News A new VR actor [HTC-SteamVR Vive] pre-orders 29th Feb

I agree @SeatTime. I think Valve is differentiating between different causes without being clear about it.

Valve's claim is really about 1:1 mapping eliminating a particular type of VR sickness, most often induced by FPS games when the body does not move to match the visuals. There are other causes, judder for example, which can induce sickness. It is pretty easy with our rigs to set the motion opposite what the visuals are and that would soon make most people feel queasy.

That all said, Valve has a valid point re the tracking solution they have created eliminating sickness for the specific case of maintaining accurate 1:1 tracking.

I wear glasses because of astigmatism but use the Rift without them, though I do have a little bit of right eye fuzziness.

Once a final VR consumer release is available I expect either you will be able to order prescription lenses for them or a third party will offer them such as as OculusLenses: http://oculuslenses.com/

Morpheus is tied to the Playstation, so is not really useful with respect to motion sims.

Morpheus has been under development almost as long as the Rift, and Sony has been developing VR headset long before the rift, that just did a poor job of it. The difference is that nobody has had access to Morpheus like we have with the dev versions of the Rift. Vive will be the same, only designated devs will get access to the dev version, the rest of us will have to wait for the consumer version late this year..

Morpheus has been demonstrated at trade shows on a regular basis, so what it can do, including the updates demoed at the recent GDC earlier this week, are well known.

These are not Rift/Vive competitors, as there are not made for high end VR PC gaming. There is also a lot of VR community skepticism regarding Dlodlo technical claims, including noting that there is no mention of key VR related capabilities like head tracking: http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/36n231/dlodlo_announces_worlds_lightest_portable/

There are a plethora of mobile based VR devices. Most are just a glorified version of Google Cardboard and do not have the capability of the mobile based Oculus/Samsung GearVR HMD, though Lenovo made a splash when it entered the fray this week: http://www.androidauthority.com/lenovo-vr-goggles-announced-takes-on-samsung-and-oculus-611911/

Mobile VR and computer based VR are distinctly different in key areas like tracking and data throughput at this stage of their respective development and will remain so until the technical problem of very low latency wireless high data throughput can be resolved. And that is years away. At this stage the technology does not exist to make a consumer wireless HMD that has the capability of the computer tethered HMDs.

Microsoft has jumped on both the Valve and Oculus band wagons to try and gain some associated VR cred. The good thing that is likely to come out of it is that the Rift and Vive should ultimately be plug and play on Windows 10.

You have to feel sorry for the Mac and Linux fans though, as Oculus has put all related development for those platforms on hold until CV1 is fully sorted for Windows.

This is the reincarnation of Infiniteye, hopefully there will be some actual real life hands on reviews come out of E3 over the next couple of days.

Here is a review of StarVR at E3, the photos indicate it still has a bit to go before it is ready for the consumer market: http://uploadvr.com/hands-on-with-starvrs-premium-headset-and-the-computers-that-power-it/

As StarVR devs are experimenting with tracking it would be real interesting to see it equipped with the Valve Lighthouse tracking system, as that would provide immediate and accurate 1:1 tracking, including controls and peripherals.