Oculus Rift in Action

Foreword

Two amazing advances from the smartphone arms race have come together to create the head-mounted display (HMD): light, cheap, high-resolution displays, and a new generation of super accurate and fast-motion sensor chips. Rather than display information or graphics on the surface in front of you, these displays rest on your head and update quickly enough to convince you that what you’re seeing is as real as the place you left behind. Although HMDs have existed for decades, they’ve never worked well enough to be more than aspirational prototypes destined for science museums. But with the Oculus Rift, the sensation of having a stable 3D world surround you as you move your head is a game-changing shift from peering into a 3D space through ...