[Lab] Google Cardboard, aka the "Oculus Thrift"

Mon Jul 7 12:27:47 EDT 2014

Good news, everyone! We can update my first order! I'm ballparking the
price at $10 CAD per pair (after shipping and exchange rate... not sure if
this is taxes in too). I'm just going to round it off to 20 lenses (10
pairs) and figure the "extras" will find happy homes. Here's who/what I
have so far:

Darcy: 1 pair
Dave: 1 pair
Kirk: 1 pair
Alan: 1 pair
Jason: 1 pair
Paul: 1 pair
Justin: 1 pair
"extras": 3 pair (right now probably 1 for Dave, 1 for Paul and 1 for me)

If anyone else wants in on this, I'll leave the window open until 3pm
today... just add your name and qty to the list above :)

*Jason*

2014-07-07 11:24 GMT-04:00 Justin Slootsky <justin at slootsky.org>:

> I could get on the second order bus for a single pair.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From: *"Jason Arnold" <arnold.jason at gmail.com>
> *To: *"lab" <lab at artengine.ca>
> *Sent: *Monday, July 7, 2014 11:07:17 AM
> *Subject: *Re: [Lab] Google Cardboard, aka the "Oculus Thrift"
>
>
> Hi all, sorry if I kept you waiting; on account of the crazy weather out
> East, I had my hands full with some unexpected (but very welcome) company
> for the weekend.
>
> First, the good news. I was able to successfully place an order (a feat on
> its own, really; on account of the recent craze, many online vendors are
> out-of-stock) from Surplus Shed (lens details here
> <http://www.surplusshed.com/pages/item/l8672.html>). Their price is $4.50
> USD per lens or 10 for $35 USD. They have an odd system where you
> apparently commit to buy before knowing the shipping rates (I think ABRA
> out of Montreal does this too - they say it's so you only pay the actual
> shipping rather than some precalculated - read: "more expensive" - rate),
> then they email you back with your options and you choose. I was a bit gun
> shy, but for the price, I figured I'd roll the dice. I heard back from them
> Saturday offering two options via USPS: a "fast" option for $20.05 USD or
> the regular for $7.65. I chose the latter and am now I'm waiting on an
> final invoice.
>
> The "bad news" (for Paul at least) is that the 5 pairs I ordered are all
> claimed at this point... sorry I didn't wait longer, I wanted to order ASAP
> on account of the vanishing stock everywhere. I've sent an inquiry to
> SurplusShed asking if they can update my quantity. I'll post here when I
> hear back.
>
> That said, they seem to still have stock though, so if there's enough
> demand, I could place another order for 10. So far on this hypothetical
> "second" order I have Dave down for a spare pair and Paul down for a pair.
> Are there 3 other people who want to hop on the lens bus?
>
> *Jason*
>
>
> 2014-07-06 12:06 GMT-04:00 <dave at huntgang.com>:
>
>>  I had said that I would take two sets of lens' in case it would help
>> ensure we were able to place an order.  I really only need one pair so I
>> can certainly go back down to one set if we now have enough people now. But
>> I will let the "procurement officer" confirm he still had me down for two
>> before getting any hopes up LOL
>>
>>
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2014-07-06 4:26 am, Darcy Whyte wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure of the order status but if worse comes to worse you can
>> borrow or have mine. I tend not to keep things from projects after I'm done
>> fiddling...
>>
>>
>>
>>  --
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>>
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>>
>> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Paul & Andrea Mumby <themumbys at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> A couple things, first, can I still get in on a pair of these lenses?
>>> Second I've been designing a 3D Printable version of the apparatus, which
>>> is a bit more flexible for multiple phone models, and supports focus/IPD
>>> adjustment. It's not done yet...
>>>
>>> Anyway just throwing that out there.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Kirk Sutherland <
>>> kirk.sutherland at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So last night in anticipation of building our own cardboard(TM) I
>>>> installed the app from google on my S4. I have none of the parts needed so
>>>> I wasn't expecting anything that great. The first challenge came from
>>>> needing to 'click' in order to proceed to the menu. This is done by moving
>>>> the included magnet switch up and down, with no magnet I reached for the
>>>> closest thing to me I knew had a magnet in it - my cordless phone (in the
>>>> speaker). Just moving the cordless up and down close to the side of the
>>>> phone worked like a charm and I was able to navigate the menu. My first
>>>> impression was that the motion detection was very sensitive, I wasn't
>>>> expecting it to be so responsive. Then I loaded up the street view option
>>>> from the menu and squished my face against the screen until the two images
>>>> merged into one. Even with an extremely blurry image the 3D effect was
>>>> quite apparent and moving my head around allowed me to 'look around' the
>>>> world. I don't think I have stopped smiling since. I can't wait to try this
>>>> with those lenses!
>>>>  On Jul 4, 2014 2:08 PM, "Jason Arnold" <arnold.jason at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Crossing our eyes? Come on... we want to look COOL while we're doing
>>>>> this :P
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2014-07-04 14:03 GMT-04:00 Jason Cobill <jason.cobill at gmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    Just crossing your eyes works too (as though you were doing one of
>>>>>> those magic-eye things) but I find it's hard to stay focused when there's a
>>>>>> lot of action - your eyes want to go back to parallel when you scan around.
>>>>>>    The music visualizer looks rad with crossed eyes, the stereoscope
>>>>>> toy work great until the slide changes, and then my eyes crank hard and I
>>>>>> get an instant migraine. :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    Your mileage may vary. You may be able to fudge it with two toilet
>>>>>> paper rolls and some good eye muscles.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    -Jason Cobill
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Jason Arnold <arnold.jason at gmail.com
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   Teh internetz is blowing up this week about the swag from
>>>>>>> Google's I/O 2014: https://developers.google.com/cardboard/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Darcy put it out there that he'd like to build one, so would I. The
>>>>>>> hard part apparently is finding the right spec of lenses: biconvex, 25mm
>>>>>>> diameter, 40mm focal length. I've found some for $7 USD per pair (+
>>>>>>> shipping) if we buy 5 pairs. Are there 3 others out there who wanna join
>>>>>>> Darcy and I in our cardboard VR future?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *Jason*
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