Valve, Oculus VR tease what consumer VR will be in 2015

Valve teases the future of VR at Steam Dev Days, promises 2015 will be the year of VR.

@anthony256

Published Jan 17, 2014 5:32 AM CST
Updated Nov 3, 2020 12:19 PM CST

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We've learnt quite a lot from Valve's developer-only Steam Dev Days conference, with VR being the focus of the second, and last day of the event. Oculus VR's founder, Palmer Luckey, was a key guest for its VR discussions, where he teased the future of VR.

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Luckey said: "Valve's VR tech is the best virtual reality demo in the world right now". This is quite a statement from Luckey, considering his company just received $75 million in Series B funding for Oculus Rift. The specifications of what Valve and Oculus expect from a consumer VR headset for 2015 are very, very promising:

Feasible 2015 consumer HDM

20ms motion-to-last-photon latency
3ms pixel persistence
95 Hz refresh
110-degree FOV
1K x 1K resolution per eye
High-quality, well-calibrated optics

Tracking

millimeter-accurate resolution translation
quarter-degree-accurate rotation
volume of roughly 2 meters cubed

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