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New "Crescent Bay" VR Headset Revealed and Demo'd At Oculus Connect
Oculus Rift revealed today its new 'Crescent Bay' prototype wearable display, at its inaugural Oculus Connect conference. (You can find more in the company's blog too.) From Gamasutra's coverage: The new headset has 360 degree tracking and integrated audio, as well as improved performance that allows better presence, says Iribe. It has higher resolution and a better refresh rate than even its recent DK2 headset. It's also much lighter than earlier prototypes.
The company has also licensed technology from RealSpace 3-D for improved 3D audio on Oculus moving forward. Audio is becoming a priority for the company, [CEO Brendan] ]Iribe said.
Road to VR has a gushing hands-on review: One of the stand-out demos put me in front of an alien on some sort of Moon-like world. The alien was looking at me and speaking in an unfamiliar tongue. When I moved my head, its gaze followed me. Its big and detailed eyes, combined with reaction to me as I moved, imbued it with a sense of living that was really cool. Spaceships flew over head and drew my gaze behind me, leading me to look at some incredibly detailed scenery.
I tried the old and relatively crappy DK1 Rift, and for all its instantly perceivable limitations, and as a VR first timer, it was still an exercise in pants-wetting, literally jaw-dropping awe. No technology has ever come close to it in the levels of amazement and excitement for the future. ( seeing my first 3D video card render from the days of software rendering is the closest, but not that close)
But im pretty disappointed at the typical new-Slashdot reaction to what is truly an exciting and literally awesome technology. The Slashdot Hate Machine is inexplicable and relentless, and nothing is spared from the stomp of its soul crushing boots. It seems, no matter what technology is created, the hate and adolescent invective knows no bounds.
I want the old Slashdot back. It was very informative, genuinely funny at times (dont tell me a shark-laser joke is genuinely worth the now-guaranteed +5 Funny), and was the only place on the 'net that I could find and share in that level of expertise and genuine interest and excitement in Science and Technology. The last few years have been a sad and disturbing decline in the quality of commenters in Slashdot.
I miss Old Slashdot :(
OK, downmodders and trolls, come at me.
Your post seems fishy...your UID is in the 3.4 millions but you reference the 'old slashdot'...and your whole "hate machine" thing, it seems like you expected to get comments that disagreed so you pre-emptively call anyone who disagrees a troll. Also, you should know that people on /. do not like fake users who break out elaborate rhetoric with no substance other than to hype a product.
Slashdot old & new hates hype. Wild-eyed, fanboi hype is fine of course, but you can't call us trolls for disagreeing and making our opinion known.
Occulus never deserved its hype.
When people "ooh and ahh" about Occulus, they're really reacting to the *novelty* of the technology...technology Occulus cannot claim to originate in any way.
Google did a good job of subverting Occulus's hype machine with Cardboard
https://cardboard.withgoogle.c...
It's a cheap cardboard version of Occulus...I wouldn't buy it but it's hilarious in how it critiques Occulus without actually saying a word.
Thank you Dave Raggett