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Open Source Release of Rift DK2

Well this is rather fantastic:On the eve of our fourth(!) Oculus Connect, it seems only fitting to call back to our first Connect where we announced the open source release for DK1. Today, we’re excited to announce the open source release of Rift Dev...

New Oculus Rift Owner :)

Hello everyone!Been reading this forum for god knows how long now, way before this incredible machine was released. Because I love Rally games, I bought a Wheel + Pedal Setup and thought this is pretty cool. Then I read reviews about the Rift and Dir...

360 Photos / Virtual Tour

Hello;I am new to rift but want to explore the possibilities for my business. Is it possible to place a 360 degree photo / render onto the rift? We will be creating two interior CGI's... the same scene but one by day and one by night. We want the vie...

Zfact by Honored Guest
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Microsoft's Position on XBoneX VR!

Albert Penello, Senior Director of Product Management and Planning at Microsoft, said as much to Wired in a recent interview. “We learned with Kinect and the Wii that just translating a typical game experience to VR is not a winning strategy,” he sai...

kevinw729 by Honored Visionary
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What about my glasses?

Hi,Red a lot of older messages about us glass wearing players and the Oculus Rift.I hanvt got one yet, just tested it without glasses (very blurry) and with lenses (great vieuw) but becasue Im a 99% glass wearer I would like to know how it us nowaday...

Low FPS on The Climb

Hello All! I've been playing The Climb a lot the last week or so and am getting the low FPS message above my character - sometimes in the 80s, sometimes in the 40s. I have a 6600K and 1080 ti with 32GB RAM.I don't actually see or feel any issues.Why ...

Zuckerberg is Live on Facebook Spaces (right now)

As I type this, Zuckerberg is broadcasting in real-time on Facebook Live from Facebook Spaces. At the time I took the screenshot, nearly 1-million people are viewing with almost 100,000 Reactions:I think it's amazing that we'll be able to be in VR an...

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Zenbane by MVP
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Microsoft + The NFL = VR + Football

It wasn't too long ago that the idea of merging VR with a sport like Football was ridiculed by some. I noticed its first inception as part of a plot in the HBO original series, Ballers (season 2). Sometimes it feels painfully apparent when something ...

can you trade in laptops for a new one

I was wondering can I trade in my laptop for a new vr ready laptop, cause I want one of those mixed reality headsets, I like the psvr but I looked on steam and it seems like they have better games, and just in case sony decides to abandon it, I don't...

Alternative to heavy graphical processing

Hey guys, so back in the last few years I bought an gaming device called Online. It was very small, and looked nothing like a ps4 or xbox, but manage to play graphical processing games via internet streaming method. In hind sight it worked very well....

Mic sounds muffled

Hey there, i tried out the internal mic 1 time, but it sounded as if i were speaking with a hand in front of my mouth.I tinkered with the settings, well there is only the 1 checkbox but it sadly did not help.In an older thread someone had the same pr...

H4TE by Expert Protege
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Rift 1.19 PTC Release Notes

FEATURES:Mixed Reality Capture: The Camera Calibration Tool now handles advanced geometric calculations more efficiently, which is especially useful for 4K mixed reality capture.BUG FIXES:Miscellaneous performance improvements, stability enhancements...

Need your advice

I will soon be purchasing either the samsung gear with a galaxy s6/7 or a standalone rift. I am not really interested in vr shovelware, what I really want to do is play my pc games in VR, games like skyrim, fallout, and lotro.If anyone has tried both...

Armitas by Honored Guest
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Summer rift sale great but....

The permanent price reduction after summer was great. But why not offer a headset without the 2 senor or touch controls so it can be cheaper still. Especially for the people who needed to buy another rift like me. Now I'm stuck with a pair of touch c...

inovator by Consultant
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Ear buds

I actually find the default on-ear phones that come with the Rift are actually pretty decent and was wondering if the in-ear buds were of similar quality?

When will Oculus ship to South Africa?

I'm a big gamer and animator and myself and my company what to get into developing stuff for Oculus but we are unable to get the Oculus Rift in South Africa for Oculus and place here that sale it are double the price.So I think Oculus should start sh...

CV2

Its been around a year and half since the release of CV1 and although some might consider it too early, is there any info on what Oculus are planning for CV2 (are Oculus even going to develop a second headset now Palmer Luckey is gone)!As with most t...

sdplayer by Expert Protege
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Game should have 90 FPS even on minimum specs?

Hi,We are working on a Sniper game for Oculus Rift and had submitted the Demo forapproval. The demo had a single level and had about 2 to 3 minutes of gameplaytime and we achieved 90 FPS for the demo on the recommended PC specs. However,we got the re...

abhivc by Explorer
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Multiple sensor placement profiles

I'm fairly new to Rift, but the games I play are mostly through SteamVR, and some a keyboard + mouse work fine, which would be much, much closer and with different sensor angles than other games where I use the Touch controllers. Is there anything th...

Drizzt321 by Honored Guest
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VR in Social Media - witnessing the progression

One of the top reasons I chose the Rift as my VR HMD of choice back in April of 2016 is because of the fact that Mark Zuckerberg was the owner of this fine product. I'm a fan of his work and vision, and while I'm personally not very active at all wit...

Zenbane by MVP
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How is everyone dealing with the screen door effect?

i have had my Rift for a few days now and I really like it alot, but the SDE is really killing the experience for me. Its very hard for me to feel like im in any environment because all i see is the bad looking screen. I really dont want to take it b...

Just a quick heads-up

If any of you guys like music visualization in VR then I recommend googling for Plane9 ...its free and has an excellent VR option.I apologise if this is old news to some but I just had to pass this on for those who havent found it yet :).Boom Shanka ...

Oculus Advice

Hello all, let me start by apologizing for starting a discussion that has probably been done to death on here.I've just bought a new computer and I'd like to purchase an Oculus Rift with Oculus touch. However, my computer room is relatively small (10...

HMD just for movies

Basically my need is to buy a HMD to just watch movies B) . As i travel a lot i only bring my laptop with me. Its a i7 2nd generation laptop with Nvidia 525M graphics (2GB). I am looking in to buying a Rift just to watch movie. I ran the Oculus tool,...

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