"cybereality" wrote:
@Tgaud: Most of your questions will be answered early next year. There are some exciting developments, but it makes more sense to announce them at major industry trade-shows and not just on our blog or forum where we will get limited coverage.
Consumer version announcement at CES confirmed! 😛
I actually thought there was a lot of Oculus news the past week or so. They updated the blog about their intentions to expand into developing content and fostering an Oculus ecosystem. There were several articles that came out when Oculus secured another $75 million in funding. There were a lot of hints in those articles that the newest prototype is under 20 ms latency, no longer has motion blur nor the screen door effect, is a higher resolution, has positional tracking, and almost completely eliminates nausea! If that's not news, I don't know what is!
Sure, they haven't told us their exact schedule or the exact specs in the consumer Rift, but have you ever seen a company make a promise of something and then not be able to keep it? "Our game with have flying monkeys!" Then, at release "Unfortunately flying monkeys did not make it into the launch of our game, but hopefully down the road!" and everyone throws a fit and storms away. As Cyber pointed out, it's also a common marketing strategy to give certain news outlets exclusive information to report at events and trade shows. If you want to get great coverage of an announcement, you need to do it when everyone is looking at you.
My final gift to you is a link to the Oculus sub-reddit. It does a pretty good job of day-to-day updates on Oculus news, games, rumors, etc!
The Furious Angels
