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Experiencing the Oculus Rift

When I saw the Oculus Rift on KickStarter, my gut instantly told me to back it, and so was lucky enough to be around order 4700. I’ve had my Rift for a couple of weeks, it gives a great sense of scale, and my first reaction was wow! Shortly followed by, oh wow I feel incredibly sea sick…

The head tracking is very responsive, but currently not being able to lean does confuse your brain, so I found keeping a strict upright posture helps reduce the motion sickness. The biggest problem for me is the resolution, things at close range look good, but in the distance it’s like a scaled up NES game. The result is less detailed worlds work better, lots of lush foliage like in Far Cry and any on screen text ends up a pixelated mess. While I knew this when backing, my concern is the consumer version is going to need a truly amazing DPI screen for regular usage.

At the moment I am using my spare time to look at various foot control methods for the Rift, as standing in an immersive world but navigating with your hands just… feels wrong. Ultimately I have high hopes, the Rift does show that VR headsets can take gaming to the next level, and at the very least I hope developers pay more attention to 3D support so the alternatives like NVidia 3D Vision, will also work better 'out the box' for more games.

Posted by Rich on Tuesday 21 May 2013 - 07:32:51 | Read/Post Comment: 0

32Feet Under

I have been using InTheHand 32Feet.NET Bluetooth Library and wanted to post a solution that took me far too long to find.

To get callback working for pairing authentication, use NULL for a pin when calling PairRequest(Address, Pin);



new BluetoothWin32Authentication(Win32AuthCallbackHandler);

var btDiscoveredList = btClient.DiscoverDevices(255, false, false, true);

foreach (var btItem in btDiscoveredList)

{

  BluetoothSecurity.PairRequest(btItem.DeviceAddress, null);

  btItem.SetServiceState(BluetoothService.HumanInterfaceDevice, true);

}

Posted by Rich on Wednesday 01 May 2013 - 18:27:54 | Read/Post Comment: 0

Blu-Ray Software

A friend lent me a blu-ray copy of 'Cabin In The Woods' horror movie,
When trying to play it using AnyDVD and MPC, the playback order was scrambled.

Turns out there is a type of content protection where dodgy playlists are added.
You have to use 'Navigate, Jump To' and try to pick the correct .mpls entry.
Either take an educated guess ( shortest over an hour ) or look for a forum post.

I also decided to try some commercial alternatives:
- PowerDVD 13 trial required registration, interface was more horrifying than the movie.
- WinDVD 11 trial required registration, puts you on mailing list, tries to install a toolbar.
- ArcSoft TotalMedia 5 trial, no registration, more than just a player, but I liked it.

None of them would play over my wireless HDMI link or if I was remotely connected,
and would to disable aero during playback. So I will be sticking with AnyDVD.

Posted by Rich on Tuesday 16 April 2013 - 20:19:55 | Read/Post Comment: 0