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best way to store the rift?

right now ive been leaving it on my pc tower..I wish it would have came with a cloth bag or something. what do you guys do?

Problem with animation using cubemaps!

Hi all! I did an animation using Vray for 3ds Max, and saved the outputs as spherical panoramas (latlong) and stereocubmaps. I mounted the images both ways, SidebySide and TopBotom. Somehow, the Oculus (same with GearVR) won't play correctly the anim...

Oculus Touch pre-orders October 10th - Ships December 6th for $199

UPDATED:Oculus Touch will cost $199, shipping on December 6th. Pre-orders began on October 10th!Original Post:Here we are just a few hours from the OC3 Keynote, in which we will hopefully finally get some solid information about the Touch release dat...

Auto ASW = worse performance!?

So I was messing a bit with ASW, and so far, I'm not so happy with how the automatic ASW performs.In my understanding it is supposed to fix positional judder and ghosting on low fps (and also allowing lower spec PCs to run VR).While it is very good i...

Pre-orders not open yet

Whatever happened to the pre-orders. They seem to not have open them.

Guest Logins for Touch Order

Hey guys,I've seen a lot of people asking about how do the claim their place in line for Touch if they ordered a Rift as a Guest, well I've just found this page: https://secure.oculus.com/guest/login/I don't have a guest account so I cant test it, so...

Good Wall Mounts for Touch?

Looking to get some good wall mounts for when touch releases. I will need to mount this on a texture wall, so idk if the sticky double sided tape will work. I like to go that way so not to destroy my walls with holes  I'm just unsure of any good wal...

Was the VRWorks talk at OC3 recorded?

If so, will we get to see them? Will we have to wait two months before Oculus decides to release them ..like last year?Accelerating Your VR Applications with NVIDIA VRWorksAcross graphics, audio, video, and physics, the NVIDIA VRWorks suite of techno...

Oculus Demos in Toronto, Canada area?

Hi All --I would love to try out OR, but I'm having trouble finding a place to demo a unit. Apparently Best Buy might have demos at some point, but I can't seem to find anymore information. Thoughts?Thanks!

Oculus Connect 3 - FB Live Giveaway!

Oculus Connect FB Live is your ticket into OC3! Join us each day on the Oculus Facebook page for a special FB Live featuring Naomi Kyle. We'll be interviewing developers, checking out demos, and watching trailers from titles on the show floor. Be sur...

Touch battery

Two questions: Will it be shipping with rechargeable batteries ?And what is the life span of non rechargeable batteries to rechargeable batteries in Touch ?

VRhere - new russian media about VR

Today i'm proud to announce that we have launched brand new media about VR - "VRhere". All our content is written in russian language. For today we have a quite simple structure, but we are going to diversify it with reviews, live streams with gamede...

Oculus Forums versus Oculus subreddit

Recently I started following the Oculus subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/) and so far I am very pleased. I like that the Top Rift games list https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/5163u4/your_top_10_rift_games_with_ratings/is more inclusi...

How many Oculus touch games released at launch?

Does anyone know where to find a list of touch games with a release date? I'm thinking of holding off a bit on the touch controllers if the games are going to be as slow to come as they are on the cv1 right now. I don't think there has been any fanta...

Play XBOX One and PS4 Games on Rifft and Gear

Is it possible play XBOX One and PS4 games on Rifft and Gear?The ideia is very simple ... use those devices like a TV!Thanks

Just ordered the Touch and wanna cheer :D

Congratulations: your prior Rift preorder qualifies you to have a preferred place-in-line for your Touch preorder!YAY!!!!!!

CV1 Black levels

I've been experiencing the "Grey Veil" & poor black levels on my CV1 as have a lot of owners. Recently though I've experienced a few games that appear to be almost clear of both problems. Two games/experiences that in particular show this contrast ar...

usb pci-e expansion

After so much trouble, I have of my usb pci expansion card installed and ready for touch. However, I've noticed that any device connected to the card falls to sleep, if not used after a while. Does anyone know how to prevent this?

Touch Controller preorder for Australia - USD or AUD?

Anyone else here from Australia? Just preordered my Touch and it came to $220, it doesn't tell me which currency though and shipping was free so I assume it is NOT in AUD as it will come out cheaper if so (AUD$220=$USD167)Anyone from Oculus willing t...

Here ya go VR geeks this should wet your whistle

http://arstechnica.co.uk/the-multiverse/2016/10/blade-runner-2049-release-date-oculus-vr/

Accurate depth perception and world scale

I've noticed in a lot of games/demos with objects at extreme distances that I don't get an accurate sense of depth perception from them. For example, with The Climb or the ledge demo in the Oculus Dreamdeck, I don't get any vertigo or any feeling of ...

Trouble responding to another thread. Backward compatibility library works great! (So far)

I was having some trouble responding to another thread, so maybe this will go through. I was sent a link tonight about some terrifying 9/11 simulation. I found the download, and eventually found this library to allow it to run on the CV Rift. Maybe t...

Did I understand something wrong ?

I'm sure I received a email last week saying Because you pre-ordered Oculus Rift on Oculus.com, you're eligible for priority status for Touch when it becomes available for pre-order on October 10.Now I tried with two different scenario, one that I pr...

So, are we paying up front for Touch Preorders?

I'm just wondering if the Touch preorders will be like Rift preorders in that we payed for everything when it shipped rather than up front.

Pre-Order for Extra Sensors on Oct 31st

I found this digging around, as I plan to get a 3rd sensor for my setuphttps://www.oculus.com/blog/oculus-touch-pre-orders-are-now-live/"For anyone who wants to support larger room-scale configurations, additional Rift sensors will be available for p...

Leap Motion Unity Development 101

Last week, I published an overview on the Leap Motion Unity Core Assets and Modules, and figured this would be a good place to share it.Using these assets, you can start building right away with features like custom-designed hands, user interfaces, a...

Resolved! Why is it so hard to find the Oculus home patch notes and schedule?

It is most likely my terrible searching skills... However, is there a regular spot where Oculus staff presents patch update and patch schedule information other than strewn out throughout forums? I see that cybereality (looks to be an Oculus staff me...

How to use the Oculus CV1 as a normal monitor?

I would like to use the Oculus CV1 as a normal monitor, that is no head tracking just put the desktop onto the two build in displays. As simple as that.When I bought it i assumed that would be trivial, but apparently it is not, the rift is not detect...

Run the 3 cameras on USB2 ports thanks to the new ASW feature

I read somewhere that the rift will support USB2 for the cameras with the new lower spec requirements thanks to ASW. Does this mean that we can set the forward orientation in oculus home without having to have the 3 cameras in a USB3 ports? (In my ca...

IMAX Is Also Creating A Cinema-Quality VR Camera With Google, Apparently

Well i didn't know that - exciting news for VR photography and film-making below.During its second day keynote on virtual reality, Google announced some new hardware partners for its Jump VR platform. Yi Technologies, a Chinese digital camera maker, ...