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FuzzySlippers posted:I'm surprised Robo Recall isn't free since it came with the touch controllers. FYI Apex is in Viveport subscription if you wanted to play it. They are giving away money/free trials for Rift users. Viveport is really decent now just a storefront that's not quite as good as either Steam or Oculus, and not the trash fire its reputation says from it's earliest days.
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I logged into the Oculus website and the store prices changed to reflect which ones are free: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/section/1888816384764129 quote:Beat Saber - Demo I don't know if Robo Recall: Unplugged, I Expect You To Die, and Apex Construct are free or just cross-buy. I own them all on the Rift and their store pages don't mention anything about cross-buy. Some store pages DO mention cross-buy which is why I'm confused. Maybe other people can check and compare what I see.
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I am still not sure if I will be getting it right away because good god these stupid games are expensive, but I am looking at Blade and Sorcery and that looks badass too. Which should I get first: Gorn, or Blade and Sorcery?
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May 21, 2019 05:57
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Nalin posted:I don't know if Robo Recall: Unplugged, I Expect You To Die, and Apex Construct are free or just cross-buy. I own them all on the Rift and their store pages don't mention anything about cross-buy. Some store pages DO mention cross-buy which is why I'm confused. Maybe other people can check and compare what I see. They're cross-buy, if you hadn't bought them on rift they are $20 each (+-$5 without looking them up now). The way they handle cross-buy is making them free for you, you have to "buy" them for free before they are in your library.
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Unlucky7 posted:I am still not sure if I will be getting it right away because good god these stupid games are expensive, but I am looking at Blade and Sorcery and that looks badass too. Which should I get first: Gorn, or Blade and Sorcery? Gorn. Well, right now Gorn. Blade and Sorcery might be incredible in another year.
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Unlucky7 posted:I am still not sure if I will be getting it right away because good god these stupid games are expensive, but I am looking at Blade and Sorcery and that looks badass too. Which should I get first: Gorn, or Blade and Sorcery? I think they're both good for different reasons, but also, Gorn is just now coming out of early access while B&S is just now going into it so there's a big gap there too.
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May 21, 2019 06:26
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Tom Guycot posted:Yeah it's surprising not even dead and buried 2 was free with it. I mean I think their demo pack is a really good sampling of a cross section of games, but you figure there would at least be one full one. Bogo is a free Oculus made full experience. I'm generally not into the whole fake pet thing, but it seems like a great fit for VR. https://youtu.be/coFlZN4ZitE It's not really a traditional game, but Nintendogs sold 25 million copies, so it might be a pretty smart move.
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I loved nintendogs, I played the poo poo out of nintendogs. I can remember sitting around with roomates in college in the living room just, all of us playing nintendogs on our DS'. Speaking of, an interesting game announced as coming soon to quest (and PC), called Racoon Lagoon, looks, sort of like a kind of animal crossing/stardew valley sort of thing? Exploring an island with fishing, farming, mining, cooking, decorating, and story quests, as well as multiplayer to visit other peoples islands and have them come to yours. Certainly looks pretty and interesting. Could fill a genre void in VR if its done well. http://www.hiddenpath.com/game/raccoonlagoon/  The developers did Brass Tactics, Witchblood, and Defence Grid 2, so when they were listed as a developer for Quest way back when, I just assumed it would be a port of one of those. Glad to see its something new. Quest could use some non ports. Also, I posted this already but... man in the full video its surreal watching someone play a whole game with no artificial locomotion. Like, it looks so incredibly slow when he's going down a hallway when you're used to seeing video of standard artificial locomotion. What I would have lied to see though was him walk back to the start of the level and see how far off it was in physical space. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb_xZYDAfjM
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May 21, 2019 08:17
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A first-person Stardew Valley sounds pretty awesome, and having it on the Quest sounds even more awesome.
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May 21, 2019 08:27
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Cicero posted:Dodging in Space Pirate Trainer feels so much better without a cable. As someone who just put a TPCast on his Vive: Yes. Yes it does.
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May 21, 2019 10:52
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Robo Recall Unplugged is impressive. It's the same game, graphics take a huge hit but it runs well. The removal of most of the hit effects does make the shooting less satisfying though.
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May 21, 2019 11:55
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Nalin posted:I logged into the Oculus website and the store prices changed to reflect which ones are free: Can you or someone else check to see if you can be playing both Rift and Quest at same time on same account? Mine should be here by this evening but I'm an impatient bastard!
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May 21, 2019 14:09
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Enos Cabell posted:Can you or someone else check to see if you can be playing both Rift and Quest at same time on same account? Mine should be here by this evening but I'm an impatient bastard! I need to know this too. Getting both s and quest. Quest for wife. S for me. And would like to just do one account, so I don't have to buy games 2 times
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May 21, 2019 14:36
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I would assume they are separate since they have separate stores.
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May 21, 2019 14:38
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Got my quest. Excuse me while I go poop while in VR now.
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May 21, 2019 15:14
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Kinda surprised all the Walmarts around here only got 2 units each of the 64 gigs/128 if brickseek is anything to go by. Waiting on more reviews but might pick one up this weekend if they have stock.
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May 21, 2019 15:25
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Kilazar posted:Got my quest. Excuse me while I go poop while in VR now. Someone needs to go and lug a toilet to a bunch of exotic locations and record 3d 360 video. Sell it as bathroom enhancement app. I'm sure oculus would approve.
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May 21, 2019 15:35
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Tried Beat Saver last night. Its pretty slick how it all works from inside the game. The unfortunate part is that most of the songs are Expert or Expert+ only, which I am definitely not ready for as someone who has been playing Beat Saber for 2 whole days. I did manage a B rank on Hard on Michael Jackson's "Beat It", only because I'm so familiar with the song, as is anyone who grew up in the 80's
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May 21, 2019 15:40
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Any new Quest owners got some first impressions?
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May 21, 2019 15:40
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Has Oculus said anything about first-party or 'endorsed' third-party headphone options for the Quest? The built-in speakers are fine for casual use, but I'd like some headphones for more intense applications or for when leaking sound ain't okay (e.g. plane ride).Jim Silly-Balls posted:The unfortunate part is that most of the songs are Expert or Expert+ only, which I am definitely not ready for as someone who has been playing Beat Saber for 2 whole days. edit: poo poo, apparently they already have quest earbuds for sale - https://www.oculus.com/quest/accessories/ Sucks that they're only listed and not available on Amazon, though Cicero fucked around with this message at 15:50 on May 21, 2019 |
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May 21, 2019 15:45
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Cicero posted:BennyDaBeast, in addition to being an excellent mapper in general, has a decent number of tracks with lower difficulty ratings. I'll check him out, thanks!
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May 21, 2019 15:52
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On one hand I want to take the Quest outside to a big space and move naturally. On the other hand do I really want to be seen playing VR outside
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May 21, 2019 16:03
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:The unfortunate part is that most of the songs are Expert or Expert+ only, which I am definitely not ready for as someone who has been playing Beat Saber for 2 whole days. That's the curse of all user-made rhythm game maps, unfortunately; almost no-one cares about making tracks below the highest difficulty level, and most of them vastly underestimate difficulty - if you do find allegedly "Hard" user-made maps they're very likely to be harder than the official "Expert" tracks. Osu and Stepmania's communities are even worse about this. Turns out making good rhythm game maps is a skill and professionals are better at it than internet randos.
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May 21, 2019 16:06
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NRVNQSR posted:That's the curse of all user-made rhythm game maps, unfortunately; almost no-one cares about making tracks below the highest difficulty level, and most of them vastly underestimate difficulty - if you do find allegedly "Hard" user-made maps they're very likely to be harder than the official "Expert" tracks. Osu and Stepmania's communities are even worse about this. edit: Also I think there's good reasoning for why it's hard to find sub-expert songs in Beat Saber. A person with reasonably decent coordination will probably surpass hard-level songs in like 10-20 hours of playing (that's the bucket my wife falls into and how it's played out for her, for example, and she's not much of a gamer). If your coordination is good/you've had lots of rhythm game practice before, it may be more like 5 hours before you hit that point, or less. Basically the amount of time an enthusiastic person will spend at that level is very small, and there are still enough tracks between the community and official ones to suffice for how long you'll be there. Cicero fucked around with this message at 16:16 on May 21, 2019 |
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May 21, 2019 16:12
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AndrewP posted:On one hand I want to take the Quest outside to a big space and move naturally. If you can't see them, they can't see you.
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There are some good hard ones Gangnam style The prodigy - breath Rammstein - du hast I wanna be like you (from jungle book) Those are a few off the top of my head.
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VR’s insidious endgame reveals itself: getting people to go outside.
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RandomBlue posted:If you can't see them, they can't see you. Eagerly awaiting the first person to be run over while wandering around in VR.
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I think the kind of person who is willing to invest the time in making maps for a rhythm game is also the type of person to play it a lot so they'll skew towards harder difficulties by default
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Just keep playing Beat Saber, you’ll surpass normal expert level sooner than you think and get bored of the maps you are currently complaining about rather quickly.
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Gort posted:Any new Quest owners got some first impressions? Me, But I am also new to VR. Vader Immortal is awesome.. If you don't get the head strap on tight, the back of your head will start to fee like the muscles are in tension. Took a bit to figure out the correct position for the back part of the strap. The headset is front heavy as hell to me. And I got tired of playing it after about an hour. Overall I like it though. I have 2 disappointments. 1. I expected at least dvd quality on the video apps. But they all seem to be SD quality. Is that just the hardware or is that common to watching movies in VR? 2. Can't cast beatsaber to the phone OR my chromecast. Beat Saber was going to hopefully be a portable party experience for my family. But it's not. Will have to rely on the S to do the heavy lifting. So hopefully my laptop is up to the task. It is a beast except it's got a 8 gig GTX980m... Now I'm moving on to my S... And it looks like the oculus site is getting pounded, cause I can't get the app to download faster than 200k a sec. ***Edit On the streaming front. I'm wondering if maybe I just need to buy a newer chromecast. I have the 2nd generation one. Can anyone confirm? Kilazar fucked around with this message at 18:21 on May 21, 2019 |
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Kilazar posted:1. I expected at least dvd quality on the video apps. But they all seem to be SD quality. Is that just the hardware or is that common to watching movies in VR? If you mean like the free streamed video content apps, a lot of 3D video gear they use is either crap or incorrectly set up iirc.
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Kilazar posted:
Movies can be very high quality but it causes them to take up a ton of space, so most are very low bitrate. If you're watching in a "Theater" format where the video is on a screen in the center of your view, there's diminishing returns to how high you can pump up the resolution and bitrate. If it is a 360-degree video, you're stretching the whole thing across a giant canvas (most of which you can't see at once but still takes up data) so the higher res/bitrate the better. Can anyone confirm if the Oculus Theater app will let you play HEVC codec? That would allow double the bitrate at the same file size, and that's the same CPU as my Pixel 2 so it should play fine. If no one can confirm I'll check it out when mine arrives tonight, slow-rear end Amazon...
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So, since I have way too much time on my hands, and there looks to be a lot of people in 2019 joining VR asking about games, I started putting together a spreadsheet. I thought I would try to curate a bit, and listed mostly things I could remember that have some positive attention or notoriety. I also tried to place them in the broadest categories I could for VR, since some traditional things like "shooter", might not tell the full story where VR is right now, and what they're used to with flat screen gaming. Sim, which are broadly games where you're sitting in place, more often than not, not even using motion controls Arcade, games with a repeating gameplay loop, like arcade games of old Story, games that have a progression, levels you advance through, or a story Multiplayer, games that are, well, multiplayer, and don't really have any kind of single player component Non Games, programs, films, things that aren't games I also tried to list them by Free, and Paid, since people are always looking for free stuff, and by where they can be purchased. Obviously this list is far from comprehensive and I was going off mostly my memory, so I'd love any suggestions of what to add, or if theres a better way I should present the spreadsheet or something. Just thought We could use an updated list for quick reference, or for a new OP or something.  Oh and completely unrelated... if you asked me what game I least expected in VR, it might be "metal gear solid, but with kayak locomotion" lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKhQMz8qz0Y
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Neddy Seagoon posted:If you mean like the free streamed video content apps, a lot of 3D video gear they use is either crap or incorrectly set up iirc. I was using big screen, and netflix. Avengers looked like canned butt. *edit again I did get streaming Dance Central to work by connecting my phone to my chromecast, mirroring the screen, then casting to the oculus app. But there was no sound.  *edit again again I might need to get a chromecrast ultra. My chromecast is not seen in the oculus app. That is probably why my workaround of double casting is not working. Kilazar fucked around with this message at 18:42 on May 21, 2019 |
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Don't get my Rift S til Friday  Just FYI No Man's Sky is 60% off on green man gaming (you get a steam key) and a VR update is supposedly on the way soon if that interests anyone.
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punished milkman posted:Just FYI No Man's Sky is 60% off on green man gaming (you get a steam key) and a VR update is supposedly on the way soon if that interests anyone.
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As someone who had a Vive and a WMR headset, I want to get back into the VR swing of things. I sold off my Vive because there was nothing to play in the early days and my WMR just stopped working with my last laptop for some reason and according to the internet was a common problem with no solution. After having enjoyed the pleasures of inside-out tracking I don't want to go back to the god drat lighthouses and the $1K for the Index kit is bullshit anyway, what's the best option? Go for another WMR headset and hope it works just fine with my current laptop, or should I just get a Rift S? If I got with the Rift S, do I have to do much fuckery to get it working with Steam and forgo whatever the Oculus walled garden is?
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Ah good to know on the video bitrate info. Can someone school me on how to watch higher quality video's on the quest and S? I'd like to see at the very least dvd quality. Would anyone be willing to provide a new to VR primer for us noobs?
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