I figure people here might find it fun to know that today it was two years since the Verge article about Oculus Rift was published: http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/30/30521 ... -with-john.
John did write about it on this forum a few weeks before (http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=120&t=14967) but AFAIK that article was the first time it was talked about in the general media.
I have to say it's kind of fun to look back and see how far everything has gone since then. Even though the final version hasn't shipped yet there is already a lot of exciting projects popping up all over the place with peripherals around VR.
And the knowledge about VR has come far as well during that time. Particularly the talks Abrash has been giving on the topic of presence in VR and how it differs from anything we have seen before outside "real reality". (Here is his latest talk from the beginning of may at CMU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxbh-TM ... 074FE16B6B).
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Re: Two years since the Verge VR article was published
the pace with which VR is coming along is crazy although we are still half a year away from CV1.
VR is definitely a big motivation for people to invent things. The Matrix has never been so close. haha
Already 6 ODTs in the works, Omni, Virtualizer, Runpad, Omnipad, Walkmouse, Infinadeck.... and lots to come
i bet. OVR is already working on haptics and is going to track the whole body optically in the next two years IMO.
VR will really change the world although many people might not think so, yet. It will.
And so will peoples mind change. They will realize that technology now has finally reached a point where
it becomes really worth all the buy. Now they are going to want those new toys honestly, not because everyone has it also.
It is something people want, what will trigger their frozen childish fantasies again and wake them from their
capitalist nightmares. They will understand that there is somewhere a technological horizon and they have not to be a consument who MUST afford every five year new things otherwise he is not up to date and is wondering when this whole buy -> buy thing is over. Sure VR headsets will have every year a new generation, but now people buy it because they themselves want it. So no need to hurry.
In other words, VR will make society and life more interesting again.
VR is definitely a big motivation for people to invent things. The Matrix has never been so close. haha
Already 6 ODTs in the works, Omni, Virtualizer, Runpad, Omnipad, Walkmouse, Infinadeck.... and lots to come
i bet. OVR is already working on haptics and is going to track the whole body optically in the next two years IMO.
VR will really change the world although many people might not think so, yet. It will.
And so will peoples mind change. They will realize that technology now has finally reached a point where
it becomes really worth all the buy. Now they are going to want those new toys honestly, not because everyone has it also.
It is something people want, what will trigger their frozen childish fantasies again and wake them from their
capitalist nightmares. They will understand that there is somewhere a technological horizon and they have not to be a consument who MUST afford every five year new things otherwise he is not up to date and is wondering when this whole buy -> buy thing is over. Sure VR headsets will have every year a new generation, but now people buy it because they themselves want it. So no need to hurry.
In other words, VR will make society and life more interesting again.