You said delivery time isn't an issue for you.  If that's the case, I'd say wait a little longer for the commercial release. You'll be spending roughly the same amount of money for a superior product.

This.

I love that there are so many dev kits going out to eager early adopters.  What this means is that a lot of people are going to be developing and testing for my final product.

Everyone has clearly stated that the dev kits are close to the final version but are clearly NOT going to be as good as the final version.  This means that you might be buying two Rifts in the next 2 years (one dev kit now and one product version at release) because the release version will be more advanced and have more functionality (because of all the testing/development) that is going on right now.

That said, if you have the cash to burn or you feel you NEED to be on the bleeding edge of development buy one now and one later.

I for one, trust folks like Tbone to go forth, test, do cool things, figure things out and report them to us here and pass the feedback on to the Rift devs to make the product super at launch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFy-JKPhbOk&feature=c4-overview&list=UU-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw

Best part of the video, "Think of all the porn!  This changes everything!"

The genie can't go back into the bottle.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/16/intuitive-aerial-oculus-rift-fpv-drone/

FPV drone flight video, using the Rift!

Pretty unimpressive.  I've seen a video (that I can't find at the moment) that had a Parrot AR Drone partially controlled with the rift to turn left and right.  Up and down did nothing and you had normal flight control otherwise.

And FPV is really nothing new to the UAV market.  Folks have been doing it for a long time but not with the rift.  In many ways the FPV market is pretty far along and the rift doesn't add much to it yet.  Just google up FPV and UAV or drone and you'll get a bunch of neatness.

Check out the set I'm looking to pick up as soon as possible.

http://www.fatshark.com/dominator.html

In any event, the only thing we're missing is the stereoscopic rift view.

Where the rift might shine, and I'm interested in seeing this developed, is for a multi-axis gimbal camera like this one.

http://www.uavvision.com/gimbals/cm380.html

With a set up like this, you could have a pilot who could be looking all around the airspace they're flying through.  Control would still be maintained by some separate device as I really don't see a way you can "fly" with the rift.

FYI, for those interested we're going to make a go at raiding something, for fun, this evening, for folks that show up and want to raid.

Nothing serious, nothing too hard.  Just fun and learning.  

So far confirmed we have myself and Adam and I'm not afraid to 2 man 8 man EV story.

Show up!

Important stuff here.

Please check out this post.

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=6530655#edit6530655

And then nominate some amazing Guardian you know and love (okay just know and don't hate, ah scratch that.. that you know) in this thread!

http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=659773

So I can get some things fixed!

So in the effort to get a fun raid in for some of our non-core raiders, lets plan on Thursday for a relaxed raid night.  We'll be helping Grim and any of our other non-core folks gear up and get ready to raid.

Sound off if you're available.

So Adam and I had a talk and we would like to get back together sooner rather than later and at least run some old content to gear Grim and just keep in touch/practice with raiding.  Nothing serious but we would like to do a couple nights a week or on a weekend to pull in NoCry.

Again, I don't expect everyone and I don't suggest we do progression content.  Just a little raiding for fun and to gear our newer raiders.

With that in mind do we have anyone available next week?