The company also showed its own project Oculus Touch Controllers with developing prototypes has named Half Moon and designed specifically for the user to interact with objects and people in a virtual reality.
"With Oculus Rift have been able to fulfill the dream of virtual reality," said the CEO of the company, Brendan Iribe, in his presentation in San Francisco, where he ventured to predict that the arrival of this technology will "change paradigm "in the video game world.
"For the first time we will be in the game. You can teleport to a new world, "Oculus VR manager who insisted that with this system will have to" convince the brain "that the experience we are living" is not real ".
Oculus Rift, reminiscent goggles skier, becomes "like a baseball cap," Iribe said, and is equipped with two adjustable OLED displays, includes headphones (although you can use other) as well as an external device to detect movements .
This system, which can be worn over a pair of life, will ship with a command of the Xbox One console Microsoft as part of a collaboration agreement between the two companies confirms the predilection Oculus VR by the Windows ecosystem.
"Include a control was critical," said Iribe to describe the needs of Oculus Rift.
The head of the Xbox division, Phil Spencer, spoke briefly Rift compatibility with Windows and explained that it will be possible to enjoy content from Xbox in these glasses, as already happens in computers and mobile devices with this operating system.
The association of Microsoft and Oculus VR adds even more interest to E3, the sectoral meeting of the world's most important game of the year to be held in Los Angeles next week.
Microsoft has a proprietary technology of augmented reality glasses, the Hololens, but so far its rival Sony seemed to take the lead in virtual reality Project Morpheus system already expected for 2016 and will be a key part of its participation in E3 this year.
It is expected that Oculus Rift have prominence in the Microsoft event Monday at E3.
Oculus VR today devoted much of his presentation to the content, the main problem they are all new hardware in order to attract users, and announced it will invest $ 10 million to "accelerate" the development of games for this platform.
The company today released eight titles for Oculus Rift, none produced by major manufacturers in the sector, ranging from the spacecraft simulator "Eve Valkyrie" to the third-person adventure in Antarctica "Edge of Nowhere".
This collection will be available for the launch of the glasses in 2016 is a sports game, "VR Sports Challenge", a first-person shooter, "Damaged Core" and other titles such as "Chronos", "Esper" "Lucky's Tale" and "AirMech VR".
Oculus Rift software consist with a boot menu with access to a library of games and a section to interact with friends on that platform without removing the device, whose creators reiterated that is ergonomic and lightweight.
The founder of Oculus VR, Palmer Luckey, spent the last minutes of the event Oculus Touch, a product in which the company has been working in secret and aims to facilitate the use of hand gestures in a context of virtual reality.
It is a couple of knobs that seem "joysticks" wireless equipped with several buttons and sensors to detect the position and movement of the apparatus in the environment.
"They are a virtual hands," said Luckey explaining that enable gestures in the context of virtual reality and interact with objects, for example, pick up a gun in a game.
Luckey not made any demonstration prototypes, but those attending the E3 show itself will have the opportunity to use them together with software called Toybox tests.
Oculus VR walked in 2012 as a project in Kickstarter crowdfunding platform which grossed $ 2.4 million and was bought by Facebook in 2014 by 2,000 million dollars.
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