Windows 10: occulus rift

why will my laptop not recognise my occulus headset ?

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occulus rift and PC gaming..

what requirements must be met by a PC game for it to be able to be played with the occulus rift?

 

HDMI / DVI - Occulus Rift Questions


It will probably be a long time before I can afford this thing but it looks pretty exciting. Looking at it's setup made me wonder. Part of the setup requires a HDMI out or DVI output from your PC. Fair enough. But on my Nvidia 980ti GPU I already use the HDMI out to connect to my monitor. It's very hard to get round the back of my PC but from memory there is another DVI port and three other ports that I have no clue what they are (DP? They look like HDMI but slightly different shape). Anyway, I just wondered if the Rift can plug into the empty DVI and at the same time my monitor can remain connected to the HDMI output. If I had the Occulus Rift the last thing I'd want to do is have to go round the back of the PC everytime to unplug the HDMI that goes into the monitor and put the Rift into it's place or in the DVI port because the cannot be concurrently connected.

Another thing that isn't clear to me, despite googling the FAQs and topics, is can Occulus Rift view older games or even the actual desktop? In other words, does the computer screen get replicated through the headset? Obviously I know it wouldn't be 3d or optimised but just wondered.

I also wonder if the thing will demand the very latest GPU drivers. I still use Nvidia drivers from around September time as I really dislike updating them unless there is a compelling need to do so. I read enough horror stories on the Nvidia forums about their latest releases causing all manner of grief for some people. I like the 'if it ain't broker don't fix it approach' so leave them well alone.

Cheers,
Wayne

 

The occulus rift .. impute methods

The occulus rift would probably be shipped to the market not more than July this year but have been reading various online articles and write-ups about it and could not begin to wonder that that Xbox controller is the only impute method that would be used to communicate with the gAme or computer when being played.

is there a way you could use this thing with other impute devices mainly a keyboard and (excluding the mouse )coz you neck would be doing all the rotational movements?