Our Oculus Rift lastly shown up in the mail. I’ll spare you my thoughts on the product itself other than to state it is amazing. There are tons of videos to select from that show people’s thoughts as well as reactions, as well as Ifixit has their normal in-depth teardown as well.

The mod I made a decision to deal with very first was the horizontal peripheral vision lights. The shape of the Oculus indicates that it feels like you are using a skii mask, or diving mask. There are huge black borders at the far edges of the sides. It would seem that a basic mod would be to add some RGB LEDs as well as run a basic ambilight clone.

I downloaded the Adalight code as well as plugged in an RGB LED strip I had sitting around. The rift has some fit together areas at the 4 corners to enable air to step around in there. I took advantage of this so I didn’t even have to cut into the rift… yet. I just strapped the strip to the rift with the appropriate LEDs shining with the holes.

The result was decent. considering that the LEDs are additionally back in your peripheral vision than the edge of the screen, it appears like perhaps a bit light from the surroundings is just “leaking” into the headset. It provides the perception of seeing things that are far beyond the edge of the screen.  A much better installation, enabling lights all the method up the left as well as ideal sides instead of just the corners may produce even much better results.