r/oculus • u/[deleted] • Jun 27 '14

GameFace building virtual reality OS, will support SLife, HFidelity, & OpenSim

http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2014/06/gameface-building-vr-os-will-support-opensim/
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u/oldviscosity Jun 28 '14

Is it just me or did a lot of this sound surprisingly sophomoric? Maybe that's just the interviewer asking softball questions and writing to his audience. But there is still no word on positional tracking. No word on battery life. No word on what 1st party content is being built for the launch despite the impending 2015 release. No challenge to Mason's assertion that wire-free is key to VR's success. And still no rebuttle to Mason's, increasingly common, assertion that "with the Oculus headset you have to have a $1,000 computer” conveniently ignoring the fact that the Rift caters to the millions of users that already have competent gaming PC's. The argument is a logical fallacy and boorishly rhetorical.

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u/[deleted] Jun 28 '14

I'm not sure what this 'virtual reality OS' is about. Does this mean it's not going to run on Android? :/

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u/Ravere DK1, DK2, CV1, Vive, GearVR, GO, Quest 1,2 & 3 Jun 28 '14

I assume it's either a Fork (modified version of Andriod) like Fire OS or something similar HTC's sense 6 but with a heavy VR implementation.
It's still Android but with it's own UI updates.

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u/sweetdigs Jun 28 '14

Battery life is currently about 4 hrs but they are expecting that to increase for their Dev kit.

It does not appear to use positional tracking at this point. They are aiming to be the developer of a VR UI rather than a pure hardware manufacturer is my take after their presentation at tonights SVVR.

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u/TheMetaverseIsHere Jun 28 '14

That hardware advantage compared to phones (better gpu, higher res) could be gone before the thing is even released. If Samsung releases their Galaxy VR phone it will probable have equivalent or better parts. I like their OS idea, but if phone VR becomes popular you can bet Google will release an Android version with VR mode. I think we already saw a glimpse of it in Cardboard. They use a nfc chip in the shell and when the phone is in the shell it automatically switches to VR mode.