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Hello Singletrackhivemind. You have a lot of IT people and Chipps just pointed out that I should ask you this:
If, hypothetically speaking, you were running an event for videogame designers, and had some VR hardware but you were short on PCs, who would you ask to sponsor it with some?
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[url= http://eu.coolermaster.com/uk/ ]CoolerMaster[/url] were at Maker Faire UK with some ridiculously massive gaming rigs and an Occulus Rift to play with. They might be interested?
(he says.. sat here in a "CoolerMaster: Make It Yours" t-shirt from said event 🙂 )
and had some VR hardware
Whoever was selling bundled VR hardware that might make some sales of the back of the conference?
If it's Oculus, then Dell (Alienware) or Asus?
https://www.oculus.com/en-us/oculus-ready-pcs/
Ah, maybe, thank you jimdubleyou. Most developers I know have been given VR devkits for free, but it's a possibility.
GrahamS, that's useful to know and I'll give them a try, thanks. They were on the list, but only seemed to sell cases/etc. rather than PCs.
Developers are a market for anyone selling performance PCs, especially VR developers, but a smaller one than gamers, so understandably there's less interest. Hardware is always the biggest knot to untangle with these kind of events, and VR has pushed specs way up for anything aimed at indie developers. It's a bit of the economics of that kind of event that are now kind of broken without sponsorship. PC rental seems to be the wild west, with massively varying prices and levels of service that don't necessarily correspond.
You could approach someone like Stone computers who build their own kit and can cope with various levels of order from one or two up to large volume.
I could launch into a lengthy explanation of subtext, sirromj, but instead I'll just provide you with this link.
Wasn't really trying to be funny. Without inside knowledge, it was just the simplest way to provide a list of companies I'd hypothetically ask, not knowing the likelihood of positive response. But yeah probably a bit pointless.