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Time to come clean DK2 not compatible with AMD cards

Because how long has the DK2 caused black screen now with anything resembling a recent AMD driver? A while now, just updated to the Omega drivers and once again the black screen issue is back. You guys haven't fixed it. I previously was using a old A...

davidjc by Honored Guest
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Formal Request for .dll's instead of .lib's in offical sdk

I would like to specifically ask for dll's instead of lib's being shipped with the sdk in the future Specifically I have an application that relies on hooking to accomplish it's goals and I would like to be able to hook the ovrHmd_BeginFrame and ovr...

13th Lab Joins Oculus

looks like Oculus are buying up big time.... First up we see Nimble V.R can their KickStarter campaign & were scooped up by the arms of the Oculus monster Now we see 13th Lab have also been sucked in.... 13th Lab is a team dedicated to all stuff Poin...

Mickman by Protege
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VR Input Devices

Hi Everyone,I really like what I have seen from the Leap Motion Controller. I am trying to decide on whether I should incorporate it into my project and would like your opinions. The factors I am currently weighing are:1. How much more immersion does...

Stutter and add in PCIe sound cards

Ok. So I ran into something a little strange. I recently built a new computer and when I first set it up I used the onboard audio (Creative XFi-mb3). Got everything loaded up for an Elite Dangerous test to see how the new rig performs. Smooth as silk...

Physicon by Honored Guest
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The next decade and why you should stop worrying..

Being an early adopter of the rift, getting the DK1 and DK2, the years seems to be slowly stacking up and DK2 is 6 months old already and getting old, demos are not AAA studio quality and the headset is still "not good enough". What now? Wait another...

EarlGrey by Expert Protege
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New to DK1

Hi all,I have recently purchased an eBay DK1 for my 13 year old son to get him started. He's a big Half Life, Minecraft etc. PC gamer and has loved the Oculus rift since we tried it at Insomnia last year.I've downloaded a few games and demos, some of...

Conflax by Honored Guest
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New Organic VR Covers

Hey guys,Thanks a lot for all the positive feedback about our Oculus Rift covers in the last couple of weeks. Today we have added a new set of organic VR Covers to our store.This "green" VR Cover is made from 80% organic cotton / 20% organic bamboo f...

vrcover by Explorer
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Question about re-route the rift on a secondary card

I was curious to know if there is a way to use a secondary video card, to drive just the rift.I am not talking of SLI or Crossfire; Imagine to have a primary card used for gaming, and a secondary card just for rift gaming, so anything sent to the rif...

Lolloso by Protege
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Carmack working on Camera based interface for Rift?

Noticed these 2 tweets by him:John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) December 1, 2014It is pleasantly recursive when my vision code is tracking features of a graph on my monitor of a previous test runhttps://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/539562625991204864...

Peteo by Expert Protege
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Case Marvel Launch VR Skin Kickstarter Campaign

Hi Guys, We're interested in the boards feedback and hopefully your support. Please take a look at the Kickstarter campaign that we just launched and take a look at some of the products. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/casemarvel/case-marvel-cus...

DK2 without getting busted at work

DK2 without getting busted at workLong short of it, I’m using my work laptop to attempt to get my dK2 to run at home. My DK1 worked fine on the old home laptop, but not the DK2. So I am cautiously trying to get it running on the work laptop without e...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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how to

hello i do not understand how to use the extended display i read the tut how to do it i get it then my oculus only shows the extended desktop and i open a game and it opens on my main desktop but not the other and i drag it over and it looks and feel...

kedo1209 by Honored Guest
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New to PC > Direct to HMD?

I have given up developing on a mac, went out and built a high end PC.Whats the best steps to get Unity to build a "direct to HMD" version of my project?Theres not too many details about on the 'net about this, so thought this would be the best place...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Oculus must have...VR Stellarium

I have tryed stellarium its a great free planetarium the code source is available herehttp://bazaar.launchpad.net/~stellarium/stellarium/trunk/fileshttp://www.stellarium.org/Here is the doc for developers.http://www.stellarium.org/doc/I think this is...

aminemo by Explorer
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Anyone in the OC?

Here goes a totally not creepy request. Is there anyone in the OC with a v2 that's willing to show it off to an internet stranger? I'm on board with the VR thing, but not necessarily on board with the Occulus thing. I need to convince myself that it'...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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tracking issue in autosport

Generally the rift seems to work ok. But when playing grid autosport I run into an issue where the head tracking appears to do its own thing. It seems random. Sometimes I can move my head and tracking is perfect. At other times im sitting still and t...

indubious by Honored Guest
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Neck pain in Elite dogfights! Any pilotes out there?

I recently bought Elite:Dangerous and currently can play the combat simulator until release on 16.12. The dogfights are the best experience i ever had with my Rift but i get neck pain (both muscle tension and lumbago) whenever i play.Are there any ac...

Extended Mode = Juddering ?

Hello, I received my DK2 yesterday. When I play anything in direct mode it looks and works great, however anything in extended mode shows a lot of juddering when moving my head. I'm using Windows 8.1, AMD FX8350 4.0Ghz - 16GB DDR5 - ASUS R9 290 4GB D...

Prodak by Honored Guest
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P.T. - Silent Hills (Demo PS4) On Oculus Rift

Hi everybody!Sorry for my bad english (I'm French)Just imagine for a second that could give the demo of Silent Hills Oculus Rift...Just literally creepy!It's possible to adapt the PS4 demo (with UE4 or Unity) for playing on PC with Oculus Rift?I know...

4k @ 200 hz ? this technology is already available!!!!!!

Why is nobody trying wide field DLP - eye projection? DLPs would be perfect for VR. They are super fast you get them with 4k resolution and you can turn the (led)lightsource on and of as fast as you want for ultra low persistence...I think Avegant is...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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passive VS active display

It should be interesting to produce a display that analyse users eyes morphology and physiological parameter in order to produce the best VR experience by taking advantage of automatic IPD adjustment ,stereoscopic separation by using a real time feed...

aminemo by Explorer
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Graphic Card decision- Quandary

Hey, Anyone have an opinion on what I should get for the CV1.I have at present a EVGA 780ti 3g card. I am wondering if I should purchase another 780ti and SLI them or a 980 as I can only afford one or the other. I am leaning toward the 980 but I want...

Help setting up DK2

Hi guys... Today I finally got my DK2... awesome..I tried the configuration tool demo and works fine... also SDK demo and works fine.. so I assume everything is installed correctly, however I tried Euro Truck Simulator 2 on steam, Set properties to O...

Prodak by Honored Guest
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Parallax Spherical Buffers Plausible?

Just wondering if immersion would still work if the world was rendered to a set of layered spherical buffers?The idea is that if you can quickly update the point of view of these buffers then the illusion of immersion could be maintained even at lowe...

Arowx by Explorer
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Rules of thumb for VRdevs

After around 300 tutorial videos and about 100 hours of trial and error inside the unreal engine and various 3d sculpting programs, I have found myself in a bit of a slump. It seems that there's still so much to learn about the basic practices of how...

Disdroid by Honored Guest
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