AMD Enters Virtual Reality Fray With LiquidVR SDK At GDC

MojoKid writes: AMD jumped into the virtual reality arena today by announcing that its new LiquidVR SDK will help developers customize VR content for AMD hardware. "The upcoming LiquidVR SDK makes a number of technologies available which help address obstacles in content, comfort and compatibility that together take the industry a major step closer to true, life-like presence across all VR games, applications, and experiences," AMD representatives said in a statement. Oculus is one of the VR companies that will be working with AMD's LiquidVR SDK, and likes what it's seen so far. "Achieving presence in a virtual world continues to be one of the most important elements to delivering amazing VR," said Brendan Iribe, CEO of Oculus. "We're excited to have AMD working with us on their part of the latency equation, introducing support for new features like asynchronous timewarp and late latching, and compatibility improvements that ensure that Oculus' users have a great experience on AMD hardware."

Comments

Buzzword bingo!

[Anonymous Coward]

Sadly we don't really win anything..

I'm waiting

[invictusvoyd]

for a DIY VR headset .. roll your own.

Re:I'm waiting

[ArcadeMan]

Print your own Google cardboard on a regular printer?
3D-print your own on a RepRap?

Re:I'm waiting

[Anonymous Coward]

download the PDF, print it out, trace onto a pizza box or whatever:

http://www.google.com/get/card...

then buy the lenses for 50 cents on ebay or a local science toy shop.

or buy a kit from one of the links above for a few bucks.

http://www.pocket-lint.com/new...

Re:I'm waiting

[Anonymous Coward]

That's like saying you are waiting for a DIY monitor. Why would you? The level of integration on the hardware needs to be so high, and the display tech is custom for these applications. The DIY days of VR equipment, aside from input controllers, is gone.

And the best part,

[Anonymous Coward]

"it won't set your house on fire."

ATW and Late latching

[ian_po]

Here are links for those of you wondering what asynchronous timewarp and late latching are. ATW is a technique for reducing judder. Late latching is a way to insert positional and orientation updates as late into the graphics queue as possible.

Re:ATW and Late latching

[Anonymous Coward]

Interesting read. Doesn't explain how AMD is to avoid going the way of Cyrix. Remember Cyrix? Haha, of course you don't. Who buys AMD cpu's anymore? I remember all of the big fans of AMD spewing stupid nonsense, while intel just carried out their plan. THIS is not going to save AMD. Too bad really, there are lots of people who believe buying the absolute cheapest stuff is the way to go.

Re:ATW and Late latching

[Sir_Substance]

Who buys AMD cpu's anymore?

Both current gen consoles. Have you not been paying attention or something?

Re:ATW and Late latching

[LordWabbit2]

I used to be a rabid AMD supporter, until about ~5 years ago when I needed to upgrade the families PC's, did some research and picked Intel. AMD have really fallen behind, and I am sure the only reason the next gen console makers picked AMD is because AMD offered them bulk prices that they could not ignore.

Re:ATW and Late latching

[Anonymous Coward]

Plus the WiiU using an AMD GPU.

AMD has the console market pretty much on lock.

Re:ATW and Late latching

[Wootery]

I am sure the only reason the next gen console makers picked AMD is because AMD offered them bulk prices that they could not ignore

Also AMD were able to put CPU and GPU on one chip. And were able to let Sony have their way using GDDR5 for the PS4's main memory, rather than DDR3.

Re:ATW and Late latching

[wonkey_monkey]

ATW is a technique for reducing judder.

That has things in common with a video filter I wrote for stabilising video, although instead of stabilising it's sort of destabilising, so the view matches the head's new rotational position.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I wonder if it has, or why it hasn't, been used in boring old non-stereoscopic games.

Re:ATW and Late latching

[Anonymous Coward]

Cool program mate :-)

Re:ATW and Late latching

[rdnetto]

Their APU lines are pretty nice. Their FX line was great 3 years ago (much better performance/price ratio than Intel), but it hasn't gotten any significant upgrades since then.

Cocks, white or black?

[Anonymous Coward]

Discuss

CHEAP Intel

[Anonymous Coward]

I used to be a rabid AMD supporter, until about ~5 years ago when I needed to upgrade the families PC's, did some research and picked Intel. AMD have really fallen behind, and I am sure the only reason the next gen console makers picked AMD is because AMD offered them bulk prices that they could not ignore.

Let me get this straight. You used to be a "Rabid" AMD supporter but then "CHOSE" Intel Graphics over AMD Graphics?.... The only reason ANYONE "Chooses" Intel Graphics is if they only use a cheap built in MB or CPU integrated graphics solution and they want the CHEAPEST possible solution.

As such, you didn't "Choose" Intel, you chose CHEAP.

And if you truly were a Rabid AMD Supporter you would only be one because you had been using actual Video cards. Most any cheap AMD video card will blow the Intel graphics chip away including in terms of compatibility. Which leads me to believe that you are on Intel Shill of some sort trolling.

Re:CHEAP Intel

[ChunderDownunder]

Nice rant but the poster mentioned nothing about intel graphics.

motherboards with intel CPUs do take nVidia graphics cards?

Re:CHEAP Intel

[LordWabbit2]

Talking CPU, dude.
And yes, buying 4 PC's which can play any game currently on the market is not cheap, so the initial PC's were AMD because of the cost involved. When I was upgrading them the difference between AMD and Intel (cost and performance) was such that I found it cheaper to go Intel. I use "upgrade" rather loosely here, since we all know that after a couple years an "upgrade" means "buying another computer".

Shotput or javelin?

[Anonymous Coward]

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