metalnwood

In another thread it was mentioned to make the preview window on your desktop full screen so you cannot accidentally get out of it. I haven't tried but SkateZilla reckons ALT+ENTER will do it.

This was the cause of a couple of crashes for me, aircraft crash that is. You click on the mouse but if your mouse was outside the DCS window on the desktop you wonder why no inputs are working while you travel down to the ground and you have to get out of the rift to find the windows to click on the gain focus. Blindly clicking on the mouse button and not knowing what the mouse might be clicking on your actual desktop could be a recipe for disaster.

4:08 or so the hands go off the lap and hold on to the seat for three minutes :) I let my 8 year old try some of the demos and every now and then something will start and he takes off the headset and says 'No! I am not watching that!' as he knows something scary like the dinosaur is about to come.

yes, you need to get the latest SDK from oculus, I think it is 1.33 at the moment. It will update itself now rather than you needing to update all the time. Just get it from their site and you will be up to date. If there is some software that you use and must keep using, check it's compatible with 1.3 or you are out of luck.

I didnt watch. Did the guy dare take off his fedora to try them?

It is something they have to weigh up amongst all the variables. I think the CV1 design decisions are more successful for the first commercial headset than the starVR but of course we all want VR to go with large FOV in the end.

You can always place your order,if you do it with visa you will not be charged until they are ready to ship. You can cancel anytime. IMO a better proposition then deciding around august you want one and having to wait longer.

Hotas, voice attack.. Not sure what I really need a keyboard for if we are going to argue that it is a necessity . As long as I can interact with the virtual pit as I can for the most part then the keyboard is only a few extra things that voice control can do nicely.

If I have anything to add it is just that the resolution of StarVR is too early. As others have pointed out, there will not be anything around to run it at it's native resolution and work at the frame rates that vive and oculus can. I don't doubt for a second that those resolutions will happen and I expect oculus and valve to be on board when the experience is good enough at those resolutions. Until then, I think the lower resolution with a fluid experience is the way to go. I wouldn't take a stutter fest at any resolution and if a 970 can actually push DCS with a 4k screen at 90+ frames then it just show how much extra goes in to VR because a 980ti on the rift can manage that all the time in it's current state of development, let alone that 6000x1440.

Is July what it was originally for you or you received an email saying it is now July instead of another date. When did you originally think it might have been?

Yep, $132 USD to ship to New Zealand. It was an awfully high price to ship it and I am glad I wont have to pay it anymore. I almost decided to have them ship it to a forwarder for the $30 and then use them to forward to me. Thankfully I didnt otherwise I would have only saved the $30 and still had to pay another $80 to get it here!

For sure Derek, you have never given me any other impression.

Yes, it's a mess over at the oculus forums. Personally, I can't believe how impatient people are being only a couple of days after shipping was supposed to start that they personally have not received a notice. The excuses dont reflect on oculus at all. Things like, if I dont know when they will bill me then I wont have money on my card. So? Put money on your card and leave it there, you werent planning on spending it in the meantime were you? The excuses after only a couple of days just reflect on maturity imo. People seem to think the echo chamber of hearing themselves and a few others over and over reflects the rest of the world. Anyhow, I hope there is no serious issue and mine arrives tomorrow, or tantrum will surely ensure! :)

It says mine fails on the usb ports. I have enough of them but apparently there is also a problem with a specific usb chipset so I need a pci card.

Something about me maybe.. I could just imagine him knocking on the office door and the guy says, 'I know you, you're Palmer Luckey' and Palmer says, 'I know you, your the guy from 'will it blend' . :music_whistling:

The TIR was the best thing since sliced bread and I have used it for many years.. I certainly like the rift a lot more though. Forgetting the whole VR thing, as I get older I find that I started to get a bit sore with the TIR, things like refuelling where I was constantly had my head with a slight tilt with my eyes on the screen. It obviously is not the same as looking slightly up because I dont get sore in the rift but sometimes I do with the TIR. The TIR might give me a competitive advantage but it's like telling someone that likes vintage cars they can get somewhere faster and more reliable with a toyota. Yes, but thats not how I like it :)

Interesting if Dan can do it for x-plane. I had hopes for x-plane, they said they would and then added themselves to the list of games that said they would and then never really confirmed they wouldnt, even though you know. I have not had good success with FPS, mainly because of the nausea that comes from walking around with weird motions that dont match real life. I don't like 3rd person and dont play games that have it but when I think about it in the context of VR, it might work well. I could see something like arma being swapped from 1st person for battle or stealth to going to 3rd person for covering lots of ground without feeling that nausea build up. For myself at least. I was thinking about it the other night actually and thought it must only be a matter of time before we have games supporting airsoft rifles with the touch controllers attached on top. The game could then render your rifle and know where it is and orientation etc. Of course, I am sure the rift would get in the way. Maybe a special stock that has the cheek piece and pistol grip, forend etc but enough cut away from the stock that the rift wont be hitting it. I could see myself lying prone on a gym mat playing some sniper game holding a stock and looking down the virtual scope. This is one area that I think vive with lighthouse has a good advantage as the camera could struggle to capture these devices. Anyway, enough rambling or I will brain dump all night.

Yes, you guys were given the value in local currency. Aus and NZ were given in USD so the USD price doesnt change, just what we pay in local because of exchange rate.

Money isn't free, I think I am paying your $80 lol. Our dollar went down.

I just bought a leap for $30 on ebay, I plan to try it out on flyinside FSX which has support for the orion drivers. It wont work in DCS that I know of but will give me an idea of how this kind of interaction with a cockpit might be.

Warhog, if your suggestion is to spend $1150 on the cad/cam stuff then I would alternatively suggest a vectric product. http://www.vectric.com It is both the cad/cam together and was really made for cnc routers. It ranges from cut2d at $149 to vcarve pro at $699. These will do more or less anything you want on a 3 axis cnc router. Very easy to use and extremely popular with cnc router people.

the UC100 is essemntially a USB2parallel interface but it does more than that and requires a plugin to your control software. Looks like mach3 is supported to when I had a quick look. The other thing is to get a pci parallel port card, you might have to run an old version of windows but not an old PC if using a parallel port. From memory...

Thats interesting, I have never seen any information to indicate they are not collimated. Where did you find that?

Yes Hannibal, the optics in the rift are collimated, which means the light rays coming from it are parallel and that give you a focus of infinity. So if you dont need a prescription for looking in the distance then the rift is going to be good. I would hope that in the future as these things get more common that there will be options for the optics to cover things like myopia and astigmatism. I wear glasses but can get away with not wearing them in the rift - so far!

My 'pimp' rig, basic specs, 980ti, cpu @4.5, 32gb ram, only SSD. Nope, doest run DCS well enough. Timewarp will help . It certainly helps with flyinside but there is one difference between FSX and DCS which I havent tried in FSX with timewarp. That is the additional situational awareness required in DCS, the more constant and fast head movements that may not make timewarp as ideal in DCS as it is in FSX, due to the nature of how timewarp works. Speculation though, it might not make any difference.