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We're right there with you. Hit some important and hard-earned milestones in the past few days, but we're awaiting word from some partners before we can really hit the accelerator on things
Different case, atleast from what I've seen(just google it). NOVA is 17L, but the KI website states that the CERBERUS is 18L. Could've been an old design though, not sure anymore :/
What did I miss ?
A month-ish ago, I made a copy of our home page and experimented with layouts and new product names for Nova, since James and I were still undecided about some stuff. We've since made up our minds (and deleted the page), but Google seems to have cached it before then.
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Before people start jumping to conclusions from this, let me clarify what it is
Anyway, we're certainly not working on another case or product, at least for the moment - Nova's been keeping our hands plenty full
I suppose we were naive in expecting to hit our initial time deadline for that. But the extra time has at least let us square away other things, so it's at least been productive.
There have also been a few specific parts that have caused a lot of delay, in terms of securing quotes and getting our manufacturing/fulfillment pipeline set up. It's been a tad frustrating for us since we had an initial sense of the time it would take to get quotes, but basically blew right through that simply because a few third parties were slow to respond (or just outright not very receptive)
Anyway, since we've finished organizing and setting up almost everything else (that we can, at least), we're stuck in a bit of a holding pattern until we get concrete numbers and other information that will let us lock everything down. But there has been progress, and hard-fought at that. Plus, certain ideas and other things we were unsure about feasibility-wise have since been vindicated by the input we've received from manufacturing, so we've been pretty excited about that. Options-wise for Nova, I think people will be pretty happy
TLDR: If you're familiar with that feeling where you've been at a 4-way intersection, stuck at a red light for a long time, and you just know that the green light is about to come on, but it stubbornly refuses to do so... That's how it's felt like for the past ~20 days, trying to secure quotes
Agreed, I need this so I can have a portable VR box! Actually, a confession: I got an M1 a few months ago because I was feeling impatient and wanted a tiny gaming PC that could fit in my backpack. Loving it, by the way. I have a portable monitor and so I can bring a full desktop gaming experience with me and pack it all away in my bag!
Ok, well hurry up because I have one GTX 980Ti just sitting here as my other one is in my ncase....I would like to SLI them sometime this year...k thanks! Lol
Most of our efforts to expedite development have had more to do with being smart about how we work. I'm basically in the same boat as you haha. I completely agree. Regardless of which direction I personally go, I'm much better off for having these options and I love you guys (and the M1 team) for making it all possible. Plus, you've been very responsive to all of us who have been following this project and have taken our input into consideration, which is refreshing to see.We think (obviously) that the balance of decisions and compromises we've made (with respect to capabilities and volume) will make sense for all sorts of people, but for others, the M1's noticeably smaller size will win out. It really comes down to how much you value those differences.
And, you know, that's much the point of these projects: giving people options that they otherwise wouldn't have. So it's a really good thing
I just have the DK1, it's partially disassembled at the moment because some dust got in front of the screen somehow. I started to take it apart but got lazy and decided to play video games and never got back to it. I can kind of get in there with a cloth through the eye holes but not well enough to get the dust out. I should probably figure that out and get it fixed, VR is cool. That said, I decided to skip the DK2 and wait for CV1.I was/am. The Nvidia announcement of the VR SLI feature with the launch of the 900-series was part of the reason I decided to attempt dual 980s in Nova-00.
I own both a DK1 and DK2 though they're both out on loan. Patiently waiting for CV1 and/or the Vive
. That said, Pascal isn't until 2016 anyway, and even then it's not like I have to get both GPUs at the same time. One will probably be fine for most things. For me it's just a trade-off between tiny cute computer + saving money vs leaving the door open for beefier graphics. So, I'll be likely to sway based on how my finances change and based on how Pascal shapes up... and based on how much I care that I can fit the M1 in my backpack vs maybe the Nova would be better because of the handle (and more secure side panels, not that the M1's are bad, it's just... I feel a little nervous that one of them will somehow come off when I'm carrying it.)Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "normal" SLI not automatic either? It's just that it's widely supported by developers / game engines. But you bring up a good point that a significant number of VR apps might not support VR SLI (or whatever that feature is actually called.) But... even if a VR game only supports regular SLI, wouldn't it still be able to utilize the second GPU reasonably well, just not with the special one-gpu-per-eye thing? I don't know.
Huh, thanks, that's interesting. I guess I just assumed there was an API for SLI because I've heard of games that "break" SLI support or otherwise don't work well with it. But in reality I guess it's more akin to an app not working well on multi-core CPUs because it's not threaded properly.
This will culminate in a few cases straight off the manufacturing line, that will more or less represent what [REDACTED] will look like in production. It's one of the most important (and final) preparatory steps to make, and it's what we've been waiting to begin for some time now.