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OCULUS RIFT IS a case of being months, not years away and the the consumer version is all but ready, according to the company’s CEO.
Speaking at the Dublin Web Summit, the CEO of Oculus VR Brendan Iribe said that while they’ll release the product when it’s ready, the product is “months and not years away.”
“We like to say it’s months, not necessarily years away, it’s many months,” explained Iribe. “We’re working on a number of aspects but… hardware wise, we’re arguably there for the consumer product so we are finalising the specifications for that.”
Iribe stated that while they’re developing Oculus Rift, they’re ultimately concerned about the future of virtual reality and have asked other rival companies to not “poison the well,”
Disorientation and motion sickness are currently the main problems that need to be solved and while Iribe is confident that Oculus Rift will solve this, he was concerned about other companies not doing the same.
What we’re worried about is some of the bigger companies who are not quite ready yet, with disorientation and motion sickness, I really view that as something that will solved be two to three years away from now, investment won’t worry about that any more as it will be a solved problem. We feel pretty confident that our consumer product will solve that and we’re reaching other companies as well… [telling them] ‘don’t put out a product until you have solved that problem too.”
While the main application for the device would be gaming, Iribe was most excited about developing face-to-face communications where users could be able to have the same conversation with someone through the headset like they would if they were talking face-to-face, calling it an application that can appeal to billions of people.
“Most people travel, they get on their planes to go and have face to face communications… but if you throw on a pair of sunglasses and now you can have that same conversation with people all around the world, everybody, face-to-face, looking at each other… that’s really transformative.”
“Our whole mission is to make virtual reality successful, not just Oculus.”
The other challenge it’s facing is the issue of input, how you interact with the virtual world among other things.
Aside from that, the technology has found other applications outside of gaming such as helping people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. By putting them in similar situations to the traumatic events they experienced, those suffering from such problems would be able to confront and learn to cope with
Psychologist Skip Rizzo mentioned that while such an approach may seem “counter-intuitive at first,” it allows the patient to “confront and process difficult memories by putting them through similar situations.”
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What About all the paedophiles the ira/sinn fein protected through their kangaroo courts….I’m happy enough with 26 counties, maybe even 25, done gal can go too..
Make a separate country of the 7 counties
@hi from heaven: does that mean we won’t have to pay for the pyrite scandal.If so I’m in.
@hi from heaven: Doesn’t matter either way, in 10 years we’re all going speaking Arabic and praying 90 times a day.
@hi from heaven: you know nothing about earth never mind heaven.
@IzwvqAph: bigot
@IzwvqAph: I’ve been hearing that for the last 10 years bro
@Anthony Curran: Stephen likes to live in a fantasy world.
@hi from heaven: Go across the water with west Brit.
@Brendan O’Brien: Here Factor 50, shush. Get your wellies on, rain is forecast.
@Daniel Roche: Why don’t you go live up in Northern Ireland if you’re so worried about it
@Ger Whelan: I live in Ireland with the other 32 counties of Ireland. Why don’t you take your West Brit ship home.you won’t leave too much of a coward,people in the North of Ireland are as irish as me living in Limerick
@Ger Whelan: I’m worried about donegal,do I have to move to each irish County? You have shown your West Brit colours. Did your family take the soup, too? It explains a lot.
@Daniel Roche: Except you don’t. There isn’t a country called Ireland. There is an Island of Ireland which has 2 countries on it, the Republic of Ireland and Northern island. No amount of childishness from you will change that absolute fact..
@IzwvqAph: Speak for yourself.
Wow…not seen SF in the news in ages…something must be up
@Ash Pleed: they were hiding. But now they need an urgent distraction away from one of their bigwigs being charged with three murders.
@John Mulligan: ‘ one of their bigwigs’ ? I hope you’ve got proof after making such an accusation?
death penalty instead of review…vermin
@well done to all the rescue teams: No, death is too good for him let him rot is a 6×4 windowless jail cell for 24hrs a day. No daylight or contact with others until the day he finally dies
@Ger Whelan: sounds good too!
Jim Jennings of RTE content department is rumored to be joining The top of Disney movie dept.
@Stanley darsh: I doubt it…that man was very very very very very very very sick could not even make the pac hearings for a day, according to his doctor, and I very much doubt his doctor would lie
@hi from heaven: it’s a shame he had to leave, he had such an eye for quality and talent.
Ffg have been protecting child abusers since the foundation of the state and a section of irish society are turning a blind eye to vile abuse
I am pat cusack a victim of michael shine who was abused over 20 times by him in hospital. Anyone calling for justice for the 300 plus victims of shine is doing good.
I think some of the previous comments are irrelevant and un helpful. When will we ever cop on Shine will be shown after death of course to be the most prolific independent serial sexual abuser/paedophile in Europe if not the world..everyone should be calling for the truth..
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