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Brace yourselves: Official Rift-S reveal is coming

Zenbane
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Oculus Rift S PC VR Headset Set For GDC 2019 Reveal

An email sent to Oculus developers by Facebook suggests ‘Rift S’ will be formally revealed at GDC 2019.

UploadVR confirmed with multiple people the email mentions ‘Rift S’ alongside ‘Oculus Go’ and ‘Oculus Quest’. This suggests we should expect a formal announcement in the near future of the PC-based VR headset succeeding Oculus Rift.


And this all begins THIS MONDAY. Hopefully the rumor-mill will prove true this time.

Also note that Oculus is scheduled to be involved in at least 9 different sessions; you can get the full list of GDC here:

https://schedule.gdconf.com/

Down the Rabbit Hole with Oculus Quest (Presented by Oculus)
https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/down-the-rabbit-hole-with-oculus-quest-presented-by-oculus/86560...

Creating Realistic Acoustics with Oculus Audio Propagation (Presented by Oculus)
https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/creating-realistic-acoustics-with-oculus-audio-propagation-prese...


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inovator
Consultant
Zenbane thanks for sending the talk for Mr rubin. He mentions current rift being phased out. I believe that also includes the outsides tracking. All companies will be doing that I think it's just best to get used to it and the tech will get good enough where it will be just as good. All they have to do is increase the cameras.

Zenbane
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inovator said:

Zenbane thanks for sending the talk for Mr rubin. He mentions current rift being phased out. I believe that also includes the outsides tracking. All companies will be doing that I think it's just best to get used to it and the tech will get good enough where it will be just as good. All they have to do is increase the cameras.



The fact that it is being "phased out" considering that it is being replaced makes sense. I know some people try to spread false rumors that Rift was being phased out entirely as a product-line. Glad to see that those rumors were false. I'm looking forward to the Rift CV2.

inovator
Consultant
I'm also looking forward to it. Sensors were necessary but we need to all think 1st of the mass market. If it reaches that point we will have experiences and games hard to imagine.it needs to be as easy as watching tv.

pyroth309
Visionary
Yea my disappointment isn't with the inside out. I've predicted this is the course they would take since WMR first came out. The convenience factor is simply too great for the user. I'm actually surprised it has 5 cameras instead of 4 like the Quest. It's all the cost cutting everywhere else that has me kind of annoyed but I guess that's the trade off for the 5 cameras and passthrough. I mean it has worse specs than the Quest at the same price point...and the Quest has a SOC lol. 

LZoltowski
Champion
I love threads like these, really shows off the diversity of CEO's, Supply chain specialists, Computer Vision Scientists, Hardware Architects, fortune 500 business strategists we have on board on the forums 😛 Joking aside .. ahem ..

I thought I wanted one HMD this year ... the Quest ... now I want two ...  damn it Zuck, is it not enough you watch me from 3 different angles each night 😛    
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inovator
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Zenbane :The only thing about that video you sent that was disturbing was he says the fov is more noticeable or tighter. To me that translates as smaller. That's very funny and ironic if true when so many people had on their wish listed a bigger fov.

Techy111
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So you want all 4 oculus HMD's right LZ? You gonna send Mark on his next vacation all by yourself  😄
A PC with lots of gadgets inside and a thing to see in 3D that you put on your head.

LZoltowski
Champion

Techy111 said:

So you want all 4 oculus HMD's right LZ? You gonna send Mark on his next vacation all by yourself  😄


Gotta catch them all!

Ques is a fever dream of mine, 6dof  VR with Touch controllers anywhere you are ... even on the toilet....

Rift S fixes 95% of all my issues with CV1 for a fairly accessible price .. so yeah.
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SkScotchegg
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The person on reddit on stated the next Rift will be a significant upgrade over CV1, and it's currently in the finishing stages. Said it would release next year, and require a GTX 1080Ti/RTX 2080 class GPU.




So do we definitely think this is true then? If so then that’s amazing but I wonder who deleted his comment and why?

I hope it is true because a really high end CV2 costing £600+ would be day one purchase if it comes with increased fov and headphones.
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SkScotchegg
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inovator said:

Zenbane :The only thing about that video you sent that was disturbing was he says the fov is more noticeable or tighter. To me that translates as smaller. That's very funny and ironic if true when so many people had on their wish listed a bigger fov.



Exactly, I’ve also seen other YouTube reviews say the fov is smaller...

‘’That sucks even worse then no headphones. 
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