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Total Noob, even with winzip

Hey guys,I bought the DK2 for Elite Dangerous. I'm having a blast with that game trying to figure out the best specs between the Rift, NVidia and the game settings.I've been trying the demos and I'm getting about 1/3 to work.I've seen the set up guid...

jlawn001 by Honored Guest
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Cheapest motherboard w/ i5-4590 and GTX970?

What is the cheapest motherboard I can get that will work with an i5 4590, gtx 970 and 8 gb of RAM? As long as it will support the Oculus, I don't care how cheap it is. Or will pretty much any modern motherboard work?Thanks.

jgav8 by Honored Guest
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Can't wait

I watched the EVE: Valkyrie demo and cannot wait to get into that game. I think with the release of Oculus, VR is finally going mainstream.Anyone know if my Alienware X51 is robust enough to play Valkyrie? It has an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745, Core i3 41...

Jake-R by Honored Guest
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DK2 not detected in Config

recieved my DK2 today. downloaded the runtime, plugged in all the cables and tried firing it up. went into the Config but it says 'Oculus Service not Available'. Oculus on orange LED. all settings in grey, no oculus detectedchanged the rift display m...

cylee614 by Honored Guest
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Laptop for DK2 (and hopefully Consumer Release)

Hi all! My office is getting a new laptop that they're hoping will be able to handle the DK2 and last us for at least a couple years. I suggested this one:http://www.microcenter.com/product/4497 ... inum_BlackGPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970MCPU: 5th Gen ...

I played - I Expect You to Die

A great mini game that shows off VR and mouse control in an ingenious way. One of the few things on Share with a highly polished beginning, enticing middle game, and an ending that left me wanting more. Highly recommended!https://share.oculus.com/app...

VizionVR by Rising Star
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Room-sized tracking for Rift - excited or meh?

So, I'm just curious. Now that small, room-scale tracking will be available for the Oculus Rift, how many of you plan to take advantage of this? Or...How many of you WISH you could take advantage of this if you had the space to do it? Or...Are you wa...

VizionVR by Rising Star
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Light Field Stereoscope

http://www.computationalimaging.org/pub ... ereoscope/a new near-eye display technology that supports focus cuesthe required field of view is extremely small – just the size of the pupil – which allows for rank-1 factorizations to produce correct or ...

Shows up on screen, but won't display in goggles

I did a system restore after having problems getting my WIndows desktop to even display the Demo Scene on the config utility, and now I've got it working so that I can view the Demo Scene on my Windows desktop, but for some reason the demo scene won'...

jgav8 by Honored Guest
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"please use driver 350.12" - how unstable we talking...?

I'd really rather not roll back 4 driver releases if possible... one of the recent nVidia driver updates fixed a bunch of issues for me, and included a bunch of G-Sync updates I'd like to keep Where the 0.6.0.1 runtime notes mention instability with...

Rift controller included?

Is the CV1 coming in q1 2016 coming with the controllers?Also: Can my rig handle it?3570k, 8gigs ram, 2 evga gtx 660sc 2gb in sli.

DK2 Troubleshoot - "Service is Disconnected"

Hi,I almost had everything working (the orange light was on, the blue light on the tracker was on) and then I went to "Extended Mode" in the config utility and suddenly both the lights went off and the config utility says "Service is Disconnected". I...

jgav8 by Honored Guest
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GDC Europe State of the Industry - PC & VR

Some nice infos from Gamasutra:http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/2474 ... _to_PC.phpWhen asked about platforms, European game makers are most excited about the PC: 62 percent of those surveyed said the game they’re currently working on will see a PC...

dev advice? - UDK Unity VS?

Hi guys,I was after some advice, and my googling so far hasn't been able to answer.We are trying to develop something with the oculus that involves pulling coordinates from the oculus and streaming in external video to the oculus. No 3d rendering req...

Kutten by Honored Guest
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Crytek goes full VR

So, Crytek now goes full VR:- CryEngine 3.8.1 with Oculus Rift SupportFor more details: http://cryengine.com/news/update-from-t ... ft-support- Robinson: The Journeyhttp://www.roadtovr.com/cryengine-3-8-1 ... x-support/:More recently, their presence ...

Got my VR Legs

Well, when I first got the rift I must say it was a nightmare. I couldn't play anything for more than 5 minutes, and even if I did, when I took the Headset off, I was unsteady on my feet and felt sick etc. A lot of people said, you need to get your V...

mabsey by Explorer
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Nimble tech integrated in gearVR ?

just something coming up my mind...Since the rift controller is'nt the hands, i wonder if the Nimble hand tracking tech might be used for gearVR hand tracking ?Or even inside out positional tracking with the aquisition of the computer vision lab.If t...

Microsoft says built better lenses for DK2

Off the shelf lenses from Edmund optics - and STL files to 3D print lens housings available here : http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/dow ... fault.aspxhttp://imgur.com/ddhX8uBorginal article here http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/29 ... ht_notic...

n0f8r by Honored Guest
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direct mode crash for all apps except the demo scene

I have tried most all the suggestions on the forum but non seems to resolve my problem.Visual C++ Redistributables 2010 - 2013 all installed.GPU: NVIDIA GTx770 driver 350.12windows 8.1 pro. 8g ram i5runtime 0.6.0.1 The demo scene works well but all o...

demoonism by Honored Guest
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Workaround: Win10 TP 10158 works with 0.6.0.1 (AMD).

steps: 1) uninstall any oculus runtime completely from programs and features.2) uninstall any windows 8.1 AMD drivers. Let the system use and install the WDDM 2.0 drivers from windows update3) Reboot.4) Install the OVR runtime 0.6.0.1 as administrato...

Lhun by Explorer
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Setup DK2 on Mac?

I am using this guide to setup my DK2: https://support.oculus.com/hc/en-us/art ... t-Started-It looks like, I can´t download the SDK and runtime for my Mac. Is that correct? Is the Oculus DK2 Windows only?

Are we likely to see an Oculus VR Jam for DK2 developers?

Now that the dust has settled after the Mobile VR Jam, are Oculus planning one for DK2 developers? If so, do you have any rough time scales?I have some ideas that would be ideal to try out over a few weeks development. A VR Jam would be a good incent...

jumbli by Member
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Vive unboxing and dev demo session

This was a good watch. You get to see the devs excitement as they try out the new Vive dev kit with their game build and we get to see the feed which hasn't been too easy to find so far for Vive. This is excellent!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhIG...

Nvidia VR SLI

Hiwhen maxwell was 1st announced it came with a whole list of supposed improvements for VR. one of these was VR-SLI where 1 gpu would power each eye.Is this a thing (yet)? Can it work on DK2 which is essentially just 1 screen or is it something we wi...

Disable/enable screen if head tracking stops/startsDK1+Unity

Hello all,I am trying to figure out a way to disable the screen on DK1 when no head movement/tracking is detected after a period of time. This is to save the screen from burn out but also to keep the unit active in case someone picks up the head set ...

pinging by Honored Guest
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Traditional Flat Stereogram => Fisheye Stereogram

Hi Guys,First post, I had a quick scan for the answer to this but couldn't find anything. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.Over the past decade I had the foresight to take lots of 3d stereogram images. Some I took with a Canon SL...

Research on Oculus Rift and dreams!

Our video game laboratory at MacEwan University in Alberta, Canada has been examining the effects of video game play on night time dreams for a decade. We have found that there are various well-being outcomes evidenced in the dreams of gamers. Dr. Ga...

mbanson by Honored Guest
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If my PC is good enough for DK2 will it run the CV1?

Hi,I have just been reading the blog article regarding minimum machine specs for running the CV1 and wondered if anybody could answer the above question.In the blog post:https://developer.oculus.com/blog/powering-the-rift/It says:This is the hardware...

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