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CNET News - Oculus unveils consumer ready Rift headset

2015-06-11
so here it is this is it this is the oculus rift light you can hold it with one hand let's take a closer look at the rift headset we've designed a custom display an optic system that a label that enables us to achieve comfortable presence it features two OLED screens that deliver low persistence so as you look around there's no motion blur there's no judder there's no pixels you're really there you can focus on virtual objects it feels like you just put on a pair of glasses maybe not quite as high resolution as you one day one but this is the beginning and it really delivers that magic of presence that visual clarity is incredibly important and the rift delivers it it also features a wide field of view so that you really feel immersed in a new constellation tracking system with this tracking system you have very precise low latency movement we've refined this over years it's amazing you put it on and you feel like you're there so back to the sensor there's an external sensor that you put on your desk it's simple and reserved it's invisible once you put it down on your desk you plug it into the back of your computer and you're all set that's it it just disappears we wanted to be incredibly simple and easy to use but the riff doesn't just trick your eyes it also tricks your ears this was a really important part to achieving that level of presence to believing you're there it couldn't just be visual it also had to be audio you had to hear the sound effect happening right where you thought you saw it and you can turn and look you had to get that audio cue getting audio right is a critical component to achieving presence and the riff features an integrated audio that we've again refined we're incredibly proud of this so let's take a look at t-rex again imagine he's coming down this hallway you hear him off into the distance it needs to sound like he's off in the distance as you turn and look and you feel the rumbling of him coming down the hallway all that audio must be spatialized it must be 360 it must match the visual cues and that's what the VR audio system is all about and the oculus rift delivers it now as proud as we are about these integrated headphones and we think you're all going to want to use them we know that some people want to bring their own headphones so we've made them really easy to take right off they're removable something else you'll notice right away right when you get that rift right in your hand it's really lightweight it's comfortable you can slip it right on
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