by news | Nov 18, 2014 | Oculus Rift
Hot on the announcement of new gesture recognition chips on the 8th of November Spectra7 released a press announcement for what looks likely to be the replacement for the VR7100 chip that significantly reduces the thickness of the DK2 HDMI cable, the VR7200. From the...
by news | Nov 8, 2014 | Motion Sickness
Isn’t it a shame I don’t get motion sickness… then I could try my own solutions on myself… :p Anyway, I’m about to code another idea for eliminating motion sickness. If the US Army research found an LCD shutter closing 8 times a second...
by news | Nov 7, 2014 | Motion Sickness
I don’t suffer from motion sickness, but I recognise it’s a big enough problem that if I want VR to succeed it needs to be looked at a little closer. I watched the Tom Forsyth Oculus Connect talk about developing VR and he said something interesting at...
by news | Nov 4, 2014 | Motion Sickness
Brendan Iribe’s, the Oculus CEO, comments at the Web Summit in Dublin today were interesting not only for the warning he gives to other companies, but for the problems Oculus still face. “We’re a little worried about some of the bigger companies putting out...
by news | Oct 17, 2014 | Oculus Rift
Human vision is about 210°, we can see pretty much 180° side to side and moving our eyes can see slightly behind our head. Useful for noticing predators sneaking up on us… The DK1 from Oculus was 110°, the DK2 is about 100°. This was due to a few reasons but...
