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Absolutly torn over keeping my rift or returning it.

I never owned any pervious DK's and besides Google cardboard this is my first experience with VR. Based on reviews and forums my expectation were tame. I knew about SDE and godrays but nothing prepared me for how low res the CV-1 truly is. What kills...

Customer Loyalty - Oculus

As many others you will read on this forum, I placed an order within the first few minutes of pre-order going live. I say the first few minutes because your site was completely messed up and your payment portal didn't even appear to be working correc...

Oblongship by Heroic Explorer
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Disappointed with the graphics settings in most of the games

When I received my Oculus Rift about 1 month ago, I went out a borrowed a GTX 980, to get the most out of my headset. Then yesterday I switched back to my old GTX 760. As it turns out, I can still run all the games without any noticeable issues... I ...

Melmix by Expert Protege
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Felix & Paul Studios on the Rift?

Hello, I used a Gear VR before and watched many videos from Felix & Paul Studios, such as the Lebron James videos and cirque du soleil videos. But now I only have a Rift and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get those vidoes for the Rift....

Finally got to try both the Vive and CV1 ....

I currently own the DK1 and the DK2, but decided to hold back a bit on the CV1 because of the price. Yesterday i visited a friend who owns a CV1 and an HTC Vive for a evening of VR. When i got back home i did something weird: I ordered the HTC Vive. ...

ziphnor by Expert Protege
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Interesting UX Observations Between Vive And Rift

I recently observed both my parents (not technical in any way) use the Rift and Vive and noticed some very interesting things.Both my parents seem to have trouble navigating Steam, particularly launching games. No matter how many times they do it the...

xi11ix by Adventurer
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Right before your Oculus Rift shipped did you...

Get a charge on your card for $1,00 and then they gave it right back to you? I'm mostly asking because I literally just bought one from someone on a forum I read and they haven't shipped it yet. I would think my order would still be a ways off since ...

Positional audio

Had my CV1 for a week now and thought I'd take a moment to mention just how good the positional audio is i farlands. It's the first time I've actually been able to hear sounds both infront and behind me with headphones. Whenever I've tried any positi...

JaRoD by Honored Guest
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NO Oculus Tray Icon

Theres no Tray icon for opening the configuration tool.How can I open the configuration tool alternatively?Or do I need to bring the tray icon back for that?I cant find the oculusconfigutil.exe on my pc by searching for it also. Is there something wr...

My new CV1....and old Dk2

So the wait is over and it arrived to Little ole New Zealand.Im a Dk2 owner and have had small time on Vive (tho not enough to compare)So, what CV1 impresses me:comfort so light it felt almost fragile, tho its not. Easy to get on and off and securesc...

pjenness by Rising Star
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Oculus Price from $ to €

So I went to order the Oculus. Oh how excited I was. Until I selected Ireland as my address. Oculus Rift is priced at $599 which is €540(ish). So why then when I went to pay for it the price went from €540 to €699?? What a joke. And this is even BEFO...

Bestbuy Pre-order

I was at bestbuy yesterday and put a rift on pre-order. I already ordered one through the site which my eta is in August. If the one at best buy arrives first, can I just cancel the order from the site, and also will I still hold my place in line res...

Keylo415 by Expert Protege
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Where does the evolution of the Rift go from here?

So now that Oculus has released a "perfected" HMD, I wonder what's next.Up until CV1 there were iteration cycles, 1 public prototype probably every 3-4 months, internal prototypes more frequent.We've not glimpsed at anything else from Oculus than the...

EarlGrey by Expert Protege
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Kiwis Rifting Yet?

HiyaSounds like a few of our Australian brothers across the ditch have received theirs. Wondering if any Kiwi's have received theirs.If so...what was you order number and estimated delivery ??Cheers-P

pjenness by Rising Star
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newbie help please

i am new to the vr stuff i have just got a dk1 as i dont want to splash out on new one yet i am getting like double vision i think it must be something on the software side was can some one point me in the right direction as which software i need to ...

bod100 by Honored Guest
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GTX 1070, Best Bang for the Buck?

The NDA lifted today and the reviews are in! It looks like the 1070 may be the perfect VR GPU based on benchmarks and price!I already have a GTX 970 but the 1070 cleans house with it. The GTX 1080 is of course much faster but I dont think it's the id...

No Rift sound? HELP ME :( (FIXED)

Hello my first post,shame its for help! but hope someone can,I've had my rift for just over a week now, and so far no problems and having a blast, I've gone to use it today and cant get any sound form the headphones, I've checked window playback and ...

Nukey75 by Honored Guest
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Ca you walk around Oculus Home?

It REALLY feels like you should be able to walk around using the Xbox Controller and do stuff like decorate or play games, make an Avatar, visit friends, sit on the couch/theater and load up a game or video, maybe surf YouTube or Netflix etc... Would...

Cyclopse by Explorer
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So my Vive shows up today.....

I have been absolutely jonesing for some VR and my little gear VR doesn't cut it for me, there is zero sense of immersion in the gear VR for me at least. I ordered my Rift 90 days ago on Feb 12th (I would have ordered sooner but I was deployed overse...

helifrek by Explorer
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Please someone convince me

Hi, I haven't posted here before or not for a long time, anyway, I ordered the rift on the 12th of Jan, purely because I wanted to have a gap where people had the CV1 for a while and see how it got on with any issues and how its received. Now I am a ...

R3TR0 by Explorer
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HMD v2?

What do you think we can expect from the next gen of HMD's and when?

How did God Rays make it into CV1?

According to Oculus, this is the best possible device that anyone could deliver with today's tech, so how did God Rays make into CV1? How come the're not half as bad in the Vive as they are in CV1 and why don't they make adjustments to the lenses giv...

Fazz by Honored Visionary
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Re-positioning Sensor

If I re-position the sensor for demo'n the rift or for a much shorter person that would be occluded where I usually keep it, what do I need to do in the Oculus software to let it know things have changed? Or even to change to the height of the person...

doright by Explorer
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