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Techy111
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June 10, 2019
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The Index thread (please keep to subject)

As per the title, please respect the users who post here and keep it on topic, any nonsense and......grrr

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    Techy111Author
    Honored Contributor
    July 23, 2019
    He won't be able to comment, apparently his wife has birthday stuff for him today, takes a while to open new socks and some aftershave ;)
    A PC with lots of gadgets inside and a thing to see in 3D that you put on your head.
    RuneSR2
    RuneSR2
    Honored Contributor
    July 23, 2019
    Not sure I've seen many shots of the real box and packing, but the mailman just delivered this - and the wife is still in a good mood - said something like "you knew that package would arrive today, right?"  :) Spidey just to show the scale, weight on the package 7.83 kg (17.26 lbs) - it's heavy - package looks in perfect shape, no sign of any damage:




    Not sure if I should open it - right now everything is perfect, not sure that'll continue when I try the controllers ;) Maybe I've got another Schrödinger's cat in my hands, quite hard to pick the perfect time to open the box to see if it's alive or dead, lol. 

    Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD "Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"
    Luciferous
    Inspiring
    July 23, 2019
    YOU know you want to :)  I presume you are sitting at breakfast, drinking coffee smiling at the family and pretending you don't want to abandon them and rip it open like a lunatic.
    RuneSR2
    RuneSR2
    Honored Contributor
    July 23, 2019

    Luciferous said:

    YOU know you want to :)  I presume you are sitting at breakfast, drinking coffee smiling at the family and pretending you don't want to rip it open like a lunatic.



    You know me better than my wife! :blush:
    Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD "Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"
    RuneSR2
    RuneSR2
    Honored Contributor
    July 23, 2019
    I really dislike all those annoying box shots on Valve Index Reddit - I'm so happy that the mods have deleted many of them. But I love my own box shots :blush: And since I'm semi-incapacitated setting up and using the gear today, I have a lot of time to post photos  o:)

    I opened the box this way - carefully so I'm still able to return it:


    Tilted the box 90 degrees and gravity helped a lot:






    Info on left side of the box - I removed the serial numbers:


    Info on right side of the box:


    - Compared to the CV1 bundle the Index box definitely is much bigger - and I'd say more impressive in quality too, although I really love the CV1 box (which has a handle like a suitcase, the Index box doesn't):



    CV1 is on top :blush:


    I love to collect stuff in mint condition - and I often find it very hard to remove shrink wrapping from comic books, sometimes leading me to buy two so I don't have to remove the shrink wrapping and ruin the mint condition for one book :blush: 

    Clearly my biggest problem today will be to break the seal  :#

     

    BTW, this does show - I think - that I've received an unopened (non-refurbished) Index - but I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, because then Knuckles probably have not been through new QA... Yeah, I know, Harry said it before:


    Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD "Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"
    Shadowmask72
    Shadowmask72
    Honored Contributor
    July 23, 2019
    Just open the damn thing. It's your B'day which means you get to do what you want to do. Isn't that the whole point? Kids go play outside (make sure they have sunscreen today). Wife, help me unpack.

    Sorted.
    System Specs: MSI NVIDIA RTX 4090 , i5 13700K CPU, 32GB DDR 4 RAM, Win 11 64 Bit OS.
    RuneSR2
    RuneSR2
    Honored Contributor
    July 23, 2019


    Just open the damn thing. It's your B'day which means you get to do what you want to do. Isn't that the whole point? Kids go play outside (make sure they have sunscreen today). Wife, help me unpack.

    Sorted.


    I'll try to get it set up later today, but probably it won't be before the evening - a few guests are coming over - have to get food ready etc. so kids aren't the main problem today ;)
     
    BTW, this is a slightly delicate situation - she just noticed the giant box, realized it wasn't a comic book and wasn't exactly pleased (VR isn't very social in her mind). I'm so happy I got the package today - getting it tomorrow (her birthday) I may have felt like Donald Duck meeting the gorilla  :# :D
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    Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD "Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"
    RuneSR2
    RuneSR2
    Honored Contributor
    July 23, 2019

    Luciferous said:

    Happy Birthday Runes. Is it here yet? ?


    Thanks - just saw your post - it's here - but I'm taking it slow - each base station must be perfectly angled, just getting that right may take me hours  B) And it's hard to perform this kind of surgery today and tomorrow. Maybe I should call some of my wife's friends and invite them over tomorrow so she'll be occupied  >:) 
    Single dudes have no idea how easy their lives are  ;) 
    Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD "Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"
    Shadowmask72
    Shadowmask72
    Honored Contributor
    July 23, 2019
    Damn, if your wife ever reads this thread Rune you're in big trouble.
    System Specs: MSI NVIDIA RTX 4090 , i5 13700K CPU, 32GB DDR 4 RAM, Win 11 64 Bit OS.
    RuneSR2
    RuneSR2
    Honored Contributor
    July 23, 2019


    Damn, if your wife ever reads this thread Rune you're in big trouble.



    I know, but not compared to her reading my journal at Collectors' Society, lol
    I'm alone with the kids next week that's when I've planned to focus more on the Index. It took me months to get everything perfect with the CV1, having to evaluate Index in just 14 days already starts to feel slightly stressful. My primary concern is simply to set up and check if the hardware is working correctly - second concern is evaluating if SteamVR games and apps experiences are improved compared to CV1 (res 200% = ss 2.0). Third concern will be Revive etc. 
    Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD "Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"
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