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OTOY Teases Gear VR Positional Light Fields Using HTC Vive

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 7:02 am
by Rikk The Gaijin

Re: OTOY Teases Gear VR Positional Light Fields Using HTC Vive

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 7:05 am
by Goldorak
:)

Re: OTOY Teases Gear VR Positional Light Fields Using HTC Vive

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 7:46 am
by glimpse
Will be interesting to try this out =)

curious, is that's just a test to see how things goes?
Is there any way we could expect this to be released sooner or later?

Re: OTOY Teases Gear VR Positional Light Fields Using HTC Vive

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 8:09 am
by Rikk The Gaijin
glimpse wrote:Will be interesting to try this out =)

curious, is that's just a test to see how things goes?
Is there any way we could expect this to be released sooner or later?
I can guess an answer.
I think this is just for testing purposes. You need both system, the HTC Vive and the Gear VR, which doesn't make sense for a mobile target platform. I think they used the Lighthouse sensors to try out what might be possible to achieve in the near future on a mobile device, but that's about it, it's nothing more than R&D.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Re: OTOY Teases Gear VR Positional Light Fields Using HTC Vive

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 8:19 am
by glimpse
correct me if I'm wrong (as I do not understant a lot of those thigns at all), but Carmac mentioned something about possitinal tracking from phone itself.. let's see, maybe I'll find a tweet =) here it is

Re: OTOY Teases Gear VR Positional Light Fields Using HTC Vive

Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 4:16 am
by Goldorak
Rikk The Gaijin wrote:
glimpse wrote:Will be interesting to try this out =)

curious, is that's just a test to see how things goes?
Is there any way we could expect this to be released sooner or later?
I can guess an answer.
I think this is just for testing purposes. You need both system, the HTC Vive and the Gear VR, which doesn't make sense for a mobile target platform. I think they used the Lighthouse sensors to try out what might be possible to achieve in the near future on a mobile device, but that's about it, it's nothing more than R&D.

Correct me if I'm wrong.
Yep. At least for now - it's just an R&D tool until we get the real thing:

https://twitter.com/otoy/status/664257173413715969

Re: OTOY Teases Gear VR Positional Light Fields Using HTC Vive

Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 5:39 am
by Rikk The Gaijin
glimpse wrote:correct me if I'm wrong (as I do not understant a lot of those thigns at all), but Carmac mentioned something about possitinal tracking from phone itself.. let's see, maybe I'll find a tweet =) here it is
It will certainly happen in the near future, but not now. Phones are powerful, but not as powerful as they need to be to do that kind of tracking + running the game/app and keep you battery alive for more than 5 minutes...

Re: OTOY Teases Gear VR Positional Light Fields Using HTC Vive

Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 6:26 am
by glimpse
Rikk The Gaijin wrote:
glimpse wrote:correct me if I'm wrong (as I do not understant a lot of those thigns at all), but Carmac mentioned something about possitinal tracking from phone itself.. let's see, maybe I'll find a tweet =) here it is
It will certainly happen in the near future, but not now. Phones are powerful, but not as powerful as they need to be to do that kind of tracking + running the game/app and keep you battery alive for more than 5 minutes...
=DDD

Re: OTOY Teases Gear VR Positional Light Fields Using HTC Vive

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:48 am
by Goldorak

Re: OTOY Teases Gear VR Positional Light Fields Using HTC Vive

Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2015 5:17 am
by Rikk The Gaijin
Goldorak wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/3t9hrq/got_to_play_with_otoys_positional_tracking_for/
Nice. I'd like to track her position too! 8-)

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