Basemark and Crytek are building a VR benchmark of their own
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Crytek recently added Oculus Rift support to Cryengine 3, and now the developer is working with Basemark to create a VR headset benchmark. The two companies say the joint effort will give users "recognizable, real-world metrics to describe their system's VR readiness" with multiple head-mounted displays.
The Cryengine-based benchmark will purportedly provide detailed feedback on measurements like frame rates, latency, and 3D audio fidelity-positional audio is important for an immersive VR experience. Basemark founder and CEO Tero Sarkkinen says using Cryengine ...