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Yes, and Oculus Rift is now less relevant as well (good timing for selling it to Facebook). Why buy a dedicated heavy wired non-see-throw helmet? To shit yourse
by _random_ 12y ago
Yes, and Oculus Rift is now less relevant as well (good timing for selling it to Facebook). Why buy a dedicated heavy wired non-see-throw helmet? To shit yourself when someone is tapping your shoulder?
- watty 12y agoTo get fully immersed in another world. For example, playing games or watching a movie. I go to an IMAX theatre because it engulfs my senses, audio all around me, most of my field of view watching the screen. If the screen were translucent it simply wouldn't be the same. This will no doubt have some incredible applications, most of which augment reality. Not quite the same goal as Occulus.
- publicfig 12y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong, but couldn't Microsoft just release (or ship this product with) a sort of blinder to put around these glasses to make the dedicated sight come from the glasses themselves while darkening everything else?
- ryandvm 12y agoOr just turn out the lights.
- hirsin 12y agoIf the speculation about creating opaque holograms is correct, you can just use a virtual blinder as well - a black hologram that obscures or creates a virtual stage.
- bentcorner 12y agoCertainly possible. It'll be interesting to see how feasible it is for these goggles to render entire 3d worlds in this scenario, since normally they'd be rendering a small fraction of the space you're in.
- AndrewKemendo 12y agoThat is an awesome hack that basically allows really low cost immediate context switching.
- josefresco 12y agoI don't think Oculus wants to the the IMAX of virtual experiences.
- randyrand 12y agoExactly. MSFT and Oculus are not at all targeting the same thing. The comparison is natural, but ill-fitting. I bought an oculus and am excited by VR because teleportation IS FREAKING AWESOME. AR is cool, but a far cry from the sense of presence that we talk all day about in VR land.
- nilkn 12y agoSeems to me this is about adding onto reality rather than replacing it entirely.
- mynameisvlad 12y agoAlthough they can easily replace it entirely. See the Mars Rover demo in the article, I believe it said that the entire image was replaced with Mars, and it was realistic enough that his legs weren't believing what they were stepping on.
- guelo 12y agoThis thing is AR, Oculus Rift is VR. Oculus' vision is Star Trek's holodeck.
- Finster 12y agoThere will still be room for full VR and its applications with a mature AR device like HoloLens.
- mahyarm 12y agowell you could add motion sensing and a camera on the device to help with that.