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Using two head sets on one computer

sunjet
Honored Guest
Good Morning, 
This might seem like an odd question but is it possible to use two of the OR headsets on the one computer? I am looking at using the head sets as a training aid in flight simulations and would need them both connected to the one computer/simulation 

Thanking you in advance
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Fazz
Honored Visionary
Takes all the power of one computer to run one headset, so even if it was possible it would need one hell of a computer. That's my guess.

TwoHedWlf
Expert Trustee

sunjet said:

Good Morning, 
This might seem like an odd question but is it possible to use two of the OR headsets on the one computer?


No.  The Oculus software only supports one headset at a time.

brackus1
Protege
Well, if it's not officially supported, then it should be.  If your graphics card can run multiple monitors, it surely can run multiple headsets.  A headset is just a tiny monitor strapped to your head, right?  I see no difference.

TwoHedWlf
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brackus1 said:

 A headset is just a tiny monitor strapped to your head, right?  I see no difference.


Wrong, it is not and there is a significant difference.

There are gyros, accelerometers and multiple cameras for  positional tracking.  It's not just a monitor stuck on your face. 

brackus1
Protege
Yes, a headset has a both USB and HDMI connection.  But as far as the graphics card is concerned, it's just displaying a screen.

But, if you have two wireless XBox controllers hooked up too, you would need some way to associate each controller with a single headset.  And the SDK might need new APIs to handle multiple headsets if they don't already.

kojack
MVP
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The oculus sdks explicitly do not support more than one headset on a single pc.

For a simulation you have control over, a network setup would work better.
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jayhawk
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brackus1 said:

Well, if it's not officially supported, then it should be.  If your graphics card can run multiple monitors, it surely can run multiple headsets.  A headset is just a tiny monitor strapped to your head, right?  I see no difference.


The headset is actually two (1080×1200) monitors strapped to your face. Your PC is basically trying to game on two monitors and keep each at 90 fps. (well 45 now with cheating)

brackus1
Protege
Yep, there's two displays for each eye, but since they're both coming out of the same HDMI output, I would think they're somehow linked together in bandwidth and usage.  Maybe rendered out as a single 2160x1200 image, and then the headset splits it in two images.

matskatsaba
Adventurer
You can if you really-really want it and have a badass machine.
Ideally, two videocards dedicated to two virtual machines with separate windows installs, hdds, keyboards, mouses, etc., so basically you could sandbox it.
With DK2 you can do 2rift on one windows, its quite the work, though.