The brand new Oculus Rift S is being shown off at GDC and Ars Technica had a chance to play with it. The new implementation is rather impressive, a single wire connects you to your PC and there are now no external cameras, instead they have been relocated to the headset itself. From the description in the review it seems they have done so very successfully, with location tracking improving as opposed to degrading due to that change. Your eyeballs also get an upgraded experience, with each eye having a 1280×1440 display, though as of yet Oculus have not changed to AMOLED screens.
"This is out-of-the-box room scale," Oculus co-founder Nate Mitchell said as he gestured to the Oculus Rift S, the new PC-focused VR headset launching "this spring" for $399. This headset will effectively replace the standard Oculus Rift headset, which has had production all but halted to make way for the new model."
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Random VR Question: Are there
Random VR Question: Are there any VR headsets that work as Freesync or GSync displays?
Asynchronous TimeWarp is the
Asynchronous TimeWarp is the VR version of Adaptive sync(free/g).
In VR it’s important that the display change with your head movement or you get sick. So they had to invent this instead of dropping frames or delaying updates with adaptive sync.
As far as I’m aware, Adaptive
As far as I’m aware, Adaptive Sync doesn’t delay updates – it displays the frame when ready. I don’t think it’s really comparable to Asynchronous TimeWarp because they do different things for different reasons.
i thought eye tracking was
i thought eye tracking was going to be the ticket
if so, anyone know why it isn’t implemented in this headset?
It’s a good question,
It's a good question, especially considering what they were on about last year. https://uploadvr.com/oculus-patents-light-field-camera-eye-tracking/
looks like they set a hard
looks like they set a hard price limit of 399 and eye tracking probably got to expensive to get into that price range.
Saw an interview where they got the question if they was going to do a more expensive version with better hardware like amoled display and the answer was no.
They probably feel that its not enough people buying the thing if it cost more.
This is disappointing. We
This is disappointing. We need knuckles and feet locomotion.