Palmer said big news coming

The only issue with the Hydra is the fact that it doesn't calculate the relativity between your torso and the controllers, so its hard to simulating proper arm movement if you change positions and then the arms in-game either become super long or the controller loses physical awareness of its position.

I own and enjoy the Hydra also but I do think a version 2 that is wireless and perhaps increasing the range of the magnetic field for greater distance detection could be quite useful. Maybe increase the size of the base unit coils and pump some amperage in that baby! Perhaps they could design a device to give you hands in the game and full positional tracking combined - that way you kill 2 birds with one stone so to speak.

I have seen some discussion in other forums (guy on Reddit talking about a guy on Neogaf haha) of devs who claim to have first hand knowledge that they are ready to release a 1080p version of the dev kit. If this is true then I welcome it but it should be interesting to see how developers respond to this if it works out to be reality. I imagine that those who received their kit already would be mad as hell and those that haven't will be the happiest people on earth.

It still seems a little early for a 1080p screen but if Oculus pulls that one off then I give then credit for their accomplishment. The earlier they make the switch then the fewer devs who will be rattled. Soon we will find out - I really hope they have something big to announce and Palmer wasn't just screwing with our heads!

i just hope they give us a shipping update this week too been a lot of weeks without any info on that and two weeks ago tommorow a lot of us switched to processing from the US yet no word on a single one of those orders shipping or having any shipping notification yet. We shall see!

"360FOV" wrote:
If this is true then I welcome it but it should be interesting to see how developers respond to this if it works out to be reality. I imagine that those who received their kit already would be mad as hell and those that haven't will be the happiest people on earth.

I can see this happening but there is a strong argument to be had that if you can't deal with a dev kit becoming outdated almost as soon as it released then you should wait for the consumer version.

I'm telling you which is the big announcement of Oculus at E3: we delivered all the Kickstarter dev kits!
That's all :mrgreen:
It's just to keep expectations down, because usually they just announce something that we know from weeks but "normal" people don't ;)

But I still hope there's room for "serious" announcements, like a FullHD devkit 2.0, or a positional tracking demo, or a date for the consumer version, or some custom input device 8-)

Day 2 of E3 an no word about anything. When are they going to announce something?

Technically its Day One of E3 as the Convention doesn't open until today.

Live feed:
http://www.gamespot.com/e3/

http://www.twitch.tv/

http://www.ign.com/

IGN.com posted:

There is a new rift prototype with a 1080p screen at e3 they are currently saying it greatly reduces the screen door effect.

They are saying that they have no plans of making a dev kit version 2 yet but they are not against the idea. I do not believe head tracking is integrated in the prototype 2 yet though.

It is on igns site I would post the link but I am stuck at work and the site is blocked haha.

If someone could go on there and post the link I am sure everyone would love you heh.

Ok developments looking great so far:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/11/hands-on-new-1080p-oculus-rift-with-unreal-engine-4

and

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/11/4419802/oculus-rift-goes-hd-virtual-reality-cinema

Nice to finally get confirmation that the screen door in a 1080p version vanishes.

I wonder if the image shown in the IGN artice is the 1080p prototype? It looks smaller than 7 inches- maybe 5 inch 1080p?

OK time will tell if developers will be receiving this earlier or later but never-the-less it looks like a nice progression to keep media train moving along and getting closer to a finely polished consumer version. Well done Oculus! Now if they announce this screen for the dev version of the "MEGA BATCH" that has been moved to processing for shipment but has not went out yet then many developers will experience tears of JOY! :cry:

EDIT: OK I just saw it confirmed by Oculus that this is only a prototype model but it is still quite nice to see.