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I'm wanting to learn japanese?

I'm wanting to learn some Japanese in my spare time. "When I'm not working on my rift project". Any pointers/leads? I think I'd might be able to learn quite a bit by the end of 2014. (Thinking about making this my new years resolution).~Thanks in adv...

Australia And New Zealand Rifters Lounge

Well due to popular demand here is the thread for the Australian and New Zealand rift goers to keep in touch and maybe even one day come together for some Riftacular and maybe OcuLAN times ahead, lol.So come together and start posting about your rift...

mvmhk by Honored Guest
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Join our new anime community fzcebook page ^^

join our new anime comminity page, we post about SAO, naruto, bleach, one piece, hunter x hunter, shingeki and many more are you intrested in in funny, cool and informative pictures about animethe join us  https://www.facebook.com/animeismymotivatio...

Kirito by Honored Guest
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Video: games as an art medium

Since this is the area for off-topic discussion, I thought you developers would appreciate this animation about video games as a new art medium:http://vimeo.com/78562245

Idea Inspirations from trying the Oculus Rift

I got to try the Oculus Rift for the first time this week at a local IGDA meeting in Minneapolis. I wrote about my first experience and first impressions on my blog, but the experience was also very inspiring creatively.Obviously there are going to b...

Changing user name on the forums?

Hey, so I registered on the forums right at the start and was posting lots of game design advice and ideas. Not long after that though I changed my name due to family reasons, now being called Louis Arrigoni, but I cant seem to find any way to change...

LouisB by Honored Guest
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Nausea & latency

I was just thinking..Do you think the nausea we have when drinking to much, come from the visual latency involved by alcohol ? 

Tgaud by Honored Guest
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Come on Palmer, freak us!

So,it's been over a year now since we got a glimpse at what VR might bring us through our beloved Development Kit. We've been kept busy with a steady stream of tiny bits of information regarding what OculusVR is up to behind closed doors. However, wh...

Popopinsel by Expert Protege
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Can you join more than one partnership on YouTube?

I've been contacted by a really small partnership company called pipelineshockstudios (http://pipelineshockstudios.com/)and they want me to join their company (how ever they're really small at the moment and they seem alright) but I want to join some...

Possibility of Releasing a 1080p Dev Kit (2.0)

Since the Oculus team have been demoing the 1080p version, I am wondering if they have plans to release these for pre-order?I on behalf of many others have hold-off on pre-ordering the Devkit 1.0 due to the reported screen door effect and that it is ...

Question?!?! Peripheral Vision AGHH

Tried oculus rift dev kit for first time yesterday and must say its quite the expereince. I was told it would cover your field of view which it did not. 1 inch black borders on all sides make me feel like i am wearing goggles. wider field of view wou...

drlazer19 by Honored Guest
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hiro protagonist just wants to stop Raven & snowcrash

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-19/nsa-spying-blowback-continues-boeing-loses-brazil-jet-order4 billion is some serious cheese kidDies! That is deathstar level ballpark yes? Who was the marketing genius at oculus that thought having lonsdale an...

Durovis Dive: Android VR HMD

Hi guys,just came across this: http://www.durovis.com/index.htmlLooks like a HMD built around an Android phone. Interesting concept, what do you think? Much less sophisticated than the Oculus Rift, yet potentially more portable and accessible for cas...

mastasky by Explorer
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Steam OS

http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/http://repo.steampowered.com/download/http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/1/648814395741989999/If Valve didn't lied that they would release SteamOS simultaneously with first Stea...

raidho36 by Explorer
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Water-VIrtual Reality

I want simply share this video with the community because is pretty much funny and original!Enjoy http://www.videobash.com/video_show/aquatop-display-896872

Welby by Adventurer
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Suggestions for VR themed anime?

Can someone suggest a good VR themed anime?I've already seen : Ghost in the Shell (movies and episodes)Denno Coil (thank you geekmaster)Sword Art Online.hack

Augmented Reality

One of the first things I thought of when I discovered the Oculus Rift was, "What if we put cameras on the front, routed the feed through some post processing software that puts an interactive HUD on top of the video, then routed it to the screen of ...

excellery by Honored Guest
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How can I use my oculus rift (to play any game?)

Well I just got my oculus rift today. (and as soon as I plugged it in) I noticed it acts like a 3rd display/monitor.How ever its somewhat distorted (as a monitor) and you're not able to just use it as a display (which I so hope you can in the future)...

New Lenses

So, i got a scratch on one of my lenses. Fortunaltely it was not big enough to effect the gameplay (i can see it if i focus on it, but, its fine)So, that got me thinking, if somehow a lens gets damaged can i order replacement lenses anywhere? if i di...

StCecil by Honored Guest
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NSA promises to protect us from SNowcrash and Raven

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/report-nsa-spying-virtual-worlds-online-games-21146712Ok who wants to come work for my friends at the pentagon playing deus ex online looking for spies! LOL! I turned in that german guy and that russian fema...

SUDDENLY

I just decided to check whether or not my smartphone's display was AMOLED rather than LCD (because I tilted it around and figured that it has infinite viewing angle, and this particular phone has two revisions, one with LCD and one with AMOLED screen...

raidho36 by Explorer
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Virtuix Omni on tv Show: "Shark Tank"

The Virtuix omni made it to the tv show "Shark Tank" where people take their ideas and show them off to the big investors, who've made millions, etc, doing entrepreneurial stuff.The Virtuix guys showed up and they asked for 2 million at 10% (valuing ...

dwood15 by Protege
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Oculus Rift games with head tracking?

I can't use the Oculus Rift (just as a display, it makes me motion sick "I keep thinking I can turn my head when I can't and it makes me really dizzy and my stomach starts acting up) I'm already to use to the headtracking. Are there any games that ha...

Oculus Rift unofficial distributor in Russia

Watch this.http://oculus-rift.ru/Blah blah yadda yadda - $950 for preorder, $1500 for off-the-shelf. For a devkit. Oh my fucking god, really? OculusVR must seriously make it easier for international customers to order the Rift. Just see above numbers...

raidho36 by Explorer
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