Gadgetory

well this is Sean Hollister with the verge and I'm here with the new oculus rift Developer Kit to the latest version of the virtual reality headset that oculus has been prototyping for over a year now it's basically the same as the Crystal Cove that we saw at CES but blew us away at that show except all the infrared LEDs are now hidden behind this transparent plastic which is still opaque enough you can't quite see through it it's got refined latency of sub-20 milliseconds there's a 1080p screen in there now compared to the 720p version the Developer Kit a year ago the lenses in here have a new resin that makes them a little bit better for the use and most importantly it doesn't make you nearly as sick as when you use it as with the original developer kit was a bit of an issue at first you could get sick a little bit of motion sickness simulator sickness when looking around the environment particularly if you're moving but now this camera here tracks these LEDs the OLED display inside has a low persistence screen such the pixels don't smear the same way across your vision it looks clear it looks at glassing compared to the blurry pixelated original so this is vr nights it's an oculus rift experience by epic and I've got this little this female Knight it's a little avatar like an action figure I'm controlling and you can actually see my hands in my legs you know sitting at this chair and the other player as well but we're both control like these like the animated action figures they can roam around this living room arena and follow her up this set of bookcases over here is stacking bookcases get some higher ground rain down some fireballs across the room the objective is just to smack this it's other avatar a few times to demonstrate my dominance so not only am do I have this little avatar but my body is also my virtual body and hands are also in this game and so is the other players I'm playing with somebody else sitting right next to me on a couch and I can just jump on their lap and smack him around a bit jump up on their head do a dive attack lots of objects in the arena you can knock off it's a pretty simple game but shows some of the potential this for being more than just first-person adventure games for sure this is going to be three hundred and forty-nine dollars for this developer kit in July and pre-orders are opening this morning at 8 a.m.