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The Oculus Rift: Author: Sanja Kijac

The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset developed by Oculus VR that allows users to experience virtual worlds. It works using a screen, lenses, positional tracker, cable, and headset to provide a stereoscopic 3D image and full 360 degree perspective. Some advantages are its focus on gaming, partnerships with companies, and non-gaming applications, while disadvantages include price, potential for motion sickness, and low resolution.

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The Oculus Rift: Author: Sanja Kijac

The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset developed by Oculus VR that allows users to experience virtual worlds. It works using a screen, lenses, positional tracker, cable, and headset to provide a stereoscopic 3D image and full 360 degree perspective. Some advantages are its focus on gaming, partnerships with companies, and non-gaming applications, while disadvantages include price, potential for motion sickness, and low resolution.

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THE OCULUS RIFT

AUTHOR: SANJA KIJAC


 Developer: Oculus VR
 In Irvine, California (Menlo Park)
 Authors: Palmer Luckey and John
Cormack
What represents the Oculus Rift?
•Virtual-reality
headset that lets
players step inside
their most favourite
games and virtual
worlds
How does the Oculus Rift work?
Components:

 The screen
 The lenses
 The positional tracker
 The cable
 The headset
 The feedback loop
The screen
 7 inch LCD display screen

 Resolution of 1280 by 800 pixels

 Set of lenses => stereoscopic 3D image


The positional tracker

Series of
infrared LEDs
embedded in the
headset

Full 360 degree


perspective for
users
The cable

HDMI

USB
The headset

Vertical and
horizontal straps

Motherboard with
an ARM (Advanced
RISC Machines)
processor and
control chips for the
LEDs
Advantages of the Rift

 Focus : gaming
 Partnership with popular companies
 Non-gaming applications:
 Media
 Medicine
 Education
 Improvement of the device with the new
software
Disadvantages of the Rift

 The price of the device

 Motion sickness

 Too low resolution


THANK YOU!

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