/r/oculus, we need your help!

First of all, excuse any possible mistake in my English as it is not my native language. Secondly, excuse any formatting mistake as I am not too familiar with long posts on reddit.

I'm a student at the Università di Cagliari (www.unica.it), which is a relatively small uni in Sardinia, a relatively small island in Italy. I am telling you this information for you to understand how hard it is to find ANY possible solution for our problem that wouldn't involve me looking for help on here!

Basically this is what happened. We've had a DK1 for a very long time, we demo'd it to a lot of people here in Sardinia, both in an academic environment and in a "comics" convention, and to anyone who ever wanted to try it really. Now, since we've never had any problem with it, we decided to start a few projects using Unity to make use of our DK1: 2 games, developed by fresh students (1st year), and a pretty cool project developed by a 5th year student (last year here in Italy) that involves using VR and 360° videos, which not only is a cool project by its own, but it's his thesis! Everything was working great, and our game (I am one of the guys from the 1st year involved in one of the unity games), was going very well, which even prompted me to preorder a DK2, which I did on the 10th of August. Now comes the bad part of this story. Not only did mine and my project-mate's computers get stolen from our uni lab (unrelated but just guess how damn unlucky we are!), but a few days after this event the DK1's screen just stopped working! Sensors work fine, backlighting works fine, but absolutely NOTHING will appear on the screen. Pixels will stay black. We tried 4 different machines, different cables, both HDMI and DVI. We have no idea how to fix this problem, and this will be a MAJOR problem for our friend whose thesis has to be presented on the 19th of September.

I am posting this because I want to ask this amazing community, that I've been part of long before I could even touch the DK1 in here in the first place, for help. Any help! If you know how to fix the DK1, maybe it happened to you already and you know where to find another screen that won't take forever to ship, or you know of any other solution, please say so! We're really trying everything for him not to be forced to change his thesis so close to his presentation.

Also, if there is anyone reading this who has a DK1 / DK2 in Italy / Europe and is willing to lend it to us, we'd greatly appreciate it, I mean, it's for science!

bonus pic of our disassembled DK1: http://ift.tt/1wB4VdD

Submitted August 27, 2014 at 01:33AM by sirbardo http://ift.tt/1mQLpQO