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Oculus Raises $75 Million To Make VR Headset
An anonymous reader writes "The company making the VR headset that has John Carmack and many others in the gaming industry excited has just received another $75 million in funding to make it happen. Netscape founder Marc Andreessen is joining the company's board, along with fellow investor Chris Dixon. Dixon had seen a prototype earlier this year, but it wasn't good enough to spark his interest. After recently seeing how the device has progressed since then, he was blown away, comparing it to early demos of the iPhone. 'The dimensions where you need to improve this kind of VR are latency, resolution and head tracking, and they have really nailed those things.' Now that the device is in good shape, Oculus is going to work on turning it into a product they can produce and ship for gamers."
That's what killed the 3DS for me. Fine tune the latency, resolution, and head tracking all you want, but if I can't play it for more than twenty minutes, I'm not interested.
Occasionally living proof of the Ballmer peak.
Seriously, every bit of horizontal motion not matched by your head is going to make you feel a little sicker, and even a tiny bit of unmatched vertical motion will have you vomiting.
It is incredible, but your body's reaction ain't.
the nausea and vomiting parts are laughable,
As an owner of one, I have to disagree. You can come over and use mine. If you can beat the first 2 chapters of half-life 2 without taking it off or vomiting, I'll be staggered.
Forget about gaming, how about a HUGE virtual desktop for work?
--PM