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- tech tips coverage of e3 2014 is brought to you by HyperX fury series high performance SSDs the Corsair Vengeance k70 and k9t RGB mechanical keyboards and NCIX comm are trusted retailer for high performance gaming pcs hey guys I know you all expected an oculus video from me at e3 2014 but what I didn't expect and what I don't think you expected was an interview with Palmer luckily I was able to catch him for an interview and I hope you guys check that out alright guys we're here at the oculus booth with Palmer which is fantastic thank you for taking time on your day to have this interview and I want to ask you a question we see certain games all the time when all 30fps is fine we're on the Xbox through the FPS is fine and then we see on the VR side oculus and everybody else is something in the complete opposite direction so what are your thoughts on refresh rate monitors and at high FPS games for virtual reality you need much higher framerate than you need on a typical screen 60fps definitely is enough you see huge improvements up to 90 or 120 Hertz and even beyond that you can see small improvements so be ARS gonna need much higher frame rates than consoles although even for consoles or normal P traditional PC games I don't think 30fps is is smart I don't it's not a good art it's an artistic decision it's a failure so that's an amazing quote I love that now in terms of virtual reality where do you see like far in the future where do you see refresh rate going what's kind of the limit of improvement I think that you see diminishing returns between 90 and 120 Hertz so I think that in the in the foreseeable future VR is going to end up somewhere in that range okay now in terms of interacting with virtual reality I know the first thing everyone does and I put a headset on is try to see their fingers now we've seen stuff here like control VR what are your thoughts on on like body tracking motion tracking and haptic feedback I think that there's a lot of interesting R&D being done in public and in private and the best solutions are not necessarily yet announced there's a lot of stuff in the pipe that's gonna be pretty amazing because VR isn't just about what you're seeing it is about being able to interact with the world in a natural way that says natural is looking around the headset yeah for sure and then another thing is I know you guys have been playing around with the Android SDK for oculus and there's gonna have to be a vast difference in the experience between what happens on Android and PC what kind of stuff do you expect gonna be Android I think you're going to see things like panoramic photo capture you're going to see virtual movie theaters and a lot of more simple communication and gaming experiences then you're gonna see on PC where you're gonna be able to really crank up the graphics and do some cool stuff like alien isolation that's just not gonna happen on a mobile device so if you order the dk2 early on your order will still be shipping in July if you order do get DK 2 after the August shipping announcement your shipping is still on track and if you buy one now you should be getting one in at August as well our class is still flexing their strength with the Facebook acquisition they have hired even more people they recently hired on a co-founder of Naughty Dog every single time they hire someone I'm just like holy crap you could run your own company and you're being hired by oculus extremely impressive I'm extremely excited to see what oculus has to show us in the future I know Palmer was kind of hinting on a few things both on the game side and on the interaction side so I'm extremely excited to see what that is and I hope we see some of that in the future thank you guys for watching this video thank you for HyperX for sending us here this year and also thank you to Coursera and NCIS without all you guys we wouldn't be able to be here and I hope you guys watch the rest of our e3 content if you want to see the rest of our u3 content be sure to subscribe to Linus tech tips unless you guys next time