Virtual reality made in Spain

SUMMARY

Virtual reality is already in the street. And it's Spanish. A year before Facebook and Sony touch action stations to sell their devices, Victor Ruiz, Spanish veteran videogame Fx Interactive, large companies with their version of virtual reality at a price of 79 euros is ahead. Lakento called VR, is a viewer looks similar to Oculus Rift or Morpheus. But it works with something that anyone can carry in your pocket: mobile.

"We've done a bit of Spanish. The system uses a velcro which allow mobile set between four and six inches. Two high quality optics allow the 3D effect, which is adjustable to each face. And we have two buttons to interact with the games" says Ruiz, who at the games Week Madrid first put on sale explains his invention. There, users could try games including glasses. One was walking along the seafloor using the buttons to photograph sharks, whales, dolphins or shoals clouds. In another peculiar application to link offered: "I call it... 'Augmented reality tool link' Use mobile camera to recognize faces You look at the person you want to flirt and makes you a compatibility test I look like Iron Man, full of bars and graphs. "An icebreaker in the virtual era.

CRITICS

The gadget will not have an easy competition. Facebook has spent more than 1,500 million euros in acquiring patent Oculus Rift and plans a commercial landing trumpeted pointing to the end of 2015. Sony accelerates plans his Morpheus, with the endorsement of more than 10 million PlayStation 4 has sold. And as for the solution by opting Lakento that it generates virtual mobile, Samsung has already prepared a similar gadget for your mobile Note 4. Ruiz intended to compete with the price and software.