Oculus Rift Development Kit 2

We've announced the Oculus Rift Development Kit 2, the latest development kit for the Oculus Rift with a low-persistence OLED display and low-latency positional head tracking.

[OleksiiGVS]

The fact that John Carmack in OculusVR team means that we will see the HUGE revolution in the game industry since early 90s... 

[ApocDevTeam]

AT LEAST WE STILL HAVE VALVE

“I’d rather see Valve disintegrate than sell out” - Gabe Newell

[as]

There were people who said that touchscreens are impractical, that nobody needs an inferior device to use internet on the go when they have computers at home, there were people who thought that 4.5 inch phone screens are ''pushing it'' and HD displays on them is the waste of technology cause ''you can't see pixels''... There are always people who are stuck in the past and don't see how past the train is approaching cause ''I saw this technology already in 70s, 80s, 90s- it will never be ready''. I hope I won't be one of those people when I get to an age where I can recall times 3 or 4 decades past.

Blackberry thought that people won't use virtual touchscreen keyboards on their phones- where are they now? Nokia thought Android is a bad idea and touchscreens are a bad idea too? Where are they now. Apple thought that people don't need a phone screen larger than what they're offering... Well, now they gonna make one apparently.

The problem with that is that people of a certain age cannot look past their own age group, baby boomers recall how they liked to drive around in their cars and think that ''driverless cars will never catch on'', while a modern teen couldn't care less about driving if it impedes with him watching a vine on his iPhone or using a VR headset. I, for example, being 25 also can't understand the ''app'' world as well. I'm one of the people who would just look around and wait until the light turns green to cross the street, while many other people my age or younger would instantly take out their phones and watch/read some shit... I'm not saying it's good but ''times they are a changin''' all the time and most of what 80s or 90s youngsters did do not apply to modern screen whisperers and whatever will come after them. Perhaps we will all just stay in our cubicles staring at a virtual world in future, who knows. Perhaps it's bad, perhaps it's good, but societies are changing.

[Pendleton]

I miss the days of the DK2 so much, VR was so new and open to exploration and tinkering. Not to say that VR isn't great now, I love my Vive just as much as I loved the DK2, yet something about that time is lost on the new generations of VR headsets.

[Dalekcomments]

What are you people crying about? Seriously.  It's a positive thing that Facebook bought the Oculus. For one thing Palmer has already stated that they wouldn't let companies like Apple or Microsoft buy them for their own gain and plus the Rift will be cheaper!

I'm sure the Oculus won't be ruined and that you'll all be upset over nothing, and lets face it. To those who are saying they're not going to buy it; you will.

[KayleLang]

It's always great to see Carmack being excited by his projects.

[NathanGlemboski]

Order placed!  Could not be more excited!

[BLVDKillz]

Was saying lol at sony for making a vr headset but now that headset looking pretty good.

[ubtri]

Can't wait till July!  Hoping you can ship sooner :)

[twentyaboutdis]

I'm still suppoerting the movement, the vision. #GoOculus  

[JayPase]

CONGRATULATIONS Oculus Team ! I can't see the performance of the consumer spec. being higher than the dev kit 2 so . . . 6 more months of global marketing / brand awareness and content creation from some AAA+ studios and we can all have consumer Rift's under our Christmas trees this year - RIGHT ?

[luckeYpublic]

0:12
Jé ott vagyok. Névlopó szemétláda
:DD

[psycold]

This is going to be a longggg wait for July. 

[Lori_P]

I'm so technologically illiterate that I'll probably have to wait around for the consumer version, but I'm super hyped that the Rift is somehow getting better than it already was!

[EctoSage]

God I want one so bad, I know I should wait till the commercial release, but it looks so awesome.

[RAM]

Интересно, на 3:04 шлем отличается. Разработчики поместили диоды под корпус? Или это не диоды?

[poshko]

This is on of the most exciting technologies I've seen in a long time. So tempted to pre-order one...

[galacliva]

Anyone else see the four 3D printers at 2:13. So i guess a lot of the parts where made on it. I can't really tell what kind it is. would like too know tho

[vordloras]

Damn @2:54 i thought i have a dead pixel on his shirt! That mini heart attack...

[metazoxan]

I bet Markiplier is just going to LOVE this. But on another note it's pretty clear the Virtual boy was way ahead of it's time. THIS is what the virtual boy was trying to do. Nintendo needs to join in with this and either make a new console or make an accessory for the Wii U that uses this thing when it's complete.