Gang -
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game
I can promise you, this is one heck of a deal by any standards up to today.
And I can also vouch for it's credibility. When I saw this on Kickstarter I
got in touch with my old buddies at FakeSpace Laboratories who built something
called the Wide5 about 6 years ago which had a few features in common with this
$300 kit. Theirs cost about $25K for *them* to build (one offs) but had
higher resolution, wider field of view and *two* sets of image planes and
optics, one for the full peripheral vision and one for the foveal. It was a
killer concept that never got funded for more than a handful of one-offs.
Well, it seems that the project actually got it's start at the USC Interactive
Media Division (lead by legendary Scott Fisher) Where Mark Bolas (FakeSpace
founder) works.
http://projects.ict.usc.edu/mxr/blog/it%E2%80%99s-alive/
Bolas endorses this project heartily and even offered to send me some
pieces-parts from their original project to get a headstart before the
Kickstarter comes in. I took him up on it since they are already up to 4 times
their goal with 27 days left. It looks like a landslide, which of course, may
delay their ability to actually deliver (5000 and counting? Units).
Maybe we can have a series of WedTech sessions to assemble and test.
Matter and Interactions in Stereoscopic 360 anyone?
If anyone else is tempted to buy one of these, let me know, it would be fun to
coordinate a small group of developers around this.
- Steve
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