statham
Member
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/11/4...lsky-interviews-ouya-ceo-julie-uhrman-at-sxsw
interview, started @ 3, missed most of it.
interview, started @ 3, missed most of it.
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OUYA - A new $99 console powered by Android [Kickstarter ended, $8.5 million funded]
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AbandonedTrolley
Member
The thing I'm noticing there is the pace of it. Transitions are smooth and artwork is loading in pretty quickly. This is a big step up from the Raspberry Pi versions I've been using. Really looking forward to getting this hooked up to my network, depending on how it goes I may consider another for the living room as a media centre box too.
outunderthestars
Banned
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
He is absolutely awful at these things. He needs to stick to writing.
Dreamwriter
Member
OUYA Rap summary of the SxSW keynote interview.
AbandonedTrolley
Member
Great find. The Ouya could end up being my main media box now.
Same, I'm currently just streaming from my NAS direct to my TVs built in player. BUT i'm a sucker for navigating through box art rather than blue folders on my TV screen. Depending on how well it runs over my network I can see myself picking up another for the lounge.
elementalsin
Member
do we have any idea yet if this will ship with dts or dd support? That will make or break living room use for me...
Can't wait till mine gets here either way though. Excited to mess around with it in general.
Can't wait till mine gets here either way though. Excited to mess around with it in general.
Dreamwriter
Member
I haven't tried it myself on OUYA, but XBMC does support DD and DTS on Android, both passthrough over the HDMI cable and downmixing to stereo.
This makes me wish it had an optical out port.
Great find. The Ouya could end up being my main media box now.
I bought the Ouya mostly for media purposes. Hoping it doesn't disappoint me
EsotericManiac
Banned
I'm buying this specifically for twitch. Everything else will be icing.
I have no clue about IOS/Android/Smart Phones /Tablet, but want to play them Tower Defense games so badly. So, enlighten me Ouya-gaf, how does it work? Can I play any android smartphone game on Ouya, or does it need to be made "ouya-compatible", since there is no touchy-touchy available?
You can modify your Ouya to run Android on it, but the stock version is running a modified Android OS (Ouya OS). Games have to be made Ouya compatible and released on the Ouya storefront.
Also, there is a touchpad in the middle of the controller and there are tower defense games without touch interfaces.
Also, there is a touchpad in the middle of the controller and there are tower defense games without touch interfaces.
HadesGigas
Member
Is that true? The Ouya dev version can just run any apk. And since "the Ouya IS the devkit" the retail version would have to be able to run apks too.
HadesGigas
Member
Yeah I imagine the retail units will still have the "Dev" section, since they have to to still be dev kits. You can find plenty of videos of the dev kits running Android apps and emulators and stuff. Here's Rami from Vlambeer showing it off on Gamekings (in Dutch, but there's subtitles).
So I can play any game on it?
HadesGigas
Member
You can try to, yes. Though there may be compatibility issues with an apk file you pull from your phone and try to play on an Ouya. Since I think that places like Google Play can serve out different versions of an app depending on what kind of phone you are using to download it. But in theory it should be able to at least run most apps that Tegra3 devices can run.
Not sure how the touchpad works, like if it is automatically detected by touch based apps or what. You can map the Ouya buttons to correspond to keypad arrows/buttons for games that have that kind of control support.
And again this is based off the dev kit's user interface. Not sure what exactly will change in the retail unit, but it should have to retain the ability to load up apk files in some fashion for development purposes.
Dreamwriter
Member
Note that while the OUYA can run any APK, it will not have access to the Google Play store, so you can't play any game on it bless you can somehow get access to that game's APK.
And the dev kits aren't 100% like the final units, so it's not guaranteed what you can do on a dev kit can be done on a final device just as easily. For example, the dev kits are rooted, the final devices won't come rooted (and rooting a final device, which is supposed to be easy to do, may remove access to the OUYA App Store).
For the TouchPad, Android has support for a virtual mouse to emulate a touchscreen, and that's what the TouchPad does. So it will work with all Android apps, but of course it isn't multitouch, and isn't quite the same as using a touchscreen so some games wouldn't be playable with it.
And the dev kits aren't 100% like the final units, so it's not guaranteed what you can do on a dev kit can be done on a final device just as easily. For example, the dev kits are rooted, the final devices won't come rooted (and rooting a final device, which is supposed to be easy to do, may remove access to the OUYA App Store).
For the TouchPad, Android has support for a virtual mouse to emulate a touchscreen, and that's what the TouchPad does. So it will work with all Android apps, but of course it isn't multitouch, and isn't quite the same as using a touchscreen so some games wouldn't be playable with it.
That seems to completely counter their "hack it, do whatever you want to make it your own" mantra. You're telling me that if I root my device, which I own and have every right to root, I can no longer buy games from your store? Really? Stuff like this makes me glad I wasn't an early backer. I can still walk into GameStop and cancel my pre-order if this is in fact true.
Dreamwriter
Member
It's what they originally said. They were going to include instructions on how to root the device and make it really easy, but while it was rooted you wouldn't have access to the OUYA app store, and possibly not any apps you downloaded from it. Because of that, they were going to also include instructions on how to *unroot* the device. So that way, people who wanted to get hacky could do so, people who just wanted to play games could do so, and people who wanted to do both could do one at a time (probably as a simple security measure, so someone wouldn't root the device and then install software to make it easy to intercept calls to the In-App-Purchase system or pirate OUYA apps).
However, it's been a long time since they've really said anything about that, and they've made other policy changes since then, having gotten feedback from customers and developers and getting experience themselves working with the device. So it's very possible that that has changed.
However, it's been a long time since they've really said anything about that, and they've made other policy changes since then, having gotten feedback from customers and developers and getting experience themselves working with the device. So it's very possible that that has changed.
elementalsin
Member
I must be missing something... why? Not a fan of hdmi?
My receiver only has optical and coax and I'm not in a position to upgrade anytime soon. Our TV will pass the audio from HDMI to Optical but it drops it from Surround to Stereo. It's not a huge deal, just sort of a bummer until we're able to upgrade.
elementalsin
Member
Oh I gotcha. Rereading your post I'm not sure why I thought you were implying you preferred one over the other, just making crap up in my head I suppose.
You may try looking into a hdmi converter. I know there are a few out there that can split the signal to optical so you could run it straight to you receiver. I'm pretty sure a friend has one that works pretty well. I'll see if I can get ahold of him and find out some more info.
AbandonedTrolley
Member
outunderthestars
Banned
Wasn't the Ouya supposed to have a launch event on the 28th?
Conduit HD .apk running on Ouya:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-OI2hVjAqg
Looks like bluetooth controller enabled Android games should sideload fine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-OI2hVjAqg
Looks like bluetooth controller enabled Android games should sideload fine.
Dreamwriter
Member
Well, there's a launch party at GDC, and devices are shipping out tomorrow, but they haven't announced any specific launch event. I wouldn't be surprised if they suddenly flooded the channels with launch info, though.
outunderthestars
Banned
Speaking of launch: How is your game coming along?
Dreamwriter
Member
Game's going good, though it didn't *quite* get completely done in time for launch, though it'll be there. I submitted an 0.9 build of my game today to the OUYA store, so whenever that gets approved, people will be able to play the game from beginning to end (hopefully it gets approved quickly, there's an 0.8 build already up there that just isn't ready for the public yet). I'm probably going to submit 1.0 this weekend - there's a couple things left to do towards the end of the game, and a bunch of little things I'd like to tweak before I call the game done.
RelentlessRolento
Member
i wonder how soon everyone will be getting these?
It looks like some people might have to wait a few weeks. Someone on the Ouya fan forum emailed them and this is how they responded.
http://ouyaforum.com/showthread.php...g-Today-but-Could-take-A-Few-Weeks-for-all-to
Salacious Crumb
Junior Member
I'm backer 51,384. I think I'll be waiting awhile
Apparently some people got their shipping email today. They made an official statement over twitter:
https://twitter.com/playouya/status/317380062661980160
I'm backer 51,384. I think I'll be waiting awhile
How do you see what backer number you are?
Edit: Just found in an email from them. 23574!
Salacious Crumb
Junior Member
It's in the email they sent confirming my username.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
I saw that but yet no one on GAF got one? Hard to believe.
HadesGigas
Member
Pff you bandwagoners. I'm backer 7415!
Cheetos is Pretty Awesome
Member
ionno, I'm backer #772 and haven't gotten shit yet. I wonder how they are batching these in.
Lol! I saw it in the first couple of days but thought I had to wait for payday. Probably got reset again when I upgraded to the LE too no doubt.
HadesGigas
Member
CosmicQueso
Member
Email get 10 minutes ago. Can't wait!
But... but... people on GAF told me it was a scam? Weird.
I'm actually pretty stoked on the Flixster integration... all those UV copies can actually be played on the tv now.
But... but... people on GAF told me it was a scam? Weird.
I'm actually pretty stoked on the Flixster integration... all those UV copies can actually be played on the tv now.