Carmack's genius already making Oculus better

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bitWISE
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Carmack's genius already making Oculus better

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Very cool video. Pretty amazing idea to apply screen rotation using a pixel shader and depth buffer.
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Whiskey 7
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The detail :up: I was enlightened re depth maps (Z buffer)explanation
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Great video :up:
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Heh the depth map stuff takes me back to Uni where we had to implement steep parallax mapping using GLSL - this paper was invaluable. There was barely anything on Google about it at the time. The effort works amazingly well.
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