{"id":7529,"date":"2019-10-23T01:41:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T05:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/?p=7529"},"modified":"2019-10-23T15:25:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T19:25:16","slug":"the-culprit-causing-the-issues-of-my-old-headset-may-never-be-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2019\/10\/23\/the-culprit-causing-the-issues-of-my-old-headset-may-never-be-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Red’s active again \/ Cola’s surprise hello \/ Blue’s findings of my old headset"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I have a mixed bag of goodness from the group (with one not so good). So let’s get this moving;
\nRed’s active again<\/strong><\/em> (‘its been 84 years’ meme here<\/span>)<\/em>
\nVery short section here. Not really much to say. First, I get my headset (and two brand new controllers) back. And now.. RED FOX IS BACK IN VRCHAT!! EEEEE!!! \ud83d\udc97\ud83d\ude01 Holding him once again, I could feel that same warmth as before. I missed you SO MUCH!! \ud83d\ude1a
\nMy true love for Red (and his for me) will never be defeated by fate, no matter how hard it tries. When you have hope, you keep it tight. Never let that hope go.
\nMoving on, another surprise that happened a day ago.
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\nCola’s surprise hello<\/strong><\/em> (in Discord<\/span>)<\/em>
\nPlaying ASTRONEER with Wufy (with him literally playing my save by making a large shuttle, going to Glacio, and not really finding me anything I could do). I was considering of going to bed early as my eyes were getting heavy. Then cola gave me something to do instead, asking me how I’m doing in quite a cheerful tone.
\nWow, this is unexpected! Hey there! We should do this more often (as communication is key to keeping relationships alive)!
\nThough for some reason he assumed we’ve always been communicating like this by reminding me he was on vacation and had just returned (yet he doesn’t remember where he went when I asked him). But it seems this vacation may had given him a new lease on life and is actually more loving now. Infact he actually said “I love you” in
\nDiscord.. TWICE! \ud83d\ude32 HOLY FUCK IT’S A MIRACLE!!! \ud83d\ude0d
\nI absolutely love<\/strong><\/span> this new and improved Cola. Please keep him like this. \ud83d\ude04 I just pray it’s not a phase and he’ll be back to what he was before.
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\nBlue’s findings of my old headset<\/strong><\/em>
\nFinally, I end this blog post on a disappointing (yet frustrating) note. Going by the tone of my words, you would assume Blue’s findings aren’t good– and you wouldn’t be wrong. Because.. he can’t find the culprit(s) causing the issues; they remain elusive, and probably will remain so for the remainder of time.
\nThen again, I’ve been looking at this the wrong way for quite sometime (which will be explained later). So, for the ones that don’t know, I sent Blue my old Lenovo Explorer (with the controllers), last Tuesday. It would had been Monday, but it was Columbus Day.
\nGot to him last Thursday, and he ordered some things to hopefully get the headset working. Sadly, all of his attempts ended in failure, as I discovered the issue is even more severe than it was.
\nYet.. how? This is the same headset, and it’s only been a year. How can parts fail so catastrophically? …I think we can safely blame Lenovo (not Microsoft, which I know is surprising) for being a shit company. Lenovo is just pure shit, overall (for using FedEx instead of UPS). That’s why the Rift S is pure shit! \ud83d\ude02
\nAnyway, an hour before I got my headset (and controllers) back from repairs, Blue sent this to me…
\n\"https:\/\/media.discordapp.net\/attachments\/541429290647158816\/635907011300556811\/Capture.PNG?width=770&height=413\"
\nWhat the actual FUCK?!
\nThat night, he said “i think this things a lost cause. it may have worked for 10 minutes and even let me play a litle in the home but its just not turning on”.
\nYesterday, told me he opened it up and “couldn’t see anything messed up within it”. No sign of damage or anything. So it’s not the headset itself, what about the cable? He sliced it open and didn’t find any issues there either. “Thing is replacement cables cost about half the price of the headset” he added. ..Wow, and with the headset alone being $300+ now? Fucking hell.
\nSo it seems to be a general fault with the Lenovo Explorer itself. As I once said, it possibly was doomed to fail the moment I ordered it. ..As Blue told me later when I was
\ningame (going by what he read), that I “got extremely lucky” to have the headset last for nearly a year. Something about a LOT of people are reporting issues with that headset, and the majority being that annoying ‘Check your USB cable’ error.
\nWhen telling him how annoyed I was that this issue’s culprit still<\/em> remains elusive, “VR is complicated as hell it seems. Just some monitors, a gyroscope, lenses and cameras. Yet it seems more complicated than it should be.”
\nThis literally echos what that person said about the Odyssey+ controllers malfunctioning on me. “VR is still new” they said, and this proves it. In a sense, anytime you buy a new headset, you essentially ‘become a beta tester’ for the future of VR. This is something I seriously need to hammer into my head, that this shit can and will happen.. it’s only a matter of time.
\nIf the movie Ready Player One<\/em> thought us anything about the future of video games and virtual reality, what we have now is Generation One. Already, AR is starting to make a boom with Minecraft Earth<\/a> being a thing (of playing Minecraft in Augmented Reality). We are seeing the future happen, but in its early prototype stages. Even when you shell out a grand for the Valve Index, you’re paying for a prototype of what will be the future of VR.<\/p>\n

Let me get back to the present here. Blue’s being told it’s best to try and get it repaired. Of course this is going to cost money, and since he’s stuck in a dead-end job (as a merchandiser), it doesn’t look likely he’s going to get into VR anytime soon.
\nBut hey, can’t say I didn’t try to help him with that. It’s just unfortunate that old headset is as good as garbage (or at least he could scrap it for parts and sell them, but that might be illegal in Lenovo’s eyes as they’ll be all “we made them, we own the parts”).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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