This prototype will evolve to a smaller design for the developer kit
VR is on everyone's minds. Facebook made big waves with its $2 billion purchase of Oculus VR. Just before that, Sony's big reveal of Project Morpheus at GDC. That wasn't the only new player in San Francisco that week, however. Canadian company Sulon Technologies debuted its Cortex virtual reality hardware at the Game Developer's Conference, showing off a technology that separates it from Oculus Rift and CastAR. Instead, it incorporates elements of both virtual reality and augmented reality.
Goggles that bring your Android display to your eyes
Sulon Cortex transformed this space into a zombie-infested space station
What the Cortex goggle headset does differently is that it takes into account your surroundings to create a virtual space. Rather than use a gamepad to move and navigate the world, you physically move within your real life space. There is a spatially aware camera and other sensors that capture your surroundings, which you can see when wearing the Cortex, and then with a flip of a switch suddenly your surroundings are transformed into a similarly shaped, but still completely differently looking space station… complete with zombie attackers. Our sister site Tom's Guide describes the demo well, as well as the video below.
We had the chance to sit down with Sulon Technologies CEO Dhanushan Balachandreswara to learn more about the Cortex.
Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.
Sounds like another overprice board.. Expect this to compete with the ASUS Maximus IV Impact in terms of pricing. For me, the AsRock Z87E mini ITX motherboard will always be the best choice.
