Various personal opinions about the Rift DK2 (From Backup 20-October-2014)

 

The Oculus Rift Dk2,

Belive it or not, but i "strongly" suggest to wait for a consumer version of this ingegnious piece of tech, and do not buy any Dk.

Heres why:

The product itself is surely well made, even easily servicable, but it's a continuos messing with the straps or the cables itself, hardly getting the desidered "comfort".

I sadly noticed that the distance between the lenses is a bit too short for me, and that means that its impossibly hard to find the right position to view both images on focus... :/

I have to say, even if you probably may already know, that the screen resolution is simply not enough, surely good for a monitor on your desk, but not for a screen on top of your face, the "pixel reticle" is too much and there are even some chromatic problems related to the lenses...

The Screen it's an Oled Panel, actually a complete full Panel from the Note III, overclocked to support 75hz

 Another important aspect that we must keep in mind, is that to get that "sense of presence" the demos or games should run at 1080p (or higher in the future) with constants 75 frames per second in stereo mode, and believe me when i say that even a GTX 780 is good for demos but it is simply not powerful enough for a full VR experience, latest retina MacBookPro with Iris integrated GPU is not even good for simple demos, not powerful enough.

This means, that if you really want to get a really good experience, you need a really badass PC rig, maybe even with a SLI configuration (even the new 980's are not yet perfect for VR)

Oculus already showed his new prototype Crescent Bay, pixels, are surely disapearing, but will them do something to make this Vr experience the comfortable and "universal" experience everyone is expecting to be?