Question about Oculus and their thoughts on Equipment lead length.

You can buy extension leads.  The length they provide is ok for the minimum, and keeps the price of the hardware down.  Add longer active leads price goes up, sales go down, price goes up even more.

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TwoHedWlf said:

You can buy extension leads.  The length they provide is ok for the minimum, and keeps the price of the hardware down.  Add longer active leads price goes up, sales go down, price goes up even more.

You can.. but you need a hdmi repeater and all this other rubbish where you need to know all the dynamics.
Easier just to provide the right gear straight up.. no confusion. 

You're right. For a long time, Oculus only focused on a front-facing setup (and arguably, they still are only focused on the front-facing setup). But after seeing how popular Vive's roomscale setup and the games made for it were, Oculus knew they had to do something to match, and so now they are. They're recommending certain extenders for people who need extra cable length for roomscale setups, and have provided good guides in how to best setup roomscale for the Oculus.

Main point being: Oculus's CV1 kit is designed for a front-facing setup, and if you do the setup as described, you wont need longer wires than those that are provided. You can still play Arizona Sunshine (I have), and all front-facing games that are on the Oculus Store without problem. Yes, space is always nice. Its extra-nice in Arizona Sunshine, not having to warp inch after inch so you can get into that filing cabinet for the ammo you need, instead, just walking up to it. But again, front-facing standing setup is what Oculus Touch 2-sensor was made for, and for that, the Oculus company has provided us with exactly what us consumers need to achieve such a setup.

Try opening car doors and getting the items inside with Ariz

I have, it's annoying, but it's doable. I got used to making very minute movements with the teleport system. Getting as close to the car door as possible, opening it (having to usually pull it through your body instead of standing around it), and then teleporting once more to get near the ammo. I've found this task to be much less painful when I added a few extra feet between my center starting position in VR and the front guardian wall. This gives you some room to teleport near the car door, walk a step or two up to it, open it while moving backwards to avoid it, and then possibly a little room to be able to reach the ammo, all without doing a lot of teleporting.

I'm not saying it's a perfect experience. And I won't not (double negative) recommend buying accessories to lengthen the cables to make your play area larger, as well as get a 3rd sensor (I thoroughly enjoy my upgrade to a 360 3-sensor setup, with which I do now have more room to move and more options of interaction with the virtual environment with a standing setup).

Again, its annoying, but it's still playable to the fullest extent (specifically Arizona Sunshine). Yes, longer cables would be nice right out of the box from the manufacturer, but it just isn't necessary for the front-facing 2 sensor setup. As of right now, I wouldn't be using that extra length for my setup. I am a lucky one with where my computer is placed though in relation to my playspace.

Yeh it is necessary... Do you want to take your computer with you outside?

molokow said:

Easier just to provide the right gear straight up.. no confusion. 

I would rather not have to stash another surplus 3 meters of cable I have enough surplus as it is.

@Percy1983 - Thank you. I too would have to stash extra length if the cables were any longer.

@molokow  - I clearly gave you options for working with the small cable length, and I believe I did ok at justifying why the cable length is the way it is. If you need more cable length, go buy extension cables. It's not Oculus' job to extend their original cables because your setup is in an extraordinary circumstance, or because you refuse to try different setups that would possibly be a better fit for your situation.

They provided exactly the right gear for what their product does. My computer is humming safely right next to me, not outside, and all I need to do is put on my headset, push-off from my desk about 2-3ft to get to the center of my playspace, then I'm setup in my 360 standing setup (2mx1.5m) with NO ADDITIONAL WIRES NEEDED.

I still fail to see why you need extra length for front-facing. Is your computer far away from your playspace? After raging-out on your response to me ("Yeh it is necessary...")(it is clearly not necessary as many of us users do not need this length... and why would my computer be outside???), can I help you with your setup to make it so you can play Arizona Sunshine the way you want? It really should only be a matter of moving your sensors to better capture your controllers.

Please tell about your setup, so we can figure out how to make your playspace playable.

molokow said:

Yeh it is necessary... Do you want to take your computer with you outside?

Setting up my pc and rift outside would be awesome.