Oculus VR just bought a small company called Virtual Reality Surreal Vision. If we analyze the projects that walks tucked the startup we can see a glimpse of the future plans for Rift Oculus, and are fascinating.
Surreal Vision it is a person born within the Imperial College London company, and focused on the development of virtual environments for real spaces. His first field of research is, in essence, creating completely virtual environments that adapt to the real space in which the user of the system, a bit like the Hololens, or positioning system using the HTC Lighthouse moves Live
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This alone suggests that the views of Oculus VR are put beyond video games to create more immersive virtual experience and where the user can move freely around the room instead of being limited by the connection to PC and surrounding objects.
But there is another even more intriguing field that is dedicated surreal vision: telepresence, namely telepresence by robots. We’ve seen a trailer of this type of system in Dora, a robot created by a group of engineers from the department of robotics University of Pennsylvania .
The idea is that Oculus Rift can be the center of an immersive telepresence system in which a robotic avatar move for us perhaps kilometers away. If it sounds futuristic is because it is. The impending commercial version of Oculus Rift remains tied to the PC via a cable, and it is too early to telepresence systems are so advanced. However, that Oculus VR has those long-term intentions are always good news. Surreal Vision researchers will join the research department Oculus Research, based in Washington. [Via Oculus blog]
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