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Why not put the camera on the oculus itself?
In stead of putting the camera on the desktop, why not put a camera or two on the oculus itself and put some kind of device on your desktop that sends out a bunch of IR dots all over the room to make ...
"frankzappa" wrote:"raidho36" wrote:
It's been discussed already. Long story short: NO.
BTW, what has been discussed already?
My understanding is having the camera on the Rift means you need to place markers around the room sort of like you see in the Valve Steam Days photos of their prototype demo. That limits your customers to those with clear wall space to post up sheets of markers. With a outside camera pointed at the player, you're limited to a smaller volume of movement (2 cubic meters), but offer much more versatility to all of your customers.
My guess will be the out of the box tracking will be the external camera at the sitting player. Other options can be offered by either 3rd parties or maybe even Oculus itself. Those just won't be the default options and the cost falls to the individual player that wants expanded ability to move around and do full 360 turning.