Oculus Rift

FlyingIrishMan

Thargor wrote: »

As if they have a UI already, thats just a karma-whore bull****ting like most Reddit comments.

Pretty sure it was a joke. He was describing Steam word for word.

Fnz

witnessmenow wrote: »

If you can patent "slide to unlock" or "Garment pocket system for securely holding personal items with easy access" there is no way that with how much better they are than anything else available they do not have some patenable stuff

Example of another silly patent: http://www.google.com/patents/US6368227

"The swing is for regular swinging, not for fancy swinging!"

TrustedApple

If i was going to order one of the 2nd dev kits as i am planing on using it with my 4th year project for college.

How much gets taking form my card now ?

As i have a VAT number EG i will buy it with a company will i get away with the duty thanks to that ?.

macker33

At least facebook shouldnt be able to insert their ads into the actual games themselves unless they have made it themselves or sponsored some indie developer.

I dont think we have to worry about facebook popups in the middle of triple A titles, The problem is we may have to log into facebook to run the drivers

audidiesel

haven't seen any links to these in the last few pages, plus its pretty relevant here.


a early review and look at sony's project Morpheus VR system


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Q4Vf-HwEU


also the OR dev kit version 2


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d3Wli7s6KY


both worth a look anyways.

Genghiz Cohen

samapple789 wrote: »

If i was going to order one of the 2nd dev kits as i am planing on using it with my 4th year project for college.

How much gets taking form my card now ?

As i have a VAT number EG i will buy it with a company will i get away with the duty thanks to that ?.

$50 now and the remainder when it ships.

TrustedApple

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

$50 now and the remainder when it ships.

Going to put my order in now for it so.

Question is it post to be shipping in July ?.

Shiminay

Found this via Twitter, well worth reading the original writer's comments (a musician named Peter Berkman) and John Carmack's response.

macker33

I was disgusted when i first heard about facebook buying the rift but i'm starting to mellow out a bit about it now.

The thought of a virtual well made central hub may not be such a bad idea, facebook have the money to put in to make a high quality virtual environment. It could potentially be interesting for 5 minutes.

still, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cF8tw9QECM all my worries havent completely gon away

safetyboy

brought the rift to my parents 40th wedding anniversary and the damn oculus site was down for maintenance

KevFlynn

safetyboy wrote: »

brought the rift to my parents 40th wedding anniversary and the damn oculus site was down for maintenance

Tell me about it!!! I bought the thing on Saturday and the site is still down. Can anyone share the SDK? (or point to an alternative download site - though I have looked everywhere for this).

Duggy747

Try here

Download Zip is on the right side of the page.

KevFlynn

Duggy747 wrote: »

Try here

Download Zip is on the right side of the page.

Thanks but I found this one already...I think its the Linux version. I am looking for a Windows one..

Thanks anyway.

Duggy747

KevFlynn wrote: »

Thanks but I found this one already...I think its the Linux version. I am looking for a Windows one..

Thanks anyway.

Oh right my bad, didn't even notice it was Linux :pac:

Can't remember if it was a case of just extracting the SDK or installing it, pretty sure it was just to extract it.

If nobody else does it, or if the site is still down, I'll put up my SDK when I get home after 6.

KevFlynn

Duggy747 wrote: »

Oh right my bad, didn't even notice it was Linux :pac:

Can't remember if it was a case of just extracting the SDK or installing it, pretty sure it was just to extract it.

If nobody else does it, or if the site is still down, I'll put up my SDK when I get home after 6.

Thanks you so much....if I had to go another evening just looking at the hardware it I will start pulling my hair out!!

KevFlynn

KevFlynn wrote: »

Thanks you so much....if I had to go another evening just looking at the hardware it I will start pulling my hair out!!

Thanks All - the site is back up and I have everything downloaded to USB just in case it goes down again. Cant wait to get home to check it all out.

Sierra Oscar

I think it is interesting that a lot of Valve staff have left the company in recent weeks to join Occulus. Michael Abrash is not the only person to have left Valve, and it seems those that have left basically belong to the unit tasked with researching and developing hardware concepts.

It indicates that Valve's voyage of discovery into the hardware world may be coming to an end, and they have achieved what they wanted by energizing the industry somewhat. It could mean that Valve will finally start to refocus on the game development side of things. I hope they stay close to Occulus though, the work that they are doing is very interesting - and considering Valve have been working alongside them for quite some time it means that they have an insight into VR that very few developers have.

Nody

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

I think it is interesting that a lot of Valve staff have left the company in recent weeks to join Occulus. Michael Abrash is not the only person to have left Valve, and it seems those that have left basically belong to the unit tasked with researching and developing hardware concepts.

It indicates that Valve's voyage of discovery into the hardware world may be coming to an end, and they have achieved what they wanted by energizing the industry somewhat. It could mean that Valve will finally start to refocus on the game development side of things. I hope they stay close to Occulus though, the work that they are doing is very interesting - and considering Valve have been working alongside them for quite some time it means that they have an insight into VR that very few developers have.

The bigger question is how many will stay with Occulus now that it's bought by FB...

ScumLord

Nody wrote: »

The bigger question is how many will stay with Occulus now that it's bought by FB...

I was guessing the reason they all moved over is because of Facebook money giving them all a job.

Nody

ScumLord wrote: »

I was guessing the reason they all moved over is because of Facebook money giving them all a job.

But it is unlikely they knew that when they hired on in the first place; hence the question esp. as other companies are revving up their VR attempts as well.

Sierra Oscar

ScumLord wrote: »

I was guessing the reason they all moved over is because of Facebook money giving them all a job.

I suspect the reason they moved from Valve is because they got the impression that the company had gone as far as it was going to go with hardware development for now. They will probably focus on the software end of VR (next major Valve title could support it?) but I wouldn't count on them doing much more hardware work.

Player1 Gaming: Shane

With increasing entries into the VR HW arena it does look like the HW is not where the money will be made. Facebook will likely go down an app store + advertising route to monetise Oculus. Microsoft and Sony will probably use their VR systems as leverage in a more traditional gaming market share battle at least in the short term.

leprechaun47

Hey, just wondering if anyone has their Unity Pro code they haven't used? Got the Rift to use with my college project but have no code. Any help appreciated!

Kiith

This just pushed me over the edge, and now i'm going to pre-order it.

McSasquatch

Nice - hadn't seen that demo before.

Was just thinking earlier how OR and Star Citizen should be a match made in gaming heaven. Can't wait!

Taylor365

Anyone looking to offload there DK1 i will give it a nice home.

I know, i know, 'check adverts.ie' but there usually up and gone or in the back end of killinafeckin. :P

ShadowHearth

I would love Oculus Rift for my driving games. I would love them to get the Damn consumer version out already. No way I am touching Dev kit.

Taylor365

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I would love Oculus Rift for my driving games. I would love them to get the Damn consumer version out already. No way I am touching Dev kit.

2016 is only 2 years away*



*before Consumer version is out and an acceptable amount of content to warrant a purchase.

Dyr

SO are there actually any decent games using the rift in a decent manner?

thus far my list is:

Eurotruck Simulator :best
Team Fortess 2: second best

Warthunder is'nt playable at this res and I say that as flight sim fan
HL2 is an absolute no no, nausea in minutes
Skyrim is so so haven't really tweaked it

Any others?

Duggy747

Nausea could be a bit subjective I guess so what I'm fine with might not agree with someone else.

For HL2, were you using a mod or Valve's beta patches? Just wondering as there's a huge difference in the 2 of them, I'm perfectly grand with the Rift in general but the HL2 mod was a sickener and had to leave it. When the beta patches came out I played the game + it's 2 episodes perfectly and had a blast with it.

Quake is fun to play, fast-movement but no nausea effect. Quake 2 is also good to play.

Stanley Parable runs nicely, you use Tridef for that which has a 14 day trial.

Metro Last Light is another, will swallow your GPU though if it's not up to scratch.

Dishonored can be played with the Rift, I haven't tried it yet but since I'm just starting the DLCs I think I'll try it out.