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iPAD Rifting ...

Out of insane desperation waiting for my Rift, while watching a minecrift video, I stuck my face as close as possible my ipad screen (ipad 3). Lo and behold!!! I found myself staring at a giant 3d world through a window! The trick is to relax the eye...

New Meetup in Boulder Colorado!

Greetings Fellow Rifters!I have started a virtual reality meetup and I am welcoming all of you to come and join!Here is the meetup site:http://www.meetup.com/Boulder-VIrtual-Reality-MeetupI am looking for anyone who has a Oculus Rift to come and demo...

MarkM by Honored Guest
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Virtual Heartbeat to trigger Out-of-body Experience

A link from Gizmag that sounds like it might be pertinent. Haven't read the whole thing yet, but I'm intrigued enough to share it here.http://www.gizmag.com/visualized-heartbeat-out-of-body-experience/28728/

Anonymous by Not applicable
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vrAse

Does anyone want to comment on the "vrAse" (see links below)?http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/29/vrase/http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2041280918/vrase-the-smartphone-virtual-reality-case

r2umam by Honored Guest
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Non-gaming VR demo's - (for an interview)

Ok, very likely I will be giving an interview to the biggest tech media in the Netherlands~ So, I have all my game demo's in order, I have all my technical knowlegde in order, the only thing that I wish I had was some demo's to show the power of the ...

Oculus Rift nausea is “an ongoing challenge” that may always

One of the issues owners of the Oculus Rift developer kits have found is that it can cause severe motion sickness. While talking with us at Gamescom last week, we learned that it’s something Oculus VR hope to have solved from a hardware and software ...

kevinw729 by Honored Visionary
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How to make players sick in your virtual reality game

There is a great, undiscovered potential in virtual reality development. Sure, you can create lifelike virtual worlds, but you can also make players sick. Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey and VP of product Nate Mitchell hosted a panel at GDC Europe la...

kevinw729 by Honored Visionary
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Channel 4's gadget man to feature the oculus rift

Just a heads up for those of us in the UK a new tech programme starting on channel 4 monday 8:30 will be featuring the rift in one of it's episodes, pretty sure u will be able to see it on 4OD if you miss it.Richard Ayoade welcomes viewers to the wor...

Danos256 by Honored Guest
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BRUTAL... What A Waste Of A Good Rift

Here is a home project I recommend no one does! :lol: At first I thought it was a joke until I saw that they actually hacked it up. I guess when you want HD and wireless bad enough you will try anything.

360FOV by Honored Guest
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Just ordered Occulus Rift

Hi allJust wanted to say hello to the community and let you know i've just ordered a rift  looking forward to some dev and testing with it.I'm order number 686XX, and i'm in England. Has anyone got any ideas on how long I might be waiting to receive...

MarcusGC by Honored Guest
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4th graders and the rift

My wife is a 4th grade teacher. Today she led a discussion on science vs.fantasy. One young boy commented that sometimes what we believe is fantasy now can become reality through science like some of the things in old Star Trek. My wife then comented...

Temporarily Suspended purchases from Russia

Just got this off the official Oculus VR website : FYI"Temporarily Suspended Countries/Regions for Oculus Rift Sales and/or ShippingRussia Due to current Customs and shipping issues into the region, we've been forced to temporarily suspend purchases ...

sirallen by Honored Guest
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Another Motion Sickness Thread

OK, here is my exp so far. After about solid 10 hrs in the Rift while trying every demo I could get my hands on, I have experienced zero Motion Sickness ... certain demos like rift coaster, birds and the helicopter demo give me a great sensation of m...

bxrdj by Protege
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Lets Hack Bullipedia

I want to participate in the Hack­ing­Bul­li­pedia and need someone to help me build a demo of my idea with the Oculus. You can win an all expense paid trip to Barcelona SPAIN. -What is elBulli?elBulli was a Michelin 3-star restaurant from Catalonia,...

MatiasP by Honored Guest
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A PEGI Rating for Motion Sickness?

Rated E for Extremely NauseatingThis seems like the kind of thing we would need on games in the future, to encourage developers to polish their games and get a wider audience. It sounds funny, but do you think this would have any use?

Next London VR Meetup Invites Speaker

The next ‘London Oculus Rift / VR Developer Meetup’ will still be an occasion to socialize and do some networking but we have a few talks in place. The first speaker to be invited to present is:- Kevin WilliamsPresenting: “The Attraction of Immersion...

kevinw729 by Honored Visionary
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WiiU Capable

I tried searching around to see if anyone had asked this before but couldn't find anything addressing it. Mods, please delete/move this thread if you feel that it is necessary.The WiiU has chips dedicated to streaming video to the wireless gamepad an...

tgriff by Honored Guest
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Put on your Rift and watch this youtube vid

For those who haven't seen this..it shows some innovative ways to use the rift. You feel like a bird or an insect when viewing through the Rift. I can imagine the HD consumer version giving some good sight seeing apps. You have to watch in FULLSCREEN...

Eye fog

Hello!I got my dev kit just under a week ago, and I'm really loving it. I'm going to be integrating Rift support into a project I've been tinkering with in Ogre3d, but that is not really why I'm posting right now.Sometimes I have an issue where it se...

oriondg by Honored Guest
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Oculus and Monitor together

Just setting up the Oculus but having monitor issues. I have Dual monitors, I plugged one out so the PC is running off just one and then plug in the rift, but its showing the second desktop on the Rift. I have tried different options but I cant get t...

NA Batch, can we get an update of any kind?

It's a bit odd seeing turn around times of one week from ordered to delivered in the UK, while NA orders are still back from the beginning of July.Can we get any explanation? What are we waiting on that other orders do not need to wait on?

Calibrating the Rift and the Config Utility

When using the Config Utility and profiles you have to put in what cup you are using. Because it's important for the calibration I guess. For now I've been using the lines thing to do my calibration. Going to get my eyes checked soon (years since las...

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CDF Ghostship getting Oculus Rift support.

After months of hard work we finally managed to get enough funding to pre-order the dev kit to get Ghostship up and running with Oculus Rift. We firmly believe that that Ghostship on Oculus Rift will be one of the scariest games you have ever played!...

anarkavre by Honored Guest
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Rifttastic Space Clip

Strap on your rift and check this baby out ....Enemy Starfighter PAX 2013 Oculus Rift Demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSKeseN4uJk

madmick by Honored Guest
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Official (Just Got My Rift) Thread

Hi, my order # is 047455. I just got confirmation yesterday night(6/2) via email that my order is being shipped!  I was part of the 3,500 American orders that got caught up in customs for 3 weeks(I was notified on may 28th that my order was being "P...

willeknox by Honored Guest
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September ship date

So It said on the website the next batch of oculus rifts ships in September, so while everyone can order now there orders will therefore ship in September, but I'm curious, If I order mine on September 7th (when I get payed so I can afford the oculus...

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