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My Life in VR It’s been a while since I did one of these so I thought I would do a quick recap. It’s no longer my life In the Rift because I have the Rift and the Vive! I was lucky enough to snag both earlier on through massive F5ing during preorder times. I’m …

Mario Kart in VR The Mario Kart in VR Setup: Dolphin Emulator for Mario Kart Wii and VR Oculus Rift DK2 Support. Link Oculus Rift DK2 for head and positional tracking. Logitech G27 Steering wheel and pedals for Kart control. All combined = Awesome Next you need to remove the head of Mario Link and then …

Nvidia GTX 980 I recently upgrade my graphics card to Nvidia’s flagship GTX 980 and I’m thoroughly impressed. I have always been a Nvidia fan boy, but recently I deviated for a few months with AMD’s Radeon 290x due to the performance to value everyone said it held over the GTX 780 at the time. While it worked …

Please start vorpX Control before using vorpX shortcuts “Please start vorpX Control before using vorpX shortcuts” I would get this error constantly whenever I tried to hook vorpX to applications via the shortcut creation mode. It was infinitely maddening as vorpX was always running at the time so the error was just plain wrong! The culprit …

Oculus Rift DK2 I have had my DK2 for almost a week now and what a week it has been. I must say it is not as user friendly compared to the DK1 is some aspects. The DK2 is a lot more finicky. This might be because I came into the DK1 at the end …

Oculus Rift Pre-Order DK2 Back in early July I sold my DK1 to pay for my DK2 pre-order. Now finally nearly 3 months later my Oculus Rift DK2 order has gone from Pending to Processing… NO amount of words can describe how happy this makes me.

The final piece of my Oculus Rift Setup I finally got my hands on a Razer Hydra the other day which completes my Rift setup until the DK2 is released. The Razer Hydra was a PC based motion controller released by Razer/Sixense. It looks sort of like a dual wielding Wii remote. As far as …

Climbing The Wall in the Oculus Rift Game of Thrones Oculus Rift After my journey to the Sky Cells in various Game of Thrones Oculus mods I had the inclining to climb The Wall. So I did. Accomplished via the incredible WesterosCraft Minecraft mod.

My Life in the Rift Just a short one today. I go for a spin on the UE4 Rollercoaster! Link You really get a good sense of scale in this demo as you are on a miniature rollercoaster zooming around the UE4 RealisticRendering living room. I’m really enjoying seeing what all the developers are doing …

Star Wars Trench Run in the Oculus Rift I have been waiting for this moment ever since I tried the Oculus Rift and its finally here. Star Wars Rift experiences are the holy grail of VR and this one truly doesn’t disappoint. The graphics are crisp and the details, immersion and sound effects are great. …