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An update on my dicky Vive trackpad. Took me a month butRalith posted:A little rubber nub under the middle of the trackpad has fallen off. Very common issue, widely regarded as a design flaw (probably didn't help to have people punching the wall with it regularly though I tried doing the repair tonight, took 5 minutes once I got the first bastard screws out, not much more difficult than poo poo I've had to do to laptops and hard drives. Restuck the nub and now it runs perfectly. Many thanks Also Space Pirate Trainer update is cool and good.
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). Can be glued back in place if you manage to open up the controller without snapping any of the tiny fragile ribbon cables or screwing up the calibration; there are videos on youtube. Covered by warranty but RMA service from HTC is garbage.
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The part in the mines right after getting the crank in arizona sunshine is some ripe bullshit.
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veni veni veni posted:The part in the mines right after getting the crank in arizona sunshine is some ripe bullshit. It's easily the worst part of the game. I holed up in the hallway on the right, all the way where it loops back to the part where you can see the room you picked up the crank in
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Oct 14, 2017 04:36
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Yeah. I just backed into a corner and took them out. Which felt like cheesing it, but after dying 8 times I didn't care anymore.
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Oct 14, 2017 04:51
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veni veni veni posted:The part in the mines right after getting the crank in arizona sunshine is some ripe bullshit. That is the exact point I declared gently caress it and uninstalled.
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Oct 14, 2017 05:01
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I think they patched the difficulty. It's tough but not too bad. I just stood in the middle of the room. If you're not hitting headshots you'll die but that's zombies for you.
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Oct 14, 2017 05:39
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Don't know if it's any good, but Edge of Nowhere is currently 85% off in the Oculus store.
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Oct 14, 2017 06:18
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Lemming posted:It's easily the worst part of the game. I holed up in the hallway on the right, all the way where it loops back to the part where you can see the room you picked up the crank in I didn’t mind it. Was tense as hell. Now the shoot out before the mines? Bleh.
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Oct 14, 2017 07:37
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Arizona Sunshine is best when you are wandering around places opening doors and exploring buildings. The wave shooter bits are by far the worst parts.
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Oct 14, 2017 08:13
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Remote User posted:Don't know if it's any good, but Edge of Nowhere is currently 85% off in the Oculus store. This was one of my favorite games of last year just in general, but then I'm also a sucker for lovecraftian settings.
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Oct 14, 2017 08:20
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For $5 it’s not bad. I only have the touch controllers so moving while hitting X is annoying.
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KakerMix posted:Arizona Sunshine is best when you are wandering around places opening doors and exploring buildings. The wave shooter bits are by far the worst parts. That alone would make Fallout 4 VR so drat good but apparently opening stuff just brings up a menu. I'm praying industrious modders can put that in along with fixing whatever else is wrong with the base game.
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Oct 14, 2017 09:28
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aqIbeQQL8c Rick & Morty GDC post-mortem is up on Youtube. Lots of interesting stuff in there, including about locomotion. I'm not really a huge fan of how they set the teleportation system up, made everything feel cramped with a small playspace.
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Lemming were you at the Dash talk at OC? Wondering if there was any useful info that came out in the Q&A, like if there will be a virtual keyboard (something Oculus has so far seemed to want to avoid like the plague for some reason).
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Annual John Carmack  keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlYL16-NaOwAlso, mobby_6kl posted:So that's still $200 more than the Rift though, what are they thinking? I'm pretty sure the "limited time" Rift discount is going to be pretty permanent and the Vive doesn't come with the upgraded headstrap or the knuckles. I get that it's more roomscale but ugh. 
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Oct 14, 2017 14:25
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mobby_6kl posted:Annual John Carmack You know, I was kind of down on the idea of the Oculus Go, only 3DoF, no better than a gearVR in processing or anything, but listening to him talk about it he's actually kind of sold me on it. I don't have a gearVR compatible phone, and how low effort he makes the experience sound like it takes to get in and out of, I could honestly see having something to take on a plane with me, throw in a bag and play some keep talking and no one explodes, or do some other VR stuff, even watching movies in bed on something like that. Heck, $199, with no playing around with a phone and stuff, I could even see my parents having one to play around with. If they bring facebook spaces to it (which they have GOT to be planing on), it would even be a fun way to keep in touch with them in a more fun way than a skype call.
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3DOF has never felt comfortable to me, perhaps it's my posture. It always feels like the tracking is off.
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Tom Guycot posted:You know, I was kind of down on the idea of the Oculus Go, only 3DoF, no better than a gearVR in processing or anything, but listening to him talk about it he's actually kind of sold me on it. I don't have a gearVR compatible phone, and how low effort he makes the experience sound like it takes to get in and out of, I could honestly see having something to take on a plane with me, throw in a bag and play some keep talking and no one explodes, or do some other VR stuff, even watching movies in bed on something like that. I had exactly the same thought. I've been pretty down on phone VR for a variety of reasons, but the price point plus the fact that not being an actual phone eliminates a lot of problems makes a Go pretty interesting. In the past there were many times I almost spent a lot more than $200 on those movie watching headsets, and those were a lot shittier functionality-wise than even Cardboard while only really even being good for movies. If a fully charged battery can get me through a ~6 hour flight in movie theater mode I'm definitely interested.
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Aren't there some airlines that have offered GearVR for premium passengers already? Or am I making that up. Seems like a perfect market for Go.
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El Grillo posted:Aren't there some airlines that have offered GearVR for premium passengers already? Or am I making that up. Seems like a perfect market for Go. No that was definitely a thing, I think it was QANTAS? Not sure, but you're right. I could see these totally being a thing airlines would let you rent, just like some planes without entertainment setups let you rent a tablet. I haven't seen a plane without USB jacks in a while as well, so the battery isn't even a concern as you could leave it plugged in.
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mobby_6kl posted:Annual John Carmack God, I unironically love John Carmack. Really glad he's in the VR industry. On another note, anyone have experience using a gear/daydream VR on a plane? I've got a ~13 hour flight coming up soon and a galaxy S8, not sure I want to be "that guy" though.
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Oct 14, 2017 17:24
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Use headphones, of course
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Oct 14, 2017 17:28
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Good ol phone VR, interesting for about a day.
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App13 posted:God, I unironically love John Carmack. Really glad he's in the VR industry. Just think of it as a sleep mask with a TV built in.
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Republicans posted:Just think of it as a sleep mask with a TV built in. I think that sentence just sold me on the idea.
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App13 posted:God, I unironically love John Carmack. Really glad he's in the VR industry.  though I liked his quakecon talks even more as he got to talk about all sorts of random nerdy poo poo like rockets, his Teslas and modded Ferraris and what not.As for your question, I see no issues with it, go ahead!  PerrineClostermann posted:Use headphones, of course Tom Guycot posted:You know, I was kind of down on the idea of the Oculus Go, only 3DoF, no better than a gearVR in processing or anything, but listening to him talk about it he's actually kind of sold me on it. mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Oct 14, 2017 |
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These fuckin' guys are still scammin' along: https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/12/ar-mystery-startup-magic-leap-looking-to-raise-as-much-as-1b-in-new-round/
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Zero VGS posted:These fuckin' guys are still scammin' along: https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/12/ar-mystery-startup-magic-leap-looking-to-raise-as-much-as-1b-in-new-round/ I have a teacher from college that is working there. I don't think he would have stuck around if he knew it was a scam.
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mobby_6kl posted:Annual John Carmack
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jubjub64 posted:I have a teacher from college that is working there. I don't think he would have stuck around if he knew it was a scam. 
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Does anyone think that Pimax taking off might be an eventual nail in constellation tracking's coffin? Multiple HMD companies standardizing on the lighthouse approach seems like a big selling point.
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Paul MaudDib posted:Does anyone think that Pimax taking off might be an eventual nail in constellation tracking's coffin? Multiple HMD companies standardizing on the lighthouse approach seems like a big selling point. Santa Cruz and the Hololens/windows MR are already the nail in the coffin of every kind of external tracking. Outside of niche applications like VR arcades or installations, by gen 2, maybe gen 3 at the absolute latest, anything not CV based will be dead for consumers.
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For standalone stuff/phone VR for sure, I don't think they're gonna have controller tracking figured out for gen 2 PCVR though.
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Speaking of Carmack talks, some off the cuff stuff recorded in the hallway: https://medium.com/silicon-valley-global-news/john-carmack-interviewed-at-oculus-connect-4-30bdbb72bffa A nice point mentioned is that Go won't be locked down, side loading will be easy to do at release.
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jubjub64 posted:I have a teacher from college that is working there. I don't think he would have stuck around if he knew it was a scam. It's probably because they promised really big in their first video which was all fake, then made a second one they stated was real but also turned out to be fake. Meanwhile mega-corporations Microsoft and Google are still struggling to bring AR/MR (Hololens/Glass) with their endless money+talent and we're supposed to believe the company that's only given us fake demonstrations is farther?
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 Penn and Teller's Desert Bus is coming to VR.
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:
You... lie.....
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Oct 15, 2017 05:43
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:
Why would I care to play a game that is famous for being intentionally boring?
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Lemming posted:Why would I care to play a game that is famous for being intentionally boring? At this point you care because the annual charity event will now force someone to drive the bus in VR.
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Thor-Stryker posted:It's probably because they promised really big in their first video which was all fake, then made a second one they stated was real but also turned out to be fake. Well now that I think about it he is on the game development side not the tech dev side. I guess he could be unaware of how far behind it is. He would have some interaction with the tech though.
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