Headphones might be cheap. But otherwise I think it's great. Are you comparing it to some competitor or don't you just like virtual reality?

Lol. First company that produces glasses that actually work, and you just find bad things about them :)

I recently tried the Oculus DK2 with some demonstration software. It's a nice "immersion" effect, and the head tracking works quite well. I don't think the weight of the thing will be a show-stopper, it wasn't disturbing me.

But there were other things that I didn't like about the DK2:

• Still way too little resolution - looks like some 1990's video game
• If it's somewhat warm outside, it gets annoyingly warm inside the mask
• Tracking only the position of the head, but not anything else, does not allow for realistic "immersion" of any other body movement, and "moving around" feels just strange (and makes some people nauseous, quickly)

Anyway, Oculus is not a company of its own anymore, and Facebook will sure present us with something like "Second Life"+"Farmville" in "VR", plastered with advertisements and "paid content". Not something I'd be interested in.

I used it for ~45 minutes. In comparison to the DK2, a military helmet or night vision gear is much more heavy and annoying. But the latter are both not "occluding" the face as much with regards to heat/perspiration, and that I did find annoying.

At SIGGRAPH 2014, they were giving out these free VR kits:

This is even worse :-)

http://gizmodo.com/the-new-oculus-rift-prototype-is-called-crescent-bay-1637185263

While Oculus says it's still designed to be a seated experience, the prototypes I tried were way lighter and way more comfortable than even the DK2, and it really feels fantastic to walk around a small area. I barely noticed them on my head unless or until I got tangled in the cable while walking. The resolution is noticibly better than even the Samsung Gear VR, and between that screen and the new lenses the effect is phenomenal. I still saw pixels if I looked hard, but I quickly forgot I had a screen in front of my face. That's something that I've never quite experienced with any previous VR headset.

User experiences sounds really amazing. Cannot wait until I can try the final consumer version.

As someone that's actually been into the Oculus office, witnessed builds, and shot/Colored footage for promos, I don't even understand this thread.

=T

Btw and this is their optics

partly thanks to the innovation that Carmack brought to the table of using a simple geometry distortion adjustment on the GPU to allow optics that are not astronomically expensive, yet achieve comparable performance

Well, if you even check the NVidia data, picture is rendered non distorted and after this made distorted (unfortunately it does not work fast enough on current GPU, so even on 980 Ti they want to improve speed by reducing rendering resolution in non center areas).

I also think that you fully misunderstand the idea. None of this companies are making best VR for you. Quite the contrary. Their idea is to make big marginal product. And big margin product requires cheap mass produced components, even if they are not right for the task.

Proper design require smaller high res OLED panels, individual to each eye (so you could also have more adjustments and much better actual resolution) and with very good optics.

The newest hmds (Oculus and HTC) now use custom vr screens that are the best possible at the moment, one for each eye. The Cv1 will have global refresh oleds at 90fps. They could use a higher resolution, but that will come in time.

Any links to disassembling? As DK2 used screen from Samsung.

The genius of Oculus is that they didn't pursue custom VR components at exponential cost, but off-the-shelf parts to reach consumer scale potential. And they checked all they key perceptual boxes that not even the most expensive HMDs were getting right. While the developer kits are sold at a mark up, the consumer versions will be sold at or near cost to drive adoption of what is a niche technology. VR is so different from any other consumer product; the general public will take time to acclimate

You so idealistic. People in the industry I talked told that tech is not ready yet, and that design Oculus is using is not good one (and they know it in professionals talk). Whole point of design was to get maximum margin.

the consumer versions will be sold at or near cost to drive adoption of what is a niche technology.

Please provide me any mass examples of such strategy used (of course providing real manufacturing cost and sale price).

StarVR

The headset also boasts two 5.5-inch Quad HD (2560x1440) displays, coupled with a fresnel lens design to give players an immersive VR experience.

This looks much more serious than Oculus.

@alcomposer

VR porno? very popular thing.