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Virtual Reality Blueprints

You're reading from   Virtual Reality Blueprints Create compelling VR experiences for mobile and desktop

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786462985
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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 Palmer Palmer
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John Williamson John Williamson
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
1. The Past, Present, and Future of VR FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Solar System for Google Cardboard 3. Building an Image Gallery System for the Gear VR 4. Adding User Interactions to the Virtual Gallery Project 5. Fighting Zombies on the Oculus Rift 6. Scripting Zombies for the Oculus Rift 7. Carnival Midway Games — Part 1 8. Carnival Midway Games — Part 2 9. VR Hardware Roundup 10. VR Terms and Definitions 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Headset costs


The following chart is a sampling of VR headset prices, accurate at of February 1, 2018. VR/AR hardware is rapidly advancing and prices and specs are going to change annually, sometimes quarterly. Just as this chapter was being written, the price of the Oculus dropped by $200:

Google

Cardboard

Gear VR

Google

Daydream

Oculus

Rift

HTC

Vive

Sony

PS VR

HoloLens

Complete cost for HMD, trackers, default controllers

$5

$99

$79

$399

$599

$299

$3000

Total cost

with CPU: phone, PC, PS4

$200

$650

$650

$1,400

$1,500

$600

$3000

Built-in headphones

NO

No

No

Yes

No

No

Yes

Platform

Apple

Android

Samsung

Galaxy

Google

Pixel

PC

PC

Sony PS4

Proprietary PC

Enhanced rotational tracking

No

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

yes

Positional

tracking

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Built-in touch panel

No*

Yes

No

No

No

No

no

Motion controls

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Tracking system

No

No

No

Optical

Lighthouse

Optical

Laser

True 360 tracking

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Room scale

and size

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Remote

No

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Gamepad support

No

Yes

No

Yes

2m x 2m

Yes

4m x 4m

Yes

3m x 3m

Yes

10mX10m

Resolution

per eye

Varies

1440

x1280

1440...

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