OC4 News

[kojack]

So far we have two headsets announced:
Oculus Go is a stand alone (not mobile phone or pc based) headset. It will be $199us and will release early next year.

Oculus Santa Cruz (which we've seen before) will be a product too, with 6dof tracked hand controllers.

No specs yet.

Hmm, Santa Cruz doesn't have headphones. Is that just due to early prototype?

(Just like OC3, the live streaming in VR is broken, so I'm watching on a monitor)

Update 1:
Oculus GO has 2560x1440 and new lenses which reduce glare.
Audio drivers build into headset, you can get sound without headphones.
Oculus GO is GearVR compatible for software.
Unity and Unreal support.
Developers are getting GO in November.

Update 2:
So apparently the rift has games. I'm glad they pointed that out. 🙂

Oculus For Business program.
New rift bundle (3 sensors, face interfaces, touch and headset)
Commercial vr license. Bulk orders.

Update 3:
Rift bundle now at $399 permanently as of today.

Update 4:
Santa Cruz controllers have a touch pad.
Constellation IR based.
Santa Cruz has 4 ultra wide cameras for inside out tracking. The tracking volume goes behind you partially (looked like maybe 230-260 degrees? Just guessing from the little diagram)

Update 5:
Oculus for Business bundle is $900. It comes with: Headset, Touch Controllers, 3 x Sensors, Remote, 3 x Rift Fit, Commercial Warranty, Preferential Customer Service, Commercial Licence.
https://www.oculusforbusiness.com/

Oculus Dash is the new interface.
It can open as an overlay while in a game.
It's designed for Touch. I don't know how this will affect people without Touch.
Dash lets you use PC apps in VR. You can pin overlays of things like videos inside of games.
Debugging Dash using Visual Studio inside of Dash. 🙂

Oculus Home now has customisable environments and interactive stuff.
Looks like Home has become The Sims.
Games can be launched like in Arizona Sunshine: plug in cartridges.
You can visit other people's environments.
Shared spaces in the future.

Dash and new Home are part of Rift Core 2.0, coming in december.

Update 6:
New oculus avatar system.
Developers can make custom avatar accessories (they come with games by the sound of it).
Avatars will be usable on SteamVR and Daydream.
Coming in 2018.
Lipsyncing.
Eyes auto track interesting objects around you.

New Oculus store coming 2018.

[Zenbane]

I'm anxious to hear more about Oculus Go and the potential for business applications (WebVR?)

[kojack]

So Virtual Desktop, Bigscreen and V may be a bit obsolete thanks to Dash. 🙂

[aerodyne]

New Home and Dash look brilliant! 

[Anonymous]

Yep Rift Core 2.0 sounds pretty good, like the looks of the new Home and Dash.
Lot of attention to the stand alone, only thing said at least so far on the Rift is the new lower  permanent price as of today.

I checked out now that they are on to the developer part, maybe at some point during the conference some info shared on CV2? Or even a mention would be nice...

[RorschachPhoeni]

[aerodyne]

Watching via YT and stream is very stuttery and pretty much un-watchable. Has there been any performance improvements to Rift mentioned?

[RorschachPhoeni]

aerodyne said:

Watching via YT and stream is very stuttery and pretty much un-watchable. Has there been any performance improvements to Rift mentioned?

https://go.twitch.tv/oculus

[kevinw729]

kojack said:

...
Update 2:
So apparently the rift has games. I'm glad they pointed that out. 🙂

Oculus For Business program.
New rift bundle (3 sensors, face interfaces, touch and headset)
Commercial vr license. Bulk orders.
......

Thanks for this update @Kojack - was in a meeting all day and missed on the detail. People just kept running in exclaiming that OVR had relented on commercial usage!!

Ha - ha - too little too late! But hey, welcome to the party  B)

[Sharpfish]

yeah can't wait for the december beta for dash/home. Hopefully they'll allow custom mesh import somehow and not just pre-fabs but at least it's something. Nothing I didn't expect hardware wise. Cruz looks pretty decent actually, and I guess a lot of that tech will move to rift 2 (inside out tracking etc). Sad to see them moving to touch pads on the cruz controllers hopefully they won't remove sticks on future rift controllers as they are VERY ergonomic/physical/useful vs floaty pads. I can see why 'noobs' to VR may get on better with pads and that is their main target with the standalones (for now while their POWER is still limited). 

Hey maybe i'll get my free oculus touch t-shirt in time for the new controllers? 😉  *whistles*...


rift 2 (if they even continue with PC VR) will probably be announced at OC5 next year. I think it'll have a decent res upgrade, inside out tracking, higher FOV, the new lenses (reduced glare.. but by how much? I want ZERO glare!), wireless (yeah it should be build-in-able by 2019 cheaply enough if they can build a full computer into cruz!), foveated rendering + eye tracking for depth (at least an early version). Until then we have Samsung odyssey and whatever LG ends up delivering, neither of which will supplant rift as they won't be big enough leaps (well the Samsung isn't - as cool as it is and is now a real rift competitor unlike the dying vive).

Note for those that didn't watch, the cruz inside out tracking was a one-up on the new microsoft stuff, using 4 cameras one in each corner not just two and tracks the controllers much better apparently, at least according to oculus. That could be acceptable in PC/roomscale if it's as decent as it looks in the video. That would mean they use the new controllers though with the rings on the top = touchpads 😞 touchpads are a step backwards for 'core' VR imo.