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

Mon Jul 7 14:32:00 EDT 2014

2 Pair for me as well.

Regards,
Yagnesh

On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Jason Arnold <arnold.jason at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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