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Oculus Rift unveiled a new "Crystal Cove" unit at CES today, with the new
version of their Oculus VR headset sporting an upgraded OLED display and newly
added positional tracking. There are details on this on
Polygon, where they learned that these changes will not greatly increase the
cost of the units. "Cost has always been at the crux of the entire Oculus
platform, if the hardware is not affordable, it might as well not exist," Nate
Mitchell of Oculus told them. "We made sure this is a low-cost solution without
sacrificing any quality. This is a top-notch positional tracking system." They
have some info on both changes, saying OLED panel has an unusually high refresh
rate and the ability to fire an individual pixel "for a fraction of a
millisecond and then turning it off and then going black until the next pulse."
They also discuss what the positional tracking adds:
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