SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA (CNNMoney) –
Oculus unveiled their ambitious plans for the future of virtual reality.
The company said that soon you will be able to extend the hand to touch things in virtual reality, take selfies and catch up with your family in an environment of virtual reality (VR).
During the conference for developers, Oculus Connect, which was held Thursday, October 6, in San Jose, California, the company owned by Facebook filed a series of new tools that will reach your platform Oculus in the next few months. Also gave more details of its manual controls Oculus Touch.
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The controls that will be used along with the viewer for virtual reality Oculus Rift, it will cost $ 199 (around 4,000). We will take pre-orders starting October 10, and shipments will begin on the 6th of December.
however, the part of the event that has probably been the more exciting was that Oculus has a more profound vision about a future that is more social to virtual reality. Using a viewer Oculus Rift, Mark Zuckerberg, ceo of Facebook, showed how it would feel to be transported to your house in real-time to visit your dog. Made a video call to his wife, Priscilla Chan, and the three took a group photo in an environment of RV. Later, Zuckerberg posted on Facebook.
Although currently the social interaction in RV is limited, the company will put into operation the function Rooms and Parties, with which you can interact with up to eight more people while using a viewfinder RV. Soon you’ll be able to customize your avatar for others to identify you in the virtual world.
The platform Oculus already allows you to move in a large space while you’re in a environment surround. The sensors that you will need to do this will cost 79 dollars more (about 1,600 pesos).
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To demonstrate its commitment to this technology, Oculus has invested 250 million dollars (about 5,000 million pesos) in the development of the RV and already spent $ 250 million more. Also invested 10 million dollars (about 200 million pesos) to finance the development of other tools for Oculus and $ 10 million more to fund programs to diversify the RV.
The company introduced the control Oculus Touch and made additional investments after they have made several missteps, such as by introducing the product, setting a price so high, and the controversial recent policy in which is involved the founder of Oculus, Palmer Luckey.
Oculus, which is credited to have sparked the frenzy for virtual reality with its impressive fundraising campaign on the platform of financing collective Kickstarter in 2012, now competes directly with the HTC Live and the PlayStation VR in an effort to bring virtual reality to the masses.
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