{"id":2003,"date":"2013-08-07T09:30:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T08:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2013-08-07T09:32:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T08:32:51","slug":"oculus-rift-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/08\/07\/oculus-rift-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"Oculus Rift arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=epredator\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday was a very interesting day all around. The main event for me was the arrival of my Oculus Rift development kit. This is a Virtual Reality (VR) headset. We have had these before but not ones that are this cheap (relatively) and that just plug into any machine and work with Unity3d !<br \/>\nIt came in a cool case too. Some nice big clicking catches on it like something James Bond would get from Q.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/epredator\/9449808425\/\" title=\"Oculus rift arrived by epredator, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3670\/9449808425_79078a1112.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Oculus rift arrived\"><\/a><br \/>\nI had to dash out and get a mini display port to DVI adapter as I had that frustrating moment we have all had at some time when you realize a tiny piece of cable is missing. I only had a VGA adapter that I usually need to projectors at presentation. Handily there is a Mac store in Basingstoke and also Apple kit stocked in the nearby PC world so I had that covered in minutes.<br \/>\nI ran the Tuscany demo straight away. This is a small, but lovely rendered, building in the Italian countryside and on the coast. I was, despite having experienced this sort of stuff alot before suitably amazed and excited by it.<br \/>\nI did not hog it though and got each member of 3 generations in the house to have a go.<br \/>\nI was really happy that the predlets got how cool it was too. There was a suitable amount of bemusement and wonder.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GXagHxWk2nQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe unit is two screens one for each eye and the ability to track head movements. So these head movements can then inform a game or application that you have moved you view.<br \/>\nThe unity 3d integration is the library that is able to talk to the rift, but it is also a couple of prefabs (bundles of reusable code) that lets you change the normal single view camera to one that generates 2 views from slightly different angles to then feed to the rift screens (one per eye). Elegant and simple. It also has a controller prefab that takes the input from the headset movement and feeds that into the unity environment.<br \/>\nSo it is not going to take to much to test some of the applications I have and make them rift enabled, though they have to be native application publications not web ones I am assuming.<br \/>\nIt was not the only tech of the day though as in the morning Predlet 1.0 went and experienced indoor skydiving at Airkix.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PFUHdHWp6O0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nSomething I remember well from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/03\/06\/flying-action-presenter-g33k\/\">the TV show <\/a>\ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nShe had a blast doing that.<br \/>\nI had a go on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iracing.com\">iracing<\/a> sim rig there had there too, this is basically a high end pc with a hydraulic chair and some force feedback steering.<br \/>\nWe have yet to try the brush boarding or the skiplex slope (a skiing conveyer belt).<br \/>\nJust to juxta pose those though predlet 1.0 finished her Revell glue together and paint kit of the Titanic. Don&#8217;t worry though, it was all perfectly normal as predlet 2.0 was completing levels on Lego Indiana Jones 2 on the Xbox \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.feedingedge.co.uk%2Fblog%2F2013%2F08%2F07%2Foculus-rift-arrived%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><div name=\"googleone_share_1\" style=\"position:relative;z-index:5;float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><g:plusone size=\"tall\" count=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/08\/07\/oculus-rift-arrived\/\"><\/g:plusone><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a very interesting day all around. The main event for me was the arrival of my Oculus Rift development kit. This is a Virtual Reality (VR) headset. We have had these before but not ones that are this cheap (relatively) and that just plug into any machine and work with Unity3d ! 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