Specifications

But all this cheerleading might not be assuaging your doubts. Maybe you feel the call of

VR, but you (or your manager) don’t know if your project has the budget to include such

frivolous features as virtual reality. Well here’s the great part. Supporting the Rift is cheap

and easy, and we’re going to show you how to do it.

Need a little more inspiration? Let’s take a look at what people are already doing with the

Rift.

1.2 How is the Rift being used today?

Developers around the world are taking the Rift and doing amazing things with it, either

displacing previous VR solutions at a fraction of the price, or creating innovative applications

that simply weren’t possible or practical before. The examples below are just a small sample of

what is going on in VR right now, but we hope that it provides some inspiration as you start

your own projects.

One obvious application of VR is virtual tourism. In our opinion, no other media comes as

close to making you feel like you are somewhere else quite like VR. We’d even say that if a

picture is worth 1000 words, a VR experience is worth 1,000,000 words. One virtual tourism

demo that can give you a taste for just what VR can do is Tower Eiffel

by Didier Thery (Figure

1.1). You can look at a picture of the Eiffel Tower or watch a movie, you can read about how

tall it is and about how it was constructed, but none of that will convey to you what it feels like

to look up and see the metal arches of the tower above you.

Figure 1.1: Tower Eiffel

by Didier Thery

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