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Please be gentle i'm new!

Hello everyone.Im new to the oculus and the forums.It started out with me sending an email to support as I am highly interested in VR and I got advised by Mark to enter the forums and ask a few questions, put some ideas forward and see what happens.A...

jsyblade by Honored Guest
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SDK hooks for entering the matrix/cyberspace

Similar things have already been discussed, but I thought I'd give my 2 cents.To enhance the feeling of entering another world while simultaneously reducing disorientation it would be helpful if the SDK included the capability for an event (a user de...

mihalski by Honored Guest
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Complete your "location" in the User Control Panel

Hello fellow Oculus Rift community I have a call to action. Go to your User Control Panel and at a minimum complete your location so that others locally can connect with you. A fellow Calgarian has already reached out to me thanks to this. VRMatthew

Oculus at the E3

Hello Oculus team, are you planning something for the E3 ?I m very curious for your next annoucements.

norgoth by Honored Guest
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Bringing Retinal+Implant over to this forum!

Just a little over 2 years ago, Palmer posted about Retinal Implants on mtbs3d.com. Thought it might be worthwhile to bring it forward for another round of discussion on his very own forum on his own company's website  No matter what great display i...

Help me decide if Rift is right for me?

I know this soulds like a self serving (take pitty on me) thread... but i am a techie at heart, and am just too excited about the rift. Anyways, here is the story. I got some extra cash for my Bday, and historically, if I just save it for later, some...

Using the Rift with TriDef or similar software?

Is it possible to use the rift with TriDef 3D using something like the OculusOverlay to warp the image? Or will it not be possible to get a converging image since the Rift is partial overlap where as most 3D drivers like TriDef use full overlap? This...

sidhu663 by Honored Guest
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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...

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