Experience virtual reality at BTS ‘15
KUCHING: Visitors to the Building Trade Show (BTS) 2015 at the Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK) will be treated to an immersive Virtual Reality (VR) experience.
The BTS starts tomorrow and ends on Sunday.
Members of the public are invited to visit the trade show and the virtual reality booth is located at booth number D35.
Malaysian Institute of Architects Sarawak Chapter (PAMSC) the event organiser, together with TEEM Event and Exhibition Sdn Bhd will be setting up a virtual reality booth for the public to experience the virtual world. For decades, various companies have been trying to put together an immersive VR headset. Most of the headsets are basically stereoscopic glasses, where the users would experience 3D viewing as if the images are projected onto large screen in front of them.
None of them managed to successfully give the users a total immersive virtual reality experience. Total immersive experience is where the user can feel, move and look around as if they are in another place.
Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus, then developed the idea of creating a head-mounted display that is better and more immersive than what is available in the market. Oculus Rift has got the virtual reality community excited with the new platform and it is believed that Oculus will pave the way for the future of virtual reality.
In March 2014, Facebook announced that it had agreed to buy Oculus VR for US$ 2 billion.
Oculus rift is still under development and there is no indication when the consumer version of the rift would be released to the public.
However, the organisers of the BTS 2015 has managed to get their hands on one of the development kits and they will be letting the public experience immersive virtual reality at the trade show.
Visitors to the oculus booth will be able to catch a glimpse of the future of VR. They can experience for themselves what it feels like to be immersed in another ‘world’.
It will be an experience not to be missed as most people who have tried it said there were no words to describe the experience. It feels so real as if the person who wears the headset has been ‘transported’ to another place.
The headset is equipped with positional tracking, which means the user can turn his heads and look around in the virtual world.
VR will certainly be a big thing with future gamers. It also has great potential for other applications in areas such as education, medicine, science and exploration.