My DK2 will probably arrive in about 2 months and I already put together a gaming PC for it. This machine will probably only be used for gaming and nothing else btw.
Now I'm wondering if I should just install Windows 8 on it or if I should wait 2 more months and install the newest Windows 10 version then. I also considered Windows 7, but since it won't get support for DirectX 12 this is probably not the best idea.
So has anyone of you any experience with the current Windows 10 preview/demo and Oculus Rift? Are there any Demos that are not working or is everything fine?
"TrevorA" wrote: There is some shite posted on here:) any developer not already developing and working on windows 10 applications/games should seriously consider if they even have a future if they are that blinkered to what windows 10 is going to do to their target market landscape. It is going to be easily the highest new os uptake in history, both consumer and corporate.
Wake up and stop thinking its business as usual, it isn't, change is happening under you right now.
Getting paid by MS? - "...change is happening under you right now?" - You just happened to sound like a MS community manager. As far as I know migrating a 8.1 app to be a UWP aka win10 app is not a great problem. Of course ppl are / should be working on win10 stuff. But it's not mandatory to do everything under Win10 yet. Since the consumer version is not available I don't see a reason why the test hardware's SDK have to keep up with updates for consumer products/ software. We don't get the compatible SDK now, but it will be released later for sure. Simply whining about it does not make sense, I could do better things working on my VR project under Win8.1.
"TrevorA" wrote: There is some shite posted on here:) any developer not already developing and working on windows 10 applications/games should seriously consider if they even have a future if they are that blinkered to what windows 10 is going to do to their target market landscape. It is going to be easily the highest new os uptake in history, both consumer and corporate.
Wake up and stop thinking its business as usual, it isn't, change is happening under you right now.
Getting paid by MS? - "...change is happening under you right now?" - You just happened to sound like a MS community manager. As far as I know migrating a 8.1 app to be a UWP aka win10 app is not a great problem. Of course ppl are / should be working on win10 stuff. But it's not mandatory to do everything under Win10 yet. Since the consumer version is not available I don't see a reason why the test hardware's SDK have to keep up with updates for consumer products/ software. We don't get the compatible SDK now, but it will be released later for sure. Simply whining about it does not make sense, I could do better things working on my VR project under Win8.1.
I wish, it seems funny the only people not clamouring for the dk2 are a few complacent developers. Almost everybody usung a dk2 wants to move to win10, if that doesn't tell you something you will be getting left behind.
Actually pretty shocking that you only 'think'the transition should be pretty easy, how the hell haven't you researched. I guess Oculus thought the same, and here we are:)
I would not continue this argument since I personaly feel like working on win8.1 is not anything worse for me than doing the same on win10 and I'm not here to make others turn around. Tho you shall question yourself as I did, how important is to make your program (which uses a test hardware) a UWP app right now? Or could you maybe spend time on something else? I found that answering meaningfully the second question works out very well.
I assumed that Oculus was a competent company that would obviously have Windows 10 support before its release since it was in Beta for months so I upgraded to Windows 10 weeks before its release thinking that it would just be a short time before they added support. Boy was I wrong. And we're not even going to get it in 0.7 on Aug 20. We may not see it until November. For shame, Oculus, for shame.
"Jay535" wrote: I assumed that Oculus was a competent company that would obviously have Windows 10 support before it's release since it was in Beta for months so I upgraded to Windows 10 weeks before its release thinking that it would just be a short time before they added support. Boy was I wrong. And we're not even going to get it in 0.7 on Aug 20. We may not see it until November. For shame, Oculus, for shame.
I'm sorry to say that again but their hardware is "in beta" right now. How is that a company (Oculus) not having any consumer level goodie shall fulfill your assumptions that's clearly based on consumer midset? Thats the problem:" I have this and that, shall work together since the plugs fit". Well this is not the case here. If my companies hardware/runtime is in beta I would not give much about other companies betas, would you? More important is to get everything settle on the Rift side imho. You could just get a WM running Win8.1. Its quicker- easier than even saying it. Now I shall abandon this topic completely, nuff said.
Well look on the bright side. The VR space has many players forming up so we wont be stuck with one player that doesnt care about its development community or providing access to the tech to the widest audience on the latest platforms. Its not like you care about communities or deadlines when you have billions of dollars.
