Jack McCauley's Next Challenge: the Perfect Head-Tracker For VR (ieee.org)

Posted by timothy on Friday November 6, 2015 @03:21PM from the it's-on-your-head dept.

Tekla Perry writes: He used a webcam and LEDs to do position tracking for the Oculus DK2, but Jack McCauley, co-founder of Oculus and now working independently, says that's the wrong approach. He likes the laser scanning system of the HTC Vive better, but says it's just not fast enough. McCauley thinks he can do better, using a design approach borrowed from picoprojectors. Speaking at this week's MEMS Executive Congress, he said better tracking of head position will solve the problem of VR sickness, not more expensive screen technologies.

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Re:"not more expensive screen technologies"? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-06 17:56 · Score: 2, Insightful

What on earth do you mean by "traveling at 1 MS[sic]"? The units in question here are milliseconds (ms); they are not a velocity, or angular velocity, or anything that makes sense in the way you are attempting to use them.