hey Oculus Rift users, for how long do you keep that thingy on you?

Spork

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My only issue is the weight. My cheeks get pretty sore after a couple hours. Hopefully the cv1 is a lot lighter. DK1 wasn't too bad in that regard.

I noticed with crescent bay they've moved the side strap attach point to the top. That should help as well.
 

Pyro Steel

Pyro Steel
I usually go an hour or two till i take a break to grab some water or a snack, then its right back in. If you are new to the Rift though i'd take it slower. Like others have said, VR is something you will have to kind of adapt to. I've never personally had an issue with nausea, but my buddy does. He can only play FPS stuff for a couple minutes before calling it quits. However in games like Sight line, cafe ame, coffe without words, stuff where you just sit and not move in game he said he could do indefinitely.

But yeah, i can spend hours in the rift with no repercussions.

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Spork said:
My only issue is the weight. My cheeks get pretty sore after a couple hours.
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try tightening your top strap and loosen the side straps a little. I have my top strap almost as tight as it can possibly go. With the side straps pretty loose.

NeoRacer_XOX said:
I hate to play any game without the Oculus. 2D is so primitive now..
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i can't play Elite without the Rift. I tried once to show my friends something in the game, and when i was trying to use my side HUDs i kept looking to my left and right. Playing Elite without the rift just feels so confining... something as simple as looking around is such a burdon using the mouse to do so. Can't wait for CV1 so reading everything and seeing distant stuff will be easier.
 
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Ref Minor

Ref Minor
After 4 months playing most days in the rift for 2 or 3 hrs minimum I went for my 2 yearly eye exam yesterday. No change in my prescription from 2 years back.

I have to say I find the rift far more restful on my eyes than a monitor, you just let your eyes relax and see stuff, no peering or focussing.
 

Tiberius_0321

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Just started a week ago. Try to play 6 hours nightly. Actually nice that the focal point is a meter in front as I don't need my reading glasses for my old eyes.
 

Spork

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Pyro Steel said:
try tightening your top strap and loosen the side straps a little. I have my top strap almost as tight as it can possibly go. With the side straps pretty loose.
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I've tried that. Seemed to make it worse. My cheek bones are probably just the wrong shape for it. Some people have attached a small counter weight at the back just to pull the display up a little. I should try that.

I've got some vr covers on the way. Hopefully they'll help make it more comfortable as well.
 

ket halpak

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I'm fine with Elite as long as my rig can keep it mostly judder free. Once it starts lagging in stations it can make me feel a bit ill. It took me a while to get my old rig to a place where I can comfortably play with the rift on decent settings. I find that when jumping to another system though I need to close my eyes till its over, the lag that creates makes me a bit woozy.

I'd recommend sticking with games where your seated lixe Elite and driving/flying sims. I tried Minecraft on the rift and threw up in about 5 mins, I just can't handle the disconnect that comes from the way movement and looking around is handled.

I find that I can use the rift for hours in Elite, I look around with my eyes if I want to glance at something quickly and don't have any issues with it. It's all about finding the right way for you to use it. I'm short sighted, I can't stand glasses and can't see anything clearly in the rift without my contacts in no matter which lenses I use in it.

The worst part is the rift lenses fogging up, as it's summer in Australia the last few weeks in Perth have been 35-40 degrees and with my rig spitting out 50 degree air my poor aircon can't keep up to stop the lenses from fogging over.
 

JMC002

J
My longest session wearing my DK2 is 30 hours (with the occasional few minutes away for bathroom and such). I suffered nothing except symptoms of lack of sleep.
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
ket halpak said:
The worst part is the rift lenses fogging up, as it's summer in Australia the last few weeks in Perth have been 35-40 degrees and with my rig spitting out 50 degree air my poor aircon can't keep up to stop the lenses from fogging over.
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here in blighty we have nothing like your weather (colour me jealous!!!) however i find if i warm the lenses on the rift 1st - only for a few seconds - maybe 15 - you may want to use a hair drier as i doubt you want a heater on!!! ;) completely stops all fogging.

once the lenses are warm, from then on any slight heat off the note3 screen is enough to keep the lenses fogging up then. May be different in your climate but worth a try.
 

Beavis Tingleball

Beavis Tingleball
there is nothing i can say that hasnt already been said about the oculus and ED, suffice to say, oculus and frontier should sell their products as a package....it's just that awesome.
 

Zephyriel

Zephyriel
Mad Mike said:
the opposite is true actually...... in the rift your eye is completely natural, as it totally fools you that you are looking into infinity.

OTOH using a monitor your eye is at a fixed focal point. (unless you look away)
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Sorry, I might not have explained what I meant properly, maybe I lack the vocabulary. I'll try again in more detail:

When you look at something in the real world, there are two things your eyes need to do to focus on the object properly : first, your two eyes move in order to have the object at the center of your field of view. If the object is close, you'll "cross your eyes" (sorry if that's not the correct way to say it), and if the object is very far, the lines of sight of your two eyes will be parallel (what you say when you talk about looking into infinity). The different angles from which you view the object with each eye is what will give you the sense of 3D, the scale and the distance of the object from you. This effect, called stereopsis, is what the Rift manages to recreate very convincingly, which is why you can see things in 3D like in real life, and sense the scale of ships and stations in Elite. Indeed, when you look at a planet, your eyes aren't crossing, they're looking into infinity.

However, the second thing your eye does when you look at a real object, is what the Rift is not capable of recreating : it's the accomodation. It's basically the way your eye focuses so that you can see the object clearly and not blurry (just like when a camera lens adjusts it focus so the picture is clear). If you hold your finger in front of you and look at it, the computer monitor behind it will appear in double (due to you being cross-eyed), but also blurry, due to your eyes accomodation. However, while using the Rift, no matter what the stereoscopic separation is between the images each eye receives, your eyes will always retain the exact same level of accomodation, which is the one where you see the pixels most clearly, and which is determined by the Rift's screen distance from your eyes, the shape of the lenses, and their position between your eyes and the screen. There is a simple test you can do to experience this issue in the Rift : just like you looked at your finger in real life, in the game try to look at seomthing very close to you, say the dirt on your ship's canopy. While you focus on it, the stars in the background will appear double (as they should), however they'll appear just as clear as the canopy, when in real life they would appear blurry. This is because your eyes constantly have the exact same level of accomodation when you're in the Rift.

This is what I meant when I said your focus was always the same with the Rift. And this constant accomodation at what appears to be a relatively short distance, can cause fatigue, since in real life your eyes constantly accomodate to a different level when you look at things at varying distances. When you play on a monitor, sometimes you'll look at your hands, your keyboard, or the wall behind the monitor, and your eyes will accomodate accordingly ; it's unlikely you'll keep your eyes focused on your monitor for hours without any interruption, which is what happens with the Rift. I hope that makes things a little clearer :)
 

Daitokuji

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Up to a few hours at a time here.

I'm running an Lenovo Y500 laptop with dual SLI. My frame rates range between 20-60fps. Even with this awful frame rate I can run for hours using my rift. The short answer is that I've adapted to it. When frame rates drop I just keep my head straight and don't look all over the place and that prevents me feeling nausea or dizzy.

Sadly fps on my laptop without the rift runs at a steady 60 in most situations but there really is no comparison in experience.
 

freehotdawgs

freehotdawgs
Whenever I play elite I play for at least a few hours straight since it's kind of an ordeal to set my HOTAS, camera, and rift up. The only discomfort I feel is from my headphones pressing the cable running from my rift into the top of my head because I don't want to adjust it just for my rift since I use them for everything else too. That only starts to happen after a couple hours though.
 

Red Fox Four

Red Fox Four
Another piece of good news...

Apparently the pornindustry has taken up an interest in the Oculus Rift and are starting to make content suitable for the Rift experience.

Why is this good news?

Because, like it or not, the pornindustry has money. Lots of money. And if they start putting investment money into Oculus Rift development as well then, hopefully, we'll see a high quality product coming to the commercial market even faster!

I wonder if they will update my old Leisure Suit Larry games for Oculus Rift compatibility...
 
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