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Palmer Luckey: "People are free to mod Oculus exclusive for other headsets"
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Because I know people are, inevitably, going to wonder the feasibility of this - yes, it's very doable. Regardless of the method of deriving location and position (inside-out positional tracking, outside-in positional tracking, magnetic induction tracking, etc), the end result is always the same - a transformation matrix. Which is to say, there is naturally a degree of interchangeability between all sorts of positional tracking technologies that can be overcome through software.
think of it this way, if someone gives you the problem "2x4", there are a few ways you can solve it. You can go 2 + 2 + 2 + 2, you can go 4 + 4, you can transform it into 2x(2x2), etc. But no matter what way you solve the problem, you get the same answer. That answer is the key.
Everything built with SteamVR, OpenVR, and OSVR all have universal support. Oculus' runtime (and obviously sony's platform) is the only one that isn't universal.
Although, funnily enough, currently, you can force Elite Dangerous to run in windows 10 by wrapping the Oculus 0.8 runtime around steamVR. If you try to run the 0.8 runtime in windows 10 without steamVR, it wont work.
think of it this way, if someone gives you the problem "2x4", there are a few ways you can solve it. You can go 2 + 2 + 2 + 2, you can go 4 + 4, you can transform it into 2x(2x2), etc. But no matter what way you solve the problem, you get the same answer. That answer is the key.
Everything built with SteamVR, OpenVR, and OSVR all have universal support. Oculus' runtime (and obviously sony's platform) is the only one that isn't universal.
Although, funnily enough, currently, you can force Elite Dangerous to run in windows 10 by wrapping the Oculus 0.8 runtime around steamVR. If you try to run the 0.8 runtime in windows 10 without steamVR, it wont work.
HTC vive. I think having a positional tracking controller that ships with the headset is very important. If every Vive ships with a lighthouse controller, then it has a huge leg up on the rift. I also think there is way more utility in the touchpad on the Vive controllers than "finger pointing" is on the Constellation controllers. The touchpads on the Vive controllers essentially make them programmable controllers in the vain of the Steam Controller.
I also think Lighthouse will be a more robust system due to it's dumb nature. No wires you need to run to your PC, just pop in some batteries and set them anywhere in your home. To gain the same functionality with the Oculus Rift, you need two wired cameras running to your PC.
Turin Turambar
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That's not changing his speech. He never said that their games couldn't be modded.
It's still a software developed and that runs in a pc. Of course some modders can try to make it run in whatever hardware.
Hell, isn't there software like VorpX that makes game not designed for any kind of VR to run in headsets? I can imagine someone can do the same for translation from VR 1 to VR 2.
But their games are still funded and published by Oculus. You aren't going to see a Oculus game being released for Vive.
VorpX works precisely because the games don't expect any sort of VR support. It's merely shifting geometry, because the game itself is not checking for that sort of stuff.
This isn't going to be a simple translation layer. This is going to be full mod work.
I see Sony games on PC. I see valve games on Xbox and Playstation. I see microsoft products on apple. Oculus should join the rest of the computing world.
D1rkG3ntly
Neo Member
"We do want to work with other hardware vendors, but not at the expense of our own launch, and certainly not in a way that leads to developing for the lowest common denominator"
Forcing an xbox one controller onto everyone that buys CV1 and asking developers to focus on seated experiences using it is the lowest common denominator.
Forcing an xbox one controller onto everyone that buys CV1 and asking developers to focus on seated experiences using it is the lowest common denominator.