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Oculus Announces Partnership With Microsoft

Posted by samzenpus on from the working-together dept.

An anonymous reader writes: At its pre-E3 press conference today, Oculus announced a partnership with Microsoft. The company plans to launch a new Rift headset early next year that will be packaged with a wireless Xbox One controller. Oculus will ship the controllers with the recently announced Xbox wireless adapter. Xbox chief Phil Spencer said. "We believe we'll be able to create state of the art virtual reality experiences with the Oculus Rift on top of Windows."

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  1. Wow by binarylarry · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It was great knowing you, Oculus.

    Hopefully Valve has a little more sense. They seem to have better hardware than Oculus.

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  2. Visible controllers by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The article does raise one major issue with VR in regards to controllers.

    Every time I've experimented with the Oculus, I have to place my hands on the keyboard to find the controls before I put the headset on... BEFORE I being to wear the Oculus. Otherwise, I drop the headset on and feel around for the keyboard.

    This is incredibly clunky. I should be able to see my controller with the headset on. The VR system needs to detect controllers, and what's displayed on them, as it does head motion tracking.

    So there is still plenty of work to do there.

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    1. Re:Visible controllers by Simulant · · Score: 3, Interesting


      I think they need cameras on the outside so you can toggle a quick view of reality without removing the gear.

    2. Re:Visible controllers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Carmack calls it the diet coke button - video passthrough so that he can find his diet coke.

      http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/08/gear-vr-versus-oculus-rift/