Oculus Rift

Guest2 · 27 Oct 2014 at 23:58

OCULUS VR, INC. 50.00U.S. DOLLA at 1.68976005 IRVINE £29.59
OCULUS VR, INC. 412.00U.S. DOLLA at 1.60379929 IRVINE £256.89

£286.48 (at those rates)

Either way, I think £290 is excellent for this technology. Its the first time I have thought wow, next gen gaming.

All this EU4 tech. I wish someone would make a smooth Unreal mod / patch so it works with DK2

mountaincow · 28 Oct 2014 at 19:21

Richard Burns Rally now working very nicely with DK2:

http://www.kegetys.fi/oculus-rift-mod-for-richard-burns-rally/

MarkeR · 28 Oct 2014 at 21:13

So what's the average wait time now. Cancelled my original order from a couple of months back due to finances

. re-ordered last night, are we looking at 3 or 4 weeks?

mountaincow · 28 Oct 2014 at 21:31

MarkeR said:
So what's the average wait time now. Cancelled my original order from a couple of months back due to finances . re-ordered last night, are we looking at 3 or 4 weeks?

People are receiving their orders within 2-3 weeks now.
http://www.oculus-tracker.ml/

Update today: http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/2kl55t/official_dk2_shipping_update_102814/

Guest2 · 28 Oct 2014 at 22:29

Has anyone updated to SDK 0.4.3?

edit - Don't, it seems there are a few issues and FOV is reduced for some reason.

I have just tried 'Laser face' Its actually really good and easy to play but still hard to complete the first level.

I would recommend not reading the write up or you probably wont download it!

https://share.oculusvr.com/app/laserface

Guest2 · 28 Oct 2014 at 23:08

double post

deltalinx · 29 Oct 2014 at 16:57

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29570609

Guest2 · 29 Oct 2014 at 19:07

deltalinx said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29570609

Awesome. But screw Harry potter wands, I want that M4 Carbine and Counterstrike support for DK2. Or at least a realistic handgun.

Even a simple VR target range would be great with these.

I wonder how much an M4 Striker VR costs. A real military M4 is supposed to be about $9000

MarkeR · 30 Oct 2014 at 12:24

Man, that was quick.. Ordered on the 27th and it is ready for shipping today

wickfut · 30 Oct 2014 at 12:46

MarkeR said:
Man, that was quick.. Ordered on the 27th and it is ready for shipping today

3 day turnaround? seriously?

MarkeR · 30 Oct 2014 at 12:54

wickfut said:
3 day turnaround? seriously?

Yup, money taken out my account yesterday.. Maybe they have a batch that have been cancelled and are ready to ship when bought now..

I'm not complaining though

leon4112 · 30 Oct 2014 at 13:47

MarkeR said:
Yup, money taken out my account yesterday.. Maybe they have a batch that have been cancelled and are ready to ship when bought now..

I'm not complaining though

Mine too ordered on the 23rd and thought I had 6-8 weeks to wait before I had to pay bah credit card comes in use

From when they take the money when does it normally come mine is on ready? What's yours marker?

MarkeR · 30 Oct 2014 at 17:08

leon4112 said:
Mine too ordered on the 23rd and thought I had 6-8 weeks to wait before I had to pay bah credit card comes in use

From when they take the money when does it normally come mine is on ready? What's yours marker?

Sitting at Ready as well mate.. Hopefully ship in the next day or so

Flying_Hellfish · 30 Oct 2014 at 17:19

I'll be dusting off the DK1 tomorrow as I've got the place to myself.

Any tips on good stuff/demos to play at the moment? GUEST2 pointed me in the direction of some already, but whatever you guys have! AC and Euro Truck Sim are so immersive, shame about the low res on DK1.

And I should or should not install the latest SDK?

The_Baron · 30 Oct 2014 at 17:51

Just placed an order for DK2. Could not resist any more.

leon4112 · 30 Oct 2014 at 19:43

MarkeR said:
Sitting at Ready as well mate.. Hopefully ship in the next day or so

You and me both bud you'll see me on steam playing Alien and lasting around 10 mins on it lol

been putting off playing it till this comes.

All we need now is it to work with arma 3 that would be amazing!!

Edit: looks like you already can with a list of games i didn't know worked with it

http://uk.ign.com/wikis/oculus-rift/List_of_Games_Compatible_with_Oculus_Rift

Flying_Hellfish · 31 Oct 2014 at 00:31

Updated my DK1 to firmware 18. Seems a lot nicer to play, sickness-wise. Some DK2 games don't work however.

Mercutio · 31 Oct 2014 at 03:33

Guest2 said:
OCULUS VR, INC. 50.00U.S. DOLLA at 1.68976005 IRVINE £29.59
OCULUS VR, INC. 412.00U.S. DOLLA at 1.60379929 IRVINE £256.89

£286.48 (at those rates)

Either way, I think £290 is excellent for this technology. Its the first time I have thought wow, next gen gaming.

All this EU4 tech. I wish someone would make a smooth Unreal mod / patch so it works with DK2

For the price though, you can build the head tracking for... £30 (as good as DK2 at least). The screen is quite the trick but... with a bit of looking around it's probably available. The lenses are basically loupe lenses (google) add the github open source DK1 and you fairly quickly have a DK2

Not saying it's totally easy but...

There is actually a Chinese place shipping "VR 3D Glasses For Smartphones" which covers the lenses and mount needed for the screen so it would just take a screen and something like the ED Tracker (perfect head tracking) to make (something very close to) a DK2.

niggyg · 31 Oct 2014 at 09:30

Mercutio said:
For the price though, you can build the head tracking for... £30 (as good as DK2 at least). The screen is quite the trick but... with a bit of looking around it's probably available. The lenses are basically loupe lenses (google) add the github open source DK1 and you fairly quickly have a DK2

Not saying it's totally easy but...

There is actually a Chinese place shipping "VR 3D Glasses For Smartphones" which covers the lenses and mount needed for the screen so it would just take a screen and something like the ED Tracker (perfect head tracking) to make (something very close to) a DK2.

I've made an edtracker. It was a fun £10 proof of concept project for me. It was designed for the cockpit view in Elite Dangerous and it works well with that game. It's lacking tracking of a further planes (keeping head still & move forwards/backwards and the same with sideways) though. Does the rift track these?

CGrieves · 31 Oct 2014 at 09:58

niggyg said:
I've made an edtracker. It was a fun £10 proof of concept project for me. It was designed for the cockpit view in Elite Dangerous and it works well with that game. It's lacking tracking of a further planes (keeping head still & move forwards/backwards and the same with sideways) though. Does the rift track these?

Yes, full six degrees of freedom, and VR feels a rather weird without it.

If you want cheap VR, just make a Google Cardboard. Owning both, it's a little bit of a leap between that and the DK2 though!

Offered the choice between spending £290 and bodging something together from parts, not to mention getting it to work with games, I'd go with £290 every time!