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Well, it seems Oculus Rift DK2 fever is upon us. As we reported yesterday, the first batches of Oculus VR‘s 2nd development kit are now shipping to lucky pre-order owners across the world. It seems that DK2’s have been sat waiting in fulfilment centres just waiting for the nod from Oculus engineers who wanted to ensure the latest SDK that supports the DK2 was ready for prime time.

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“It’s Happening.gif!” I thought upon seeing this. Entirely involuntarily.

In an unexpected turn of events, it looks like the EU and in particular the UK have begun receiving tracking notifications that orders are in transit and will be delivered imminently. One such recipient is me, who received the shipping note this afternoon informing me – to my intense delight – that my DK2 will be delivered tomorrow! Yes, after what seems like aeons, Road to VR will have the much sought after DK2 ready and primed for testing. Thing is, what to test?

We Need You!

So, as a member of the VR community, we thought it only fair that we ask you, our loyal readership what you’d like us to try on your behalf.

Of course, we expect you’d like to hear what your favourite demos and games look like with that fantastic high contrast, 1080p,  low persistence OLED panel – but the requests don’t have to be limited to just games. If you have a technical query about the device itself, or an experiment you’ve been dying to run with the DK2, let us know and if we have time / deem it of interest to the community we’ll try it and write it up.

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So, let us know what you’d like to see in the comments below and I’ll get right to work tomorrow uncovering some of the mysteries and answering some of the questions around the most advanced publicly available VR Headset yet released. Alternatively, if you’re a developer and have any tech demos you’d like us to be guinea pigs for, let us know via:

Email: info@roadtovr.com

Twitter: @rtovr

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Thanks for your input and we look forward to embarking on the next phase of the Oculus Rift story this weekend!

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Based in the UK, Paul has been immersed in interactive entertainment for the best part of 27 years and has followed advances in gaming with a passionate fervour. His obsession with graphical fidelity over the years has had him branded a ‘graphics whore’ (which he views as the highest compliment) more than once and he holds a particular candle for the dream of the ultimate immersive gaming experience. Having followed and been disappointed by the original VR explosion of the 90s, he then founded RiftVR.com to follow the new and exciting prospect of the rebirth of VR in products like the Oculus Rift. Paul joined forces with Ben to help build the new Road to VR in preparation for what he sees as VR’s coming of age over the next few years.