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Oculus Rift Launch Thread: Ballpark 2016
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BrettWeir
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Wow man. The dude even had pictures and dimensions of his glasses. I've heard nothing but complaints about the glasses issues and CV1. Not sure where you're reading these glorious reviews about how amazing the CV1 is with glasses, but please link them so the rest of us glasses wearers can put our minds at ease.
AwesomeMeat
PossumMeat
But....but that link goes to the link I posted about the glasses and CV1
lol sorry. Failure on my part.
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4csc3e/certain_partners_when_they_screw_up_disallow/
Chairmanchuck
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Alright. I assumed reading that Oculus reddit, that KS backers only got theirs.
And if that VR-Researcher is Palmer, at least he answered my question. Seems it might not be shipping issues.
Sleeping Lesson
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BrettWeir
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AwesomeMeat
PossumMeat
Sounds like it - of course it is all speculation. I hope it is. At this point, nothing would make me happier than to know that stock was sitting there just waiting for kinks to be worked out of a payment processing process.
It would be nice if it were some kind of payment issue honestly, as it would likely mean things would unfuck themselves pretty quickly when it got solved.
Chairmanchuck
Member
Yeah. Dont know much about that though. The clause still sounds really strange to me and I would tell every client I would have to change sth. about such a clause...
This seems silly, there's obviously a delay considering the vast majority of people with March estimates have heard nothing and also pretty much no shipments happened on their "launch day" except to a handful of backers, then only a handful of preorders in the last 2 days. You don't have to literally wait until April to realize it's delayed. Also if you're a customer that doesn't use reddit and had a March estimate you'd have no idea about anything because Oculus hasn't officially said anything.
Felix Lighter
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Interesting. Well if that is the case you'd think once the clog is fixed the floodgates will open. We shall see.
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
I was told the Facebook acquisition would impact Oculus in any way and they would be autonomous....
Either fuck off Palmer, fuck off Facebook, or Fuck off both.
It would be pretty stupid if history were repeating itself, but something almost identical to this happened when the DK1 shipped. Kickstarter backers were getting units but everyone else wasn't getting anything, and there was no word from Oculus. For about a month or more.
It turned out US Customs was holding all the shipments of the Rifts (besides the few that got through initially) in California because Oculus didn't fill out some paperwork correctly or something and thousands of Rifts were just hanging out for a month or more in limbo. The rage on the forums was pretty intense, so if this goes on for a few more weeks expect some real fireworks.
It turned out US Customs was holding all the shipments of the Rifts (besides the few that got through initially) in California because Oculus didn't fill out some paperwork correctly or something and thousands of Rifts were just hanging out for a month or more in limbo. The rage on the forums was pretty intense, so if this goes on for a few more weeks expect some real fireworks.
Chairmanchuck
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The FB acquisition impacted FB big I would say both in positive and negative ways.
Without it I doubt we would have Rockband VR and maybe even other technical things, that Facebook helped with (communications/relationships with huge companies).
Because of it we went from "VR should be an open plattform" to "We have Headset-exclusive titles."
Fried Food
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just got done playing some Lucky's Tale and Technolust, on DK2. Lucky's Tale is a nice little game. Technolust should benefit from the CV1 tech.
Chairmanchuck
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Some guy that is either an Oculus worker or pretends to be one:
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4csk5n/the_shipping_update_you_didnt_want_to_hear/
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4csk5n/the_shipping_update_you_didnt_want_to_hear/
BrettWeir
Member
Holy crap, that's huge.
Dreamwriter
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There is no delay unless a date was promised and they missed it. And even shipments that happen over the next week that were March estimates aren't missed dates, because it was an estimate. As for Reddit, you're wrong, Oculus announced what was going on over Twitter on Sunday and sent emails to preorderers on Monday giving the same info.
Sleeping Lesson
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Incredible if true.
I hope it's true.
I gotta know, are you saying there has been no problem and that the launch is going the way Oculus intended?
Enordash
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Why do you hope it's true?
Yeah, going to go with bullshit on that one.
metareferential
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Still no word from Oculus.
I guess I should have backed the project with 2 billion $ rather than my pledge. xD
I guess I should have backed the project with 2 billion $ rather than my pledge. xD
Compsiox
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Aren't Fresnel known for glaring? I'm calling bullshit.
Sleeping Lesson
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That would mean they would likely be sending new optics to us, so the flaring issue would be temporary.
It's probably not true though, because they're still sending Rifts out. It makes no sense that a manufacturing fuckup would result in them deciding "oh no, I guess we'll just ship them out slowly then!"
[EDIT] Wait, the CV1 lenses aren't replaceable like the DK2's were, right?
Compsiox
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AwesomeMeat
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Meh the account that has at least a speck of credibility from calling the time for shipping to start says it isn't true.
I highly doubt that is true.
This is what it has come to.
I highly doubt that is true.
This is what it has come to.
Sleeping Lesson
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Ok, then all we need is for someone that received a CV1 today to check for the fresnel glaring. If it's clearly better, there's at least some verification.
tearsintherain
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wow, hard to imagine that being true but if so... damn thats pretty fucked up lol
Chairmanchuck
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If that update is true, I am regretfully going to have to cancel my pre-order.
Do not want to risk over $600 to get a headset with fucked up lenses or wait 1+month for new manufacturing, especially when I'm already receiving my Vive next week, complete with motion controls and superior tracking.
Do not want to risk over $600 to get a headset with fucked up lenses or wait 1+month for new manufacturing, especially when I'm already receiving my Vive next week, complete with motion controls and superior tracking.
Sleeping Lesson
Member
More fluffy bullshit. Palmer is trying to spin it like he's doesn't want to give inaccurate info about exact shipping dates or something. Just acknowledge that there is a problem.
Enordash
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Yea, this doesn't really help much. It just keeps people wondering and creating the worst possible scenario in their heads.
In other words, they fucked up
I'm new be nice
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My status is set to shipped now with a confirmation email and Eve unlock code. I'm not really sure why people are flipping out. I got an estimate email a week ago and it shipped today. That's March, with communication. If they aren't getting the emails they aren't in the release wave.
They are flipping out because they might receive oculus with a fucked up lenses.
Sleeping Lesson
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You ordered very, very early I presume? The problem is that the vast majority of "March" Rifts will not be shipped in March, and we have zero information about it.
It is crystal clear that something went wrong.
How about we all pump the brakes on this silliness
Compsiox
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I'm new be nice
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The post is unconfirmed and was removed, last I looked.
Crystal clear? What even is "vast majority"? Do you have numbers?
Reddit locked that thread.. hopefully it was a April fools joke
Pretty sure nobody with an order past 8:01am has gotten shipping notification. Orders through 8:10 had the "march" date
Sleeping Lesson
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Nobody with an order after the first minute of preorders have had their Rift shipped. Orders up to minute 6 (some in minute 7) received a March ship date.
The spreadsheet also indicates most March orders have not shipped, but that's dependent on people updating it.
It's a safe bet to say most orders have not shipped.
[EDIT] Was it orders up to 8:10 that got March dates?
Yeah, I'm sure it was just someone talking out of their ass. Taking some hair-brained theory and throwing it out there as fact. If it's true, then hopefully they get it squared away and resolve it with the people who have defective Rifts. At this point, I don't even care what the hold up is. I'm just bummed. Not bummed enough to wail and thrash to the heavens, just kinda bummed.
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