[分享] Valve工程師：Oculus Rift根本是當初Valve原型機的抄襲品！

一介憤怒鄉民2016-5-24 09:17

資深的Valve硬體工程師Alan Yates在Reddit上爆料Oculus Rift的CV1硬體基本上幾乎是直接抄襲Valve當初的研究成果

在Oculus於2012年開啟第一個kickstarter時，擁有Valve非常大力的支持（甚至包含Gabe Newell在影片上給予指名道姓的讚賞）
「如果有任何人可以解決(VR的硬體)難題，我想就是Palmer了...」
https://youtu.be/DhcOMOWRMnA

但一切就在臉書在2014年收購Oculus之後變了調，甚至還有大批Valve重要員工被挖角的訊息
http://www.roadtovr.com/valves-michael-abrash-joins-oculus-chief-scientist-breaking/

自此開始，Oculus與Valve基本上在VR上形同陌路，似乎只在最近VR內容平台爭奪上有所交集，直到昨晚


Alan Yates，在Valve投身於研發Lighthouse定位系統的工程師，直接在reddit上頭明白指出Oculus的CV1幾乎完整抄襲了當初Valve與Oculus合作時提供的原型機。完整內容如下

https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/4klu94/oculus_becoming_bad_for_vr_industry/d3g6e6j?context=3
While that is generally true in this case every core feature of both the Rift and Vive HMDs are directly derived from Valve’s research program. Oculus has their own CV-based tracking implementation and frensel lens design but the CV1 is otherwise a direct copy of the architecture of the 1080p Steam Sight prototype Valve lent Oculus when we installed a copy of the “Valve Room” at their headquarters. I would call Oculus the first SteamVR licensee, but history will likely record a somewhat different term for it…

目前沒有收到來自Oculus的回應（即使在Oculus專版上也是）


看更多報導
http://www.roadtovr.com/alan-yates-rift-is-direct-copy-of-valves-vr-research/?platform=hootsuite

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