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RE: How do I use it in Second Life?

Feilen — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:57:56 GMT

[quote][b]Alabama (12/17/2009)[/b][hr]Hi,

I bought the VR920 mainly for use with Second Life, and here are my findings so far.

one thing i find confusing is that the compatibilty list states Second Life has native support, but the only way i get it to work is running an older version (1.19 through 1.21, 1.20 seems to work best for me) with the iwear monitor extension installed (and if second life truly was native, that shouldnt be necessary, but correct me if i'm wrong here?)

Also on my system (2,4ghz core2duo, 8800gts, 4gb,24mb internet connection) thestereo results are onlysomewhat decent standing still in a quiet sim with minimal movement. (and thats after downgrading my win7-64 to XPSP3-32) When moving around and/or movement around me causes the system to pageflip out of sync, so visiting any kind of event is kind of pointless.

Also in terms of depth the free daleglass viewer with a pair of 1$ red/cyan glasses performs waybetter with stuff actually popping out of the screen (headaches aside off course)

On the plus side, in 800x600 all text is very readable, i can participate in chat and do everything i usually do, including building stuff.

I Hope one of you knows the key to a good setup, cause i find myself turning of stereo most of the time, and thats not what i bought the headset for.[/quote]

1) Native means that it's built into the client. So yes, it's native, just outdated. Something better than native would be a plugin, which vuzix has not developed.

2)That's not the reason, your computer is trying to get the frames out there as fast as it can, and so might put one frame up before it's finished. This isn't noticeable on a 2d screen, but the VR920 looks bad with it. Solution? Go to nvidia control panel>Advanced 3d settings>Force Vsync>On

3)That's not how depth works. A flat screen moniter looks good in terms of a depth map, but it's not accurate to how your eyes work. What you need to do is measure the distance between your eyes and put that in for the blank. That makes it not [i]as[/i] depthy, but it's super realistic, since it's the exact same separation as your actual eyes.

RE: How do I use it in Second Life?

Alabama — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:36:57 GMT

Hi,

I bought the VR920 mainly for use with Second Life, and here are my findings so far.

one thing i find confusing is that the compatibilty list states Second Life has native support, but the only way i get it to work is running an older version (1.19 through 1.21, 1.20 seems to work best for me) with the iwear monitor extension installed (and if second life truly was native, that shouldnt be necessary, but correct me if i'm wrong here?)

Also on my system (2,4ghz core2duo, 8800gts, 4gb, 24mb internet connection) the stereo results are only somewhat decent standing still in a quiet sim with minimal movement. (and thats after downgrading my win7-64 to XPSP3-32) When moving around and/or movement around me causes the system to pageflip out of sync, so visiting any kind of event is kind of pointless.

Also in terms of depth the free daleglass viewer with a pair of 1$ red/cyan glasses performs way better with stuff actually popping out of the screen (headaches aside off course)

On the plus side, in 800x600 all text is very readable, i can participate in chat and do everything i usually do, including building stuff.

I Hope one of you knows the key to a good setup, cause i find myself turning of stereo most of the time, and thats not what i bought the headset for.

RE: How do I use it in Second Life?

Feilen — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:17:14 GMT

Here's a link to old download, for anyone who still hops around on this forum for info: http://download-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/Second_Life_1-21-6-99587_Setup.exe

RE: How do I use it in Second Life?

Forrestwolf — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:13:15 GMT

Thanks - I was able to download that version and see that the Vuzix monitor was starting to see it. HOWEVER, Second Life insists that you instead install the newer version; it won't let you continue without doing so.

I just found the solution: You have to download 1.21.6 instead.

Second Life will let you use 1.21.6 just fine, though it suggests you upgrade to 1.22 (don't!).

Head tracking is GREAT. Much better than I've seen in Mouselook with GlovePIE so far.

Thanks from a brand-new and very excited VR920 owner :)

RE: How do I use it in Second Life?

macdaddyb — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:31:06 GMT

Thank you! I dug through that wiki, and for some reason I couldn't find it. maybe I just gave up too early. I appreciate that.

RE: How do I use it in Second Life?

tcla75 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:57:41 GMT

You can get the older one here.
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Old_versions#1.18.1.2

Here is the direct link to 1.20.15

http://download-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/Second_Life_1-20-15-92456_Setup.exe

RE: How do I use it in Second Life?

macdaddyb — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:04:06 GMT

Okay I think I lucked out...

Found out Second Life will only work with 1.19 and 1.20 versions, hence the error. I tried anyway to update with custom viewer over newer version and it didn't work. Searched to find an old mirror of version 1.20.15 but could not find a copy of it, maybe source out there but I wasn't prepared to compile it myself.

Just had a thought to check my other computer, and sure enough, compatible version 1.19.14 was intalled! Copied it to main computer and iwear updated it. I get the message saying the 920 isn't detected (because it's not here yet) but at least it runs.

This means apparently for anyone who updates Second Life, or for possiby any new users, native support is gone untill vuzix updates their viewer to work with the latest versions. If vuzix does not want to update each time SL offers a new version, they should keep a mirror of a compatible install of second life at the Vuzix website. A full install, not just an update to a version that's no longer availible.

RE: How do I use it in Second Life?

macdaddyb — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:24:22 GMT

I'm having the same problem.

I have the current version of second life (1.21.6) running on vista ultimate x64. It will not add it to the enabled list because it says "unsupported version installed for this extention". I didn't see a way to download older versions, how can this be supported again?

RE: How do I use it in Second Life?

kevaquel — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:47:40 GMT

I have some problems with this game too.. but just got a message in iWearMonitor during adding Second life:

Unsupported version installed for this extension - ok.. but what have wrong version? iWear soft or SL?

RE: How do I use it in Second Life?

Mnemonic — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:23:01 GMT

[quote][b]NeilRobinson (10/19/2008)[/b][hr]
Does anyone have a link to download this? [/quote]

http://vuzix.com/site/_support/VR920_Software_v2.3.zip

It's going with v.2.3 software pack for VR920. Use iWearMonitor to install or uninstall it. It installing over standard SL client.

RE: How do I use it in Second Life?

NeilRobinson — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:24:44 GMT

[quote][b]
Vuzix write they're own client of SL based on one of the latest versions, and include all options there
[/quote]

Does anyone have a link to download this?

Also, has anyone tried using the kit with the new opengrid (Secondlife clone) grids/sims?

eg can you add "-loginuri" to the shortcut and have it log into a grid other than secondlife..

RE: How do I use it in Second Life?

Starnerf — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:02:50 GMT

You can press alt+F8 to turn on stereo or alt+F7 to turn on tracking. In the edit menu you can open the vuzix options window and adjust stuff. And the shortcut for that is ctrl+SHIFT+V.

RE: How do I use it in Second Life?

Mnemonic — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:44:40 GMT

I use latest iWearMonitor v.2.2 on windows XP and it works fluently!
I use my VR920 in SL and headtracking + native stereo works great.

Vuzix write they're own client of SL based on one of the latest versions, and include all options there.
After adding SL into active programs list in iWearMonitor - launch SL, and press CTRL+V - it's opens window with Vuzix VR920 setup - there you can setup head-tracking and switch stereoscopy.
This window is also available via SL menu.

RE: How do I use it in Second Life?

alexpi01 — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:25:27 GMT

No. It isn't working also in XP!!

RE: How do I use it in Second Life?

CarlKenner — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 04:18:40 GMT

I just tried it with the new version of the driver.

It still does nothing. It detects when you start SecondLife and gives you a message with instructions. But it doesn't actually have any effect in SecondLife.

Obviously it must work for some people though. I'm sure they tested the driver before they released it, and it must have worked for them. But it doesn't work for me. It might be a Vista issue.

RE: How do I use it in Second Life?

tchock — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:35:46 GMT

Any updates to this? I'd like to use it in second life and need to know it works there before buying it...

How do I use it in Second Life?

CarlKenner — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:54:53 GMT

I have only one program on the supported list, and that is Second Life.

But I can't get Second Life to work with the VR920.

How do I make it work?

Ctrl+B does nothing.