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Gun Reticle Solution?

I keep seeing and hearing talk about the difficulty of getting an aiming reticle to converge, etc. Don't know if anyone posted this but why not emulate a real gun and place the reticule on one eye so that the player needs to close the other one. And ...

Convert Existing Game (Without Access to Source Code)?

Hi,There is a flight simulator that I use that is very good, but that has largely ceased development (Condor Soaring). I do not have the source code. Would there be a way to write some sort of program that would enable the use of the Oculus with Cond...

Can the optical correction be done in HW

I wonder if the barrel and chromatic correction could be done in the small hardware unit that comes with the Rift? Perhaps an FPGA. So long as the costs did not rise too much and it did not add delay to outputting the image. This would take some load...

Solution for reducing piracy

Remember how Greenheart Games released their own torrent version of their game Game Dev Tycoon, and in pirated version was modified? That could work with games for Rift like this:Devs release a torrent of a modified version of a new Rift game in secr...

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Next-gen, a new kind of AI?

So far we have seen some of the new Kinect's abilities and things like higher resolution, ability to operate in a dark and small room with less latency seem to be interesting for it's potential use in VR. But I'm much more interested in Kinect's abil...

Effects of a long VR session on the body and mind

I had an interesting experience last night. I was playing the flying sandbox (here) which is the most intense demo I've tried. I tried it standing up and almost fell over a few times due to my balance realllly being thrown off by going horizontal and...

sinoth by Honored Guest
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When I get Oculus??

I Pre-Ordered march 27when I get? may? jun? july? august? How can I know??any information?

jincloud by Honored Guest
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Help! Only Rift, no pc screen!

Hi! I wanted to set up the rift in windows 7, so the image is on the screen and the ruft. now its only at the rift, my screen stays black. its hard to use windows like that to reset it, because i cant look around at the desktop.Any solution? Im sure,...

Any news about updated devkit hardware?

Hi, all. I've been looking through these forums, and a little bit on the subreddit, and I've seen some talk about a new version of the development kit sometime soon, but I haven't found anything solid. This is important to me as I am heavily consider...

Oculus Rift VS. Other HMD's ....

I have been a pretty hardcore Virtual Reality enthusiast since I was a kid. I have owned so many headsets over the past 17 years (I am getting old lol about to be 36 ). I would love to read some posts from others that have owned other headsets and ha...

2 months - 6000 Rifts

So, 2 months are behind us and a total of 6,000 units were shipped. By simple calculation, it is 3000/month - 750 pieces per week. Is that enough? Will increase production?

Piece of History

I stumbled on this thread where Palmer introduces himself to the mtbs3d forums and his interest in HMDs. It is a piece of history and a great read. It is easy to see why Cybereality ended up on the Oculus team. http://www.mtbs3d.com/phpbb/viewtopic.p...

Oculus Rift Orders - Update yours!

Hey Guys,Many of you have received your Rift already or had a change in your orders status. If you could kindly update your information on the unofficial (but super awesome) OR Order Information Tracking this will help others gauge where things are a...

Xbox One no Indie Self-Publishing, PS4 yes!

"Xbox One marketplace will eliminate the Xbox Live Arcade and Indie Games channels and offer all its games under one big tent instead.""Nintendo and Sony both allow indies to self-publish on their Networks."http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read...

should I buy the rift?

I'll try to keep this as concise as I can but maybe some owners of the rift can help me out. Basically I've just finished my second year at university studying computer animation and vfx. I live with my girlfriend and 8 month old daughter and althoug...

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Razer hydra promo code/purchase problem[RESOLVED]

*neutral*In the "Oculus at GDC 2013" update, we received a promo code that gives us 50% off a razer hydra purchase."We’ve been collaborating with Sixense on an Oculus + Unity + Razer Hydra sandbox demo and the early results are pretty cool. With the ...

Idea for improving resolution (even with same display)

Probably has been suggested, but searching here turned up none or too many results to be meaningful.What I suggest is to adjust the optics and warping shaders to allow for a greater number of pixels to be concentrated near the center of each subimage...

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Awesome VR miniseries with Belushi, Talking Nausea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eb1w7nYZQs#t=02m03sJust saw this posted on reddit, I remember watching this miniseries a long time ago, I really liked it at the time, but what Belushi does when he pets on the goggles, LOL! Has anyone else seen this m...

PS3 Eye technical details

I was wondering if anyone knew the details of the PS3 Eye in terms of the USB2 4-port hub that is built in (presumably to accommodate the microphones).I was hoping to connect a second PS3 Eye to the initial one so that I could have a stereoscopic PS3...

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Whats up with the Signed Kits?

Yes I know, another shipping Post.... :oops: But I would really like to know when we can expect the signed Riftikits to arrive. I have order #74 (in Germany) and afaik marcushast in Sweden has a signed one too (with OrderID #40) and we both are still...

drach by Honored Guest
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analog video signal from usb input to the rift

so i fly alot of fpv , and i want a better way to view my live feed , so i was wondering if anyone has managed to get just basic video out , eg the rift as a secondary screen, i have a 2.4ghz feed from my plane going to a 2.4ghz receiver ,through a u...

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Playing Half-Life 2

WARNING: This thread might considerably slow down time while waiting for the Rift! Wow ... going from Demo to full game: Half Life 2This is unbelievable. The demos are nice, but playing a real game is something else entirely. All those places I have ...

Gerald by Expert Protege
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E3 Venue for meet up

We were thinking it would be nice to get everyone together in one place for E3.. maybe get the Bay area group together with the LA group. Looking for a suitable venue so that even people who don't have E3 passes could join. Bring your kits.. top secr...

People with a rift. Get out some loo rolls! :D

Sooo while i am still waiting on my rift im always thinking about how the fov really looks like. A lot of people say you could compare it with binoculars or that you are looking through a short tube. Maybe you guys could try looking through different...

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