Oculus VR Announces Oculus Rift Dev Kit 2 Availability
This week, the company announced the Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 (DK2). It's been a year since the original dev kit shipped out, and a lot has been improved. All of the content developed using DK2 will work with the eventual consumer Rift. There's a 960 x 1080 (per-eye) dispay, as well as "low-latency positional head tracking using an external camera that allows you to move with 6-degrees-of-freedom and opens up all sorts of new gameplay opportunities like peering around corners, leaning in to get a closer look at objects in the world, and kicking back on a virtual beach."
DK2 also includes updated orientation tracking, a built-in latency tester, an on-headset USB accessory port, new optics, elimination of the infamous control box, a redesigned SDK and further optimized Unity and Unreal Engine 4 integrations. The DK2 unit will be $350 at launch, and pre-orders are open now. As for the wait? The first units will begin shipping in July.