10-08-2013, 01:42 PM
1959nikos Wrote:What exactly does the Occulus Rift do?
Like described in the video, its a virtual reality head mounted device, with high FOV (90° horizontal) and fast head tracking.
The result is, you don't look through a monitor/window into the virtual world anymore, you really are IN the world.
Stereoscopic 3D is perfect, the distances and scale of objects are perfect.
For simracing. My brain gets so much tricked that I think I sit in a GT-R GT1. Tricked is the wrong word, because the eyes input is the same they get in real life.
Same when I rotate my head. The immersion is incredible, you really have to see it to believe it.
And for the first time I know where the cars around me are (no more fear I could hit someone or I don't know if the next corner is mine on overtaking)
IMO (and all others who tried it at iracing forum) this is the future device for simracing. The only downside at the moment is its very low resolution.
Since you are in architectural work Niko, architects already started to use the Rift to show their work to their customers. Its a difference looking at 3D scene on a screen,
or being IN the building with perfect 3D, scale and distances.