Pinc: Oculus Rift for the iPhone

I don&#x27;t get the online shopping thing. What does VR contribute here? I&#x27;m sure if VR really gets going, retail will be a part of it but going there at the demo stage seems really weird.<p>BTW, what <i>are</i> the basic applications of VR headsets.<p>IE, a smartphone&#x27;s basic jobs are text based communication (SMS, whatsapp, twitter, email etc), calls, camera, web browser, media players, games… There are an unlimited number of the jobs and different people use different things, but… well, online shopping isn&#x27;t one of the big ones.<p>What are VR headsets for? Do we have any better understanding of this now than we did ten years ogo?<p>I&#x27;m not sure if this is practical, but my mind goes to 3d movies. IE, there&#x27;s a movie that you watch by walking around and listening to different conversations and seeing different things.

Interested to see how this compares to Samsung Gear VR (<a href="http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/gearvr/index.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.samsung.com&#x2F;global&#x2F;microsite&#x2F;gearvr&#x2F;index.html</a>) which combines Galaxy Note 4 and Oculus Rift and is made by Samsung &amp; Oculus together.

This is extremely interesting. Pretty impressive, actually. I wasn&#x27;t expecting this level of quality.<p>I see this as a great opportunity and industry in the future. I&#x27;m surprised Oculus themselves and Facebook haven&#x27;t teased any sort of OS layer on top of the VR environment.

Reusing phones as VR displays, as in this project and in Google Cardboard, is nice from a cost perspective. But from a quality perspective I think it&#x27;s a step wrong direction. VR that&#x27;s a little bit wrong or inferior is not almost as good; it&#x27;s VR that some people can&#x27;t use because it&#x27;ll make them sick. This might match the current generation (if the latency is good enough), but the current generation isn&#x27;t quite good enough, and the next iterations of VR are heading in directions that phone-in-a-box setups can&#x27;t realistically follow.

The presentation looks impressive. How well does the optical control system for fingers work for interaction and typing?

It&#x27;s interesting that they are using the Polish &quot;Ć&quot; character in their logo. Reading it out with the &quot;Ć&quot; character pronounced correctly makes it sound a bit funny.<p>This is how it should sound: <a href="http://www.forvo.com/word/%C4%87/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forvo.com&#x2F;word&#x2F;%C4%87&#x2F;</a>

I would like to understand what advantage their ring-controllers offer over a wide-angle Leap Motion. Text input by pinching two fingers together seems a bit clumsy, for example.

Really interesting to see this coming from a digital agency &#x2F; consultancy.<p>What I would really like to know, is how far along development of this thing really is at the moment. The &quot;preorder&quot; button leads to an IndieGogo page which mentions expected delivery in June 2015 and aside from a really well executed landing page with impressive videos and interface shots, there is little detail about the state of the project.

I wonder how this system will do with arm fatigue (commonly called &quot;gorilla arm&quot;). This problem plagues touch screens, and based off of Pinc&#x27;s demo, I worry about it here as well. Still though, I&#x27;m rooting for the team - I&#x27;ve been dreaming of something like this for a long time!

Can&#x27;t wait to see wives and husbands coming back home to their kids after work and instead of twitting whatsapping and facebooking at the table during family dinner, the whole merry family puts on these headsets and dissolve into VR, eating soylent green (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Soylent_Green</a>), rendered as roasted chicken in full 3D splendor.<p>So what if the weather is insane outside, no big deal if we have to wear masks to breathe, we can always buy clean water at the supermarket and outside reality will be just fine. We&#x27;ll spend our life inside these programmed virtual worlds, were we can be Gods instead. Fuck reality, we&#x27;re going Virtual.<p>I know it&#x27;s not the most popular idea, but I&#x27;m just saying... What is the purpose of this, except really cool entertainment ?<p>Why is it that so many extremely smart people work on entertainment instead of some real save-the-world-because-we&#x27;re-fucked kind of problems ?

As a long time Oculus owner, I like that they put the screendoor effect on the video

The shopping&#x2F;gallery angle is unlikely to work out, because Apple bans third-party stores of all kinds from their App store, and blocks end users from installing native apps from anywhere other than the App store.

Single phone vendor tech is a bit 2012-style. Time to catch up.