR they are totally going to wipe the floor with Valve due to timed exclusives and an engine ready-made for it...
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