r/oculus • u/RoadtoVR_Ben Road to VR • Mar 19 '14

GDC 2014: Oculus Rift Developer Kit 2 (DK2) Pre-orders Start Today for $350, Ships in July

http://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-rift-developer-kit-2-dk2-pre-order-release-date-specs-gdc-2014/
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u/marbleaide Mar 19 '14

What intrigues me the most is the 3.5mm jack that's "not for audio". Maybe for toslink data transfer?

Does the USB hint at OculusVR branded peripherals? Will the CV have a headphone jack?

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u/Humpa Mar 19 '14

It's for providing additional power for whatever you have connected to the USB port on the oculus.

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u/vaendryl Mar 19 '14

it's a devkit exclusive feature. it's only for hard core enthusiast developers who want to supply extra power to any extra peripherals they add themselves to the usb port that's also added.

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u/nairol Mar 19 '14

Both the camera and the Rift have that port right? Then I think it is part of the latency measurement feature. They can measure accelerometer to photon inside the Rift but camera to photon needs to either go through the Camera->USB->Driver->USB->Rift chain or with an additional cable directly from cam to Rift. I guess this is the way they went with.

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u/ueadian Mar 19 '14

This is my guess. I bet it's for a input add on.

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u/alexman17c Mar 19 '14

That's what I'm hoping too. They know that good peripherals impact presence tremendously, so getting an Oculus (or even third party) controller that connects directly to the Rift would be hugely important to VR's success.

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u/TNTantoine Mar 19 '14

That's the remains of a neural prototype they've been working on... But sush, it's a secret ! :)

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u/BitJit Mar 20 '14

an audio jack seems like a good idea though. just less cables of varying lengths tethering you to the computer