The night before the virtual reality killer application will be the final puzzle

NetEase technology News September 22, according to foreign media reports, Oculus Company's new rift virtual reality helmet will be listed. The company has been able to expand its development team since it was bought by Facebook 2 billion dollars this March, which has also made development progress fast.

The latest virtual reality helmet prototype, named "Crescent Bay", was unveiled in Saturday at the Oculus developer conference in Los Angeles. Brendan Iribe, the company's chief executive, said the helmet improved display, motion tracking and audio capabilities. At present, the development and production of headphones is nearing the end and can be listed immediately.

Although Oculus has not set a clear deadline for new product launches, rift virtual reality helmets are expected to be available for sale in 2015 years. Over the past two years, the company has sold 130,000 of rift helmets to developers. At the beginning of September this year, Samsung, with the help of Oculus, launched the Gear VR virtual reality helmet. This product allows users to experience the virtual reality of the movie.

At present, Oculus Company is full of confidence to solve some basic virtual technology problems. The company's main goal now is to push its developers to develop a "killer" app that will dramatically boost sales of the headset. Oculus wants to apply virtual reality technology to more areas than games, such as television, video, networking, and teleconferencing.

"Our mission is to change games, entertainment and the way we communicate," CEO Iribe told 800 developers at a company meeting. And Facebook's takeover has given Oculus more money and resources to achieve this grand blueprint.

Oculus founder Palmerach (Palmer Luckey) said the biggest change in the six months after the takeover was "the recruitment of a large number of people, which was unthinkable before." This includes 100 new employees from carbon design, which has been responsible for the development of Microsoft's Xbox gaming machine and the Kinect camera.

Palmet Luckey said, "virtual reality requires a lot of stable resources, otherwise we won't be able to do it." Facebook has promised everything we need. But Luckey declined to say how much Facebook has spent. But Michael Abrash, a new member of Oculus, says it may take more than 1 billion dollars to tap into the full potential of virtual reality technology.

Everything is only due to the East wind. Although Oculus's people, capital and technical resources are enough to get the pc-based Rift virtual reality helmet into the market, it lacks one of the most important factors: virtual reality applications. Michael Abrash called on the developers to solve the problem, "the killer virtual reality application has not yet emerged, let's bring science fiction into reality." ”

What's more important, of course, is the mission of virtual reality in social networks. Almost all virtual reality applications are now independent individuals. Oculus executives say this will change within five years. At that time, parents can through virtual reality and not around the children chat to narrow the sense between virtual and reality. "I believe that shared virtual space will eventually become the most powerful and pervasive virtual reality application, and it's wonderful to imagine a person who can communicate face-to-face with anyone anywhere," says Michael Abrash. "(John)