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Oculus GoBlack – How to Make Your Oculus Go Better
- colordrops 8y agoI was feeling like a lazy hacker when I saw all the work this person put into the headset, then I realized who wrote the article and relaxed.
- bytebuster 8y agoThis person = Palmer Luckey = Oculus VR founder
- leowoo91 8y agoAnd he literally didn't like and hacked his own product as a consumer?
- narrowtux 8y agoHe left the company last year.
- andybak 8y agoOr rather was kicked out for links with the Alt-Right.
- danielvf 8y agoBy which we mean he made a single $10,000 donation to an organization that at the time of his donation had put up one single anti-Hillary billboard.
- happytoexplain 8y agoWasn't it more than that?
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- danielvf 8y ago@wronghorse, If I'm reading that FEC page you linked to correctly, the only donations listed before his firing were to Ted Cruz and Dana Rohrabacher, neither of whom is even vaguely alt-right. Palmer's big donating spree happened after his firing, and those later donations still didn't go to alt-right causes/candidates, just Republican ones. [edit: The post I was side replying to has been deleted. Sorry if this post now makes less sense.]
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- 83457 8y agoI thought the donation was to some other group making political memes and not a candidate....?
- josefresco 8y ago"Dana Rohrabacher, neither of whom is even vaguely alt-right" Uhhh what now?
- TheodolphusRose 8y agoI think context is important for understanding the response. From what I recall at the time, the article that first broke this news and defined the narrative was this article from the Daily Beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/palmer-luckey-the-facebook-near-billionaire-secretly-funding-trumps-meme-machine https://www.thedailybeast.com/palmer-luckey-the-facebook-nea... Describing it as a $10K donation for a single anti-Hillary billboard misses the parts of the story that caused controversy at the time. The controversial aspects included his connection to Milo Yiannopoulos and moderators of r/The_Donald, and their connections to abusive online behavior and white supremacist rhetoric.
- dwild 8y agoWasn't he funding a group that was posting fake news and memes online?
- modeless 8y ago> wait just a little bit longer for the vestibular fix I have been talking about. If this is what I think it is, it is going to be huge. The buzz is that someone has discovered a cure for motion sickness, and it's incredibly simple: just wear a small vibrating device on the back of your head, sending a continuous vibration signal to your inner ear. For reasons unknown this seems to deactivate whatever part of the vestibular system is responsible for motion sickness. It is supposedly effective in >99% of people and does not disrupt balance. Read the inventor's description here: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/9ywify/inventor_may_have_cured_motion_sickness_without/eac264j/ https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/9ywify/inventor_may... Of course a cure for motion sickness will be great for VR but the applications in everyday life will be much, much bigger.
- crooked-v 8y agoThe really fascinating part is that somehow this works without any measurable impairment of other reflexive responses.
- krzat 8y agoHopefully doesn't also cause cancer or alzhaimer by some convoluted mechanism.
- dustinls 8y agoSo I bought all those stocks in dramamine manufacturing companies for nothing :-(
- pizza 8y agoStochastic resonance strikes again.
- hunta2097 8y agoMotion sickness is only normally an issue in these 3DoF headsets. You don't tend to get it with room-scale setups. I'm hopeful that decent inside-out tracking will be a thing in 2019 - then it's off to the races. Perfect inside-out tracking with hand tracking, mixed VR and AR - that's when consumer VR gets big.
- spiderPig 8y agoThe virtual desktop thing looks cool. Has anyone been able to use it as an external monitor for coding ? I have neck problems and this seems like a great replacement
- munchbunny 8y agoHave you tried VR headsets for extended periods of time? My experience with both the Rift and Vive have been that they aren't easy on the neck and upper back muscles because the headsets are front-heavy. You could try to use it lying down though. The other poster is also right about resolution issues. To get any decent amount of text on the screen, you'll cause a lot of eye strain.
- antoinealb 8y agoHaven't tried them but an idea that just popped in my mind would be to add some counterweight at the back of the head. Increased weight but decreases the torque you have to fight. It is what the military uses when wearing NVGs IIRC
- falcolas 8y agoI've been wondering why more companies don't do this. Simply re-locating the battery to the back would go a long ways towards this.
- savanaly 8y agoI remember this came up in an Oculus keynote that John Carmack gave. I believe the reason given was because a significant portion of users use the headset while lying down and so nothing can really be on the back of the head?
- amelius 8y agoModern smartphones almost weigh nothing, so I'm wondering why is a VR headset so heavy?
- arnaudsm 8y agoThe Mobile Computing Keyboard is fascinating ! I'm curious of people's reactions in public transport.
- piyh 8y agoI feel like at least one reaction would be to try to steal your shit while you're blinded.
- rebuilder 8y agoI wonder what kinds of fumes the dye lets off when heated.
- moftz 8y agoIt's probably just Rit dye or a similar brand. It's a pretty stable dye.
- archagon 8y agoI know we think it’s right and noble to consider ideas separately from their authors, but I find it hard to read and especially promote this guy’s blog, knowing full well what kind of future he wants for my country.
- mbel 8y agoCare to elaborate? I haven't heard about any controversial options coming from Luckey before.
- zimpenfish 8y agohttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/23/oculus-palmer-luckey-funding-trump-reddit-trolls https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/23/oculus-pa...
- andreigheorghe 8y agohttps://www.vrandfun.com/oculus-founder-palmer-luckey-seen-together-steve-bannon-white-supremacist-chuck-c-johnson/ https://www.vrandfun.com/oculus-founder-palmer-luckey-seen-t...
- zimpenfish 8y agoCrikey, that photo is quite something. I wonder if he knows the significance of the hand gesture...
- idle_zealot 8y agoThe okay sign?
- jlpicard 8y agoSome people want you to believe that this sign is in some way a way to represent White Power. IRL Trolls know this and this is why they do it.
- angry_octet 8y agoRemoving the EMI shielding is just dumb.
- ansible 8y agoFor those that are thinking of doing this, you should realize that EMI shielding serves two proposes. One is indeed reducing emissions from the device. The other is reducing the emissions from the environment which might affect high speed or otherwise sensitive circuits. The shields themselves weigh very little, and there is a risk that you'll damage the board trying to remove them too.
- sargun 8y agoI wonder why the original headset wasn’t just made in black?
- amelius 8y agoWhat is the field of view? (Note that humans have 210 degrees FOV, and from the looks of those goggles, it seems to be a lot less, but I could be wrong)