The moment the entire office has been waiting for: The Oculus DK2 Virtual Reality headset has arrived in the office of Timefire VR in sunny and hot Scottsdale, Arizona. Like nearly everyone else who has been receiving their new Rift over the past few days, we were not without slight glitches. We are using the DK2 in conjunction with Unreal Engine 4, and it was just about a week ago that Epic released version 4.3, which is WORKING with our new gear! To fix the hiccups we ran into only required us to plug, unplug, and plug again all the cables from HDMI to USB and the power. Then, in an instant, we weren’t expecting anything different than what we were getting; the Oculus turned on, and so did we. No recompiling any demos for us; we have our own world to explore, and that’s just what we did for the next two hours 🙂

Meet long lost (on vacation in Italy, more specifically) the newest member of the Timefire team, Luis Chavez. Luis just got back to us yesterday after starting his new job with a two-and-a-half-week trip to Venice, Rome, Florence, Napoli, Pisa, and Milan, to name a few of the places he hung out. I’ll post more about Employee #6 in the next few days.