Oculus Rift in Action by Bradley Austin Davis, Karen Bryla, Phillips Alexander Benton

By Bradley Austin Davis, Karen Bryla, Phillips Alexander Benton

Oculus Rift in motion introduces the strong Oculus Rift headset and teaches you ways to combine its many good points into 3D video games and different digital truth reviews. You'll commence through realizing the features of the Rift undefined. Then you'll persist with fascinating and instantly-relevant examples that stroll you thru programming genuine functions utilizing the Oculus SDK. Examples are supplied for either utilizing the Oculus C API at once and for utilizing team spirit, a well-liked improvement and 3D photographs engine, with the Oculus solidarity integration package.

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Needless to say, we transferred the funds the next day, and we remain grateful and impressed by this unknown person’s trust in one of us. It recalls something that might have happened a long time ago. We at Manning celebrate the inventiveness, the initiative, and, yes, the fun of the computer business with book covers based on the rich diversity of regional life of two centuries ago‚ brought back to life by the pictures from this collection. com> Part 1 Getting started P art 1 of Oculus Rift in Action introduces you to the Oculus Rift hardware and to virtual reality (VR).

3, is a fun example of the chills and thrills of VR. When you combine a virtual world with thrills and goals, you’ve got what some consider the ultimate experience: immersive gaming. 4, was one of the first existing games to be updated with Oculus Rift support and is well worth a look. Of course, not all Rift experiments are fun and games. The Rift has also facilitated some serious work. org). 5. The BeAnotherLab experiment allows researchers to get a view into human empathy that previously wasn’t affordable to a lab on a modest budget.

RENDERING FOR THE RIFT To render images properly for the Rift, you need to take into account the LCD display, how vision works with separate images for each eye, and the lenses used. The lenses in the Rift distort the image on the screen (as all lenses do), introducing a fisheye lens effect. This means that images shown on the screen inside the Rift must be adjusted before they appear, inverting that distortion. That way, when viewed Image for left eye Image for right eye Each eye is presented with a separate image.

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