But we are not there yet, we have a big “health and safety” notice in the middle of the screen. Nice, the DK2 is detected and should work (display image and track movement). Just select next And select skip during the setup (the “Rift” will not be detected because we don’t have a Rift) Yes we want to skip the setup □ And there it is, the DK2 is fully detected (orange light is a USB2 connection, an USB3 connection is recommended for the IR camera) Directly after finishing the initial wizard the application will detect your DK2 (if its plugged in) and it will ask you to setup your “Rift”. You will need to skip the headset selection window (the DK2 is not listed). I did skip setting up a payment method (I only need the software for Steam VR). If you plan on using the store you will probably want to select a location with lots of free space. I won’t show the installation (you can only click next anyway).Īfter the installation is complete you will have to configure the application: First you will have to logon to the store, this can be done with a Facebook account (I don’t like Facebook and don’t have an account so I used my old Oculus account) After signing in, the wizard asks for a location to download games to. we need the version for the original Rift which is located at the bottom of the page.ĭuring the installation the installer will download around 6 GB of data (it looks like a lot, but steam VR is also around 6GB). Lets start with downloading the Oculus software from there site. in my case i wanted to try Elite dangerous on it because my “normal” Vive setup is not ideal for playing siting games.Īlthough the DK2 is no longer supported officially, it still works with the regular Oculus software, there are however a number of “problems” because the DK2 does not support controllers The DK2 was ahead of its time with specs relatively close to the later released Oculus Rift and HTC Vive (2016).Īlthough the DK2 lacks room scale and controller support it can still be very useful for simulation type content such as Space/flight sims and race sims. Long before Facebook even tough about putting its greedy fingers on Oculus, and long before the release of the Oculus rift and the HTC Vive. The Oculus Development kit 2 (DK2) was released back in 2014. Recently I came across my old Oculus DK2, my first HMD and although there ware no real games for it, the device made me buy a HTC Vive □
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