Hey all,

This has been a fun week.  Long, but fun.

Pacific Rim

If you haven’t seen Pacific Rim yet, do yourself a favor and go see it.  It will make your inner 12 year old boy very happy 🙂  After watching the movie I had to pick up the Gipsy Danger Jaeger action figure:

Oculus Rift

A FamiLAB member has been working with an Oculus Rift development kit for the past few weeks, and very generously allowed me to borrow it for a few days.  The device is well worth the money, and was comfortable to wear with my glasses.  That said, it makes me want to get contacts so I can wear it with even more comfort.

I played Team Fortress 2 for a while and Half Life 2. A few of my coworkers tried Surgeon Simulator 2013 with it and that was really hilarious to watch. We also loaded some 3rd party drivers which allows more games to run that aren’t meant to on the device, and even though there were bugs, it was still playable.  The big disappointment with the device right now is the low resolution screens.  You really notice the pixels at first, but after the immersion kicks in, you learn to ignore it.  Luckily Oculus VR has stated that the consumer version will have much higher resolution screens.

Engrained Products Raspberry Pi Case

The awesome people at Engrained Products sent me one of their Pi cases to try out.  It’s fantastic.  I’m really impressed with how they put in the little cuts so that the wood can bend freely.  Also the cut gears are a great touch.  I’ve been using the Adafruit case but I am going to switch to this one.

I hope everyone has a great weekend.  Take care!

-Shea