Oculus Half Dome VR Headset Prototype revealed at F8 today
The headset has a 140 Degree Field of View and motors behind the lenses to make nearby objects sharper and easier to read.
Micah Blumberg Journalist, Researcher, Neurohaxor reporting from F8
The Oculus Half Dome also features lenses that move physically closer or farther away to your eyes so you can focus on close-up items or far away items with demonstrated improvements in clarity.
Notably the lenses move without creating vibrations or noise, so you may not even notice that your lenses are moving independently depending on the focal distance of what you are trying to look at.
The FOV appears to be increased vertically more than I expected and perhaps that could be related to the development of hand tracking and hand presence that was also touched on by the speaker Maria Fernandez Guajardo, Head of Product Management and Core Technology at Oculus right before she revealed the Half Dome Prototype.
The Varifocal Display technology, also called VAR could be related to work done by Gordon Wetzstein’s students at Stanford (Hat Tip to Shannon Norrell)
