oculus vs morpheus vs hololens?...

[Doombrain]

Fucking eh, you could get a Golf GTI sim.

He'd have to borrow the game or watch through the window of someone who owns the game, playing the game.

[feedback]

http://gizmodo.com/htc-vive-virtual-rea ... 1689396093

Apparently the HTC Vive blew the doors off everyone at MWC. Looking forward to seeing if devs do interesting stuff with it.

[Don Carlos]

http://m.uk.ign.com/articles/2015/03/04 ... me-on-vive

Yup....

[Eraser]

Walk around in your room eh? Sorry guys, there's a table, a couch and a chair really in the way.

These body tracking solutions work in theory, but in practice, just like Kinect, it fails to deliver because the average living room isn't useable as a gym.

[Eraser]

lol

[Don Carlos]

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2015/03/05/get- ... al-vr-demo

Shows Portal universe using Source 2, apparently

[Pext]

regarding hololens:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/microsoft-holo ... nt-1490568

[Transient]

I'm curious to see what Magic Leap ends up being. The people behind it are being super vague, which doesn't instill much confidence in the product, but Google invested half a billion in them, so who knows...

[Don Carlos]

http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2015/03/05/yep- ... lf-life-vr

[scared?]

Looks like Microsoft will win...

https://youtu.be/hglZb5CWzNQ

[Eraser]

Looks like Microsoft will win...

https://youtu.be/hglZb5CWzNQ

It looks awesome, but I'm skeptical.

Does anyone know how you see the real world with Hololens? Is the display transparent and does it render the virtual stuff on the display on top of the real world, or is the display an opaque display and will you see the real world through a camera?

[Tsakali]

I'd go with the former, since transparent displays already exist, and bothering to fake the correct pov through a camera is unesesary and usually not on the Mark... But then again this IS microsoft

[Eraser]

Unless they can make it opaque where they draw pixels, you'd never get a crisp image like shown in the video because you'd see the real world through it. I really wonder how it works and how well it works.

[Eraser]

Also note the discrepancy between the Kinect reveal demos and the final product.

[Eraser]

Apparently the display can show opaque pixels:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/05/ ... f-reality/

The article does mention Kinect style mapping of the surroundings. Not sure if that means your entire house should be outfitted with Kinetic sensors or if it's integrated into the device itself.

[Tsakali]

integrating it to the device itself is most likely beyond their capabilities as of right now. Just imagine how good it's sensing and tracking sampling abilities would have to be to keep the placement of drawn pixels from looking laughable.

[scared?]

Scared?...


http://www.engadget.com/2015/10/20/magic-leap-wsjdlive/


https://youtu.be/kw0-JRa9n94

[Eraser]

Magic Leap is too much blah blah and too few hard facts. All of these tech startups that shroud their tech in mystery usually end up being bullshit.

[Whiskey 7]

regarding hololens:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/microsoft-holo ... nt-1490568

I was reading about VR tech yesterday and stumbled across this same news, yes, months old.

[scared?]

Magic Leap is too much blah blah and too few hard facts. All of these tech startups that shroud their tech in mystery usually end up being bullshit.

This one is gonna change the world.
. watch and see chump...