3D glasses from John Carmack caused a stir on Kickstarter

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    On the first day of its appearance on Kickstarter, the project of virtual reality glasses developed by John Carmack has already collected more than $ 800k of the necessary $ 250k.

    The authors of the project promise that Oculus Rift "will forever change the way users think about games." It is assumed that the device will have a resolution of 1280 × 800 pixels (640 × 800 pixels for each eye), and the viewing angle will be 110˚ diagonally (90˚ horizontally). 6 degrees of freedom when tracking head rotation with a very short delay. There will be interfaces DVI / HDMI and USB; weight - approximately 220 g. All developer kits include access to the Oculus Developer Center, which provides technical support to the Oculus developer community. For $ 300 or more, the developers promise to send a set with Oculus Rift glasses for developers, as well as a shooter DOOM 3 BFG Edition. For $ 5k, the guys promise to give the donor a T-shirt, a team autographed poster and drive him around the Oculus lab all day, give him different games and entertain in every way ... The
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    commercial version of the novelty, most likely, will appear no earlier than 2013.
    PS For those who do not know who John Carmack is and what he has to do with virtual reality glasses and computer games, here are some links:
    Wikipedia alizar's
    article about the history of these glasses

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