Huh, looks a lot more like Google Cardboard than I expected.
How's the new job going?
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.
After reading up on google cardboard, I'm actually really looking forward to giving it a go 
DavPaz wrote:
After reading up on google cardboard, I'm actually really looking forward to giving it a go
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.
they should release some cardboard headphones to go with it.
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.
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.
You.
Bastard.
Bastard.
I've downloaded about a dozen apps ready for my Cardboard delivery. Which I'm sure will be any day now.
Got mine this morning. It's clever!
The box needed some help with scissors, though.
The box needed some help with scissors, though.
It has arrived.
Clearly they like me more.
Grim... wrote:
Clearly I live closer to China.
The mag switch doesn't seem to work
DavPaz wrote:
Grim... wrote:
Clearly I live closer to China.
The mag switch doesn't seem to work
Press Triangle when you aren't sprinting.
DavPaz wrote:
Grim... wrote:
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.
I was wondering if I'd disabled the magnetic sensor during my push for better battery life.
But I haven't
But I haven't
Can't you get it to work at all?
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
To be honest the N5 hardly fitted either.
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.
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.
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
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.
To be honest the N5 hardly fitted either.
I checked and the guy at work has an N5 and it fits and works perfectly.
Huh, that's odd.
Maybe you got a different set to me.
Maybe you got a different set to me.
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.
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.
Cool. I'll give those a go after kiddie bedtime
The next prototype has been demoed and it seems pretty good...
http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments ... y/.compact
http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments ... y/.compact
SHIT JUST GOT REAL
iRacing have just announced Technohat support.
iRacing have just announced Technohat support.
Gaz, this is next!
http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/26/dexm ... oskeleton/
http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/26/dexm ... oskeleton/
In all seriousness, a couple of location-sensing rings to put your hands in the game would be awesome.
Or kinect. I suppose that's not made by occulus though, so can't work.
Wii-mote!
DavPaz wrote:
Wii-mote!
So you have to put the Wiimote down every time you want to use the joystick? Ok.
Strap it to your wrist.
DavPaz wrote:
Strap it to your wrist.
I'm sorry, but then you'd just look like an idiot.
But you'd never know!
American Nervoso wrote:
DavPaz wrote:
Wii-mote!
So you have to put the Wiimote down every time you want to use the joystick? Ok.
Or use it as a joystick?
Bobbyaro wrote:
American Nervoso wrote:
DavPaz wrote:
Wii-mote!
So you have to put the Wiimote down every time you want to use the joystick? Ok.
Or use it as a joystick?
I don't think that would be very good for Elite, for example. Something that Grim... suggested like a pair of wristbands would be good.
Wristbands are a bit coarse though. If we're going sci-fi anyway then either gloves with finger position sensing or finger-tracking via a camera like Kinect would seem logical. Particularly if you could build some haptic feedback into the fingers of the gloves.
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Wristbands are a bit coarse though. If we're going sci-fi anyway then either gloves with finger position sensing or finger-tracking via a camera like Kinect would seem logical. Particularly if you could build some haptic feedback into the fingers of the gloves.
The grab bars!
Of course, it already has a camera.
Grim... wrote:
Of course, it already has a camera.
That's just an IR receiver isn't it? Just like a Wii, in fact
DavPaz wrote:
Grim... wrote:
Of course, it already has a camera.
That's just an IR receiver isn't it? Just like a Wii, in fact
The headset certainly has leds for the purpose. They show up clearly on my phone camera when looking at the headset.
DavPaz wrote:
Grim... wrote:
Of course, it already has a camera.
That's just an IR receiver isn't it? Just like a Wii, in fact
Yeah, but you could have an IR-emitting bracelet and maybe not need additional sensing hardware.