虚拟现实公司Oculus收购了英国公司Surreal Vision，该公司的软件可以在虚拟世界中绘制和再现真实世界。超现实的愿景源于三位联合创始人的博士学位。伦敦帝国理工学院研究；研究小组现在将转移到位于华盛顿雷德蒙的奥库勒斯实验室。

这是Oculus几次收购中的最新一次，Oculus于2014年3月被Facebook收购。在Facebook收购之后，它引进了帮助创建xbox360控制器和Kinect的设计团队，接着是运动跟踪公司Nimble VR。在今天的一篇博文中，超现实主义的视野给了我们一个关于它将要做什么的想法（重点补充）

From the human point of view, the world is c***tantly in motion. As we move around, our eyes dart about the scene and the rich dynamical nature of the scene's contents come flooding in. We're able to make sense of those changing signals to produce a coherent understanding of the world we live in, which we effortlessly navigate and interact with. Over the past three decades, a great deal of work in computer vision has attempted to mimic human-class perceptual capabilities using color and depth cameras.

At Surreal Vision, we are overhauling state-of-the-art 3D scene rec***truction algorithms to provide a rich, up-to-date model of everything in the environment including people and their interacti*** with each other. We're developing breakthrough techniques to capture, interpret, manage, ****yze, and finally re-project in real-time a model of reality back to the user in a way that feels real, creating a new, mixed reality that brings together the virtual and real worlds.

Ultimately, these technologies will lead to VR and AR systems that can be used in any condition, day or night, indoors or outdoors. They will open the door to true telepresence, where people can visit anyone, anywhere.

Much progress has been made toward this future, but significant challenges remain. For virtual reality, the accuracy and quality of the continuously updating 3D rec***truction must be near flawless, which is a requirement almost no other modern computer vision problem faces. When we cross these seminal thresholds, users will perceive the virtual world as truly real - and that is the experience we're driving toward.

例如，我们可以看看SLAM++，一个由超现实视觉联合创始人开发的虚拟地图系统。在上面的演示视频中，一个深度感应相机扫描一个房间，一个程序分析它的内容，并将其与预先渲染的对象数据库（如椅子和桌子）进行匹配。从那里，数字创作可以出现与现实世界的互动(早在2013年，当下面的演示被拍摄时，这就意味着让虚拟人从真实的椅子上站起来，跳起“江南风格”的舞蹈。）

能够将游戏物理应用于真实空间是微软HoloLens等增强现实项目的核心，但到目前为止，Oculus在自己的世界中的真实世界交互有限。现在它的成品正式来年，虽然，它承诺向我们展示更多的方法来使用虚拟现实。不管团队最终在Oculus做什么，SLAM++的一个独特之处在于它不仅能找到物体的形状，还能猜测它是什么。

增强现实通常涉及到在现实世界中添加铃铛和口哨。但是，像超现实视觉的工作可能是同样重要的，正如团队提到的，网真。你可以买虚拟的NBA球票，令人信服地坐在看台上，或者在虚拟会议上喝咖啡。最重要的是，它可以与运动控制的工作相吻合——这是VR和AR爱好者仍在努力解决的核心问题之一。