Oculus VR will launch its virtual reality glasses Oculus Rift the first quarter of next year, he announced the company unveiled its retail model initially operate with a command of Xbox One and will have a minimum bid eight games.
The company also showed its own project Oculus Touch Controllers with developing prototypes has named Half Moon and designed specifically for the user to interact with objects and people in a virtual reality.
“With Oculus Rift have been able to fulfill the dream of virtual reality” said the executive director of the company, Brendan Iribe, in his presentation in San Francisco, which ventured to predict that the arrival of this technology will represent “a paradigm shift” in the video game world.
“For the first time will be within the game. You can teleport to a new world, “Oculus VR manager who insisted that with this system will have to” convince the brain “that the experience we are living” is not real “.
Oculus Rift, reminiscent goggles skier, becomes “like a baseball cap,” Iribe said, and is equipped with two adjustable OLED displays, includes headphones (although you can use other) as well as an external device to detect movements .
This system, which can be used on a pair of life , it will ship with a command of the Xbox One console of Microsoft as part of a cooperation agreement between both companies confirming the preference of Oculus VR by the Windows ecosystem.
“Include a control was critical,” said Iribe to describe the needs of Oculus Rift.
The head of the Xbox division, Phil Spencer, spoke briefly Rift compatibility with Windows and explained that it will be possible to enjoy content from Xbox in these glasses, as already happens in computers and mobile devices with this operating system.
The association of Microsoft and Oculus VR adds even more interest to E3, the sectoral meeting of the world’s most important game of the year to be held in Los Angeles next week.
Microsoft has a proprietary technology augmented reality glasses, the Hololens, but so far its rival Sony seemed to take the lead in virtual reality Project Morpheus system already expected for 2016 and will be a key part of its participation in E3 this year.
It is expected that Oculus Rift have prominence in the Microsoft event Monday at E3.
Oculus VR today devoted much of his presentation to the contents, the main problem they are all new hardware in order to attract users, and announced it will invest $ 10 million to “accelerate” the development of games for this platform.
The company disclosed today eight titles for Oculus Rift, none produced by major manufacturers in the sector, ranging from the spacecraft simulator “Eve Valkyrie” to the third-person adventure in Antarctica “Edge of Nowhere”.
This collection will be available for the release of glasses in 2016 is a sports game , “VR Sports Challenge”, a first-person shooter, “Damaged Core” and other titles such as “Chronos “” Esper “,” Lucky’s Tale “and” AirMech VR “.
The software Oculus Rift consist with a boot menu with access to a library of games and a section to interact with friends in that platform without removing the device, whose creators reiterated that is ergonomic and lightweight.
The founder of Oculus VR, Palmer Luckey, spent the last minutes of the event Oculus Touch, a product which has been Company working in secret and aims to facilitate the use of hand gestures in a context of virtual reality.
This is a couple of knobs that seem “joysticks” wireless equipped with several and sensors
to detect the position and movement of the apparatus in the environment. “It is a virtual hands,” he said Luckey explaining that enable gestures in the context of virtual reality and interact with objects, for example, pick up a gun in a game.
Luckey did not show any prototypes but those attending the E3 itself may have the opportunity to use them along with a test called Toybox software.
Oculus VR walked in 2012 as a project financing platform collective K ickstarter where he raised $ 2.4 million and was bought by Facebook in 2014 by 2,000 million dollars.
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