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Yesterday I came across a heavily used and completely non-working Oculus Rift DK1 and while I was only trying to brag about my find, at least one person showed eager interest in repair process, so you can thank
dorsetknob for the appearance of this thread.
You can use this article as a guide for Oculus Rift DK1 cable repair/replacement, but be warned that there will be a lot more stuff to that.
I am an electronics hobbyist and sometimes I buy broken stuff for fun or for my personal projects and I had an idea of making my own VR headset at least for a year now. Fortunately I got lucky and found this piece ofshit equipment for a low price of $60. Considering that the LCD screen and all PCBs are intact - I already got more than my money's worth.
EVALUATING THE DAMAGE
Long story short: this VR headset was working just fine for almost a year at the small attraction inside a shopping mall, but one day the owner decided to take a 2 day vacation and give his Oculus to a friend. As a result - the main cable is broken in 3 places, few cracks on headset housing + more damage due to less than intelligent attempt at repairing the device with random tools and superglue.
But, it's better to see it once to grasp the magnitude of damage:
As you can see, the main wire was cut off with only two 6" stubs left on each side. LVDS converter box was a bit damaged and pieced together with superglue, so it took me at least 15 minutes of grinding, cleaning with acetone and some black magic to get all 4 screws out of there. Of course, there are no rubber pads. The actual headset has some minor damage due to ridiculous idea to seal broken clamps with superglue and soldering iron. The last image shows the inside part of LVDS/USB connector. It looks like it is not tampered with, but I really don't like those parts with heatshrink tubing... We'll try to get rid of unnecessary solder joints when we make a replacement cable.
Now, let's look at what's inside. We'll start with a control box:
Nothing special here. Just an LCD display driver, based on Realtek RTD2483RD chip. On the right side of PCB you can see, that the 4-pin head tracker connector is wired directly to USB port, which means that theoretically we can take the head tracker out of the headset and use it separately, in case Rift repair fails
Next up, the VR headset.
[ ... to be continued ... ]
dorsetknob for the appearance of this thread.
You can use this article as a guide for Oculus Rift DK1 cable repair/replacement, but be warned that there will be a lot more stuff to that.
I am an electronics hobbyist and sometimes I buy broken stuff for fun or for my personal projects and I had an idea of making my own VR headset at least for a year now. Fortunately I got lucky and found this piece of
EVALUATING THE DAMAGE
Long story short: this VR headset was working just fine for almost a year at the small attraction inside a shopping mall, but one day the owner decided to take a 2 day vacation and give his Oculus to a friend. As a result - the main cable is broken in 3 places, few cracks on headset housing + more damage due to less than intelligent attempt at repairing the device with random tools and superglue.
But, it's better to see it once to grasp the magnitude of damage:
As you can see, the main wire was cut off with only two 6" stubs left on each side. LVDS converter box was a bit damaged and pieced together with superglue, so it took me at least 15 minutes of grinding, cleaning with acetone and some black magic to get all 4 screws out of there. Of course, there are no rubber pads. The actual headset has some minor damage due to ridiculous idea to seal broken clamps with superglue and soldering iron. The last image shows the inside part of LVDS/USB connector. It looks like it is not tampered with, but I really don't like those parts with heatshrink tubing... We'll try to get rid of unnecessary solder joints when we make a replacement cable.
Now, let's look at what's inside. We'll start with a control box:
Nothing special here. Just an LCD display driver, based on Realtek RTD2483RD chip. On the right side of PCB you can see, that the 4-pin head tracker connector is wired directly to USB port, which means that theoretically we can take the head tracker out of the headset and use it separately, in case Rift repair fails
Next up, the VR headset.
[ ... to be continued ... ]