Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Hypergrid Business has an article up about the rumor that a free VR Gear head set comes with the preorder purchase of a Galaxy S7. The headsets go for US$100. See: Rumor: Free Gear VR with Galaxy S7? Maria sends us to 9 to 5 Google for details.
Word is out that the Oculus Rift consumer version can be pre-ordered for a mere US$600. :/ What I find today is that if you order now, you MAY get your Rift by June… That is six months. If you have already ordered, you should see yours get shipped to you in the March 28th … Read more
CtrlAltStudio has released a new version of their Oculus Rift Viewer: SDK 0.6: 1.2.5.43397. The announcement is here: CtrlAltStudio Viewer Updated to Oculus SDK 0.6: 1.2.5.43397. You’ll find the viewer works in Direct and Extended Rift modes. There are lots more little details discussed in the announcement. I find this interesting, quoting David Rowe: I … Read more
Miriam Pia writes about the recent Oculus conference on Hypergrid Business: Oculus confab features Gear VR, Minecraft, Netflix. The consumer version of the Oculus Rift was there. Big news is Samsung is going to be cutting the cost of the Gear VR headset to US$99. The headset will work with all of Samsung’s 2015 flagship smartphones. … Read more
There are advances in the High Fidelity project. They have released a video to show us what they were up to in September.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8BPTMskaxA
There are some dates for Rift delivery, a SDK 1.0 December 2015. Don’t confuse the DK1 and 2 with the SDK’s that have been coming out. The consumer CV1 Rift will finally be delivered, sometime in Q1 2016.
David Rowe believes the Lab will finalize their Rift Viewer when the consumer Rift has a release date. When that happens he plans to stop development of the CtrlAltStudio Viewer. Until then he says;