[quote=Icarus1Whatever makes you feel better and stop arguing. [/quote]

My bad, I didn't realize I was the only one arguing in our discussions. LMFAO

By bad, I got dragged down to your level, to counter your personal insults.

You started the insults, and against my better judgment, I returned them in kind. You seem to have no problem insulting people, but cry like a baby when treated the same way.

OK...it's over.
Next one gets banned.

Thank you,
Murphy.

Surprise!

I don't FearlessFrog has it, it's a shot from beardowner at from reddit's r/oculus - unless FearlessFrog is beardowner...

People are starting to receive emails telling them their orders are being processed, and a tracking number will be emailed when order shipped.

The new 4.0 SDK has been released, and ready for download. Also my order has changed from PENDING to PROCESSING, so it could be shipped soon. Order made at 11.54 of the first day.

Mine's shipped!! Oh gosh I can't wait...

My DK2 has shipped. A user of the DK2 with DCS has reported the 1080P OLED screen still isn't good enough for competitive flight simming, but excellent for just flying around. The good news is that the Oculus team still has access to higher resolution Samsung displays for the consumer version. As speculated for sometime, competitive combat flight simmers should wait for the consumer version. That said if your competitive flying includes icons, which is the case for the majority of competitive flight simmer, it may not be a problem.

DCS P51-D with the Oculus Rift DK2 posted on reedit


https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=zc3h43GCNbw

The re purposed 1080P OLED screens used in the latest prototype still aren't good enough. There was no need to build specialized prototype displays for game developers. I very much doubt that Zuckerberg would demand that the Oculus team use a re-purposed display for the consumer version, if the Oculus should require a display with different features. The VR market will be worth billions, for the developer/publisher/investors who do it right. That said no one would have a problem with future re-purposed displays if they meet the requirements for a good VR experience. Not to mention the fact the DK2 prototype hardware had been finalized before the start and completion of the buy out.

Looks like a Google cardboard and Samsung phone might be pretty good after all.

Economies of scale. Regardless of the resources available to you, it's easier to keep prices down if you are using parts which are already being manufactured on a massive scale.

Wow. You post links to about twelve second hand reports
about the ifixit teardown, instead of simply posting
one for the ifixit article itself, which you decline to
link at all. What the hell.

It is well known that the DK2 is the Crystal Cove. No one in the the Oculus development ever said that the DK2 would be a significant improvement over the Crystal Cove. The Crystal Cove was shown at GDC, when Oculus announced the DK2 which would be based on their in-house Crystal Cove prototype. This re-purposed display hardware for the DK2 prototype was finalized before the Facebook buyout. The Oculus developers already had the necessary funds to create a VR product with re-purposed parts, and signed the deal partly because Facebook had the same dream for VR, and had the funds to make it happen.

The Samsung deal gave Samsung access to Oculus Software they needed for their VR hardware, and gave the Oculus access to future Samsung displays, and if necessary, Samsung's ability to create custom displays with features that would allow for the best possible VR experience. A win/win/win partnerships. Facebook has money and expertise, Oculus has some of the best VR minds in the business, and Samsung the ability to create some of the best possible displays.

This tech is very interesting, especially if it effectively increases the resolution, without much cost to the cpu/gpu resources, which is one of the main stumbling blocks to the mass consumer VR market.

I had seen it before I read your first post. I thought it said
all that needed to be said about the subject.

I have a simple understandable bias in favour of
original sources, and seeing them get credit.

Oculus may do great VR, but they know f**k all about product fulfillment.

g.

Oculus shipped 20K in July. I suppose they could have waited until all 60K orders had been filled, and product made, but they wanted to have as many units in developers hands as soon as possible. There was no point in having the consumer version of the Rift for sale without enough software content.