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I haven't been following Oculus since I bought the first one on Kickstarter (which I had a lot of fun with); the Quest 2 has cameras to support AR or is that an

I haven't been following Oculus since I bought the first one on Kickstarter (which I had a lot of fun with); the Quest 2 has cameras to support AR or is that an add on? It looks like it on pictures, but there is little mention of it on most pages about it (at least at a quick look).

Duralias 5y ago
The first oculus headsets used camera base stations to track the headset and controllers, all of the recent ones have used cameras on the headsets itself to track everything, these can be used to see the real world, however since they are infrared cameras meant for tracking there is no colour and the resolution isn't as high as it should be for AR to be useful.
- cortesoft 5y ago
  I had the first oculus, and it didn't have any base stations. It didn't track anything at all, in fact... it only detected rotational motion of your head, it didn't detect any other motion at all. There also were not any controllers.
  - andybak 5y ago
    Yes but those were developer kits not retail devices.
    - tluyben2 5y ago
      Even that I forgot: mine was the dev kit indeed.
    - cortesoft 5y ago
      Sure, but they were still called an Oculus Rift.
  - baby 5y ago
    It sounds like you’re talking about Oculus Go, which isn’t the first oculus.
    - Zetaphor 5y ago
      The original DK1 was 3DoF, and the CV1 launched with a single sensor and an Xbox controller. The CV1 didn't get proper 6DoF until after launch.
      - baby 5y ago
        The first oculus is the rift though
        cortesoft 5y ago
        They released a dev kit that was called the oculus rift that came out before the one you are thinking of.
        baby 5y ago
        Dev kits don’t count though. Nobody mentions them when we talk about the nintendo X or the playstation Y. Why would it be different for the oculus?
        detaro 5y ago
        The "dev kits" were freely sold to everyone and also bought by consumers, not just developers. Very different to sell-your-soul-NDA'd console devkits given out to select studios. "early adopter edition" would have been just as fitting.
        cortesoft 5y ago
        Because even though they called it a dev kit, it was still a commercial product in many ways... there were a ton of games released for it, and a whole community of users who were not oculus developers. I got one, and I never wrote any software for it nor had any real plans to. I got it purely as a consumer.
timdorr 5y ago
Yes, the Quest 1/2 and Rift S do "inside out" tracking. They have 4 cameras (5 on the Rift S) on each corner of the front face plate that tracks the headset and controller positions in 3D space (in addition to internal accelerometers and gyroscopes). This is, for the most part, what enables the Quest to be fully wireless. Because there is no base station or fixed position camera, you're not limited to where you can use it, nor how big your play area can be. If you're in a new space, you just draw a guardian border around your play area and you're good to go. The "passthru" feature mentioned above lets you see the camera feeds composited together in the headset display. It's very helpful for things like moving a chair out of the way or finding your controllers if you put on the headset without grabbing them. This new API allows developers access to this camera feed and to interact with its display for AR applications.

Duralias 5y ago

The first oculus headsets used camera base stations to track the headset and controllers, all of the recent ones have used cameras on the headsets itself to track everything, these can be used to see the real world, however since they are infrared cameras meant for tracking there is no colour and the resolution isn't as high as it should be for AR to be useful.

cortesoft 5y ago
I had the first oculus, and it didn't have any base stations. It didn't track anything at all, in fact... it only detected rotational motion of your head, it didn't detect any other motion at all. There also were not any controllers.
- andybak 5y ago
  Yes but those were developer kits not retail devices.
  - tluyben2 5y ago
    Even that I forgot: mine was the dev kit indeed.
  - cortesoft 5y ago
    Sure, but they were still called an Oculus Rift.
- baby 5y ago
  It sounds like you’re talking about Oculus Go, which isn’t the first oculus.
  - Zetaphor 5y ago
    The original DK1 was 3DoF, and the CV1 launched with a single sensor and an Xbox controller. The CV1 didn't get proper 6DoF until after launch.
    - baby 5y ago
      The first oculus is the rift though
      - cortesoft 5y ago
        They released a dev kit that was called the oculus rift that came out before the one you are thinking of.
        baby 5y ago
        Dev kits don’t count though. Nobody mentions them when we talk about the nintendo X or the playstation Y. Why would it be different for the oculus?
        detaro 5y ago
        The "dev kits" were freely sold to everyone and also bought by consumers, not just developers. Very different to sell-your-soul-NDA'd console devkits given out to select studios. "early adopter edition" would have been just as fitting.
        cortesoft 5y ago
        Because even though they called it a dev kit, it was still a commercial product in many ways... there were a ton of games released for it, and a whole community of users who were not oculus developers. I got one, and I never wrote any software for it nor had any real plans to. I got it purely as a consumer.

timdorr 5y ago

Yes, the Quest 1/2 and Rift S do "inside out" tracking. They have 4 cameras (5 on the Rift S) on each corner of the front face plate that tracks the headset and controller positions in 3D space (in addition to internal accelerometers and gyroscopes). This is, for the most part, what enables the Quest to be fully wireless. Because there is no base station or fixed position camera, you're not limited to where you can use it, nor how big your play area can be. If you're in a new space, you just draw a guardian border around your play area and you're good to go. The "passthru" feature mentioned above lets you see the camera feeds composited together in the headset display. It's very helpful for things like moving a chair out of the way or finding your controllers if you put on the headset without grabbing them. This new API allows developers access to this camera feed and to interact with its display for AR applications.