Interesting unit higher res than the normal oculus with inside out tracking and 6dof. Two tracked controllers based on the touch controllers. All the processing is on board doesn't require a pc. Has eye IPD adjustment. It's like a souped up oculus go basically
out next year price point $399
it seems like increasingly oculus is focusing on stand alone mobile vr rather than pc based versions. I guess they see it at a trojan horse for facebook.
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It's remarkably light on details.
Are we sure this is not a pimped up Google Cardboard? It says;
...could this just be a phone enclosure, with some additional controllers and sensors that connect up via Bluetooth?
seems unlikely with IPD adjustment that usually has to have two screens that are mechanically movable
I suppose underneath it probably is phone hardware
It does sound like that, though I've not been able to find any specs beyond per-eye resolution
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/27/17906228/oculus-quest-santa-cruz-vr-s...
I can't see $300/£300 buying much in terms of graphical capability, and battery life will be interesting.
edit - OK, found the GPU. Snapdragon 835. A generation old chip (as found in the Pixel 2 phone, released last year). Scores roughly the same on FireStrike as my laptop on the integrated GPU.
I quite like the idea of the arena shooter they had in the ArsTechnica review (below...Dead and Buried). As someone who wasted a few of his teenage years taking Laser Quest far too seriously, I can see the appeal of a VR-enchanced version...a quasi-real world deathmatch where your ability to stick fingers in various light sensors on your packs did not determine your overall skill
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/09/hands-on-oculus-quest-is-an-intri...
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-835-SoC-Benchmarks-and...
I know the oculus go which I guess is the oculus quests little brother now has the even more whimpy snapdragon 821 and uses some clever tricks to make the most of what it does have like foveated rendering (some details here) using dynamic throttling and only refereshing between 60 and 72hz instead of the rifts 90hz and that gives it a little more leg room. I assume they'll leverage that same tech if not more so on the quest.
I think they can make it into a compelling product if they get the right software support for it which is an area that Oculus have aggressively pushed with oculus studios program convincing (via cold hard cash) a load of studios to make games exclusively for their platforms (including what I still think is the best vr game so far produced Lone Echo).
The main limitation with the Oculus go was not really the graphics more the lack of full tracking only 3dof which means if you are stationary it works fine but as soon as you move around you are asking for motion sickness and the illusion is completely destroyed.
The quest fixes that and adds proper hand tracking of both hands (go had a single little angle based point stick thing) and some more horsepower. Of course one question is how much of its available resources does it need to perform the inside out tracking to achieve the 6dof but I guess we'll see.
It's still an interesting move away from pc based high performance vr I guess the way they are currently going they want the mass market not the niche.
I wonder if the rift line is basically dead now, although as it currently stands given the price point and competition they don't really need to do a rift 2 as such anyone that wants a pc based vr goggle will likely get a rift. The vive does have some nice additions like the wireless vr add on and doesn't require you festoon your room with cameras to get room scale but it carries a pretty hefty price tag compared to oculus rift even more if you want the vive pro with the slightly better resolution.
You took something far too seriously? Really?
This looks cool although I'm holding out until post-Brexit when I hope we can have the back of our house rebuilt to put a lab with VR room in and not a wasteland where I am desperately trying to feed my family.
"a wasteland where I am desperately trying to feed my family."
You have the added problem that your own corpse would amount to little more than an amuse bouche for each of them.
"a wasteland where I am desperately trying to feed my family."
Slough
...or the Midlands
the post brexit future was detailed in the documentary film ready player one where we all live in caravans stacked on top of each other in dangerous looking metal frames that occasionally explode while using the oculus quest headsets to retreat from the nightmare dystopia of real life into the virtual world where we are all obsessed with 80's pop culture and hope we can keep up our fees or become enslaved by our teleco and forced to do manual vr labour in isocubes with headsets chained to our faces ... and simon peg is there.
Of course that's if trump doesn't nuke the world due to the un laughing at him (definitely at him not with him as he claimed) and or whatever twitter beef he's gotten into this week with a 13 year old from kansas
Ready Player One is indeed a view of a horrific possible future.
But at least it's not Slough.