Yet another large FOV, high-res HMD released open source.

[Zoide]

Wow, what an endorsement!

You say that the Rift is up there with 60k-100k goggles. What exactly makes it so special? What is the essence of the "magic" that makes it so great? It's truly surprising that a 20 year old kid can build something that beats decades and millions of dollars of research

Thanks

[vpamir]

Wow, what an endorsement!

You say that the Rift is up there with 60k-100k goggles. What exactly makes it so special? What is the essence of the "magic" that makes it so great? It's truly surprising that a 20 year old kid can build something that beats decades and millions of dollars of research

Thanks

i was just wondering the exact same thing.

[nateight]

It's truly surprising that a 20 year old kid can build something that beats decades and millions of dollars of research

We're all mightily impressed, but remember the kid didn't exactly appear out of nowhere. It comes down to the boom in the mobile phone panel market pushing the tech to where it needed to be (and at a reasonable price point), Palmer having the skills and experience to seize this opportunity (and a little cash to conduct proper experiments), and the iterative design of the headtracker. Go check out the slideshow of Palmer's various prototypes over in this Engadget article - dude may be a wunderkind but one thing he is not is a kid who just woke up one day and decided to launch a Kickstarter.

[cassandrakhaw]

... completely out of the blue here, but would you be interested in doing an interview for Vice's Motherboard section?

[nateight]

would you be interested in doing an interview for Vice's Motherboard section?

I'd read it. TheLostBrain is one of the most consistently interesting posters on this thoroughly fascinating forum, and I still think the dual-panel approach has a fighting chance of claiming the high-end HMD market once the consumer Rift precipitates the rest of the market. I see I neglected to say it above, so: Thanks for sharing all this amazing stuff, LostBrain! Now go tell Vice about it!