Email from Oculus: Shipping Soon
gleamingsands
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Just got this email.
Hi Frazier,
Your Rift is almost ready to ship, and your order will be processed in the next 1-3 weeks. For some customers, your actual ship date may differ from the estimate you saw when ordering.
Your payment will be processed when your order ships so we want to make sure we have your details right. Please check your order and review the following:
Do we have your correct billing and shipping information?
Is your payment information accurate?
Is your PC ready to power Rift? You can use our compatibility tool to check, or learn more about our Oculus Ready program.
Do you have an open HDMI port on your graphics card for Rift? You might need an adapter if the port is already in use for your monitor or TV.
Thanks for being part of the future of VR. We can't wait for you to see what's next.
See you in Rift,
The Oculus Team
Hi Frazier,
Your Rift is almost ready to ship, and your order will be processed in the next 1-3 weeks. For some customers, your actual ship date may differ from the estimate you saw when ordering.
Your payment will be processed when your order ships so we want to make sure we have your details right. Please check your order and review the following:
Do we have your correct billing and shipping information?
Is your payment information accurate?
Is your PC ready to power Rift? You can use our compatibility tool to check, or learn more about our Oculus Ready program.
Do you have an open HDMI port on your graphics card for Rift? You might need an adapter if the port is already in use for your monitor or TV.
Thanks for being part of the future of VR. We can't wait for you to see what's next.
See you in Rift,
The Oculus Team
Comments
First,
"Kickstarter units will start arriving today, and the first pre-ordered Rifts will start shipping mid-week and arrive soon after. We’re working as fast as we can to get Rifts to customers who pre-ordered. If you pre-ordered, you’ll get an email when your order is being prepped (1-3 weeks prior to shipping) and then another one when your payment method has been charged and your Rift is on its way."
-- https://oculus.com/en-us/blog/oculus-rift-is-shipping
Second, for those of you who pre-ordered an Oculus, you don't have to wait till the day it arrives to install the software and hit up the Oculus store!
Check this link and download the setup so you can have it now! https://oculus.com/en-us/setup/
This is exciting, I haven't looked forward to the release of a game like this since FFXIV:ARR, more likely not since Majora's Mask. I can hardly contain myself.
No Oculus yet, and they've yet to charge my account, so I assume I'll be waiting till at least Friday, but more likely next week.
Not disappointed by this, kind of gathered this would happen. I've installed the Oculus Store and have installed the few free games available, really excited about the games.
I'm hearing some talk about motion sickness; I personally didn't get motion sickness on
the VR Rollercoaster on my smart phone, I doubt I'll be getting motion sickness from Eve: Valkyrie or anything else.
Those who do probably need some adjustments to make the experience easier, and there are already some very
decent guides on how to avoid these problems.
Apparently people were getting orders in before the top of the hour in release. 7:45 (UMT) saw pre-purchases from that point until about 8:01, when the server began locking up. Now initially, we believed that order numbers, XX24XXXX or however, was the litmus for a general delivery window. We now know that is only partially true, and that the real information indicating shipping and charging order was actually the time in which it was ordered. Orders started back up at about 8:06, when orders were once again made available to purchase.
Fast forward, March 28th sees the shipment of Oculus Rift products to Kickstarters, and soon after, we begin seeing shipment of pre-orders, starting with the orders which began at 7:45 (UMT), and continuing with orders up until about 8:01. Today there were no new shipments, and of course Oculus subreddit is blowing up with people far more upset than our group is with the current information we have on the Omni. Ravenous hordes, but eventually, after some complaining and calling out to Oculus to make a statement, Palmer plays his hand and says:
" ...I am not going to wax poetic about this, since I have done so in the past, but bottom-line: I won't give in-depth updates on any situation without knowing it is solid, true, and finalized. Until I can do so, the best I can do is remind people that I will get them information as quickly as I can.
On the rare occasions when things still change, even when they change for reasons out of my control, I get crucified anyway. Sometimes that means updates have to wait until things get locked down, and sometimes that means waiting a little longer to give everyone good info."
A guy under the Name VR-Researcher is making some dubious claims about processing, apparently implying that Lucky cannot make a statement because of a NDA regarding failure of the processing company to pull through on it's own contract. There was also a statement about Palmer paying out of pocket to make good on the problem.
I'm still pretty excited for Oculus, even if the industry does sometimes seems a little jinxed.
Today has been by far the most productive ship date Oculus has ever gotten through, coming up a whole minute through the rankings, from 6:00 to 7:++ minutes, which is a big deal.
More to come when I receive the beast!
Total madness.
That's where this special brand of technology comes in, the first step towards full sensory exposure and subsequent human augmentation is one avenue of fulfillment of futurist utopian dreams, but it should be readily understood that utopia is a paradoxical concept, as everywhere it is applied, under each of it's guises, it tends to bring about the opposite of the intended connotation of the word, the root of which actually means nowhere incidentally. I feel like if we don't temper our concept of self-fulfillment with an understanding of what we can actually achieve as human beings, we ultimately set ourselves up for a disappointment much more horrifying than the human violence that we bring against ourselves or the more eloquent, often subtle forms of violence that nature can provide.
Human aggression has a built in limitation, nature provides this limit, but technological violence has the potential to exist forever.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CvyvbdpSTaE
Day 5 and nothing.