Firstly, valve are working WITH oculus, they are not producing their own headset. Second, higher resolution is easy, use an oled per eye, but that’ll add weight and almost double the cost. Since Oculus haven’t said much of late, coupled with Palmer Lucky stating on reddit that the consumer rift will be better than the valve demo headset, leads me to believe that the prototype at valve IS the current state of the consumer version rift. Obviously they are trying different types of positional tracking, but I’d imagine they mostly waiting for a) price of components to drop, and b) software developers to produce more worthy rift supported titles ahead of release.
Valve has set out minimum requirements, almost all of which have been met, minus the resolution and low cost. Waiting until 2015, as Michael stated, will mean better components than these in the $300 goal ballpark.
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What a deceptive article.
Firstly, valve are working WITH oculus, they are not producing their own headset. Second, higher resolution is easy, use an oled per eye, but that’ll add weight and almost double the cost. Since Oculus haven’t said much of late, coupled with Palmer Lucky stating on reddit that the consumer rift will be better than the valve demo headset, leads me to believe that the prototype at valve IS the current state of the consumer version rift. Obviously they are trying different types of positional tracking, but I’d imagine they mostly waiting for a) price of components to drop, and b) software developers to produce more worthy rift supported titles ahead of release.
Valve has set out minimum requirements, almost all of which have been met, minus the resolution and low cost. Waiting until 2015, as Michael stated, will mean better components than these in the $300 goal ballpark.