I recently picked up a new laptop, 16 GB ram, i7 processor, Nvidea GeForce 965M. I tried connecting an occulus, and I didn't have much luck. Is it even possible to connect an occulus to a laptop?
I use my Rift on a MSI GT72-2QE that has a GTX-980M that has a hardware switch to boot up in NVIDIA GeForce discrete MXM graphics card or Optimus Intel HD UMA graphics card; . I consistently get 90FPS with less than 50% CPU & GPU utilization. Bottom line is that the system has to provide a non-Optimus, direct connection from the GPU to the HDMI output.
Sometime, yes, but it depends on the setup. In general, though, laptops are poorly supported and the vast majority of them will just not work at all. If possible, get a desktop for VR.
It needs to work on a laptop even if the price point is high. Lugging a desktop around for demos is absurd. I need to use in Education. This laptop looked great (http://www.razerzone.com/gb-en/store/razer-blade-fullhd-2015) till I read the above comments. C'mon Oculus team .. work with a laptop provider to prepare a compatible laptop for the Rift. Please!
So, Oculus still has to verify and confirm which laptops we are going to support. At the moment, that is none, but we are working on finding a few we can recommended,
However, if you must, check the laptops on NewEgg that are "VR Ready" (note that "VR Ready" is NOT the same thing as "Oculus Ready" as there are other VR products besides from Oculus).
Scroll down to the laptop section and click View All. They are expensive (usually in the $4K range) but most likely will work. I say "likely" because I've received reports of even some of these "VR Ready" laptops having problems. But, in theory, they should be compatible. Not sure if you're game for rolling a dice for 4,000 bucks, that's up to you.
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