alice-teacher Alice VR Hardware

[Barnum, William]

Thank you.

I've got some grant money that I need to spend soon and I want to make sure
that I make the right purchase.

It sounds like for now, the Rift S is still a safe purchase?

Bill

On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 1:01 PM Donald Slater via alice-teachers <
alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> William,
> I checked with the director of the Alice Project, Eric Brown.
>
> They are going to stop selling The Rift S because the newest Quest can do
> everything it can do and more.  If you wanted to connect your desktop (to
> run the Alice Player, for example) to the Quest there is a link cord that
> can be purchased.  Eric is not sure if they will start including this link
> cord with the purchase once the Rift is officially discontinued.  The Alice
> Player would run over the Link as would any other desktop-only VR apps for
> the Oculus ecosystem.  We are assuming that since they are planning on
> continuing to sell the Rift till next year they would also have to support
> it further into the future than that.
>
> Eric has not purchased the Link for his Quest but is planning on doing so
> to verify there is no issue.  We also hope to support loading content
> without the link cord in the future.
>
> Please let us know if you have any other questions.
>
> All the best,
> Don Slater
>
> Alice Project
>
> On Sep 22, 2020, at 2:48 PM, Barnum, William <wbarnum at elmhurst205.org>
> wrote:
>
> With the announcement of the Oculus Rift S headset being discontinued,
> what does that mean for a school that wants to purchase a VR headset to be
> used with Alice 3?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill Barnum
> York Community High School
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