Oculus Rift DK2 Overview and Impressions - Featuring Lew from UnboxTherapy
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,531 words · ~7 min read
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so my DK2 is finally here in all of its glory and I know I've covered this thing
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to death from different events and even my Oculus overview video from back in
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the day if you want to learn things about like low persistence and stuff check that video out if you want to see
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what lius Media Group as a whole thinks and a special guest what he thinks as
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well carry on in this video we'll see all of their footage and then I'll talk
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to you guys more about the finer details of it later on
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The Flash Voyager GTX usb3 drive from Corsair provides SSD like performance
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and fits comfortably in your pocket click now to learn more yay oh this
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makes me happy why does it look like the inside of a vagina W that would
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remembers he's the chosen one
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who that's pretty
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cool I was behind the headrest for a minute oh this me up I feel like I can
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touch stuff except that I can't except that there is something here but that's
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the desk not like the fence it is it is
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actually visually distressing looking down a cliff though like
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you there's a real sense of of depth
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down there a man this this thumb stick versus head movement yeah is really I
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really feel like it you don't think that it should be you just head and then left
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thumb stick yeah it's definitely weird to have a controller but then be able to
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just turn turn your head and see all
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this stuff mhm look at all this stuff around me I'm in a world leaning too far
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back oh okay okay I don't think there's any
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here I'll take the controller okay here we go all right it's jittering of whoa
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yeah I noticed the same
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thing wow oh it's terrible terrible let
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me know if you want out yeah out there we go terrible who in their right mind wants
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to do that yeah this is great I love it who no
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seriously does anyone enjoy that last one you just gave me I do I might not be
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come on you do not you actually enjoy it I like that one yeah Brandon Brandon
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wanted sustain at the most so he's the craziest out of all man do it being a
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pentile matrix display instead of a square grid display the screen door
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effect isn't nearly as noticeable um you can still see the pixels obviously but
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not nearly as much as on the dk1 and
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obviously the resolution jumped helped as well but we're still going to need
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higher resolutions 4K I'm looking at you
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the low persistence is great but its refresh rate could be a little bit
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higher we're currently at 75 could do with maybe about 90 and one thing that
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we noticed is that frame rate in games needs to be high and it needs to be
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consistently High lowf frame rate dips even will really really jar you out of
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the game and it's very UNS settling actually games also need to be made for
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the rift in mind especially the rift in mind they need to be high quality most
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of what we have right now is more Tech demos than anything but something to
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remember is that we're using a development kit so that kind of makes
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sense another thing that could help is more range on the motion tracking camera
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or possibly an array of cameras it's quite easy to get out of the tracking
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Zone even in a seated experience which is what it's supposed to be targeted for
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also we need more made for VR controllers something like the on the
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lines of the control VR would really help because having your hands stuck in
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position while your hands are actually moving in real life really disconnects
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and breaks the immersion that being said the USB 2.0 Hub on the top of the DK2
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does kind of help with that because if you want to ghetto Mount say AAP motion
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onto the top of your unit it is possible and that's pretty cool that they're
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trying to cater to that type of user due to the new more compact form factor it
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actually feels considerably lighter due to less leverage but it still could feel
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lighter it's still a little bit heavy on the front of your face considering it is
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hanging off of the front of your face also the new cabling system is quite
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fantastic and much more easy to deal with than the dk1 but it would be really
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nice if you didn't need the cables although I'm not really looking for that
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anytime soon I don't expect that to be on cv1 I don't even expect that to be on
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like cv3 so I'm not too worried about that speaking of cabling the cable box
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that goes in between your Oculus unit and your computer has gotten much more
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elegant it used to be this fairly large little bit clunky box that you had to
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kind of have a dedicated spot for and now it's an inline module that can just
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hang anywhere and it's not really that big of a deal huge Improvement again
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speaking of cables they're quite long but maybe not long enough for everyone
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but that's actually fine because even with the direct Rift functionality
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you'll be able to use extensions as it won't be seen as a different device with
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an extension so you can just extend USB 2.0 in HDMI which is quite common and
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you'll be fine speaking of direct Rift holy crap this thing's awesome you don't
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have to extend your screen anymore and you don't have to have any weird manual
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adapter targeting settings on shortcuts for any of your executables it just kind
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of works you run an executable that says direct to Rift and it goes to the rift
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which will be sitting on your desk in a sleep mode before it's activated and
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then once you run that executable it will wake up it will go to the rift
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screen and everything will work that is as long as you're not running it through
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like an HDMI splitter which shows up as as a different device or something like
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a a media capture card which will actually show up as an a media capture
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card the computer needs to be able to see that the HDMI plugged in is an
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Oculus so I don't know if I would necessarily recommend a DK2 to anyone
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right now but I obviously thought it wasn't a terrible idea as I personally
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purchased it for myself so what do you guys think let me know in the Forum let
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me know in the comments down below would you be interested in buying one right now and speaking of saving money by not
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help us out and I'll see you guys next time thank you for watching
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