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HTC teams up with Valve to make HTC Vive

TomGot
Honored Guest
Its a new VR-Gear that HTC and Valve is making and the development kit should be out this spring.
They promise that the consumer product will be out before the end of this year.



1200 x 1080 per eye
90 hz refresh rate
110 degrees FOV
3 ms pixel persistence
360 inside-out audio tracking
Wireless hand-tracking hardware
Headphone jacks on either ear side
Laser positioning for head position accuracy down to 1/10 degree accuracy
VR base stations for 15 x 15 feet tracking for VR world movement
Controller for each hand, allowing for interactivity within the virtual world.
Source FR3D/http://gamesided.com/2015/03/01/vive-virtual-reality-htc-valve-coming-year/


"A 1,200 by 1,080 pixel screen in front of each eye, with refresh rates of a blistering 90 frames per second."

"A gyrosensor, accelerometer, and laser position sensor combine to precisely track the rotation of your head on both axes to an accuracy of 1/10th of a degree, allowing you to look around the virtual environment naturally. Couple the headset with a pair of Steam VR base stations to track your physical location (in spaces up to 15 feet by 15 feet) – get up and walk around inisde the virtual world! "

"The Vive headset was developed in conjunction with Valve, creators of such ground-breaking games as Portal and Half-Life. HTC manufactures some of the finest consumer electronics on the planet and Valve is an unrivaled architect of virtual worlds, so you know the collaboration is something special. Vive is powered by Valve’s SteamVR so plenty of games that take advantage of its capabilities will soon be available on the Steam service. "
http://www.htcvr.com/
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kojack
MVP
MVP
"BlackMage" wrote:
Info on the positional tracking from Newell:

The first prototype of our hardware has all these retro-reflective dots. That's great for one person who's sitting. If you actually want to have ten people in a room moving around, you need something like Lighthouse. So Lighthouse gives you that precision; it's not specific to the head-mounted display. We also use it for controllers, but you could use it for anything: you could put it on your tablets or your phones. It's tracking -- it happens that VR likes to use tracking and it's critically dependent on it.


So we're gonna just give that away. What we want is for that to be like USB. It's not some special secret sauce. It's like everybody in the PC community will benefit if there's this useful technology out there. So if you want to build it into your mice, or build it into your monitors, or your TVs, anybody can do it.


http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/04/valve-vr-input/

That's the great bit, the tracking system (apparently sub millimetre accuracy, any number of points, 100Hz) is open to any developer to add to anything. We could see CV1 using the Valve Lighthouse units.
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my3dscene
Protege
- Did Oculus know Valve was developing their own headset?
YES of course

- Does Oculus care about what Valve is doing?
NO, they are focused in mobile platform, preparing an Oculus Store to sell us apps based on the mobile market concept. (remember, is Facebook after all, we are just numbers and statics)

Why Valve is working in his own headset considering Oculus was doing the same?
Because Valve knows Oculus is focused in mobile platforms and it is not interested at all in high quality VR PC Based. They knew they are alone in this field.

Will I still care about Oculus?
Even though I love my DK2, it was a peace of hardware made under the original concept, without Facebook involved. Now, Oculus is Facebook, it is all about money and they saw moneys under Candy crush / Farmville stile.
Valve has all my attention now.

yoyoguyss1
Explorer
GG WP OCULUS

RorschachPhoeni
Trustee
"my3dscene" wrote:
- Did Oculus know Valve was developing their own headset?
YES of course

- Does Oculus care about what Valve is doing?
NO, they are focused in mobile platform, preparing an Oculus Store to sell us apps based on the mobile market concept. (remember, is Facebook after all, we are just numbers and statics)

Why Valve is working in his own headset considering Oculus was doing the same?
Because Valve knows Oculus is focused in mobile platforms and it is not interested at all in high quality VR PC Based. They knew they are alone in this field.

Will I still care about Oculus?
Even though I love my DK2, it was a peace of hardware made under the original concept, without Facebook involved. Now, Oculus is Facebook, it is all about money and they saw moneys under Candy crush / Farmville stile.
Valve has all my attention now.


I fully disagree. Facebook made Crescent Bay a reality. Otherwise we will had the DK2 as a CV1 now. I repeat myself: Oculus will sell the Rift for PCs! The mobile sector is for Samsung.
Excuse my bad english. I speak to you through the google translator. 😛

dubster
Honored Guest
"RorschachPhoenix" wrote:
"my3dscene" wrote:
- Did Oculus know Valve was developing their own headset?
YES of course

- Does Oculus care about what Valve is doing?
NO, they are focused in mobile platform, preparing an Oculus Store to sell us apps based on the mobile market concept. (remember, is Facebook after all, we are just numbers and statics)

Why Valve is working in his own headset considering Oculus was doing the same?
Because Valve knows Oculus is focused in mobile platforms and it is not interested at all in high quality VR PC Based. They knew they are alone in this field.

Will I still care about Oculus?
Even though I love my DK2, it was a peace of hardware made under the original concept, without Facebook involved. Now, Oculus is Facebook, it is all about money and they saw moneys under Candy crush / Farmville stile.
Valve has all my attention now.


I fully disagree. Facebook made Crescent Bay a reality. Otherwise we will had the DK2 as a CV1 now. I repeat myself: Oculus will sell the Rift for PCs! The mobile sector is for Samsung.


Oh well now you've repeated it, it MUST be true. Thanks.

RorschachPhoeni
Trustee
"dubster" wrote:

Oh well now you've repeated it, it MUST be true. Thanks.


Eh? Really? Do you think the Rift is vaporware? Do you think Oculus will only release the GearVR together with Samsung and nothing else?
Excuse my bad english. I speak to you through the google translator. 😛

Alric
Explorer
Yes, I did read a while ago although can't remember the source that it was something like less than a 3rd of oculus resource is in mobile and their core is still the rift. Facebook bought into the rift not the samsung gear vr.

Oculus is still going to release a rift for pc gamers. The mobile thing is an added bonus and will help give the rift a better content service etc.

Valve will probably beat the rift on pure experience unless oculus have something really special under wraps but I bet it will cost 3 times more than the rift.

my3dscene
Protege
"dubster" wrote:

I fully disagree. Facebook made Crescent Bay a reality. Otherwise we will had the DK2 as a CV1 now. I repeat myself: Oculus will sell the Rift for PCs! The mobile sector is for Samsung.


Of course Oculus will releace a rift for PC.
it won't be the first, it won't be the best, and you know why? because Facebok saw money in the mobile market and that is all about.
Do you really think Facebook will work based on the VR DREAM? no dude, Facebook = money.

RorschachPhoeni
Trustee
"my3dscene" wrote:
"dubster" wrote:

I fully disagree. Facebook made Crescent Bay a reality. Otherwise we will had the DK2 as a CV1 now. I repeat myself: Oculus will sell the Rift for PCs! The mobile sector is for Samsung.


Of course Oculus will releace a rift for PC.
it won't be the first, it won't be the best, and you know why? because Facebok saw money in the mobile market and that is all about.
Do you really think Facebook will work based on the VR DREAM? no dude, Facebook = money.


:lol: Every Company = Money
And Facebook isn't always mobile, you know?
Excuse my bad english. I speak to you through the google translator. 😛

my3dscene
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:lol: Every Company = Money
And Facebook isn't always mobile, you know?


Sure dude, please waith for the CV1, I will get HTC vive this year.