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Screen blinking/poor connection?

Has anybody else had this? I just got my DK2 on friday and since the moment I plugged it in the thing has been flickering on and off constantly, as if there is a short or bad connection somewhere in it. It's doing it so bad it is almost unusable. I h...

Trisk by Protege
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Power adapter question

Hello everyone.I just got my DK2 and there is something I'd like to ask.... I follow the steps to connect the headset to my pc and before I connect the power adapter, the rift powers on. In the manual it says that the power adapter connection is opti...

bitzaros by Honored Guest
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CV release date May 2015?

http://www.kdramastars.com/articles/32823/20140812/oculus-rift-consumer-version-release-date.htm

mscanfp by Honored Guest
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If you had one piece of advice for new rift users....

What would it be?Some of you have had the good fortune to get their mitts on a rift for a while now and the rest of us are playing catchup.A lot of the advice floating about may be redundant or actually bad now.So you lucky people, give us new bloods...

oAmadeuso by Honored Guest
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DK2 problem Direct HMD acces not working

Hello,I hope that this is right place for this kind of question.I kindly ask you for help as new user of Oculus on WIN7 When i choose [Direct HMD acces from Apps] my oculus responnding with orange light and without video signal. I think that i have ...

kic by Honored Guest
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How does DK2 compare to oculus rift HD prototype ?

Hi, last October I had a try of the HD prototype rift and was blown away by warthunder and I racing that was at the gaming expo. Motion blur was terrible and only 90 FOV the guy said. With all those problems it was still amazing though.My DK2 should ...

PIM1 by Honored Guest
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Kite & Lightning launches Senza Peso: A VR Cinematic Epic

VR Experience: Windows DownloadTLDR: Watch the short: http://senzapeso.com/The idea: Watch the visually and musically-rich short film, then descend into the beautiful realms depicted therein and experience the afterlife for yourself without having to...

ikrima by Honored Guest
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where is my rift!!oculus,youmake me crazy!!!

Today is Aug 28, 2014 .and i don't have my rift yet!!when i odered at Apr 10, 2014 you said will ship on Jun,BUT Sep is coming,so what are you doing ,guys.i wait a long long long time,PLS do something ,PLS!!!!!     

Packaging

Good thing the oculus rift has pretty good packaging 8-) Content looks to be fine but have to wait until I get home to try it out. http://imgur.com/ZJSoDxO//editDidn't get the imaged to show up properly... so you'll just have to click the link :roll:

JaRoD by Honored Guest
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Dk2 Lens swap

I know reddit has a lens swap thread but how about just starting one here? I just seems a uphill struggle to get them.It's a long shot but I've got some sealed B cups to swap for A cups. Simple:) UK based.

Marconi by Explorer
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Direct rendering to HMD

Not sure if this has been asked before (probably has been, if so close this thread), but my direct rendering to hmd in the oculus service is greyed out. I can not select it and only us extended display. Most 0.4.1 SDK games work perfectly though so n...

uvflyer by Honored Guest
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Should the DK2 run on C:\Windows\system32\DRIVERS\monitor.s?

Hi everyone, I noticed when installing the DK2 on my system, Windows 7 automatically installed drivers for the display and camera. Purely by plugging the USB's into my PC, these drivers were installed. C:\Windows\system32\DRIVERS\monitor.sysMy questi...

DK2- Rift Display Mode Problem

Hello,Just Installed DK2 On my PC. But i am having a problem while opening RIFT DISPLAY MODE dialogue box. Only DK1 Legacy App support is active. Direct HMD access and extended desktop options are disabled.Any help would be appreciatedThanks

Nurul3D by Explorer
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Email from Oculus

So ... I know.. I ordered on June 20th... its unlikely that they will hit that mark this week for the US... but MAYBEThus when I received that Survey Email...... *sigh* ... obviously I was heartbroken.They should put any non-shipping emails with the ...

Horizontal Only camera

Hey guys just got my DK2 and when I try to move the camera with my mouse or gamepad I can only rotate the camera on the horizontal axis. Can anyone help me figure out whats wrong. Positional tracking works fine. Also completely unrelated but I get ho...

linksys17 by Honored Guest
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Mac User Thread

Hello AllI was wondering if we could get a mac user thread going. I have just received my unit and see that there are a number of issues that I am sure are being addressed. I wasted to make a place where Mac users with the DK2 could come to express t...

INOV8 by Honored Guest
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Bublcam - Anyone using it for VR content?

I just saw an article pop up on Techcrunch, along with an interview with Bublecam's CEO.http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/26/hands-on-with-bublcams-spherical-video-camera/It looks pretty cool; and the CEO specifically mentions HMD as a target of the tech...

andrewtek by Expert Protege
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METRO Redux

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/465218/previews/is-metro-redux-more-than-just-a-prettier-face/First, all of the game's formerly third-person cutscenes have been redone entirely in first-person, bringing it in line with the first-person action se...

Satire by Honored Guest
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Firmware update required?

Recently got my rift and it was showing firmware version 2.11 out of the box? - just wondering if this is correct and if there is any point updating as the update appears also to be to version 2.11?

mac2 by Honored Guest
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Dk2 crashes nvidia and hd4000 drivers

I've had 2 days with the Dk2 and it is still unusable. When I install the oculus runtime, it appears to work somewhat. Then it asks me to restart the computer. Upon restart, if I have any displays connected to my laptop (including dk2), I get only a ...

Mirroring The rift

Does anyone know of a way to mirror the Rift to the monitor when using drect to rift mode some demos have this built in automatically, I've also seen some demos that have a keyboard shortcut that will mirror the rift to the monitor, but not all demos...

How do I use OBS?

I want to mirror my screen so I can show other people what I'm looking at. I tried using OBS, configured it to stream DK2's screen (extended) but I get a blank screen. Any ideas?

Sepharite by Honored Guest
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Prescription Lenses - please!

So of course this has been said before on these forums and elsewhere, but I wanted to make sure that we get as many voices together as possible to make this clear for OVR, as I'm hoping they're reading these forums to get community feedback and a sen...

nkeeney by Explorer
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First Impressions (and also to rest my eyes from VR)

Got my DK2 yesterday. While it was relatively simple to setup, I seem to only be able to get the headset to work in direct display mode. Every time I try extended mode, the picture in the DK2 is never orientated right. Or rather, one eye is looking a...

ismini by Honored Guest
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Project Tango etc?

Just a thought with the likes of project Tango & similar projects what the answer will be for disocclusion/occlusion?Obviously they're major factors with VR & the benifits are great but what's the answer to producing a non-linear experience?Any devel...

Optimus laptops: No Aero = No 75Hz?

HelloSo I am doing what all good new DK2 owners do, and trying to get things to work on my system  I am having a bit of judder in Half Life 2 and in VR Player samples, and I saw another thread mention using Blur Buster's ufotest to measure my refres...

Wireline by Explorer
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