Wide FOV, tracked HMD via Kickstarter

[Steve Smith]

Gang -

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game

I can promise you, this is one heck of a deal by any standards up to today.   And I can also vouch for it's credibility.   When I saw this on Kickstarter I got in touch with my old buddies at FakeSpace Laboratories who built something called the Wide5 about 6 years ago which had a few features in common with this $300 kit.   Theirs cost about $25K for *them* to build (one offs) but had higher resolution, wider field of view and *two* sets of image planes and optics, one for the full peripheral vision and one for the foveal.   It was a killer concept that never got funded for more than a handful of one-offs.

Well, it seems that the project actually got it's start at the USC Interactive Media Division (lead by legendary Scott Fisher) Where Mark Bolas (FakeSpace founder) works.

        http://projects.ict.usc.edu/mxr/blog/it%E2%80%99s-alive/

Bolas endorses this project heartily and even offered to send me some pieces-parts from their original project to get a headstart before the Kickstarter comes in.  I took him up on it since they are already up to 4 times their goal with 27 days left.   It looks like a landslide, which of course, may delay their ability to actually deliver (5000 and counting? Units).

Maybe we can have a series of WedTech sessions to assemble and test.

Matter and Interactions in Stereoscopic 360 anyone?

If anyone else is tempted to buy one of these, let me know, it would be fun to coordinate a small group of developers around this.

- Steve


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[Steve Smith]

I'm rounding up a "group purchase" here if anyone wants to go in...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game

I've got 2 folks already and need 3 more to go in on the 5x Developer kits for $1400...    ($280 each vs $300 otherwise)

I hope to have an early development set of parts coming in from USC/ICT (cross our fingers) and the formal Kickstarter project is due to deliver in December (although with 6x oversubscription so early, they may have some problems maintaining the timeline?)...

Let me know if you are ready to commit and I'll throw down for a 5x (or 10x?)...

Gang -

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game

I can promise you, this is one heck of a deal by any standards up to today.   And I can also vouch for it's credibility.   When I saw this on Kickstarter I got in touch with my old buddies at FakeSpace Laboratories who built something called the Wide5 about 6 years ago which had a few features in common with this $300 kit.   Theirs cost about $25K for *them* to build (one offs) but had higher resolution, wider field of view and *two* sets of image planes and optics, one for the full peripheral vision and one for the foveal.   It was a killer concept that never got funded for more than a handful of one-offs.

Well, it seems that the project actually got it's start at the USC Interactive Media Division (lead by legendary Scott Fisher) Where Mark Bolas (FakeSpace founder) works.

    http://projects.ict.usc.edu/mxr/blog/it%E2%80%99s-alive/

Bolas endorses this project heartily and even offered to send me some pieces-parts from their original project to get a headstart before the Kickstarter comes in.  I took him up on it since they are already up to 4 times their goal with 27 days left.   It looks like a landslide, which of course, may delay their ability to actually deliver (5000 and counting? Units).

Maybe we can have a series of WedTech sessions to assemble and test.

Matter and Interactions in Stereoscopic 360 anyone?

If anyone else is tempted to buy one of these, let me know, it would be fun to coordinate a small group of developers around this.

- Steve

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