Possibility of Releasing a 1080p Dev Kit (2.0)

There's no reason for a devkit with nothing more than a higher definition display. That's a waste of everything.

As a developer, I'd be pretty happy if I could test on a final version of the Oculus Rift at least few weeks before the general availability as long as the changes are abstracted away through LibOVR. I do not see the point in another dev kit with just higher resolution. It would distract the Oculus Rift team from working on the real product for no real benefits.

Hi,

I want to ask if new oculus dev kit 2.0 (1080p) or consumer version will be released in Q2+ 2014?
I am asking because I really want to order Oculus Rift now and I dont know if I should wait or buy it now. Because dont want to buy it and realize that 1080p version will come out this year before christmas. Either I dont want to wait half a year.

Thanks :)

I am starting to wonder if this is a troll thread. It was stated by no less than Palmer himself within the last week that will be no Dev Kit 2 sold and it is posted in this thread with confirmation link. Email responses have said the same thing.

Reasons given

1) No economic sense. It would not be feasible to tool up for both a dev kit 2 and a consumer rift. The HD prototypes are just that, prototypes as they move closer to what we all want; a consumer rift.

2) Doing a dev kit 2 would actually get in the way of making a consumer kit and likely delay it as significant efforts to create and sell the DK2 would hamper efforts to produce the consumer version.

Now that said. I am having difficulty myself waiting for the consumer version. I am tempted more every day to just get the dev kit. Eventually I may break down and just get it. But whatever I ultimately do, I know one thing. I don't want to do anything or be part of anything that slows down the consumer version which will be where this all really takes off.

Palmer has said many times this is day 0 for VR. We all are impatiently waiting for day 1. But getting a DK2 will only push day 1 farther off.

Make sense?

Now that said. I am having difficulty myself waiting for the consumer version. I am tempted more every day to just get the dev kit. Eventually I may break down and just get it.

The same here, if it will be released in Q4 2014 which is almost more than a year I am definetly buying dev kid no question, but if there is any sign they will release Something this year I will wait. So thats why I am asking when?

Calanar I recommend you just order a dev kit. I ordered a leap motion and a rift and they both arrived on the same day. The leap motion was played with for about half an hour and then uninstalled and put in a drawer. The rift however is immense fun and I get a great kick out of playing all the demos that people are making and showing it to people.

Please Oculus release a 1080p dev kit, it would take developing for the Rift to a whole new level

"ThreeDGames" wrote:
Please Oculus release a 1080p dev kit, it would take developing for the Rift to a whole new level

Don`t even dare release 1080p now that I ordered dev1 :)

I think it would take some steam from the consumer product if you could say been there, done that. So no, I don't expect it to happen. ;)

"wrymn" wrote:

"ThreeDGames" wrote:
Please Oculus release a 1080p dev kit, it would take developing for the Rift to a whole new level

Don`t even dare release 1080p now that I ordered dev1 :)

This.

And I believe Oculus has released a statement somewhere that the DK2 which was previously on the roadmap will not be released, so the next release should be the consumer version somewhere in 2014 I guess.