AllThingsD has a great interview with Palmer Luckey and Nate Mitchell, founders of the Oculus VR company, and they break down lots of details from their personal beliefs on what will “make or break” consumer adoption of VR and the Rift, as well as their current plans on changes between the development model and upcoming consumer-grade units.
What are the limitations of the Rift right now, beyond needing to be wired into a PC?
Mitchell: We don’t have positional tracking right now.
Luckey: [That means] you can’t track movement through space, you can only track rotation.
Mitchell: That’s a big one, something we’d love to solve for the consumer version. The only other “limitation,” I’d say right now — well, there’s things we want to improve, like weight. The more comfortable it is, the more immersive it is. So, there’s that. There’s resolution. We want to bring the resolution up for the consumer version.
