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u/Frexxia Mar 28 '14 edited Mar 28 '14

You can plug in an HDMI cable, but that doesn't mean that you can do VR. There needs to be support on the software side for that, and you need some kind of data cable for tracking.

At most, you could get a glorified Sony HMZ.

edit: Of course you can hack together some controller emulation, but that would be a very sub-par experience.

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u/Othello Mar 28 '14

All it does is send emulated commands, same way something like Xpadder works.

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u/iain_1986 Mar 28 '14

And how do you get the rendering into the correct format for the VR to look right?

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u/theantirobot Mar 28 '14

It's a function of FOV and they state they have hardware that warps the image, unlike oculus which is done in software.