Let the VR war begin. Sony announced yesterday its own VR device and Oculus announced today the second version of its development kit. According to the development team, this new version of Oculus Rift will be based on the Cristal Cove model and will have a more polished external look.
Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 comes with 1920*1080p AMOLED and an external camera. Its tracking LEDs are hidden into the headset surface and the kit will support 60Hz, 72Hz and 75Hz refresh rates.
Unfortunately, the consumer version is not planned for a 2014 release but the development kit will be launched around July.
Those interested can pre-order it from Oculus’s website (and there will be a ‘first come, first served’ policy).
Enjoy!
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IMO, since the advent of the massive online gaming, I’ve never felt a substantial evolution of the way we play games. Movement controls came but doesn’t quite fixed and ,may I say, it’s a niche. Now a wild VR wars appears, and I caught myself thinking if it’s gonna be the same.
Suddenly, my hype it’s fighting my natural pessimism.
I am gonna get this…I want to get into VR game development…and also I want Oculus in general.
Exactly. I already preordered this piece of awesome HW.
Are you in Europe like me? If so, how much did it cost to pre-order it?
It cost cca 364.10€.
Thank you, that is the whole cost shipping etc…?
You are welcome. It already includes VAT and shipping.
Thank you so much. I know they won’t get to us until July, and they’re being sold on a first come first serve basis, but the hype has gotten too much for me to wait any longer. I have to have one 😀