It remains to be seen
if Oculus» new hardware will appeal to the same audience as the HTC Vive and Vive Pro.
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If an Oculus or HTC Vive is too expensive, but you still want a great VR experience, Google may be releasing a standalone Android - powered VR headset next week during Google I / O.
Now at a full $ 300 less than the $ 799 HTC Vive it remains to be seen
if Oculus can finally outpace its rival.
This could very likely ignite another gaming platform war
if the Oculus Rift can deliver a powerful punch right out of the gate.
But
if Oculus played its launch a little too safe, coming out with a selection of perfectly polished but over-familiar titles, HTC and Valve have done the opposite.
For example,
if Oculus had more redundancy built into their admin processes, they might have had a second chance to catch that expired security certificate.
The upper - end of Oculus games / experiences are likely to be markedly different than the Oculus content one will see on an Xbox One, especially
if Oculus Touch becomes a mandatory element of the PC virtual reality experience.
We're scheduled to see the Xbox One version of space sim Elite: Dangerous at E3 next week and will not be surprised
if an Oculus Rift is incorporated into the demo by way of demonstrating that the Xbox One is already set up to support the Rift as a viable consumer product for the home console audience.
(Plus,
if the Oculus Rift version happens, the Oculus Rift version.)
The CEO of Electronic Arts, Andrew Wilson, has expressed interest in virtual reality, though he's not sure
if the Oculus Rift will play a part in EA's plans for the future.
Sony would have to bail on their own proprietary hardware,
if Oculus becomes the de-facto standard, much like MS had to bail on HD - DVD.
With developer kits in hand, they were figuring out
if Oculus VR and its odd - looking visor were a part of their futures.
Not exact matches
At the Code Conference in May,
Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe said making it possible for users to see their own limbs was an important hurdle for VR to clear
if it's to become a mass technology.
Technology analysts and investors will get a better picture of how the virtual reality market is growing
if Samsung or
Oculus eventually release how many Gear VR devices have been sold since it was released last November.
It's unclear
if owners of other VR headsets, like the HTC Vive or the Facebook (fb)
Oculus Rift, will be able to partake in the 360 - degree content.
If people have the ability to watch virtual reality live streams from Oculus Rift users, they may be more inclined to purchase the headset and play with others in VR if the live streams are compelling enoug
If people have the ability to watch virtual reality live streams from
Oculus Rift users, they may be more inclined to purchase the headset and play with others in VR
if the live streams are compelling enoug
if the live streams are compelling enough.
If you've tried
Oculus's headset, you know it's pretty amazing — and the company's very real breakthroughs are fuelling the hype train.
While Miyubi is a historical first for
Oculus, it may be a difficult viewing experience for some — wearing a VR headset for 40 minutes can be uncomfortable
if you're not used to it.
Developers talk freely about supporting
Oculus Rift and when they do, the queues are long and the intrigue high; at the Rezzed UK game show this year the question everyone asked was
if you'd tried Rift.
Oculus Rift creator and cofounder Palmer Luckey asked Redditors
if he should buy the HTC Vive.
If you're demonstrating a new product using the
Oculus Rift, then you'll want a millennial who can carry on a conversation with the tekkies.
The social network is paying $ 400m in cash plus 23.1 m Facebook shares for the maker of the
Oculus Rift headset, with a further $ 300m in incentives
if it hits certain milestones in the future.
If Kickstarter were like the media institutions that dominated the 20th century — book publishers, movie studios, record companies — the crowdfunding site's revenue would derive mostly from a few big hits, like the
Oculus Rift virtual - reality visor and the Pebble smartwatch.
GAME ON Playing a virtual reality game using a headset could give you motion sickness, particularly
if you are a woman, a study using the
Oculus Rift concluded.
The
Oculus Rift and HTC Vive experience with the game should be great, so it would be a shame
if the console players missed out.
If that kind of huge, open world ready for exploration seems like a perfect fit for the
Oculus Rift, that's probably because it is.
If last summer's «The Conjuring» offered possession stories their classiest entry in decades, Mike Flanagan «s «
Oculus» lends elegance to haunted object movies, a subgenre distinguished by such dubious classics as «Death Bed: The Bed That Eats.»
It holds a similar appeal for author Joanna Penn, who here imagines the deployment of VR for bookselling as clearly as
if she could see it while wearing an
Oculus headset.
I'm not convinced they were working on it in earnest since 2010 because
if they were there would be no way they would be so far behind
Oculus in announcements and in terms of the tech.
I would rather hear Microsoft bought the
Oculus than facebook.
Oculus is gonna be an ad fest now.We'll be lucky
if it has a remote connection to gaming when facebook is done with it.
Not sure
if it's that worth it when
oculus is already taking care of things.
Oculus and Vive can be expensive and have a premium feel but
if they don't have the games, is useless.
They tend to buy their way into these things.I figured they would of bought
Oculus just to enter the VR market and stay competitive, after they waited to see
if VR is a success or not.
If I was the people at
Oculus, then I would take the deal.
If you look at
oculus Rift, project Morpheus's or is: playstation VR you will notice something.
Don't forget these will also feature
Oculus» new dynamic bundle system, so
if you already own one or two titles from a pack, these will be discounted off the final price.
If Facebook digs its claws in and doesn't let
Oculus direct the Rift as a gaming peripheral, we might just see Sony shooting ahead of them with Project Morpheus just because of better focus.
I personally have been very excited to try the
Oculus Rift for myself to see
if there is any truth to all this VR hype.
If you own a Playstation VR or an
Oculus Rift and you want more details on the Eagle Flight game, check out the official site here.
I do wonder
if MS will ever support VR via 3rd party such as
Oculus.
This includes: texture and vertex shading, which by using what was jokingly referred to as «lasers» or «sabers», users can add textures in a simple and accessible way; a foliage painting tool, which «
if you're using a Vive or
Oculus Touch dev kit, there's a button you can hold to erase or paint»; a colour picker, which is familiar already and has been used in various titles; a transform gizmo, and it was commented that «the rotation was a little bit of a disaster before but it's better now»; there is now a flashlight in VR as well as the ability to make screenshots; and a widget interaction component that gives developers full control over how things get touched.
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Oculus platform using the SDK, you can.
If you have a Gear VR, you can try the demo off of the Gear VR
Oculus Store starting today.
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Everybody seems to have VR to sell... Sony, Google,
Oculus... the list will grow and grow until we find out of VR is viable next - gen type thing or
if it's just a fun fad like it was two decades ago.
«I know
Oculus Rift is out there as well at the forefront of the VR frontier, but you have to believe that with the resources they possess, and the heritage of technological excellence and innovation, that
if anyone can make VR a viable consumer option, it's Sony.Now, let's get this tech into EA's hands so they can get started on that first - person VR lightsaber / X-Wing game we've always wanted...
The first game to take advantage of the Gear VR and Xbox One controller pairing is Minecraft: Gear VR Edition, and
if you have Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition, you can go ahead and download the
Oculus store version.
I will be interested to see
if Valve have anything to say given how they were / are working closely with
Oculus.
«According to Jason Rubin,
Oculus» Head of Content, the question is not
if Touch could do roomscale, but
if it should.