30FPS vs High FPS discussion with Palmer Luckey - E3 2014
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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hey guys I know you all expected an Oculus video from me at E3 2014 but what
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I didn't expect and what I don't think you expected was an interview with Palmer luckily I was able to catch him
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for an interview and I hope you guys check that out all right guys we're here at the Oculus Booth with Palmer which is
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fantastic thank you for taking time on your day to have this interview and I wanted to ask you a question we we see
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certain games all the time going oh 30 FPS is fine we're on the Xbox 30 FPS is
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fine and then we see on the VR side Oculus and everybody else is thumping in
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the complete opposite direction so what are your thoughts on refresh rate
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monitors and F High FPS games for virtual reality you need much higher
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frame rate than you need on a typical screen 60 FPS definitely is enough you
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see huge improvements up to 90 or 120
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hertz and even beyond that you can see small improvements um so VR is going to
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need much higher frame rates than consoles although I even for consoles or
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or or normal P traditional PC games I don't think 30 FPS is is smart I don't
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it's not a good artist artistic decision it's a failure that's a that's an
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amazing quote I love that now in terms of virtual reality where do you see like
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far in the future where do you see refresh rate going what what's kind of
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the the limit of improvement I think that you see diminishing returns between
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90 and 120 Herz so I think that in the
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in the foreseeable future VR is going to end up somewhere in that range right
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okay now in terms of interacting with virtual reality I know the first thing
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everyone does when they put a headset on is try to see their fingers now we we've
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seen stuff here like control VR what are your thoughts on on like body tracking
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motion tracking and uh haptic feedback I think that there's a lot of interesting
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R&D being done in public and in private and the best Solutions are not
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necessarily yet announced so there's a lot of stuff in the pipe that's going to be pretty amazing because R isn't just
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about what you're seeing it is about being able to interact with the world in
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a natural way that's as natural as looking around it with the headset for
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sure and then another thing is I know you guys have been playing around with
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Android STK for Oculus and there's going to have to be a vast difference in the
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experience between what happens on Android and PC what kind of stuff do you
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expect to come into the Android in I think you're going to see things like uh
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panoramic photo capture you're going to see virtual movie theaters and a lot of
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more simple communication and gaming experiences then you're going to see on
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PC or you're going to be able to really crank up the graphics and do some cool
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stuff like alien isolation that's just not going to happen on a mobile device
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so if you ordered a DK2 early on your order will still be shipping in July if
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you ordered your DK2 after the August shipping announcement your shipping is
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still on track and if you buy one now you should be getting one in August as
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well arus is still flexing their strength with the Facebook acquisition
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they have hired even more people they recently hired on a co-founder of
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naughty dog every single time they hire someone I'm just like holy crap you
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could run your own company and you're being hired by Oculus extremely
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impressive I'm extremely excited to see what Oculus has to show us in the future
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I know Palmer was kind of hinting on a few things both on the game side and on
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the interaction side so I'm extremely excited to see what that is and I hope we see some of that in the future thank
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you guys for watching this video thank you for hyperx for sending us here this year and also thank you to corsera and
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ncx without all you guys we wouldn't be able to be here and I hope you guys
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and I'll see you guys next time