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.

[Morgrum]

So disappointed in you Atmos usually you have something better to fire off.
That one must have been off the hip.

[Zenbane]

Atmos73 said:

Isn't that Oculus beating down the Rift price evertime Vive regains the sales advantage!

Nope, that's Google trying to get HTC to breathe again
😉

[Zenbane]

Oh, and Palmer was apparently attending OC4


https://twitter.com/hmltn/status/918557135729860609

[Anonymous]

kojack said:

Atmos73 said:

Come on Oculus stole Abrash from Vive

Atmos73 said:

So what next - Oculus stole my Abrash?

Atmos73 said:

Hell, I bought from Oculus Home after Oculus stole Abrash from Valve

Atmos73 said:

But didn't Oculus leech Carmack from Zenimax and Abrash from Valve

Atmos73 said:

Haha Valve never sued Oculus for steeling Abrash - not yet anyway.

Best. Post. Ever.

If Oculus 'stole' (aka headhunted) anybody it was Hans Hartmann from Fitbit. He's the man responsible for getting the production costs down so that Oculus can make these price cuts.

And @Atmos73 these price cuts have NOTHING to do with the sales of the Vive, no matter how much you want to believe it. Oculus want to get as many Rifts in homes as possible so that they can make money from software sales. Even if HTC was shifting bugger all units Oculus would still be bringing the price of the Rift down.

[Zenbane]

Atmos73 said:

If it was all about software sales why does Oculus block every other PC headset apart from the Rift? Never mind I know I’m wasting my time asking.

Oculus allows Revive to work. Stop going from one dead horse beating to another. And if you're confused about how software sales work with competition, go do some research on the console market. But since you can't seem to understand what makes up a "video game controller" then I doubt you will have much luck there either.

Give it up, buddy, you lost:

PC Gamer no longer recommends the Vive as an option
😮

While
both the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are considered complete bundles, the
Rift is ahead in terms of fit and finish. Oculus also announced that the
Rift bundle (headset and Touch controllers) is now at an all time low
of $399. This makes the Rift significantly more attractive than the Vive
and with the uncertainty behind HTC, we can no longer suggest the Vive as a viable second option.

http://www.pcgamer.com/the-best-vr-headset/

[Anonymous]

Back to the topic at hand, here is the awesome Carmack talk if anyone missed it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlYL16-NaOw

[Zenbane]

You rock @FrozenPea - thanks!

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure if it's just me but whenever I see Carmack or Sweeney on stage talking I can see 'that' kid at school that used to get his head flushed down the toilet lol 😮 😄

[Shadowmask72]

I'm off to see Blade Runner in a few can someone post Carmack highlights please? @ Kojack  where are you?

[kojack]

Shadowmask72 said:

I'm off to see Blade Runner in a few can someone post Carmack highlights please? @ Kojack  where are you?

Been doing some VERY important stuff.
(playing Divinity Original Sin 2 that is)
I'm going to clean up the top post and fill in some more details.