Oculus Rift & VR stuff (1 Viewer)

[pete]

Hold on.

Do you put your phone into the goggles?

yes

then it falls out when you get excited on the rollercoaster

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I have to say that I love the 21st century

 

[pete]

just tried the google earth thing and flew around chicago. vg.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I might have to do this

 

[pete]

I might have to do this

this is the official one Cardboard but there are a few knockoffs about.

 

[pete]

this bit is important

Cardboard

hmm that should link to the compatibility list but it doesn't

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

this bit is important

Cardboard

hmm that should link to the compatibility list but it doesn't

I figured it out

• Motorola Moto X

I'm a go

 

[pete]

Oculus announces “Q1 2016” release for first consumer Oculus Rift | Ars Technica

 

[pete]

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[HMD]

@pete Have you tried Google Cardboard?

 

[pete]

@pete Have you tried Google Cardboard?

Oculus Rift | thumped.com

even better on S5

 

[HMD]

Oculus Rift | thumped.com

even better on S5

Oh yeah. It works well with the iPhone 6. Is your 6+ too big?

 

[pete]

Oh yeah. It works well with the iPhone 6. Is your 6+ too big?

just a bit yeah

 

[HMD]

just a bit yeah

Have you seen any good iOS apps for it?

 

[pete]

no i've stuck with the android ones - i could probably make the 6+ fit but the cardboard back won't close properly and i don't want to damage my expensive VR goggles...

 

[pissypants]

I had a go on the Occulus a few weeks ago and despite the low resolution (and the fact that it was an abstract tech demo / interactive thingy and not a game) it was still very impressive. It was a modified version that also took in the environment around you in real life, so when you held up your own flesh and blood hands they appeared moving, accurately tracked, in the virtual world too. Mind melting.

 

[pete]

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[ernesto]

There's one of these in the gaff I just moved in to.
It's fucking bananas.

Did the roller coaster, some haunted house nonsense and a few music video type thingies.
Pretty Fucking deadly

 

[pete]

€700? FUCK THAT.

Probably the biggest pieces of "evidence" leading people to expect a lower price for the Rift were the prices Oculus itself charged for its Rift development kits. The $300 DK1, funded by a wildly successful Kickstarter in 2012, and the $350 second dev kit (DK2) offered up in 2014, taught many consumers that it was possible to deliver decent (if not consumer quality) virtual reality for prices much lower than $599.

These "dev kits" weren't exactly ultra-niche products for a handful of lucky developers, either—Oculus sold over 175,000 of the kits as of last summer.

VR sticker shock: How Oculus failed to prepare the world for a $599 Rift

 

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