WEBVTT 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:12.480 Corsair Raptor K40 keyboard and M45 mouse are designed to provide 00:00:10.719 --> 00:00:17.039 best-in-class features and performance for gaming. Click now to learn more. 00:00:15.120 --> 00:00:20.080 Welcome to our Oculus Rift video. If you are just here for Crystal Cove, be sure 00:00:18.880 --> 00:00:24.720 to check the timestamp in the description of this video. If you are also here for Crystal Cove and the 00:00:23.119 --> 00:00:28.560 developers kit, just continue to keep watching and we'll jump into that right away. When you first open the box, 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:32.239 you're presented with the actual Oculus headset, the control box, which you end 00:00:30.400 --> 00:00:35.920 up plugging most of the things into, HDMI cable for the control box, and a 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:40.239 DVI HDMI converter just in case you need it, a power cable for the control box as 00:00:38.160 --> 00:00:43.600 well, a USB cable for the control box as well. A set of three lenses, both A, B, 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:46.879 and C, which are very important. I'll get into that later, and some travel 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:51.520 adapters just in case because they are shipping this all over the world. For you glasses users out there, there are 00:00:49.680 --> 00:00:55.280 adjustments on each side of the headset, so you can change the distance of the 00:00:53.440 --> 00:00:59.199 lenses and the screen. That can be done with a coin or a flaad screwdriver or 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:02.239 something like that. But if you can use contacts, it is recommended as wearing 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:07.040 glasses will reduce your field of vision. And there is potential that the lenses could come in contact with the 00:01:05.360 --> 00:01:10.720 glasses and in turn scratch them. The control box is relatively simple. It's 00:01:08.720 --> 00:01:14.400 fixed to the Oculus via cable. And for buttons, it has power, brightness up and 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:18.720 down, and contrast up and down. In terms of IO, there's HDMI, DVI, USB, and 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:21.920 power. And that's about it. One really nice thing about the control box and 00:01:20.240 --> 00:01:25.040 headset combo is that you can actually cable manage the cable to go around the 00:01:23.600 --> 00:01:28.799 side of your head and then down the back. That way, if you put the control 00:01:26.960 --> 00:01:32.960 box in a good position, you could replace their 6T HDMI cable with a very 00:01:31.119 --> 00:01:36.720 long one and have a power bar or something like that and make it so you're a little bit more mobile so you 00:01:35.360 --> 00:01:41.040 can spin in your chair very easily without the cable getting caught on anything. If you have an Oculus Rift or 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:45.600 if you're planning on getting one in the future, I would highly suggest going to riftenable.com. They have a very good 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:48.960 database of all the games that are compatible with Oculus Rift. And their 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:53.439 search function is awesome. Say you have a Connect and a Hydra and a Rift. You 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:56.799 can tell it that and then it'll tell you all the games that can work with those 00:01:54.960 --> 00:01:59.520 different devices so you know exactly what you're getting yourself into. 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:03.280 Another annoying thing is having the video feed for the Oculus go somewhere 00:02:01.119 --> 00:02:06.159 that isn't the Oculus. So to fix this, what you can do is go to the executable 00:02:04.960 --> 00:02:10.000 file for the game that you're trying to run, right click on it, and create a new 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:14.800 shortcut. Right click on a shortcut, go to properties, and under the target text 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:20.000 field after the very last quotation, add space dash adapter space, and then 00:02:18.160 --> 00:02:24.560 whatever number you have your Oculus plugged into for uh video output slot on 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:28.800 your graphics card. For me, it's number one. So, I just have space- adapter 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:33.519 space 1. But that'll be whatever you have yours plugged into. And this will 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:37.440 tell the game exactly what adapter or screen it's supposed to run to, and that 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:40.480 will push it directly to your Oculus. Now, I have spent a gratuitous amount of 00:02:38.959 --> 00:02:43.519 time with my Oculus Rift. I love this thing. And thanks to Rift enabled, I've 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:48.879 been able to find a ton of different games to try, and it has been extremely 00:02:46.200 --> 00:02:51.360 fun, but it's not ready. It's the developer kit. It's not the final 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:55.280 version. It's not the consumer version. We know this. Um, but the the 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:59.440 observations with the developer kit is don't be way too excited about the 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:03.599 developer kit. Be super ridiculously excited about Oculus and VR in general, 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:07.040 but not necessarily the developer kit, because you still can definitely see the 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:12.400 pixel grid. does totally look like you're looking through a screen door. You can see space in between the pixels. 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:15.840 I can't stress that enough. It's not perfect. There's also some features that 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:21.120 will be in the consumer version that are not in the dev kit. Enter Crystal Cove. 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:26.640 Where the 1080p prototype brought us very obviously to 1080p from 720p on the 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:31.599 dev kit, the Crystal Cove upgrades are not quite as obvious. It's still a 1080p 00:03:28.959 --> 00:03:34.799 panel, but it is a OLED panel with low persistence, which is actually extremely 00:03:33.440 --> 00:03:39.519 important, and I'll talk about that later. The more obvious part is the IR 00:03:37.519 --> 00:03:44.560 positional tracking on the camera, which leaves you with those IR LEDs all over 00:03:41.760 --> 00:03:47.840 the front and is obviously the reason for the name Crystal Cove. The 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:53.760 positional tracking works by having a camera watch your Oculus where there's 00:03:50.480 --> 00:03:55.519 the IR LEDs so it can tell how it moves, 00:03:53.760 --> 00:03:59.360 which is amazing because now you can lean forward, you can lean around. 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:03.040 Before you were essentially a camera on a tripod that had wheels. You were 00:04:00.959 --> 00:04:06.480 moving around but it was very fixed. You could turn how you were looking and you 00:04:04.799 --> 00:04:11.200 could look up and down, but that's about it. You couldn't really lean. Now you 00:04:08.959 --> 00:04:14.879 feel a lot more human and that massively increases the immersion. If you want to 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:19.759 lean over and pick something up, it works. If you reel backwards, your 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:24.080 character will reel backwards as if you are scared. It feels much more natural 00:04:21.919 --> 00:04:27.680 and breaks the whole boundary thing where it doesn't really feel like you're 00:04:25.840 --> 00:04:31.199 playing virtual reality because your character isn't actually moving with 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:34.960 you. Now, for micro movements, your character will move with you, which is 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:38.320 amazing. In an interview with Oculus, it was said that the display is turning off 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:42.080 in between frames to help with motion blur. Taking that and the fact that it's 00:04:40.320 --> 00:04:45.600 an OLED display, if you go on Blurbusters and check out their OLED 00:04:43.840 --> 00:04:48.880 display motion blur article, which is actually quite good, it'll talk about 00:04:47.440 --> 00:04:53.680 how this works. So, what they're probably using is point samples instead 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:57.919 of sample and hold. And the idea of this is it will put an image on screen and 00:04:56.080 --> 00:05:01.520 then turn the display off so that it doesn't sit there for too long creating 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:05.759 motion blur and they're not guessing what should be there which is really 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:09.919 problematic for VR experiences as well which would also cause motion blur. And 00:05:07.840 --> 00:05:14.880 the strobing is so fast strobing as in turning off and on not yeah other terms 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:18.160 of strobing. um is it's so fast that you won't notice it yourself, which is 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:21.600 actually quite a good experience and will help you a lot with reading text 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:25.199 and will help a lot with that that motion blur problem that the previous 00:05:23.280 --> 00:05:28.800 versions of Oculus have had. So essentially, be excited, be super 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:31.680 excited, post on the forums, post in the comments below, like and dislike this 00:05:30.479 --> 00:05:37.070 video, talk to your friends about it, tell your mom, and as always, subscribe 00:05:34.000 --> 00:06:00.259 to Lionus Tech Tips.