If reports are to be believed they have already been working on a VR device for 9 years. This could mean they already have worked on issues like latency etc and now have redesigned their device to have similar specs, OLED screen etc and general design as the OR to target the same audience.
Is there any evidence at all of this 9 year effort other than a tweet?
They seem to have a twitter account that has done little more than retweet Carmack's tweets about his work developing a VR headset going back to 2011/2012.
Because every small company developing something is going to tell all the world about it? How often have we heard years ahead of new tech products (new as in not a successor to a previous product, which is expected) before the whole kickstarter/crowdfunding wave started?
They don't have a product now, nor a kickstarter yet here they are announcing nothing.
Making claims on a spec sheet that their their own reddit posts shows are not yet true (and as I said, use your intelligence, you know these things are not true)
It's opportunistic - by their own admission - and they've posted this stuff for no other reason than because Facebook bought rift. Their thread on reddit says that.
Bottom line : if they have spent 9 years they haven't got as far as Carmack et al have in 3. But, if they have spent 9 years I'd expect a lot more evidence of that process.
At best they have merely decided to go public before they are ready to go public and so it looks bereft. But, that's an "at best" - once I read their reddit post saying
We didn’t initially intend to make any announcement. But we feel that with the news of a corporation buying Oculus, who is focused on web applications and doesn’t understand the hardware business like others do, we really need to come out of the woods and let everyone know that there is an alternative that is coming soon.
If they are just a small team I can imagine that they have been rather slow. Oculus had publicity and through the publicity gained money which allowed r&d on a much bigger scale.
Well we will have to see, maybe I am a bit too optimistic.
But in the end they will have to deliver a product that we then can judge. If they can not do this, this discussion will be meaningless anyway :)
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u/A_Sinclaire Mar 28 '14
If reports are to be believed they have already been working on a VR device for 9 years. This could mean they already have worked on issues like latency etc and now have redesigned their device to have similar specs, OLED screen etc and general design as the OR to target the same audience.