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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 11:42 
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FUCK.


Wait until it is up and running and people have tried it, and can tell you if you can read any of the text or not...


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 11:46 
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I know peeps who have tried it (they had a setup going at Lavecon recently) and it's fine :) Even DK1 was playable, just about.

Besides, if it's shit or it makes me feel sick, I'll just sell it on eBay for a profit ;)


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 11:54 
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I assume that means you have bought one already :D


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
PostPosted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 12:25 
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Indeedy, hence the "FUCK." post ;)


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
PostPosted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 12:00 
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http://www.roadtovr.com/road-vr-dk2-arr ... pressions/

A nice comprehensive write up of the DK2.


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
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Never has looking out of a rain soaked window seemed so exciting.


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 15:23 
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I had a shot of a Rift headset during the Commonwealth games as the BBC had one set up showing video from one of the stadiums. The way head movement tracked directly to movement of the image in the headset was excellent but it was a pretty shit demo for the technology because the resolution of the image being fed to the headset was shocklingly low so it was just (a very smoothly moving) nightmare of pixels. I think what they were doing was taking the image from the camera in the stadium then letting you 'pan' around it using the Rift hence why the image quality was so poor but the speed/smoothness of the head-tracking was so good. I'm still gagging for a go on one with it hooked up to a proper game of some kind.


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 15:25 
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Also: is there any firm news about when the consumer version of the hardware will go on sale? And for how much?


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No news yet. Late Autumn 2015 would be my guess.


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
PostPosted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 0:01 
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That video makes me tingle. Do want


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
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Heh, I posted to Facebook this morning that video of the guy looking around the interior of the car using the new Rift prototype. A mate of mine, who does like driving games especially to be fair, had somehow never even heard that such a thing existed so it totally blew his tiny little mind in a most amusing fashion. His first response to me was pretty much the real life equivalent of that Fry from Futurama 'SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY' image macro.


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
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Who needs an Oculus Rift when this does exactly the same thing for a fraction of the cost?

http://www.dx.com/p/neje-zb02-diy-googl ... Aby9PldWSo

(might actually try this for a laugh, I could do with a headache)


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
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The Doc has one of them.

https://cardboard.withgoogle.com/

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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
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Cool. Worth a fiver to save all that faff.


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
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markg wrote:
Who needs an Oculus Rift when this does exactly the same thing for a fraction of the cost?

http://www.dx.com/p/neje-zb02-diy-googl ... Aby9PldWSo

(might actually try this for a laugh, I could do with a headache)


Ordered!


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 13:49 
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I installed the app yesterday funnily enough. It must be worth a punt at that price


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2014 18:59 
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"This button will sponge back automatically with magnetical function"
sounds legit.


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
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So at some point this week myself and my team at work have to set up two gaming PCs with DK2 setups for demonstrations. We've warned Oculus that *extensive* testing will probably be required before we can roll these out! :DD


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
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Oh shit yeah, I forgot that your employer owns Oculus now. Any chance you can use your connections to expedite my Rift order? ;)


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
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GazChap wrote:
Oh shit yeah, I forgot that your employer owns Oculus now. Any chance you can use your connections to expedite my Rift order? ;)


Yeah, sure, it's right here dude:
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Oh, no, sorry, these are ours. ;)


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
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Huh, looks a lot more like Google Cardboard than I expected.


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:D


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
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How's the new job going?

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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
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Very well thanks. It's very busy, but I work in a great team and it's such an awesome place to work it never seems to matter. Busy, but not stressful, unlike my last place which often seemed like the polar opposite.


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2014 9:09 
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After reading up on google cardboard, I'm actually really looking forward to giving it a go :nerd:


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
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After reading up on google cardboard, I'm actually really looking forward to giving it a go :nerd:


Yeah, me too. Though fuck knows how long mine'll take to arrive from DX. I can't even track it because they want you to 'validate you account' to access such an advanced feature but the link they email to you doesn't work. Awesome website design guys.


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
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they should release some cardboard headphones to go with it.


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2014 11:31 
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I've tried it without any head gear and just crossing my eyes, but it doesn't work very well and I look like even more of tit than I will with the occulus thrift on my mega bonce.


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
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Just had a go on one of the DK2's here in a demo of a villa. It's a vastly better experience than I'd been expecting - utterly incredible. I've told work I'm bringing a 360 controller in next week and installing Elite: Dangerous to the demo rig.


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2014 17:27 
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You.

Bastard.

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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
PostPosted: Wed Sep 10, 2014 15:52 
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I've downloaded about a dozen apps ready for my Cardboard delivery. Which I'm sure will be any day now.


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Got mine this morning. It's clever!

The box needed some help with scissors, though.

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It has arrived.


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
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Clearly I live closer to China.

;)

The mag switch doesn't seem to work


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DavPaz wrote:
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Clearly I live closer to China.

;)

The mag switch doesn't seem to work


Press Triangle when you aren't sprinting.


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
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Clearly I live closer to China.

;)

The mag switch doesn't seem to work

Yeah, it's not a switch, it's just two magnets, one on each side of the cardboard.

I found that if I got hold of the outside one and wiggled it up and down a lot it worked.

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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
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I was wondering if I'd disabled the magnetic sensor during my push for better battery life.

But I haven't


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
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Can't you get it to work at all?

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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
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The magnet switch doesn't work for me either, but then my phone doesn't really fit in the holder properly anyway so it could just be an alignment issue. Hmm, or maybe it doesn't have a magnetic sensor? What's that used for in day-to-day operations anyway?

Also, the actual Cardboard app doesn't work with my phone. If you move your head at all it initially picks up the movement then, a millisecond later, snaps back to the original position which is eye fucking and useless. The sensor in the phone works generally because it works fine when viewing Photospheres in 'free look' mode and also a couple of the third party VR apps works fine.


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 Post subject: Re: Oculus Rift
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Hmm, that's odd. After fiddling with it for ages last night I just tried it again and the Cardboard app works fine on my phone (magnet switch notwithstanding). That's probably my morning at work fucked then!


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It's still pretty crap with my phone and requires a bit of the old 'magic eye' technique for some reason but I just tried it with one of the guys at work's Nexus 5 and it works fantastically and is a million times more impressive; to the point that a few people here have just ordered one as well.


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I tried with a Nexus 5 because my Note 3 didn't fit in the holder (unsurprisingly).

To be honest the N5 hardly fitted either.

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Grim... wrote:
I tried with a Nexus 5 because my Note 3 didn't fit in the holder (unsurprisingly).

To be honest the N5 hardly fitted either.


Hmm, maybe it's a Nexus 4 my mate at work's got actually. It worked brilliantly anyway and another guy is currently installing the app on his Galaxy S 4 to try that out.


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Magnet issues notwithstanding, it works really well with my s4. I took a photoshere shot of the garden last night to test it out and it looks fantastic. The lens quality is a bit pap so the 3d effect is hit and miss, but for the price, I'm impressed


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Grim... wrote:
I tried with a Nexus 5 because my Note 3 didn't fit in the holder (unsurprisingly).

To be honest the N5 hardly fitted either.


I checked and the guy at work has an N5 and it fits and works perfectly.


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Huh, that's odd.

Maybe you got a different set to me.

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There's some more VR toys here for cardboard that work right in the browser with no other app required:

http://vr.chromeexperiments.com/#/desktop

Though very simplistic the roller-coaster one is surprisingly effective and after five minutes spent with it my return to 'normal' reality was amusingly jarring.


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Cool. I'll give those a go after kiddie bedtime


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