Carl Zeiss showed at the Cebit the Cinemizer Oled: a virtual reality glasses with built-in headtracking, resulting in the movement of the head can be followed. The glasses work with two oled screens, and can also include 3d images.
The glasses seem to look at a large solar or goggles and sits fairly comfortable on the head. For each eye is an oled screen is placed, which according to an employee at a resolution of “almost 720p”, an exact number he could not give. For audio are earbuds built-in, on the stand for hygienic reasons not to use it. This is not the first time that Carl Zeiss the glasses shows, but new, the latest model is the built-in head tracking. The manufacturer work jointly with the company Inreal Technologies, that the functionality of the necessary hardware and software and provides.
The device was on the basis of three different demonstrations are shown. The first demonstration was aimed at architects that the purchaser of a new build property the opportunity to give to the building from the inside. With the glasses and into the hand of a small joystick could the carrier by a wooded area to walk, where a home once stood. The stick served only to move it forward or backward, the direction of rotation corresponded to the point at which looking.
This way of control has some time to get, but works quickly and easily. Once in the house arrived, it was a strange sensation to be around to be able to look by only using the head to move, but the effect was excellent. That is partly because of the good graphics; the demonstration was built with the CryEngine, which is also at the basis of the Crysis games.
Another demomodel was linked to a laptop running a 3d-version of Disney’s Rapunzel was played. The 3d effect was noticeable and there was no mention of flicker, as with some tvs with the active 3d work.
The last demonstration was linked to a game console on which a racing game turned. We were able to sit down in a racestoeltje running a Logitech G27 steering wheel was mounted. Once again it was the image in 3d, but here, it was somewhat disorienting, perhaps because of the high speed the cars moving in the game. Once again it was the pair of glasses to be aware of the position of the head, creating a curve could be inspected at the cutting, which have contributed to the sense of realism.
Compared with, for example, the Personal 3D Viewer from Sony is the Cinemizer a lot more comfortable to wear, but the image quality may not match that of Sony’s device. This is partially due to the lack of rubber oogkapjes on the current model, so there is a lot of incident light to be seen. However, it worked and the us was also a prototype shown that this oogkapjes were included. The angle of view is also less impressive; in the eyes of Sony, the idea have to be a widescreen in the cinema to look, is the ratio of the Cinemizer Oled is more rectangular and the image seems to be a little further from the eyes.
The current version of the glasses, with headtracking, should be about 750 euros in costs. Carl Zeiss and InReal work for future virtual-reality demonstrations, however, to an improved set-up, with no loose joystick more is needed, but the user on a treadmill is that 360-degree movement. The companies are currently working on getting patents on the techniques used.