Palmer Luckey: Consumer Oculus Rift 'Should Work for About 95% of People'

VRFocus - Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus VR and creator of the Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) headset, has said that the upcoming consumer version of the device 'should work for about 95% of people' when it is released. Luckey said as much speaking on a panel titled 'Forecasting VR’s Adoption Over the Next 5 Years Live Blog' at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality (SVVR) Conference & Expo 2014.

[Milesprowers]

What about one-eyed or blind people?

[Bodge]

Nothing that can be done to make it work for them.

[MajorGecko]

eye-patch rift

[Stapleface]

DK1 has been tested and works. Morpheus was said to work for one eyed gamers in the statements from Sony when it was announced. The guy who tested the DK1 wasn't even used to seeing with one eye. He had recently had surgery. The issues he had would not be issues for someone who had gotten used to single eye vision over a long period of time. Can't say anything about the consumer version as we don't know anything about it. But I will be getting one and I have vision in only one eye. If I can't use it my son can so it won't be a waste.

[The Great Melon]

No reason it shouldn't work for those who aren't able to use both eyes. Obviously stereoscopy won't be present for that group, but immersion should still be present given the large field of view along with the precise tracking of the head.

[WeAreLegion]

That's good to know. The new technologies they're developing around this thing are so impressive. The new shutter thing that reduces motion blur is brilliant! I can't wait for the consumer version. Please don't screw this up for everyone, Facebook.

[Illusive_Man]

But 95% of consumers won't buy it.

[Pandamobile]

5% of a very large number is still a pretty large number.

[Skate-AK]

Can't wait for a chance to try some kind of VR.

[darx]

Good for me I fall in the 5%