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Vendetta Online Becomes the First MMO To Launch Support For the Oculus Rift.

Posted by Unknown on from the enter-the-multiverse dept.

Incarnate-VO writes "Many-platform space MMORPG Vendetta Online has added another first, with the official launch of support for the Oculus Rift family of head-mounted VR displays. The VR adds another level of immersion to the twitch-combat space title." A few limitations: Windows only (because the Rift only supports Windows), some effects are disabled, and the developers still want to tweak things like the HUD. But it's a good first step, and supports both the low-res and high definition revisions of the Occulus Rift.

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  1. Re:The rift supports OSX... by Guspaz · · Score: 5, Informative

    Considering the Oculus SDK supports Windows, OS X, and Linux, I think the "only supports Windows" comment is simply wrong. The Rift is definitely officially supported on platforms other than Windows.

  2. Rift IS cross-platform, VO will get there. by Incarnate-VO · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm not sure how this became confused, but as I wrote on our newspost page: the Oculus Rift itself does support Mac and Linux, we just haven't had a chance to roll out the support on those platforms yet. To elaborate, Windows was the initial testing target, internally, and we made a number of Rift-specific changes to our DirectX renderer during the process. It'll take us some time to back-port these changes over to our OpenGL renderer, along with some of the other auto-detection features and things we've implemented. Linux and Mac will be supported.