so what we're looking at here is a pretty typical room scale vr setup uh
you got your light stands you got your cables running everywhere extension
cords all that kind of stuff and honestly it's
fine as long as you're the type of self-aware nerd here let's look at what
else we got here got a computer that is comfortable running HDMI cables
and Ethernet cables all along their floors but
let's say your girlfriend comes over your grandma or you want to have company
over the first thing they're going to say is what is all this junk
so today we are going to be creating a stealthy
vr setup sponsored by oculus
so step one for getting a vr setup less intrusive looking is getting rid of the
support pillars which usually means getting your cameras mounted on either
the top part of the wall or a ceiling where they'll look kind of like
you know a security camera or a piece of tape or nothing and they'll draw less
attention but the problem is cable management even with our
computer right next to this camera right here
we have no extra length left in order to do any cable management
and usb 3 is extremely sensitive to
increases in length and the signal degradation that goes along with that so
because these cameras are actually pretty high bandwidth devices we're
going to need thank you alex some of these these are
3 active extension cables which act as a
signal repeater rather than just you know extra length of copper wire so
that we can maintain the signal integrity for that camera
it's not open and look it's the worst kind it's the kind that splinters apart into 100
pieces when you try to so position wise have we decided on this
for our three camera setup yeah all three cameras are perfectly working as
is and there's tape on the ceiling as you can see for the positions when we
actually mount them up there okay so there's a
couple of advantages to having three rather than two cameras for an oculus vr
setup because you can triangulate the position of the touch controllers and
the headset you actually get aside from the ability to turn around and maintain
your tracking you actually get more accurate tracking for room scale gaming
and i mean as much as we want to build a stealth setup we also want to build a no
compromises gaming setup so we just need to mount some cameras in
yeah yeah okay let's do it well we need a
pc in the ceiling also why because then it's totally stealth you don't have
wires going up and you want to hide the monitor yeah the monitor's gonna behind
a mirror so you can't see it at all i mean okay cool so we have the benefit of
doing this project in an office which means we've got a drop ceiling so come
check this out simply by lifting up and then there's ducting over there okay
there's a lot of crap up here actually but by just lifting up these tiles
we get access to about looks like about 18 inches of space up
here where we could actually put
i don't know if it's to code but but we can put the computer and monitor and
everything else associated with it up here i mean i guess it's like shouldn't
be a cooling issue up here or anything so for our system we're going to be
using this MSI g25 it's got a core i7 8700 six core it's got a gtx 1070 most
importantly it's got easy plug for vr and it's got lots of usb 3 ports because
when you're running extra cameras you need lots of usb 3 ports preferably on a
couple of different controllers oh oh no way
no there's a power outlet up there oh
awesome see check it out oh wow yeah no
this is what i'm talking about like it's actual
actually like proper in everything this is crazy do you know how much it would
cost us at this point to get something like that put in like now after the fact
like hundreds and hundreds of dollars because we'd have to run it from the transformer which is the exact opposite
corner of this building okay cool let's do it i mean we don't even need a long
extension cord anymore it's like 15 feet with power taken care of we needed
networking so what we could do is this is terminated in a female
connector is we could just jack it yeah
all right oh the whole thing okay okay yeah thanks you take it i got it
you know okay this would have to be pretty superhero mode for me to actually
get it all the way over there but i'm gonna try
it did not sound successful or
was it now what let's get
usb and HDMI over to here where the display is going
to be the display needs to go all the way over here yeah why can't the display
go over here because Yvonne thinks that a mirror would look bad on that wall
hi i'm busy
putting a usb and an HDMI cable all the way from over here to over there which
is apparently your mandate why can't we just do that wall
because it has all these bumps and stuff in it how are you gonna mount the mirror
to it i don't know i hadn't gotten that far
i'm thinking all right all right all right let's just get the let's just get the wire run
okay that is an unsafe practice i'm pretty
sure
it's half broken and you're on the top run which you're not supposed to
okay it's a good thing i don't need to be here very long yeah that looks really
bad alex you're not helping right now no bro's before hoes
which i can say cause her last name is ho
with the computer up in the ceiling and working i left alex to get the sensors
off the floor using adhesive camera mounts next up floor height HDMI and usb ports
for our headset after checking for studs we killed the power to the library and
then got to cutting a hole in the drywall not to be defeated by the in-wall
insulation we decided to jam a meter stick with cable's tape to the end down
the wall until it reached the correct height now how are we supposed to get
this down there oh you know what we might still be able to do it but lower
would have definitely been better we can always make it bigger i know you can
always make a hole bigger i can't tell if i'm just jamming down
insulation or if i'm actually wait no i think this is feeding
in no i think i'm just jamming it down oh
our straight meter stick couldn't fit between the insulation and drywall but
with some canadian engineering we solved that problem okay you need a sock um
it's right there oh it's behind my butt and then wait a minute
no this isn't a drywall saw i'm not totally sure no i think we have a
drywall saw this isn't it or we do but i couldn't find it okay so yeah now i can
mostly feel what's going on here i think um no i can't really
i need a bigger hole i was kind of thinking that you'd expand down yeah i
could do that too there's just not enough width
for my ARM i assumed that was the next step
it would be about a meter down from me tumor me and try going down sideways
that seems to be a problem you know we're definitely hitting something here
and is what we're hitting soft miss you alex it's all the way in i'm pulling
back out okay so let's double check our length here
after doing a trial run of our jamma ruler down the wall concept we were
ready for the real thing okay we wanna um taper the end here for a smooth entry
wait okay this is a lot thicker than
what we put down there last time so the trick last time was kind of
wiggling it back and forth until i could find the right opening oh
ow oh damn that
ah it's the first time i've been elbow deep
in my wall this hole required a bit more finesse
than the last one since you'll actually be able to see it so we marked it off
with tape and carefully cut thanks to my small hands they're
basically a superpower grabbing the cable was easy oh awesome bam that was
easier than expected oh nice and surprisingly enough the
whole thing worked now at this point the screen was still
sticking out like a sore thumb so we went to the hardware store and got a
mirror to cannibalize max just reminded me that picture frames exist and
probably would have worked a lot better for this then we returned the mirror and
got a picture frame the front of the display was removed
then the acrylic two-way mirror was cut to size with some extra love from the
belt sander and then placed in our picture frame with double-sided tape
everything was held together with some scrap wood and a lot of glue then left
to dry overnight while the glue was drying there was time to fix the big
hole in the wall we were able to get the proper cover for HDMI but usb ended up
getting taken care of with tuck tape the incline not to trust it it was anything
but duct tape now just a couple finishing touches were left all right
adding some wireless peripherals bringing in the mirror hiding the wires
and wow this is a little crooked but uh
that's actually a lot crooked but that that's okay minor details you can sort
of like jiggle it around and it'll go back yeah
uh-huh okay that looks good though
look at that everything else
completely hidden away and this is the mirror display yeah
so the idea is that this just kind of or
yeah it's attached with wires yep those cables are those cables are actually
okay those cables are reasonably well managed we could probably stand a little
bit of improvement here but you can't you can't really see them back here
there's a lot of glare it's it's a mirror it's very mirrory
okay tell me max you're more qualified than me
would this kind of set up be more likely to get girlfriend approval
than what we had before yeah cool so hey mission accomplished then
we've solved the two main problems with deploying vr in the home number one
unsightly wires there is basically nothing to be seen for our
sensors or for our headset whenever we aren't
actively using it thanks to this wall plate and
honestly about an hour to two hours of running cables
and number two convenience we've got somewhere we can
store the whole setup and be up and running in the time that you are about
to watch check this out d cable manager 5 with my
blindfold on here bam
get my touch controllers walk over
and plug in i am in vr
and then when i'm done put the whole thing away
completely stealthy even if we have any issues with the
setup all we got to do is use our subtle two-way mirror to kind
of recommend whatever it is that's going on
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