Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Challenge Oculus Rift Totem with a camera as well as augmented reality

Challenge Oculus Rift? Totem with a camera as well as augmented reality

In March this year, when established in Canada Montreal startup Vrvana announced that it will use its products Totem to the Oculus Rift challenges, a lot of people don't think about this. This virtual reality headset is the biggest feature is that every time there is a camera in front of the eyes. Startup show Vrvana, apart from a few renderings and does not show how this device works, and they announced that also happens to be the time not long after Facebook announced the acquisition of Oculus. This attracted more rumors.

Some people think that the Totem was a vaporware (that is, declare in advance, development began to advertise the product, maybe these products do not come out), and still others say it is a scam.

Now to September, 6 months passed, Totem of the prototype EZ. Totem in the 2014 game developers Conference, made a brief presentation, after which the Vrvana won the $ 350,000 funding, with this Vrvana can start producing Developer Kit and compete with the Oculus.

Challenge Oculus Rift? Totem with a camera as well as augmented reality

For Totem virtual reality VR case

virtual reality VR case

Studied the various media reports, there is still no one has started to play the device, so for the published data still could not quite believe that, at least Vrvana Totem specifications look good. It is equipped with a 1080P full HD OLED display, HDMI interface, wide-angle horizontal angle up to 90 degrees. figment vr case

Vrvana CEO Bertand Nepveu said in an interview from the broader context of the entire market, there is sufficient market space to add more virtual reality head-mounted display to compete in this market.

2 cameras installed in front of the Totem head-mounted display, both tracking the camera a full 360-degree, while its competitor Oculus can make a 180-degree location tracking. Vrvana States that are doing because a full 360-degree location tracking can be more accurate in the game move, and reduced delays (Oculus latest Crescent Bay supports 360 degree track). The two cameras also can let the players do not need to remove the head-mounted display you can see the real world, but in practical use, it may not be really (to pause the game to grab a bottle of Cola? )。

Totem has two cameras, so more exciting scene should be can be achieved using camera augmented reality (AR), game developers real world superimposed with the image on the monitor. Augmented reality and virtual reality technology fused together may be more difficult to imagine possible. Of course, since at the present stage of technical barriers, augmented reality and virtual reality in the actual use is still limited, at present this type of head-mounted display must also be connected to the data lines or power lines, that can only be used in a small space.

At present the project is above the Kickstarter to raise, supporters can get a Totem for $ 400 price, this product will ship in April 2015,. Wait until the official listed sale, at which time the product will retail for $ 549.

via theverge

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