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Re: oculus vs morpheus vs hololens?...

Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 10:33 pm
by Doombrain
syp0s wrote:
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.

Re: oculus vs morpheus vs hololens?...

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 2:30 am
by 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.

Re: oculus vs morpheus vs hololens?...

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:26 am
by Don Carlos

Re: oculus vs morpheus vs hololens?...

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 8:15 am
by 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.

Re: oculus vs morpheus vs hololens?...

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 8:18 am
by Eraser
lol
Image

Re: oculus vs morpheus vs hololens?...

Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 9:06 pm
by Don Carlos
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2015/03/05/get- ... al-vr-demo

Shows Portal universe using Source 2, apparently

Re: oculus vs morpheus vs hololens?...

Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 12:35 am
by Pext
regarding hololens:

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

Re: oculus vs morpheus vs hololens?...

Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 4:54 am
by 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...

Re: oculus vs morpheus vs hololens?...

Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2015 9:02 am
by Don Carlos

Re: oculus vs morpheus vs hololens?...

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 4:47 pm
by scared?
Looks like Microsoft will win...

https://youtu.be/hglZb5CWzNQ

Re: oculus vs morpheus vs hololens?...

Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 7:35 am
by Eraser
scared? wrote: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?

Re: oculus vs morpheus vs hololens?...

Posted: Fri May 01, 2015 2:46 pm
by 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

Re: oculus vs morpheus vs hololens?...

Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 3:53 pm
by 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.

Re: oculus vs morpheus vs hololens?...

Posted: Sat May 02, 2015 3:54 pm
by Eraser
Also note the discrepancy between the Kinect reveal demos and the final product.

Re: oculus vs morpheus vs hololens?...

Posted: Sun May 03, 2015 5:03 pm
by 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.

Re: oculus vs morpheus vs hololens?...

Posted: Mon May 04, 2015 6:47 am
by 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.

Re: oculus vs morpheus vs hololens?...

Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2015 6:59 pm
by scared?

Re: oculus vs morpheus vs hololens?...

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2015 6:05 pm
by 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.

Re: oculus vs morpheus vs hololens?...

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2015 7:43 pm
by Whiskey 7
Pext wrote: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.

Re: oculus vs morpheus vs hololens?...

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2015 8:18 pm
by scared?
Eraser wrote: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...