Now that Oculus VR has begun shipping the Developer Kit 2 version of the Oculus Rift, it has updated its Best Practices Guide with a new section on positional tracking.
The first generation Oculus Rift, the DK1, was only able to track a user’s head rotation. It could not pick up whether the user was leaning forward or or moving their head to the side.
As a result, some wearers could get uncomfortable when their view of the virtual world didn’t fully match their head motions.
The Oculus Rift DK2 adds an external camera that is able to sense if a user, say, leans forward to look at something more closely.
Read more about it at Road to VR.
Hypergrid Business editor and publisher Maria Korolov is a science fiction novelist. During the day, Maria Korolov is an award-winning freelance technology journalist who covers artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise virtual reality. See her Amazon author page here and follow her on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, and check out her latest videos on the Maria Korolov YouTube channel. Email her at maria@hypergridbusiness.com. Her first virtual world novella, Krim Times, made the Amazon best-seller list in its category. Her second novella, The Lost King of Krim, is out now. She is also the publisher of MetaStellar, a new online magazine of speculative fiction.
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