Same here. I plan to post a video of the results as well and possibly of the teardown and install.

I know a lot of people liked the video I took looking directly into the lense of my DK1, so I will do the same for this upgrade.

Hi guys, I was all day entering my Excel sheet of your data to the web app of FedEx... the result is on the picture. Left side FedEx shipping labels, 4 copies per package, right side invoices for non-EU countries. $100 is written there as I can not create package with higher insurance. We have sent about 200 packages from past projects, none of failed so we are not expecting any troubles.

All of you should have received the shipping notification for tracking updates. It might say delivery tomorrow, but that is not true, as the packages are still with me and it is 8 p.m. here. Tomorrow we arrange the pickup and they usually fly out in the evening (after 18.00, with last pickups at 16:00). Poor pickup guy who will handle each package separately.

Few European customers (<10) have not sent a phone number, so if they wont do in few days we ship by post, that is quite fast on continent too. For those outside (~ 3-4) i have used a fake number (111-111-1111), so we will see how much trouble it will cause. I am thinking now that a truly fake would be 555-

Ahh. Looks like it may be a Thursday delivery then if you are going to physically ship them tomorrow.

Thanks for the heads up.

Just as well you mentioned that - I got my shipping notice as tomorrow too! I'm really looking forward to receiving it. Well done on getting these out Daniel. I know that there has been quite a bit of unhappiness expressed in the thread with updates and delays, but I think you have done well to get a product out pretty quickly and not that far from the date you originally mentioned.
Even though I ordered my DK2 in the first few minutes of orders opening I'm still not conviced I will recieve that until early August/late July at best.

Anyway looking forward to Thursday to testing out the RiftUP! This should be a busy thread shortly.

Thanks.

Tried today on my Laptop with gForceGo9600GT, and had no trubles running lower than FHD resolution!

Tried 1280x800 and x720, no problem. The only issue is that the primary screen max resolution limits the resolution dialog of the experience. E.g. Primary 1280x800, secondary RiftUP, starting the experience (no difference if started from primary or secondary screen) you can select only max. 1280x800 and no higher resolution.

Solved by running the RiftUP as primary.

Had a try at Life for Speed @1280x720 on the RiftUP and want to say that while it looks better because of the less screendoor, the lower resolution does indeed limit the experience. But this depends very likely on the experience, too...

Just want to mention another detail which i found out today:
I did run power to the RiftDK1 via a USB2RiftPowerSocket - cable. On my gaming pc (CoreQ6600, HD6950) i plug the cable in an (seperately powered) usb3.0 7port-HUB. So i did run the RiftUP via the cable without a problem.
When trying today with my older Laptop (Core2 2.5GHz, Gforce 9600GT, which has only USB 2.0) running the RiftUP via the usb cable was not possible. There was a quick flashing of the LED on the RiftUP between red (input HDMI) and cyan, but the screen itself never turned on. I had to use the power supply of the RiftDK1 to run and use it properly.

Actually i did waste hours the day before to install several NVIDIA drivers because of this problem that the Rift was not detected properly as secondary device...

Just to let you know to have that in mind when running the RiftUP! via USB...

Congratulations Rozsnyo, Karel and all assistants.

Thanks for your hard work day/night/weekends.
All bad situations were corrected with a real piece
of luck with mr.uu's help.

I hope you can turn this initial patch over many times.

Hope that picture Rozsnyo posted will not confuse people.
The drop in version does not have the hdmi/usb/power connectors
and some chips on the board behind the display.

Got my shipping notice, too. I am very excited to try this out. One questions: I read a couple of posts back about some uncut corners? How was that resolved?

The cut in the corner of the plastic spacer is not necessary anymore.

I hope to read many first impressions beginning next week?!?!

Good eye. You should also notice the "standalone kit" label on the box

Hope so too! I will get mine on friday and will use it primarily for simracing. Most important rfactor2, first I will try, therefore I really hope that Tridef and RiftUP! work well together. Probably will reanimate my iRacing licence. Assetto Corsa. ...

What a day! Thanks in first place to Karel who helped to pack the kits, and Norbert, our assistant who made the resistors last week. The pickup guy must definitely have fun, as we packed the boxes into bags, attached the labels, and then we found out that the serial numbers do not quite match. Some excel/word/mail-merge issue :/ Sorry for that.

Please note, that we have shipped only the Upgrade kits, the Standalone units will follow in few days.

We have tested the boards right before we packed them, so it should be relatively ok - about 4 of 100 had an issue at this test, so we probably assign other S/N to those poor guys and ship next day.

After whole day of same work we have a feeling what it is to work in Foxconn

Got my shipment notice. Scheduled to be here tomorrow.

I plan to do the install tomorrow and hopefully have a video up shortly after.

Thanks for the update Daniel.

Mine due to arrive tomorrow morning. Will do some testing shortly after. Really hoping it pulls me back in (I'm sure it will) as I felt the DK1 was just too low res for extended play. - one phenomenal demo though!

Hi,

As one of the "Standalone" backers I can say I'm in no mad hurry to receive my unit, and you can take all the time you need to make sure it's ready.

Well done for all the work so far! Communication could always be better with these projects, but you've focussed on delivering a quality product (AFAICT) which is the main thing at the end of the day.

Cheers,

John :^P

Definitely need to know how the distortion patcher is working so we can all get good vision.

As a hobby simracer myself (LiveForSpeed S2) i did try and will probably get Assetto Corsa, too. It looks too good. I had a motion issue with my d-box GP200 yesterday (motion chair not moving) which i want to solve asap. BUT when turning on the wheel and the driver graphics in LFS i had a sudden feeling of presence, which made me feel like beeing a low poly race driver.
Weird!

The difference is very minor. Absolutely no deal breaker for me. Easily noticeable when tilting the head to the shoulders - but this is a very unusual motion, except for the indian suprisingly LFS has proper distortion. My RiftUP! Is configured as HD-prototype, btw.

Its official its not vapourware its hardware. I received my kit this morning at 8.30 am from fedex it took me 30 minutes to install up and running ,I thought id just put it all together with no silver foil no twisting of cables just to see what would happen ive got a perfect picture with no ghosting no dots as mr uu had
very easy install too fitted right in perfectly including both boards very acurate working on the software side now...

Ripcurl.

Awesome to hear! And I'm very jealous of where you live. 8 more hours until 10 AM here (usually when my FedEx guy arrives) and I'm too excited to wait any longer haha.

just on a side note you have to go to nvidia control panel and rotate display portrait flipped
that works for me you may be different..

Ripcurl..

Mine is delivered. \0/

Unfortunately 8-12hrs of work before any play. ARRRRRGGGHHH.

I too sim race and cannot wait.

Argh! Mine arrived at 9:30 this morning, now I have to wait 9 hours before the kids are in bed so I get a chance to try it out!

Out of interest, is there a how-to for installation and anything else I should know? Or is it blindingly obvious what you need to do to connect it all up?

Got mine So far:
-no istruction video, but i didn't need it, maybe someone else does
-In clone mode, doesn't go up from 768x1024, in extended mode everythings fine
-unknow usb device problem, so, no distortion,no double screen
-little light flickering

Pleeeeeease help! .. i have my working display but is not usb recognised (sorry for grammar)..
do i have to do something?
i wanna plaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

Right mine works. fobbed work off.

However I can see the sides like I'm looking at a window with a surround. Also noticing a couple of purple lines.

Effect is amazing. and that is the smallest screen door i ever did see. Very bright and beautiful. Just flew the "Ambient Flight peregrine falcon" and I was gobsmacked. I tried patching but still like looking at the window.

Hopefully the info should be coming thick and fast now.

It's here!

OK, a few things to confirm...

I'm assuming the "cutout" part of the bezel / holder goes at the bottom of the Rift (straight part into clips at top)?

I have the screen configured as Portrait Flipped and it starts working OK for a while...
But after moving the Rift around, the controller board shuts down to standby (Red LED).

So, am I supposed to be putting shielding foil around any of the cable now?
I've already put some light twists into the cable, but it's rather delicate tbh.

Oh, I see. lol

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/riftup#activity

OK, I've opened it back up and put more of a twist into the cable at both the Rift and controller ends...

Well, my RiftUP! still keeps turning itself to standby? Has anyone else had this happen yet?
I don't think this is a loose connection, and if it was a software issue, I'd imagine the RiftUP! wouldn't go to standby?

Does a Red standby LED generally mean that the PC has de-enumerated the display?

Also, could someone please list the exact operating modes (ie. EDID switching options), and how the buttons work on this release firmware.
I would rather be using it in Rift HD prototype mode if it makes it more "compatible".

Early impressions are very good.
There is far less blurring, and you can actually see into the "distance" easily now.

The pixel structure is far less noticeable, so not something that would be too distracting in gameplay like the stock panel was.
There is no real "screendoor" as such. It's so much easier on the eyes as the fill factor is much higher.

EDIT: I also noticed that you can see a thin line of the backlight on the left-hand side, and a few "dots" of light above the top edge of the panel.
This could do with some small bits of black tape to mask it maybe.

EDIT2: Oh... Thanks to Daniel, Karel (Kernel32? sorry, it's hard to keep up. lol), mr.uu, cgp44, and everyone else involved who I've forgot to mention!

I'm fairly sure the issues I'm having are software related and will be sorted out very soon.
I'll have a play with the nVidia settings to see what's up.


Many thanks,
OzOnE.

Jealous of those who received theirs already while I'm stuck at work. Fedex will have mine delivered sometime this morning, and I hope the install goes pretty smoothly.

Ready to give this a try.

still can't figure out why it just says unknown usb device.. anyone has an idea? ..uff.. wanna play..

Oh, man. The facepalm Daniel will be doing. No cables will be twisted with the normal upgrade kit, since the resistor fix. So whatever you break is your fault. USB error is usually windows issue, whatever version 7-8, disable re-enable the port used; "if you know which one it is". Don't run it on a usb HUB.

oh my f***ing god, lunar flight looks amazing, f***ing amazing
the detail you don't realise stands right out ,at the moment im running in extended mode which is a little bit of a pain, you have the rift as the main display because thats where the program/demo/game window it starts at ,then drag all your icons to computer display and drag task bar to computer display then download hmd sdk opener see on-line, and patch the game/demo oculusplugin.dll
there probably an easier way but thats what im doing at the moment
I also redone my ipd in oculus sdk which helped
You must also set your power board light to blue ive copy and pasted daniels link below



Buttons (on top of the base unit in order PWR, BRUP, BRDN, CNUP, CNDN = [12345] ):

[1] PWR = cycle through inputs: red=HDMI, orange=DVI (on units with hdmi switch in the headset also: blue=HDMI on head, cyan=HDMI+USB)
[1+2] PWR + BRUP = HDMI (shortcut)
[1+3] PWR + BRDN = DVI (shortcut)

When signal is not present, the diode indicates which input the signal is expected at. A valid signal will switch the unit to operating mode, whose colors are: green - normal backlighg, or white - strobed backlight. Switching these 2 modes is done by:

[1+2+4] PWR + BRUP + CNUP = enable strobed backlight (white)
[1+2+5] PWR + BRUP + CNDN = switch to normal backlight (green)

In normal mode, the BRUP/BRDN regulate the intensity.
In strobed mode, the BRUP/BRDN regulate the intensity = pulse length and CNUP/CNDN regulate the phase of the backlight pulse relative to the VSync.

The unit will present itself with RZS0002 (default) or OVR0002 (Oculus HD prototype) EDID VID and PID. To switch between these, the following combinations are used:

[1+3+4] PWR + BRDN + CNUP = switch to RZS0002 (magenta)
[1+3+5] PWR + BRDN + CNDN = switch to OVR0002 (cyan)

After transition to different EDID VID/PID, you have to unplug the signal cable from the unit or PC, wait few seconds and replug it.

The combination of [1+2+3] PWR + BRUP + BRDN will cause software reset of the system, but it is maybe better to just remove the power and insert it back in few seconds.

CLONED view: you have to rotate your computer's screen and then you can make use of cloning.

SDK/software: to fully utilize the RiftUP!, one would need to make changes in the Oculus Rift SDK and add our RZS0002 EDID to it along with the proper screen size. As a fallback to testing out the unit, we allow you to switch to OVR0002 which is detected as DKHD prototype (5.5"). The issue with the newest SDK is, that even that on one place is a provision for DKHD2, which was 5.9", but that branch is never activated.

Older games and some engines will be supported by means of binary patching - Karel's utility will do that for you. My preference was to not fake an DK1 with OVR0001 VID/PID - it results in different size parameters and the resolution was expected to be different. Also, old games might just not have the HD textures.

hope this helps

Ripcurl..

@Ryuuken24 - I did see the post about not needing to twist the cables any more, but thought it couldn't hurt to put light twists in.
These things are worth trying when it keeps shutting down all the time. I haven't "broken" anything.


Thought I'd post my setup / specs...

"New" Core i5 PC.
8GB DDR3.
GTX 670.
Win 7 x64.

DVI-to-HDMI adapter, and HDMI cable to RiftUP! controller.
I've made sure everything is securely connected etc.

RiftUP! panel showing as the "RiftUP! DK1" in nVidia control panel.
RiftUP! set as primary display in Portrait Flipped mode.

Works perfectly fine for about 30 seconds, then switches to "standby" (Red LED)?
Have to unplug the 5V Rift wall wart DC power from the RiftUP! to get it to work again?

Please help!

@Jamboson - try plugging the USB "through" the stock controller board and see what happens.
(ie. unplug the small four-wire USB plug from the RiftUP! board, and plug into Oculus controller board. Plug in Mini-USB to PC).

If it still says "unknown USB device", then there must be a problem with the connection to the tracker, or a break in the cable somewhere?


@ripcurl123 - Thanks for the button info. I couldn't find the original post (I did search).


OzOnE.

If the display is working but, the trackers isn't, on the DK1, it still worked but, didn't track movement. Usual symptom was logitech software running on the background.

OK, I think it's just a software issue on my side.

I can get the display to stay on if I make the RiftUP! as primary.
I was also running TightVNC Viewer, which wasn't helping matters. lol

I think I can sort it out now.

The strobed backlight option is working fine.
A little flickery at a low setting, but that's to be expected of course.


I tried the RZS0002 (magenta) setting too - is this setting supposed to "stick" in EEPROM after the power is removed?

I'll leave it in the normal OVR0002 mode and try Karel's utility next.

Is the OVR0002 mode supposed to have the EDID string of "RiftUP! DK1"?
Do both modes have that string, or are they supposed to be different?

OzOnE.

@ripcurl123 - Thanks for the button info. I couldn't find the original post (I did search).


OzOnE.

No problem glad to help.

Im using B cups seems to work best .

Ripcurl..

Tried today on my motion sim pc (gtx580,i5-2600) with usb3.0 onboard to power the RiftUP! - no success.

MAY work with power from TWO usb3.0 sockets, but i had to use the dc adapter which came with the rift to power it without problems.

And i could not clone the display despite running a beamer already rotated. Cloning always did limit my resolution to 1024x768 and did back offset the two screens by 90deg. Will try ripcurls way of display / icons settings...

Bought Assetto Corsa... WOW!

My FedEx tracking info always said Delivery today before 10:30 AM (and whenever I get FedEx packages it's always 9am or 10am) but now it's 11:45 AM and no package, and the tracking says "Estimated Delivery: N/A"

It went through customs on the east coast at 7am and I'm on the west coast so I'm hopefully gonna get a delivery later today!

Trying to install now,

I got the circuit board into the control box, but the plastic button covers on the box don't reach the actual buttons on the PCB. Not a showstopper, I'll just leave the board out of the box for now.

How do you open the Rift to get to the screen? (not mine, don't want to force anything!)

West coast here as well, and similarly, ETA switched to -NA- earlier this morning. If it shows up today, bonus, but I think I'll take a nap.... to wash away some anxiousness. Please post more glowing reviews, so I can ramp back up when I awake!:)

OK, I managed to get about ten minutes of demo playing now, and the new panel is great.

I'm pretty sure the slight motion sickness I used to get is hugely reduced as well.
I was strafing around in Tuscany for a few minutes, and that would normally be more than enough to make me feel a bit queesy.

I get hardly any of that feeling now, which is fantastic.

Yes, the pixel structure is still noticeable, but no longer is it right "in your face". You can kind of look past that easily now.
I certainly would never want to go back to the old screen. lol

The higher contrast on the new panel is much better too.
And, the reduced blur seems to be one of the most important features for presence.

The resolution has made a big difference to the 3D effect (like the floating seeds in Tuscany).

But, I still keep loosing the video signal for some reason?

I've now unplugged the monitor completely (older LCD via VGA), and trying only the RiftUp! via a proper DVI cable.
The Rift is set as the primary display at 1080p, and the VGA monitor is disabled in the nVidia panel.

It still tends to shut down / switch to Red LED after a few minutes, but the image is perfect while it's working?
Usually, I have to press the Power button again to switch it back to DVI and let it re-detect for a second or two?

I just took the controller apart again and carefully cleaned the pins on the cable connectors + reseated them fully.
The soldering looks perfect (of course), and the new resistors are in place.

I'll have to re-check the HMD end of the cable in a mo.
I'll also try it on this PC to see what happens, but it only has an old AMD HD 5450.

@Snuffer - strange that the plastic buttons don't reach push buttons?
Are you sure the cable isn't trapped underneath?

Also, I found that the HDMI / USB ports can be a bit of a tight fit at first, so it's important
The push buttons should be at the same height on all of these boards?

I don't have much advice about opening the Rift apart from using a proper plastic "spudger" tool and taking it very slowly...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Opening-P ... 35d2f8cdd1

It's best start carefully prising the clips apart on the underside edge of the display housing (beneath the "nose" cutout).

You'll quickly find that the clips come apart easier with the spudger at a certain angle too.
ie. if you slowly push the edge of the plastic front part with the Oculus logo on it "inwards" slightly (relative to the edge of the main housing), the front part should start to open.

You then have to hold apart each clip and work your way around the edge of the housing until it separates.
Just don't rush it, and you'll be fine.

Getting the old screen out has to be taken SLOWLY too because the double-sided pads they used can be stuck quite firmly.
Obviously you don't want to bend the panel hardly at all, or it could break.

OzOnE.