Let's start with the bad news: turns out the tiny PC I have has a short somewhere that has killed the hdmi and at least one of the usb ports.  I thought it might have been a CMOS thing, but that doesn't seem to be the case.  Crap.

The good news is I think that means the umbilical I made utilizing the Russian aviation quick release connector may actually be functional.  So that's fun.

This has made me reevaluate the heart of this project (the windows 10 box). Initially I was just looking for the smallest cheapest box I could find.  This was functional but when running the Immersed app, it was very laggy and unsatisfactory.  This was due to the fact that Immersed, as far as I understand it uses the gpu to send virtual screen renders over the wire to the Oculus. Apparently in order to be most productive in the virtual space I need a gpu better than the 256MB that comes onboard the celeron I had employed.

Now I just gotta find an NVidia card with a PC built around it.

/Intel NUC Enthusiast 11 enters the chat.