{"id":1219,"date":"2016-09-29T16:03:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T16:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2016-09-29T16:03:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T16:03:32","slug":"vr-headset-is-back-online-for-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2016\/09\/29\/vr-headset-is-back-online-for-the-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"VR Headset is back online for the moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve reconnected the HTC Vive in my otherwise mostly empty office as the flooring hasn&#8217;t arrived yet. I&#8217;m realizing that the office is a bit small even with almost everything out of the way. I had been planning to put together a downstairs (basement) computer for use with the headset at some point. I&#8217;m not seriously considering accelerating the process to get a more usable setup for working with room scale VR.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking at Unity as well as more direct OpenGL\/OpenVR at this point. I think that the OpenGL approach is likely more interesting in the long run as I&#8217;m not currently thinking of things that look particularly like classic video games. I do want to get some initial development traction quickly though and Unity seems to promise a faster on-ramp in C#. My C# may be a little rusty, but it will come up to speed fast enough (and it is a useful environment in any case).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking at using one of my existing, old 4U rack mount cases with a spare power supply I have lying around. I think the system is going to look like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intel i6700K CPU (LGA1151)<\/li>\n<li>Gigabyte LGA1151 motherboard (haven&#8217;t picked one yet, but I&#8217;ve had pretty good luck with them brand)<\/li>\n<li>16GB DDR4 memory as 2x8GB sticks<\/li>\n<li>500 GByte SATA SSD.\u00a0<em>500 GB because at 250 I run out of space too quickly and I don&#8217;t want to spend time cleaning junk off of the drive and SATA because I have SATA drive wedges that will get me out of trouble if I need to while M.2 may offer a bit better performance.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>NVidia 1070 video card.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have considered an LGA2011-v3 CPU and board but for this system the extra cost doesn&#8217;t seem to be worth it.<\/p>\n<p>I am tempted by the NVidia 1080 cards. More money but excellent performance and for unoptimized OpenGL code this might make an important difference. I may order parts without the video card and bring this up with an older, lower spec card that I have available until I can decide where to go for the final hardware.<\/p>\n<p>I am rather impressed with the cost of parts these days. Aside from the video this looks like around $600.00 worth of parts for a very capable system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve reconnected the HTC Vive in my otherwise mostly empty office as the flooring hasn&#8217;t arrived yet. I&#8217;m realizing that the office is a bit small even with almost everything out of the way. I had been planning to put together a downstairs (basement) computer for use with the headset at some point. I&#8217;m not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2016\/09\/29\/vr-headset-is-back-online-for-the-moment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VR Headset is back online for the moment<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F2Qc-jF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}