MSI Gets the Nod Again at Prestigious 25th Taiwan Excellence Awards Taking home 11 trophies for its highly acclaimed GAMING lineupsJust wanted to give you guys a heads up that these new laptops the model I bought not work very well with the rift out of the box. I just purchased an MSI GS63VR Stealth-001 was impressed by how slim it was initially, but I enountered issues immediately with the rift, and that was that they placed the HDMI and a single USB 2.0 port on the right side of the PC. This means the Y wire coming out of the rift is too short to reach the USB 3.0 side. The sensor wouldn't detect on the USB 2.0 port. So I bought an extension to stretch it to the USB 3.0 ports on the left side of the PC and finally got in, but the oculus home screen says the "system does not meet the minimum requirements." I ran the dragon center which apparently optimizes the system for VR, but all it does is crank the fans up to 150% which got extremely annoying and still did not remove the requirements message.

I read their FAQ on their site about their definition of "VR Ready" and noticed misspellings and typos there, terrible grammar. I also noticed many spelling mistakes in the MSI programs and this comes off as very unprofessional to me. Anyways, the performance overall is not that great even with the GTX 1060 in this thing and it still does not meet the minimum requirements somehow. I am getting a strange "poor tracking quality" message on the sensor that I do not get on my GTX 1080 desktop. The biggest problem though, I tried the Oculus touch devkit with second sensor and I think second sensor overloads usb bandwidth on the system. It will not recognize it. This means the touch will only work with one sensor on this laptop. So I just figured I'd leave this here if you were contemplating going for one of these new MSI laptops. I'll be returning this thing today. In general after seeing the bad grammar on MSI's site it makes me think they really didn't test these laptops in VR much before labeling them as MSI "VR Ready"

Edit: a user with touch below has the 4k version of the laptop I bought and does not seem to be having any issues. kuiu 7200 backpackand is actually able to run a sensor off the USB 2.0 port, though I was not able to (I also tried direct to usb 3.0 ports with no luck, may buy the 4k model now and report back) though others users report issues still with the higher end models so this seems pretty hit and miss.backpack inpaklijst azie Edit: Another guy same model with 2.0 port issue but no issue with throttling. backpack and amulet slot modsI've gotten a few messages since this post and it seems the USB 2.0 port has issues for many. Here is some information from cyberreality at Oculus on "Oculus Ready" versus laptops labels "VR Ready" like this one.

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Warranty will be void if meet the conditions included.MSI Computer Corp announced on Wednesday that the company updated the GT Dominator and GE Apache series of laptops with Nvidia's GeForce GTX 800M series graphics along with the previously announced SteelSeries backlit gaming keyboard and XSplit Gamecaster. The GT Dominator series and GE Apache series can be purchased now for starting prices of $1,499.99 and $1,199.99 respectively. "The myriad of cutting-edge components makes the GT Dominator and GE Apache the ultimate mobile gaming systems for any type of gamers," said Andy Tung, CEO for MSI Pan America. "Nvidia’s GTX 800M Series graphics gives our notebooks unprecedented graphics processing ability, translating into an ultra-realistic and immersive gaming experience." The laptops are broken down into four groups: the GT60 Dominator (15.6 inch), the GT70 Dominator (17.3 inch), the GE60 Apache (15.6 inch) and the GE70 Apache (17.3 inch). The Dominator laptops feature either the 870M or the 880M GPU whereas the Apache laptops will come packed with an 860M or an 850M GPU.

There are around 17 models in all, which are listed below. The GT70 DominatorPro-1039 is probably the most expensive in the whole bunch, consisting of a 17.3 inch Full HD screen, a Core i7-4930MX (3.7 GHz, 3.9 GHz) processor, and a special "Super Pack" with a headset, mouse, mousepad and backpack. This notebook also packs a $4,099.99 price tag. According to the specs, this top-of-the-line model also sports Nvidia's GeForce GTX 880M GPU (8 GB GDDR5, VRAM) 32 GB of DDR3L 1600 MHz memory, a Blu-ray disc burner, an SD card reader, Killer E2200 game networking, Bluetooth and a 720P HD webcam. For storage, the laptop features three mSATA 128 GB SSDs with read speeds from 1000 MB/s to as much as 1500 MB/s, and a 1 TB 7200 RPM hard drive. Out of the whole batch, the GE70 Apache Pro-061 is probably the cheapest, costing a mere $1,199.99. This model sports an Intel Core i5-4200H (3.2 GHz, 3.4 GHz) processor, a Nvidia GeForce GTX 860M (2 GB GDDR5), 12 GB of DDR3L 1600 MHz memory and a 1 TB hard drive.