Zenimax suing FB claiming Oculus IP theft

Khronos VR standard does not exists yet and probably will take a year or two before it is even a thing.Note that Microsoft is not part of it and probably going solo again like they did with WP.

For sales? It's the largest VR focused platform there is with over 5-6 million target devices from PC to mobile.

 

Target devices? Wait, so is it a platform as gian-reto-alig stated, or is it a peripheral? I genuinely don't know, I've ignored VR to that degree (largely due to my belief that AR will overtake and replace at some point...)

 

Ah, I see. So it MIGHT be the case one day that Oculus is just a VR Goggle that happens to be the only also compatible with the oculus platform/ecosystem.


So I guess the only thing the Oculus platform has over competing ones like Steam is that its more focused towards VR, right? Given Steam, and thus Vive, has a much larger install base, altough constrained to PC.

As far as I understand it, Oculus tries to be more than just hardware at the moment at least. There was abig ruckus about Oculus trying to build their own walled garden some months back, which Oculus AFAIK never backed down from. Basically games built for the Oculus Platform only run on Oculus hardware (save some hacks to make it run on Vive), and Oculus also tried to bag some exclusive titles by paying the devs so they would only release on Oculus.

Maybe they have reversed their stance on that somewhat, or maybe they are playing a different long term game given they seem to be in on that open VR initiative from the Khronos Group.

 

Oculus has a full platform with their own store, avatar system, party/multiplayer system and so on. Their SDK works with Gear VR and Oculus Rift.

They just launched their Touch controllers in December and their platform is still in beta in terms of features. There has not been any incentive to even support other hardware before they can get their own customers satisfied and all issues ironed out. Khronos standard would allow them to utilize it and enable other devices use their platform and SDK easily.

 

Ah, I see. I read "platform" and was thinking a dedicated hardware stack, more like a console. Thanks.

 

On the AR / VR question... this just screams "potential" to me in a way that VR does not.