Monday, December 17, 2018

Palmer Luckey: How to make your Oculus Go Better

If you are an Oculus Go owner, you might want to check out Palmer Luckey's guide to making it better. Yes...that is a pot of hot water...


Oculus Go was designed with a passive cooling system that uses a heat pipe to spread heat from the Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 SOC across the aluminum faceplate.  Unfortunately, the system is both heavy and located way out at the front of the headset, maximizing impact on comfort.  I am brutal on headset weight – HMDs, like rockets, get huge gains out of seemingly small decreases in weight.