{"id":87686,"date":"2016-04-07T13:21:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T11:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=87686"},"modified":"2016-04-07T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T11:23:09","slug":"take-a-look-inside-the-oculus-rift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/87686-take-a-look-inside-the-oculus-rift","title":{"rendered":"Take a look inside the Oculus Rift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The technicians at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifixit.com\/Teardown\/Oculus+Rift+CV1+Teardown\/60612\" target=\"_blank\">iFixit <\/a>have disassembled the Oculus Rift to take a look inside the virtual reality headset.<\/p>\n<p>The consumer-ready version of the Oculus Rift is of a higher build quality than its predecessors, and is robust enough to survive regular use.<\/p>\n<p>The inner parts of the headset are delicate and complex, and include a compact motherboard with specialised processing chips.<\/p>\n<p>The Oculus Rift features two high-resolution displays, which account for its <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86085-the-first-oculus-ready-pcs-the-pcs-powerful-enough-to-handle-oculus-rift.html\" target=\"_blank\">high system requirements<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The highlights of the design are the custom-built Fresnel lenses which automatically adjust focus depending on viewing angle, along with the high definition OLED displays for each eye.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zfZx_jthHM4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The Big Deal 15GB Telkom LTE data promotion\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/88163-the-big-deal-15gb-telkom-lte-data-promotion.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Big Deal 15GB Telkom LTE data promotion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Oculus Rift and HTC Vive struggling to meet pre-orders\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/88161-oculus-rift-and-htc-vive-struggling-to-meet-pre-orders.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Oculus Rift and HTC Vive struggling to meet pre-orders<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Overwatch\u2019s latest animated short introduces Widowmaker\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/videos\/88157-overwatchs-latest-animated-short-introduces-widowmaker.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Overwatch\u2019s latest animated short introduces Widowmaker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the Oculus rift get taken apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":87698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2664,6049,17670,15397,17668,10916,6050,6477],"class_list":["post-87686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-gaming","tag-oculus-rift","tag-parts","tag-pc","tag-taken-apart","tag-teardown","tag-virtual-reality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88479,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87686\/revisions\/88479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}