Oculus Rift update: support for mixed reality and Room Scale

Summary

• Oculus Rift update: 360 degree tracking in Room Scale enabled
• Oculus Rift update offers mixed reality support

The Oculus Rift remains, with the HTC Vive, the best virtual reality headset currently available on the market. Released a little less than a year ago, the VR headset marketed by the social network giant Facebook is one of the pioneers in terms of virtual reality but remains perfectible. The Oculus Rift update, which is currently being rolled out, brings a number of welcome new features that we'll be discovering.

Oculus Rift update: 360 degree tracking in Room Scale enabled

In the description of the improvements made by the Oculus Rift 1.16 update, Oculus says it started supporting exclusively 360-degree games and experiences. The Facebook affiliate says it will indicate which games and apps will require a 360-degree Room Scale and alert you if you're about to purchase software that requires this setup.

Among the other new features brought by the Oculus Rift update, note that The Oculus Home changes its look with a Cityscape environment. Other environments will soon be available. The update interface has also been improved to provide more information and greater ease of use. In addition, if your friends choose to indicate it, you will be able to know when they are using their Oculus Rift or Gear VR virtual reality headset.. The update now also offers to choose the language of use.

Oculus Rift update offers mixed reality support

The latest Oculus Rift update now allows you to create videos and content mixing live images of a user of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and its Oculus Touch controllers with images from the game or the app in virtual reality in which the user immersed. This feature will make it easier to show what the person is going through in their virtual reality experience. A perfect tool for newspapers, blogs or for enthusiasts who want to share their experience with their friends.

Note, however, that mixed reality captures will not be available immediately. Oculus explains in its press release on the update that application and game developers will have to adapt their production to this system. A little patience will therefore be necessary to be able to test the capture in mixed reality, but the potential is enormous..