Oculus Rift Dev: Day #0

Yesterday I ordered the Oculus Rift / Oculus VR, it should take about 2 weeks to get here, I'm quite excited :D

In the meantime, I have been reading the developer guide

 http://static.oculus.com/sdk-downloads/documents/Oculus_Developer_Guide_0.4.4.pdf

And taking some notes (this is more to personal use)

• 1920x1080 resolution (960px per eye), 75 Hz
• Oled display
• Positional tracking
• Built-in latency tester

Changes:

• HMD/Sensor interfaces into a C API
• Two rendering approaches SDK / Client Renderer: the SDK/Client app takes care of distorsion
• Rendering distortion in client rendered mode is now mesh based
• Oculus SDKpredicts orientation and motion
• Timewarp: to reduces motion-to-photon latency.

New software components:

• Camera Device Driver: Support the machine vision based position tracking
• Display Driver: Oculus Rift is now handled as a special display device. The user no longer sees the Rift Display as a monitor device.
• Service Application: runtime app, simplifies plug/unplug, calibration, maintain estimate.
• System Tray Icon: To access control panel

Compiler Settings:

• LibOVR libraries do not require exception handling or RTTI support, can be disabled for efficiency.

Terminology:

• Head-mounted display (HMD): VR device
• Interpupillary distance (IPD) The distance between the eye pupils (64 mm default)
• Aspect ratio: For each eye on the Oculus Rift DK1 is 640/800 or 0.8.