Gear VR: Unboxing and Setup

My Samsung Gear VR arrived yesterday! In this video, I unbox the virtual reality headset, go over its features, and show you what the initial setup process looks like along with the Oculus Store.

Gear VR Playlist

Alien Makeout Simulator (Virtual Reality Video Version) (Oculus Rift DK2) (Pure Gameplay)

No commentary. No watermarks. Just the game.
 

This is the unedited playthrough of my Alien Makeout Simulator recording, intended to be watched on a virtual reality headset. If you're not into that, I have a separate video where I go into detail about the game and the people who made it here.

Virtual Reality Playlist

I am playing version 1.0.1 with an Oculus Rift DK2. You can download it here.

Alien Makeout Simulator was created by Mike Mandel, Devon Newsom, Dawn Rivers, Ben Taylor, and Shawn Witt.

Virtual Reality: Alien Makeout Simulator (Oculus Rift DK2)

Watch me smooch a couple of aliens on several of their ten mouths in Alien Makeout Simulator, a virtual reality experience for the Oculus Rift.

I am playing version 1.0.1 with an Oculus Rift DK2. You can download it here.

Virtual Reality Video Version (for viewing on your own VR headset)

Alien Makeout Simulator was created by Mike Mandel, Devon Newsom, Dawn Rivers, Ben Taylor, and Shawn Witt.

Alien Makeout Simulator's appearance on @midnight

#2: The Elusive Audio Cable

Join my search for a vital audio cable that allows me to finally use my PlayStation 3 again. Just in time to play through some Metal Gear Solid games before Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain comes out!

NVIDIA ShadowPlay and OBS NVENC Comparison - Batman: Arkham Knight

I decided to finally test out NVIDIA's ShadowPlay recording feature as I've been looking for a solution for recording PC games at the same resolution (1080p) and framerate (30 - 60 FPS) as I am playing them with no perceptible drop in game performance and no choppiness in the video capture. I am very impressed with it. However, some games, such as Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death (which I just recently started), do not work with ShadowPlay, so I had to use Open Broadcaster Software's Nvidia NVENC encoder.

I wanted to see if there was much difference between recording with ShadowPlay or OBS + NVENC, so I recorded Batman: Arkham Knight using each. It's the most technically impressive game that I own. Currently, Arkham Knight does not officially support 60 FPS (though this can be edited in the game's files), so I played it at 30 FPS, with all settings maxed out/on. Until the game is patched, playing at 60 FPS could have resulted in framerate drops, and I wouldn't know if it was the game or my recording that caused it. I beat the game at 30 and had it stay fairly consistent.

Both recording solutions were set to 1080p, 60 FPS, with a bitrate of 50 Mbps. I do not see a perceptible difference between using ShadowPlay and using OBS + NVENC. Please note that YouTube's compression may degrade the quality of the recordings.

My PC at the time of this recording:
CPU: Intel Core i7 3770
Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 1600MHz
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (OEM)

iSideWith.com

iSideWith.com shows how your beliefs match up with the presidential candidates of 2016. It's a useful tool for assisting voters in the upcoming election, especially for those who don't closely follow the world of politics.

Everyone I've seen take it ends up with Bernie Sanders as their highest match. Here are my results. It's comforting to know that Ted Cruz is last.

#1: It's Been a While

Hi! Long time no see. I've been pretty busy with non-Internet stuff lately, so I made a video to explain what I've been up to and what I am thinking about.

My PC (July 20th, 2015 - August 2016)

These are the specs of the PC I started using on July 20th, 2015.

CPU	Intel Core i7 3770
Motherboard	Asus P8P67 Pro REV 3.0
Memory	Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 1600MHz
Video Card	EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Storage	Western Digital 2TB Black HDD, Samsung 840 Pro 128 GB SSD
Optical Drive	Asus DRW-24B1ST
Case	Fractal Design R3
Power Supply	Corsair CMPSU-850HX 850 Watt
Operating System	Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (OEM)

My PC (July 9th, 2015 - July 20th, 2015)

These are the specs of the PC I started using on July 9th, 2015 while I waited for my GTX 980 Ti to arrive from EVGA via their Step-Up program.

CPU	Intel Core i7 3770
Motherboard	Asus P8P67 Pro REV 3.0
Memory	Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3 1600MHz
Video Card	EVGA GeForce GTX 660
Storage	Western Digital 2TB Black HDD, Samsung 840 Pro 128 GB SSD
Optical Drive	Asus DRW-24B1ST
Case	Fractal Design R3
Power Supply	Corsair CMPSU-850HX 850 Watt
Operating System	Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (OEM)