Oculus Rift Will NOT Be Available on Next Generation Consoles

[Tigerbomb8]

Oculus Rift not coming to next generation consoles..

[silencerbob]

I had a chance to use an occulus rift at PAX2013 ( yesterday).. It was impressive. There are definite areas of improvement tho. The resolution was only 1280x760( they guy told me thats what I saw to each eye). There is visible lag when moving quickly. The fps was not 60, tho that may be the game engine I was looking at. However the peripheral vision was spot on.

Give it a few years and upgrades to the resolution and it will be up to scratch eventually. Definitely not ready yet.

[EChondo]

I had a chance to use an occulus rift at PAX2013 ( yesterday).. It was impressive. There are definite areas of improvement tho. The resolution was only 1280x760( they guy told me thats what I saw to each eye). There is visible lag when moving quickly. The fps was not 60, tho that may be the game engine I was looking at. However the peripheral vision was spot on.

Give it a few years and upgrades to the resolution and it will be up to scratch eventually. Definitely not ready yet.

That must have been a devkit then. The consumer version at first, supposedly, will have 1080p(or some weird 1080 split in half for each eye like they did for 720).

 

Oh there is definitely more improvements to be made!

 

Yet android devices will be supported ? because clearly android devices are faster then consoles.

If Android devices continue to advance at the same speed or even greater speed as they are now, we will be seeing higher resolutions faster on Android devices. The Nexus 7 I believe has a 2560xXXXX resolution, if phones and more tablets start doing that as well and even go higher to 4K, then I can see why they want to support Android devices.

 

They most likely don't want to support consoles because consoles will continue to use 720p and 1080p while everything else is advancing to 4K(although relatively at a slow speed, but it could pick up in a couple years). They probably don't want to support something that is behind on the times.

 

But even I'm confused on how you would connect a Oculus Rift to a Android device  :huh:

[s0nrise]

I'm happy with it. 

Consoles dont have nearly as much power to run this thing

[xRAGExSounDxRIOTX]

I think the Oculus Rift is cool, but I couldn't care less if it didn't come to current or next-gen consoles. It's a very cool way to play games but the only reason I could see this useful in games is if you want a realistic way to play that certain game you think should be more like real life.