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Valve and HTC Reveal "Vive" SteamVR Headset

Posted by samzenpus on from the is-it-real? dept.

An anonymous reader writes Today Valve and HTC revealed the "Vive" SteamVR headset which is designed to compete with Oculus and others, which aim for a high-end VR experience on PC. The Vive headset uses dual 1200x1080 displays at 90Hz and a "laser position sensor" to provide positional tracking (head movement through 3D space), and also includes a pair of motion input controllers. The companies say that the Vive headset will be available to developers in Spring and receive a proper consumer launch holiday 2015, though no price has been announced.

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  1. Dead in the water by 7bit · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is dead in the water unless they quickly find a way to add the glove-free hands tracking that Oculus is presently adding to the Rift. Oculus just bought a company that was about to make an add-on for the Rift that sits on the front of the Rift and tracks your hand/finger movements (very precisely) and mirrors them in the VR world so that you can interact with VR without any controllers or gloves.

    This is a "Game Changer" that HTC/Valve are dead in the water without.

    This was my post, I didn't have my password at work. The company Oculus bought was Nimble VR. Here are links including a video of the tech in action, it just works and has a larger FOV than the Rift:

    Original Kickstarter (With VIDEO): https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
    CNET Article about the Aquisition: http://www.cnet.com/news/oculu...
    Oculus Blog announcement : https://www.oculus.com/blog/ni...