Specifications

The DK1 headset incorporates a single 1280x800 display at the heart of the device, as well
as motion tracking hardware which reports acceleration, rotation rate, and magnetic field
strength and direction. The display is split between both eyes (each eye can only see one half
of the display), yielding 640 × 800 per eye as seen in Figure 1.12. This resolution does cause
what some people call the “screen door” effect, that is, it looks like you are looking through a
screen door: the grid of individual pixels can become visible to the naked eye, especially when
viewing static content. This should be less of a problem in later versions of the Rift as screen
resolution improves, reducing inter-pixel spacing.
Figure 1.12: The Rift display is split between both eyes.
The headset contains the head tracking hardware that reports both acceleration and
rotational velocity at a rate of 1,000 times per second.
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