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we've all been dreaming about this for decades this is the beginning of VR gaming today I'm excited to show you the oculus rift so here it is this is it it's light you can hold it with one hand we've designed a custom display and optic system that enables us to achieve comfortable presence there's no motion blur there's no judder there's no pixels you're really there it also features a wide field of view so that you really feel immersed in a new constellation tracking system there's an external sensor that you put on your desk you plug it into the back of your computer and you're all set that's it and the rift features an integrated audio system that we've again refined we're incredibly proud of this we know that some people want to bring their own headphones so we've made them really easy to take right off we've added a nice convenient dial that allows you to adjust the lens distance so you can get those lenses right in the center of your eye I'm incredibly excited to announce that we're gonna include a wireless Xbox one controller and adapter in the oculus rift the rip will natively work with Windows 10 to make it easy to set up jump in and have incredible VR experiences from day one another key area focus for us that we talked about back in January was the ability to stream Xbox one games to Windows 10 devices I'm really proud to announce that that steam streaming capability will be available for oculus rift something we've spent a lot of time perfecting and the ability to work with the team in oculus to create a virtual cinema where Xbox one games will show up I think really pays off the value of people's investment in their games and obviously their investment in oculus but a VR platform this VR headset the input as it all comes together really isn't worth that much unless there's incredible content we can say with confidence that Ivanka D is the closest thing you're going to get to being a real spaceship fighter pilot today I'm here to introduce you to a new experience we would like to take you on it's called Chronos let's have a look edge of nowhere is insomniac brand-new third-person action-adventure exclusively for the rift in addition to the games you just saw will have more fantastic titles at e3 any developers have created some of the most innovative and interesting games in the last decade so to that end today I am pleased to announce that we will be investing more than 10 million dollars toward accelerating the development of these sorts of innovative one-of-a-kind independent games on the rift we're developing new system software for the rift that we call oculus home-home is your portal to everything oculus and it brings all your rift games together in one place when you put on the rift you're gonna drop straight into oculus home we have a virtual environment that you'll land in here I can check out my games library maybe I want to play something right now or maybe I want to check out some of the top games that others are playing let's say I'm interested in learning more about Chronos you can't convey what a VR game will be like through a video or a screen shot but because we're already here in virtual reality we can put you straight into a VR preview of the game before you even buy it home also lets you see what your friends are doing in the rift and what they're playing right now we've also built a 2d interface for oculus home you can browse the store stay in touch with your friends and manage your games and downloads without putting the headset on virtuality is really unlike anything else and rift is simply the best way to experience it and you'll be able to get your rift q1 2016 so next week is e3 and this is gonna be the biggest show for oculus yet everything you saw today you're gonna be able to try on the show floor but before we go there's just one more thing that we really want to show you something that we've been working on for quite a while you've heard us say input is hard well it is but we got it right I'd like to welcome Palmer Luckey close friend and colleague to the stage we wanted to create an input device that actually lets people reach out that lets those people interact with objects in the virtual world let me show you what we've been working on this is oculus touch these are going to take virtual reality gaming to the next level come on let's clap let's do it these are feature prototypes for oculus touch a set of prototypes that were code that we've codenamed Half Moon we wanted to deliver hand presence the sense of feeling as though your virtual hands are actually your real hands precise manipulation of virtual entities in the virtual space is also absolutely critical for example you need to be able to pick up a gun from a table and then fire it throw it or drop it effortlessly without even having to think about it overall we wanted a design that was low mental load that you something you wouldn't have to think about something that would let you use these controllers effortlessly like you use your real hands in the real world we also wanted to enable communicative gestures for social interactions imagine pointing waving or giving a thumbs up these are the types of experiences that half-moon enables and another priority was including proven traditional inputs like buttons and analog sticks finally oculus touch needs to be lightweight and ergonomic and it to be easy to get in and out of and it had to be comfortable for extremely long periods of play whether you're standing and reaching out into the virtual world or whether you are sitting on your couch with your controllers resting in your lap see that resting on my lap there's two controllers one for each hand you have two hands they're mirror images of each other like the two hands that you have they're wireless so you can move and interact in the virtual world freely unencumbered by cables they have integrated high precision low latency six degree of freedom track six for your freedom tracking leveraging the same constellation trash tracking technology that we use in the rift along with integrated inertial measurement units touch also includes haptics the developers can use to deliver feedback when you're interacting with objects in the virtual world so that you can actually feel the things that you're touching finally though touch can detect a set of finger-posts using a matrix of center sensors mounted throughout the inside of the device together they work to recognize natural hand poses like pointing waving or giving a thumbs up the last few years have been incredible for virtual reality things have come so far so fast if you were to show someone a video of this event today or a heck you and all the technology that's in the virtual reality industry across all these different companies not just oculus you took a video of that and showed it to someone three or four years ago they would have thought that it looked like a science fiction film it would have been a perfect cue but this isn't science fiction this is reality and it's happening today