Oculus Rift’s Newest Prototype is ‘Crescent Bay’

<p>Oculus has announced a new headmounted display that is &&num;8220&semi;as big a leap forward as DK2 was from DK1&period;&&num;8221&semi; Crescent Bay adds key features and integrates some of the work that Michael Abrash and his team were working at Valve&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This latest headset calls back to a bit of Crystal Cove with its exposed LEDs&comma; but this time they&&num;8217&semi;re on the back&period; This means that Crescent Bay &lpar;and the eventual consumer Oculus kit&rpar; will include 360 degree tracking&period; The Crescent Bay also includes integrated audio&period; The headphones are more mobile and this time around you can use your own earbuds&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Alas&comma; CEO Brendan Iribe says this still isn&&num;8217&semi;t the consumer model though&period; The devices that are here at Oculus Connect were hand-made at Oculus HQ over the past few days are extremely fragile&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Tune in sometime soon to see more from Oculus &&num;8217&semi;til the day we really can start playing in The Enterprise&&num;8217&semi;s holodeck&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Sources&colon;<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;oculus&period;com&sol;blog&sol;oculus-connect-2014&sol;">The Oculus Blog<&sol;a> via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;engadget&period;com&sol;2014&sol;09&sol;20&sol;oculus-rift-crescent-bay&sol;">Engadget<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;