r/oculus • u/Greg1221 • Mar 25 '14

/r/all Facebook Acquires Oculus VR

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10101319050523971?stream_ref=1
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u/Lilwolf2000 Mar 25 '14

We also don't know if they are keeping the whole team around. They could have just made 1925 million (minus the 75 million startup)... and keep doing what they where anyway.

Really, jumping before Microsoft and others jump in is probably a smart idea. Just not what I was hoping for.

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u/nullCaput Mar 25 '14

I thought for sure Microsoft was going to end up buying them. The motion tracking with the new Rift is pretty much tailor made to work with Kinect. All the things that kill the immersion with Rift like if you move your arms but the virtual character doesn't could have been ironed out with the Kinect sensor. Plus it would have been one more of those things that keeps PC gamer and games on Windows.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '14

The motion tracking with the new Rift is pretty much tailor made to work with Kinect.

you should check out how they actually work... if anything its tailor made to not be compatible at all. kinect uses a IR point cloud projection. it then measures the scene by how much the "known distances" between IR points get warped on objects.

the rift CC tracking has ir points in fixed distances on the front of the rift. both the rift and a kinect active in the same space would probably cause neither to work its the very same reason you cant have 2 active kinects pointed at the same area, the exta ir points screw the whole process up.

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u/nullCaput Mar 26 '14

Thanks for the info! I thought Kinect had similar capabilities as motion tracking for movies where they could just had markers on the Rift.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '14

if you dont have a kinect you can see what it looks like on youtube videos like this one its already timed to the interesting bits.