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Partially/fully pre-rendered ray tracing...

I'm sure you're all aware of the image quality that can be had from ray tracing. While pulling it off with impressive results in real-time is becoming more of a reality, it's still some ways away, and even then it's not quite on par with the quality ...

msat by Honored Guest
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Oculus & Nvidia G-Sync

I was wondering if the Oculus team has been keeping an eye on the new G-Sync tech that Nvidia has been talking about lately, which allows the display to refresh in sync with the graphics cards frame rate. It appears to have very little latency overhe...

Accessibility in VR

I've taken an interest in making sure that developers have easy ways to make their VR experiences more accessible, especially given that a push for "immersion" may mean players will be forced to bring their disabilities with them into a virtual reali...

drash by Heroic Explorer
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Viiwok Deva HMD

It's a HMD adapter - To be used with any 7" tablet. It has integrated sensors (6DOF gyrometer/accelerometer) for head tracking, extremely low latency (wireless mouse signal) - it does not use the tablet's sensors, in order not to increase the latency...

Attreyu by Honored Guest
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Barrel disortion lookup texture?

I am going to test this later but considering the complexity of the shader we use to do the barrel distortion and chromatic aberration correction, is there any reason why we don't we compute the texture coords once on program start and save them to a...

"vibrating" headset... ?

Thinking about the motion sickness problem as I seem to have it a bit worse than I anticipated...How precise is the inner ears motion sensing ?? Do your head need to move in exactly the say way as howyou see your self moving in the virtual world, or ...

AryaX by Honored Guest
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Equipment for Oculus??

I have a highly powerful custom built computer with a 660 ti graphics card. Everywhere I look people say an android phone has enough power to get the Oculus going. Will a powerful computer even make a difference on my soon to receieve Oculus rift? If...

drlazer19 by Honored Guest
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Cross Trainer as VR Input Device

Hello Rifters,just found an interesting video at youtube. A russian gamer uses a cross trainer as a VR input "treadmill". And that for over 5(!) years now. It looks interesting. I just wonder , HOW he gets the "step" information converted to pc input...

gunair by Explorer
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nodes with spacial awarness

I find it very difficult to Google what I'm looking for. Are there solid nodes that can calculate their distance and movement compared to a group nodes in different locations without use of ir. For example if I was to put one on my head and one in ea...

Infamous by Honored Guest
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Oculus Rift Dev kit (HD mods)?

Are there any mods or anything that can up the display on the Oculus Rift? I remember visiting a website and a few guys were talking about (tutorial) on how to display the oculus rift in 1080p (But I lost the link)I heard that you can take apart the ...

Mental Ray, Raycasting, Textures, Maya & Unity

Alright, first off let me preface this by saying I'm not entirely sure if this is the correct place for this thread. Its more of a general question/info thread on some of the subjects above. I'll start by describing my current situation in regards to...

Polycode, a cross platform open source engine

http://polycode.org/features/Looks very interesting, i asked the developer about the Rift and he said that he supports it when he gets his hands on it.Polycode is not dedicated only to games, it's somehow a mixture between game engines and creative f...

VRtuoso by Honored Guest
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Visual 3D Game Engine

I am looking into integration in the Visual 3D engine.http://www.visual3d.net/Daniel Moorehead replied, and here is a copy of his email about integrating Oculus into the Visual 3D Engine.We can integrate OculusVR SDK support for your Visual3D-based a...

Oculus development schedule?

I was wondering what is the development schedule/goal points for when the Oculus would be moved to the consumer market, I found several threads that pointed to obstacles but couldn't find any kind of list. I tried searching for info but couldn't find...

Cyracus by Honored Guest
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Project on dominant eye..

Hello every one.I'm working on a project at university. It's to create an experience to determine dominant eye.To do that I need to put a different image on each eye, and I do it easily with the oculus.  I separate cameraLeft and cameraRight and put...

thesmogs by Honored Guest
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Tuscany assets for other engines

Can the tuscany assets be used to build a demo with some other engine?Example: i'd like to make the xyz engine support the oculus, and i would like to build a demo that behaves like the one distribuited with the SDK. Is it allowed?Thanks.

troffmo5 by Honored Guest
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Pincushion distortion transform

The current barrel transform iswhereAs I understand it, you use that to transform the UV coordinates you sample from a bitmap. This works fine for deferred shaders. But how is the reverse transformation done? My math is a little rusty, but it looks t...

Rift-Mounted Leap Motion Controller Demo (WIP 4: 5/9/13)

UPDATE: Works great to view on your rift and in free-view! Two new melee types and a preliminary menu system.---------------------------------------------------------------------------Update: Sword-like Blunt Sticks!Here I move around the cube a lot ...

zalo by Explorer
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Sky Drone FPV + Oculus VR demoed by Sky Drone Team

I just wanted to share the news that the Sky Drone team has demoed their Sky Drone FPV system with the Oculus VR set. Therefore, the FPV video of a drone/UAV flying in mid air can be distorted in real-time and shown inside an Oculus VR headset. Keep ...

SkyDrone by Honored Guest
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Best VR Protal or Nexus?

So what do you think are the best VR Portal or Nexus (should that be Nexi)?Or how do you find out about new VR games?Any stats or reviews on different portals, or how would we know which is the most popular/best experience?

Arowx by Explorer
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Electromyography and Headtracking

Hi,check out this amazing piece of tech:https://getmyo.com/I'd rather like to discuss their tech for headtracking than as a substitute for a dataglove or game input.What if you can track the neck/shoulder muscles with Electromyography (EMG) and use i...

Binary by Honored Guest
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Torque 3D Tutorials for Rift

Hey GuysI made a few video's on how to use Torque for the rift and to go through all the tools in T3D which will help you make a game.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hijACdwfgS8&list=PL79NLbjt3mCj0CNvF8xwXeCXVBz-dwEEBThe First Video goes through all t...

ninja13 by Honored Guest
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Integration for Game Maker

Me and Indecom4000 have made Game Maker support the Oculus Rift! Its not the best 3D engine but there's quite some fun games made with Game Maker.More information:Project homepageTopic on GMCGitHub pageIssue listDemo videoScreenshotEXE Download (v 0....