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Oculus Rift is a discontinued line of virtual reality headsets developed and manufactured by the virtual reality company Oculus VR, credited with reviving the virtual reality industry.
It was the first virtual reality headset to provide a realistic experience at an accessible price, utilizing novel technology to increase quality and reduce cost by orders of magnitude compared to earlier systems.
Star Citizen
Oculus Rift support for the hangar module was a 12 Million US$ stretch goal.[1]
Chris Roberts stated that as Star Citizen already works in stereoscopic 3D there was almost no extra work needed to support the Rift.[2]
At the 2013 SxSW Interactive Festival Chris Roberts mentioned that 29% of players indicated they intended to use the Oculus Rift when available.[3]
CIG got access to the dev kit before the release and made the Oculus Rift work in the game engine with rough edges such as latency that had more to do with some of the CryEngine side of things that CIG was working on with Crytek to improve.[4] The Occulus Rift was released on March 28, 2013.
An initial iteration of Oculus Rift support got added to the hangar module in patch 11.1 in 2014, however it broke and was therefore removed.[5][6]
It was mentioned numerous times over the years.[7][8][9][10]
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"If anyone's ever played my games they'll know that immersion is like one of the biggest things for me in anything, and i can't think of anything more immersive than being in a virtual reality environment, and of course in wing commander style or in the star citizen game you sit inside a cockpit, so looking around is exactly what you need to do to be able to do to have a better immersive and playable moment."
Chris Roberts[11]
References
- ↑
New Stretch Goals. Transmission - Comm-Link. Retrieved 2013-06-28
- ↑ Chris Visits Oculus. Transmission - Comm-Link. Retrieved 2012-11-18
- ↑ Breathing New Life Into PC Games & Space Sims podcast - Chris Roberts - SxSW 2013, Star Citizen, Youtube, 10 April 2013
- ↑ Wingman's Hangar ep034 . August 16, 2013, Star Citizen, Youtube.
- ↑ Wingman's Hangar ep058 . February 26, 2014, Star Citizen, Youtube
- ↑ Patch 11.1 adds support for the Oculus Rift to the Hangar module. Engineering - Comm-Link. Retrieved 2014-02-26
- ↑ Arena Commander-PAX East and Beyond, Star Citizen, Youtube, 20 April 2014
- ↑ Star Citizen - Overview, Star Citizen, Youtube, 9 February 2014
- ↑ Wingman's Hangar ep046 . November 15, 2013, Star Citizen, Youtube
- ↑ Wingman's Hangar ep017 . April 19, 2013, Star Citizen, Youtube
- ↑ SxSW Virtual Reality: The Holy Grail of Gaming, VR Adventure, YouTube, 9 mars 2013