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Title: Oculus Rift DK2s are here!
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Date: 2014-10-05 20:47
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Author: adam
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Category: Programming
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Tags: games, oculus, programming, rift, vr
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Slug: oculus-rift-dk2s-are-here
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Status: published
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We got our DK2s last week, and I have been messing with demos and setting up the SDK for development on my macbook.<!--more--> I have to use OSX becuase there is no Linux support yet :( (Hopefully coming Soon^tm^). So far, the best demo was either [Senza Peso](http://senzapeso.com/) or [SightLine: The Chair](http://sightlinevr.com/index.html). Both are mostly passive: Senza Peso just moves you through the environment while you look around, while SightLine is based on head movement. However, there doesn't appear to be any effect on the outcome/course of the demo. Sound is very important to the experience for both of them, but more so for Senza Peso, as it is an opera.
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The best game was, by far, [Elite: Dangerous](http://elitedangerous.com/). For controls, we used the two Logitech Extreme 3D Pro joysticks from Robotics season (which caused some issues because ED thought they were the same device. I filed a bug report, but I don't know if it will be fixed). I haven't been able to play very much because other people want to try out the Rift (it is quite entertaining to see people's first reactions), and I was having problems that took about an hour to solve. In terms of gameplay, some of the smaller text is a bit hard to read, but otherwise it works rather well. There is some stuttering in more complicated environments, but that should be fixed when we get a new graphics card (hopefully on Monday (tomorrow!)). We tried to play Star Citizen, but with the wimpy graphics card we have, it was far too laggy to play.
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More updates to come!
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