Oculus Rift DK2 - I'm keeping my pre-order.
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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lonus Tech tips coverage of pax 2014 is brought to you by Intel and Corsair all
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right guys we're here at oculus rift at PAX East you all knew this was coming I
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held myself off as long as I could but it is now day two and I couldn't stay
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away any longer I got to try out their couch nights demo which was really good
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and it was really fun to play um any comparisons I make during this video
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will be comparing to development kit one not the HD prototype or the uh Crystal
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Cove prototype development kit one just so you guys know uh right off the bat
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the pixel grid is still noticeable at 108 but we kind of expected that it is a
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lot easier to look past though than it was on development kit 1 you could look
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past it on development kit 1 but it's still always looks like you're looking
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through a screen door on this one you notice the pixels at first but once you
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get engaged with the game they kind of disappear and it's not actually too bad
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although I am still definitely excited for kind of 4K screens or 2 and a2k
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screens in these VR devices the other most noticeable thing when you actually
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start playing with it is presence when you lean forward or if you move your
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head forward or you chill your head side to side or any of that kind of stuff it actually react reacts to that due to the
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tracking LEDs and the external camera that they have now set up and that feels
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great and it feels natural and it really makes you feel like you're actually in the game despite sitting on a couch
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playing with knights that are on the table which is not happening in reality
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but it still actually is a lot more engaging and really increases the
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presence that you feel within the VR environment another interesting question
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I had was about the external camera that we first saw introduced on the crystal
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Co prototype and is now on DK2 or this
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guy right here um the external camera which I can't show you right now is is
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tracking IR LEDs that are built into the front of the development kit too and if
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you were to play something like e Valkyrie and tried to do a back flip so you lean too far backwards and
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essentially took the headset like this how's the tracking IR LEDs going to work
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if the camera can't see them properly and if you were someone who bought an
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omni or has an omni already or is getting one in the future how's that
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going to work because if the tracking camera is set up in one fixed position
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and you turn around so you're not facing it anymore and the headsets like this to
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the camera that's going to be a serious problem and the answer to that was that
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they're targeting a seated position they have to be able to conquer what's on the
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table now before they move forward and what's on the table now is a seated
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position so hopefully in the future you can do stuff like holidex while you're
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running around and jumping over things and you can stand and you can Crouch and
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you can crawl and you can do all that kind of stuff but for now the Oculus
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experience is going to be seated so if you're someone that's getting an omni or
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someone that plans to be flipping around or mobile with the Oculus that's not
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actually the experience they're targeting right now so just a heads up
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all right guys so I think the conclusion of this is that I'm not canceling my DK2
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order if you will let me know let me know in the comments below let me know
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on the Forum let me know on Twitter at slick PC I want to know what you guys think about this demo we showed you as
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much as we could now other than strapping the camera into an Oculus Rift because that would not work very well
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but oh well um I had a great time it looks great the the presence of being
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able to lean forward and backward is great low persistence on the OLED panel
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is awesome I got to experience that as well and the fast 75 HZ refresh rate is
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also great so let me know what you think think about all those things in the same
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