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Half life 2

Hello ALL,got my Rift early this week. Its awesome! Team Fortress 2 looks really good. Looks 3d and the Fov is descent. I tried playing Half life 2 with the Vireio driver and thats a different story. FOV is really low and nothing looks 3d. It is basi...

war61 by Honored Guest
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3D reversal!?

A bit of an odd question but say you took the regular left and right images displayed in the Oculus and switched them, so the left eye is seeing the right eye's image and vice-versa. What kind of visual effect would this create?More of curiosity than...

Why the Rift is superior for FPS games...

I've been playing better than I ever have at TF2. I've never dominated like this before and I think I've figured out why.When the mouse crosshair is not fixed to camera movement, aiming feels a lot more like it does when you're not gaming. Being able...

LoneCoder by Honored Guest
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leap motion vs razer hydra with Rift

The Leap 2' cubed = 8 cubic feet. Although Cool and I am already getting one for 80 bucks why not. I am not sure its a good fit for VR HMD and 3d games not enough space. I dont know I guess I will have to play with it when I get one. I have a razor h...

My Oculus hasn't shown up yet?

Am I the only one that hasn't gotten their Oculus? Or are they still shipping them out. I did order mine pretty late in the game, but I'm starting to wonder if there was a mistake.

LCD refresh and switching alternative

Hi,Already posted this on MTBS3D but thought I'd post it up here too. Please forgive my ignorance on the subject, but I was wondering with modern LCD's why they need to switch or refresh all at the same time. I am just curious if it would be possible...

Cha0sD by Honored Guest
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List of Dev-Kits per Country for Team-Up

Hi Everyone This Thread is mostly targeted at international backers.Is there a list/overview of how many dev-kits per country went out or will go out soon?The reason for this:I'm from Austria, a relatively small country in Europe. And I assume there...

seliqui by Honored Guest
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Non-uniform pixel density display

Anyone know of any literature / info on displays with non-uniform pixel density? I've been googling around for a bit without luck. At first when you think of the resolution of a traditional display at average viewing distance and imagine trying to fi...

320x200 by Explorer
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High-End Consumer Model

I know Oculus can't give details, but could you say whether you have at least thought about the idea of having a "standard" consumer model and a "high-end" consumer model, so that people who are willing to pay more for, say, a higher-resolution scree...

Mark by Honored Guest
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Regular Video Series with Impressions, Reviews, and Requests

Hey VR Heads!I received my dev kit earlier this week, and in my excitement have been posting videos with first impressions, useful tips, and reviews/trials of various software. I have also begun fulfilling requests from the community. You can find th...

Cymatic by Honored Guest
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Rift Potentially Available to Loan

I've got my rift here and am feeling a bit guilty for not developing anything with it. It's also distracting me from other projects. So I'm open to loaning it out to someone that needs one to work on something awesome.Reply here or message me if inte...

LoneCoder by Honored Guest
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Graphics needed for Kickstarter project

Hello,This is Steve with Panera Entertainment. A week ago we launched our Kickstarter campaign for our title 'Theme Park Studio'. We are about 33 percent funded.http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1011099242/theme-park-studio-create-the-ultimate-them...

Upgraded Screen

I was just wondering if any of you have or are planning to upgrade the screen to a better quality one?And if so, how easy is it to do?Hopefully when people start to do it, we can post what screens worked the best, and any problems that occurred.

hucki by Honored Guest
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A couple of questions before I order the Oculus Rift.

Are there any upgrades to the current development kit planned before the consumer version? Also I've read that people have had problems with UPS, is UPS used to ship to Europe? How much are the additional fees(shipping, customs, etc)? Could someone f...

Gnamra by Honored Guest
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Time frame for OS X development?

Hi,I don't have my dev kit quite yet, but in anticipation I was looking to learn more about development - looking around I see at the moment you have to develop on Windows, but it sounded like OS X was coming along before too long. I could not find a...

kgelner by Honored Guest
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Standard Windows 7 desktop support

Ive seen this idea bandied around in a couple of threads, but Im coming at this from a slightly different angle..Like many companies, mine has decided that working in an open plan office is the way forward.I find it almost impossible to maintain any ...

rojaws by Honored Guest
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is there a place to request support for games?

On the old forum (pre SDK launch) there was a forum for requesting and discussing rift support for indie and major game titles. Do we no longer have anything of the sort or is there a thread somewhere?In particular I'm hoping for support for DiRT 3, ...

Replacement LCD

Just wanted to speculate about what will happen when there is a new LCD for the rift.Will Oculus sell them separately so we can replace them in our 1st gen dev kits?What is the most important feature in your opinion? Latency, resolution, ppi, freqHow...

mrsatz by Honored Guest
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The "Alone in a Crowd" Issue

Hey folks. I've been considering an issue that's bound to come up eventually amongst the consumer element of the virtual reality crowd. For those consumers who are married / have family, it's not an uncommon thing for family members to be watching so...

Using the Oculus for Research

Hi Everyone,I'll be honest, while the hobbyist game developer part of me is intrigued by the Oculus Rift, the thing that made me super excited about it (enough to back the Kickstarter campaign to get a dev kit) was the potential for using the device ...

NYC area Rift meetup

Have any folks in the NYC metro area already received their Rift(s)? I'm tentatively planning a meetup in May, and ideally once a month moving forward if it's successful. At least initially, the idea is getting developers together to:- Demo the Rift ...

Tummler by Honored Guest
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Pre-order dev kits general info inquiry

I've been trying to find out how many dev kits there are in total for the kickstarter campaign, in order to estimate a start date for shipping out pre-order dev kits, based on the info on the number of dev kits that have already been shipped. I've be...

Grandma vs. dev kit pre-orders

Hi Oculus VR.I am very interested in viral marketing and I just wanted to know how big a raise in pre-orders you have experienced over the last two days, due to the 90 year-old grandma trying the Rift?The interesting thing here, is that the video is ...

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Smooth Video Project 60FPS movies in 3D?

For those of you who have not checked this out already its an amazing way to play video files on your computer:http://www.svp-team.com/It uses motion interpolation and makes your low frame rate videos match your refresh rate of your monitor or tv and...

Anonymous by Not applicable
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Faceplates

So I was wondering; What are the odds of the consumer version of the Oculus Rift releasing with an interchangeable faceplate, this would make it easy and fun for people to purchase modular faceplates to the front of the Rift that add cool designs and...

Jjiinx by Honored Guest
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Rift backlight control via software

I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, and it's gotten me curious. We've seen that there are hardware contrast+brightness buttons on the control unit, but is there a way to control these parameters through the SDK? I can't seem to find anything in t...

jdewitt by Honored Guest
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Oculus RIFT International Delivery

Hello!I'm really eager to get my hands on a Oculus, but i was surprised when i saw that more than a third of the product's price is only the shipping cost ($110). I was wondering is there an alternative way of delivery? As with the shipping and custo...

ivreally by Honored Guest
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Mac Support

I know i'm definitely in the minority here, but all my development software is on my Mac. I've put a lot of money into software that I'd love not to got to waste. I've herd Mac support might be in the works, does anyone know if this is true and if so...

Mr_Night by Honored Guest
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Order #1997 arrived today (San Jose, CA)

It's finally here!! I got the shipping notice this morning and it arrived before I got home from work.In all of my excitement, I completely forgot that I don't have any windows boxes to use with this. oops. Anyone have any idea when the Mac version o...

bfoz by Honored Guest
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