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| | | Supreme Being
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Last Login: 12/4/2008 1:36:50 PM
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| | I should be getting a VR920 tomorrow or the next day! Yay! Currently UPS says that my VR920 package is back in Melbourne, after it took an inexplicable one-day holiday to Sydney, and it says it is scanned at a hub. Hopefully that means it will be on its way to Adelaide either now or shortly. I can't wait. What games do people recommend trying it out with when it arrives? |
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| | | Junior Member
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Last Login: 5/20/2008 1:33:49 PM
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| Are you sure it made that trip? I was thinking mine went a weird way, but turned out one place was just customs handling documents and it was never there, just read the tracking thing wrong 
Anyway, I have to wait until tomorrow for mine, I was working when they tried to deliver it and while my bro was here I forgot to leave money for him to pay the VAT and customs costs  |
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| | | Supreme Being
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| Then I think it made that trip to Sydney, but it didn't make the first trip to Melbourne. I think the customs documents went to Melbourne, but the package went to Sydney (from Hawaii). Then the package finally went to Melbourne, having never been there before.ASCOT VALE, VIC,
AU | 17/09/2007 | 13:18 | HUB SCAN | | 17/09/2007 | 9:32 | IMPORT SCAN | SYDNEY,
AU | 16/09/2007 | 16:04 | ARRIVAL SCAN | ASCOT VALE, VIC,
AU | 16/09/2007 | 12:15 | PACKAGE DATA PROCESSED BY BROKERAGE. WAITING FOR CLEARANCE / RELEASED BY CLEARING AGENCY. NOW IN-TRANSIT FOR DELIVERY | | 16/09/2007 | 8:49 | PACKAGE DATA PROCESSED BY BROKERAGE. WAITING FOR CLEARANCE | | 16/09/2007 | 8:49 | REGISTERED WITH CLEARING AGENCY / SHIPMENT SUBMITTED TO CLEARING AGENCY | | 16/09/2007 | 8:49 | REGISTERED WITH CLEARING AGENCY / RELEASED BY CLR AGENCY. NOW IN-TRANSIT | HONOLULU,
HI, US | 15/09/2007 | 10:14 | DEPARTURE SCAN |
Now my package seems to be in Melbourne, scanning for a husband. I still don't understand about customs fees and VAT. I don't think I have to pay GST (Goods and Services Tax, probably the same as VAT) because the product was free. 10% of free is still free. Also, when I have bought things online from overseas before, I never had to pay anything extra. I didn't know customs charged a fee. So I am confused. Maybe I should go and withdraw some money. |
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| | | Junior Member
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| Well I didn't get one for free  Couldn't ask them to put a 0 value on it either seeing how that would be postal fraud which is apparently a capital offense in the USA. Anyway, regardless of it being a gift, you have to declare the real value and here they often open packages to check and see if they agree with the declared value, otherwise they'll just tax it themselves. Also, gifts above a certain value, I think about 30 euro, not quite sure, are always taxed here, so declaring gift has no use. |
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| | | Supreme Being
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| | Ok, I checked www.customs.gov.aụ As far as I can tell, customs is a free public service for anything valued under $1000, and purchases over the internet are exempt from GST unless they cost more than $1000. And since it is just standard commercial computer hardware, they are highly unlikely to have any significant involvement with the process. I think everyone was worrying me all for nothing. |
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| | | Supreme Being
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| You didn't get one for free because you didn't make a program for emulating mouse/joystick/keyboard/TrackIR with VR920 head tracker and microphone (for voice commands), before you got one.  Those ungrateful people at Novint didn't give me a free Falcon , and Nintendo wouldn't even give me the free replacement wrist strap they were legally obligated to give me (and now I have a hole in my ceiling) because I didn't have a Wii to give them the serial number of. So Vuzix are great! Three cheers for Vuzix. Essential Reality gave me a free P5 glove, but only because I won it in a competition. I had already bought a P5 though, so now I have two VR gloves. |
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| | | Junior Member
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| | Haha, I'm not complaining you get one for free, you deserve it. Been using GlovePIE with a wiimote for a while, although the wiimote seems to imprecise for most things. A P5 glove I have wanted for a while too but they are not so easy to find now... |
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| | | Supreme Being
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| | If Essential Reality had waited until after the Wiimote came out to release it, then they would have done well. Unfortunately they were released before novel input devices became super cool. You can still get a P5 Glove from where I got mine years ago (while Essential Reality still existed) at cwonline. Or you can try asking people on the p5glove yahoo group. |
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| | Real coincidence, just found one on a dutch marketplace site. Bid 20 euro, but the buyer will accept 25, guess I'll go for that |
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| | | Supreme Being
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| | Cheer,Cheer,Cheer,Cheer,Cheer,Cheer....Thats Three for Vuzix and Three for CarlKenner. |
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| hello, my statu of my shipping,very speed delivers:| Package Progress | | Location | Date | Local Time | Description | ROISSY, PARIS,
FR | 09/18/2007 | 7:38 P.M. | PACKAGE DATA PROCESSED BY BROKERAGE. WAITING FOR CLEARANCE / RELEASED BY CLEARING AGENCY. NOW IN-TRANSIT FOR DELIVERY | PHILADELPHIA,
PA, US | 09/18/2007 | 10:20 A.M. | DEPARTURE SCAN | | 09/18/2007 | 8:46 A.M. | DEPARTURE SCAN | | 09/18/2007 | 2:13 A.M. | EXPORT SCAN | | 09/18/2007 | 12:33 A.M. | ARRIVAL SCAN | BUFFALO,
NY, US | 09/17/2007 | 11:25 P.M. | DEPARTURE SCAN | | 09/17/2007 | 10:28 P.M. | ARRIVAL SCAN | HENRIETTA,
NY, US | 09/17/2007 | 9:20 P.M. | DEPARTURE SCAN | | 09/17/2007 | 8:53 P.M. | ORIGIN SCAN | ROISSY, PARIS,
FR | 09/18/2007 | 12:37 A.M. | PACKAGE DATA PROCESSED BY BROKERAGE. WAITING FOR CLEARANCE | | US | 09/17/2007 | 3:22 P.M. | BILLING INFORMATION RECEIVED |
I need to play Team Fortress 2 and Crysis with vr920. Snif,no stereo because i have 8800. |
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| Try for :
FPS : Ut2004, quake4/3
Flight : FSX, IL2 & Lock on
Cars : GTR2,Rfactor
Misc Fun : Future Pinball (great with trackir)
Windows XP SP2 Stable/Server SP2 2003/Ubuntu (Vista Suxx For gamers)
C2D E6600@3.51 (9x390) 1.325 vcore WC
4 Gig Gskill Extreme Ram 4-4-4-12 Unlinked 780
2x 120 go Western Digital Raid 0, 320 Maxtor+ 250+200 Western Digital Harddrives
DS4 N650i Gigabyte Sli F7 Bios in no SLI Mode, Southbridge WC
8800 GTS 320@650/1500/1000 WC with native VR920 Stereo, Forcewares up to date.
Icuiti VR920 Hmd, 22" IIYAMA LCD Monitor, 19" LCD LDLC.
Line6 TonePort UX1 SoundCard, M-audio Transit, Yamaha MSP5 Audio Monitors
Axxyon 680 Sli PSU + Antec Nine Hundred
Reserator 1+ Moded Zalman WC cooler 30° idle
Razer Coperhead, Examat+Exarest, G15 Logitech, Volito2 Wacom Tablet
G25 Wheel Logitech, Thrustmaster Top Gun Fox Pro2
Hackintosh Pro E2160, 2 gig, Leopard 10.5.2
Dell D610 XP Sp2 /Tiger 10.4.9
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| | | Supreme Being
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Last Login: 12/4/2008 1:36:50 PM
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| My parcel is now officially late. It is finally in Adelaide, but they can't be bothered to get off their arse and deliver it today, so it is scheduled for tomorrow, and no longer listed as "on time". I want my virtual reality now! 
Edit: Actually the schedule was wrong. They delivered it just now, so it was on time! I didn't have to wait until tomorrow! That was actually quite speedy. It takes about 6 days, definately not the 6 weeksthat it used to warn you about on the Vuzix web page.
Now I have a shiny new green box ready to open! |
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