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PerOlus posted:What's the state of VR on mac? API-wise SteamVR works, but Oculus does not? https://www.engadget.com/2016/03/03/palmer-luckey-on-why-theres-no-oculus-rift-for-mac/ Palmer Luckey posted:That is up to Apple. If they ever release a good computer, we will do it. He's not wrong, uh if you want a serious answer maybe boot the Mac into Bootcamp. Once in Windows you can run the WMR home from Integrated Graphics, or you could maybe use one of those Thunderbolt GPU enclosures to add a graphics card?
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DashDash Racing new trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKwQfwo0-54 That end though...
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Turin Turambar posted:DashDash Racing new trailer what is this, leisure suit larry racing? It wasn't especially egregious but getting horny and slamming your car horn is uh an interesting way of expressing yourself in a game
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According to I Think You Should Leave, this is very normal
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Just for general curiosity; How is the Vive Pro as a headset? I've heard good and bad about it from various people, and it might well wind up being my best upgrade if the Index's IPD is indeed a no-go for me. It's fine. About as comfortable as a Vive + DAS. The audio is WAY worse than the Vive+DAS or CV1 (it' really lacks bass). The display is quite good, much better than OG Vive or CV1 but not as good as the Index. The tracking is fine with V1/V2 lighthouses. I found no difference between 2 V1 and 2 V2 lighthouses. Apparently 3 V2 lighthouses fixes the minor tracking issues/reacquire faster that can exist with controllers. If you can get a Vive Pro for cheap it's a great HMD except for the audio. The controllers either V1 or V2 have their problems and the world has moved away from big touchpads so many games will have issues. Some games are really good with the Vive controllers however.
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I'll be honest, I misread that as discounting the Vive Pro and was about to congratulate HTC for a half way sensible decision.
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I went back to play around in the Boneworks intro room after learning a bunch more movement mechanics in the later rooms, and I really want to know what I look like Octodadding my way up the walls and pipes. That's gotta be some  material.
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I think I have to make and freeze a snapshot of my system for Beat Saber. One of the maps that kind of was a benchmark of performance suddenly plays smoothly, even after bumping back to maximum reflections and meanwhile also double the MSAA. Specifically this section just used to bog down my system. It's still the same Windows version, only things updated meanwhile are SteamVR and the NVidia drivers. And some of the mods I guess. gently caress knows what was responsible again. Also, I just found one of the cooler laser shows in a Beat Saber map. It's fun in the headset.
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Ugh I still can't decide if I want to upgrade from my cv1 to the index
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I wouldn’t expect Mac support for Oculus. That was a promise made by Palmer - at this point the number of people on Macs interested in VR isn’t high enough to sustain the market and that’s the number relevant to those who would not do it for the principle of the thing. While the hardware has gotten much better, that’s been a function of Apple basically abandoning standards and deciding to just support the major engines directly with their custom drivers and custom silicon. Apple basically signed onto standards then exited the standards groups, notably OpenXR, which caused a large amount of thrash. Until Apple releases their XR OS, plus maybe a couple of years, things probably won’t converge enough to support Macs IMO. A lot of that is on Apple.
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Claes Oldenburger posted:Ugh I still can't decide if I want to upgrade from my cv1 to the index < insert Shia LaBeouf meme here >
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Not to mention most MacBooks don't have the graphical horsepower to do VR anyway. Like the higher end new MacBook Pro 16 could do some entry level stuff (it's apparently roughly at the level of a 1660), but the card in the lower end one, based on a quick read, misses the mark. I guess some iMacs could but I feel like they don't have the market share to make it a real useful endeavour.
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jubjub64 posted:Facebook AI research to possibly/eventually give Quest "67% MORE GPU POWER". Please more gpu. And kill the Go while you're at it, Facebook. Make my life easier..
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mutata posted:Please more gpu. And kill the Go while you're at it, Facebook. Make my life easier.. Rumors are the Go is already dead. They stopped selling it to enterprise and apparently the I believe production had been discontinued for a very long time. The group Xiaomi group that did most of the work was apparently disbanded in August. https://venturebeat.com/2019/08/05/xiaomi-reportedly-disbands-mi-vr-team-but-facebook-is-still-backing-oculus-go/ I believe they are just selling through the stock and don't care one bit about it anymore. With the Quest being so good I don't see Facebook doing anything except a minor rev of the Quest with a better headstrap, maybe better weight distribution, including the link cable in the box and doing everything they can to get the price down. I'd love for more power in the Quest but I think they might stick with the current SOC for awhile.
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Jack Trades posted:Arm Swinger, I was surprised at how loving good it is. It's really good, so good that I don't even feel weird using it while holding a two-handed rifle. It almost makes me feel like one of those plastic army men, except it's my arms tethered together instead of my legs. Boba Pearl posted:I'm stuck in the Walking Dead thing, I hope I'm not loving anything up by going back home all the time, but in Walking Dead you eventually get a picture, and you find out exactly where that picture was drawn, but it's crawling with goons who shoot you in the face for even thinking of walking over to that area, and I'm a little at a lost what they're expecting me to do. I got through that part by finding the nearby garage you can go inside, climbing up onto the roof and then across and just taking people out one at a time as they funneled through the door to the balcony. Man the human AI in that game is garbage but it's still a pretty enjoyable game. King Vidiot fucked around with this message at 23:26 on Mar 10, 2020 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSeUN_tIzok Can't wait.
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Is there a must-have list of apps/games for this Index I supposedly have coming my way? Games, experiences, utilities, etc. Fun one-offs to let the friends/family try out when they visit, actual games with a goal, whatever. Personally don’t really care much about pure sandbox play, but other than that, what’s immediately recommended?
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Bad Munki posted:Is there a must-have list of apps/games for this Index I supposedly have coming my way? Games, experiences, utilities, etc. Fun one-offs to let the friends/family try out when they visit, actual games with a goal, whatever. Personally don’t really care much about pure sandbox play, but other than that, what’s immediately recommended? Everyone is going to yell Beat Saber. Don't think, just buy. Everyone from my parents, grandparents, non-gamers, they've all loved it after the mechanics crystalize in their brain which takes like 30 seconds. Maybe less. Beyond that, have you checked out the OP? The second post is just about games and it's an excellent selection. after scrolling through it drat that is one thorough op. respect
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Oh, ha. Haven’t been back to the OP in a while. And I just always assume that an OP on a thread like this is perpetually out of date. I’ll take a look, thanks.
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Bad Munki posted:Is there a must-have list of apps/games for this Index I supposedly have coming my way? Games, experiences, utilities, etc. Fun one-offs to let the friends/family try out when they visit, actual games with a goal, whatever. Personally don’t really care much about pure sandbox play, but other than that, what’s immediately recommended? Lone Echo and Echo Arena
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Beat Sab... poo poo. Super Hot is still great. Lone Echo in the narrative experience gewnre. A Fisherman's Tale and Virtual Virtual Reality are also pretty nice. Vacation Simulator for the 'first time in VR' app. Dead walking Saints and sinners for the traditional game experience with exploration, action, crafting, stealth... Boneworks is divisive, but it seems there are more people who like it than the opposite. Moss gives an idea of how cool a decent platformer in VR can be. In the sport category, Eleven TT is an ideal realistic sport for VR. For tons of realistic firearms and lots of content: H3VR For realistic melee combat: people recommend Blade & Sorcery but right now they have the system, a prototype, not a game. Wait 1-1.5 years. Turin Turambar fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Mar 10, 2020 |
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Man I wish Beat Saber had a general demo. Everybody loves it but $30 is pretty steep to gamble when I'm lukewarm on regular rhythm games even if it might win me over in VR.
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Lemming posted:Lone Echo and Echo Arena Captain Hygiene posted:Man I wish Beat Saber had a general demo. Everybody loves it but $30 is pretty steep to gamble when I'm lukewarm on regular rhythm games even if it might win me over in VR.
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Captain Hygiene posted:Man I wish Beat Saber had a general demo. Everybody loves it but $30 is pretty steep to gamble when I'm lukewarm on regular rhythm games even if it might win me over in VR. My Quest had one...
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I'm gonna throw Premium Bowling as a casual VR recommendation. It's not quite as spot on as Eleven Table Tennis, but it's closer than anything else has gotten to simulating bowling. Make sure you have a decent amount of space though, technically you can play standing but you really want room-scale.Captain Hygiene posted:Man I wish Beat Saber had a general demo. Everybody loves it but $30 is pretty steep to gamble when I'm lukewarm on regular rhythm games even if it might win me over in VR.
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Serious Sam VR is great, like it still feels as good in VR as it does on the flat screen. Probably even better since you can mix and match akimbo guns, lean around corners and even fire all around you blindly.
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Bad Munki posted:
Somehow I always completely forget about that despite having used it once  Turin Turambar posted:My Quest had one... I saw that and assumed it was only supported for Quests, which I don't have (not that it matters given the reminder about refunds)
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For some reason all of my brother's friends all want to play "I Expect You To Die" more than any other VR game on my Quest. Like, they don't care about Beat Saber or anything like that.
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Speaking as one of the twelve or so people in the world who still has a Leap Motion taped to the front of their VR headset: I will not be downloading that product.
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Bad Munki posted:Is there a must-have list of apps/games for this Index I supposedly have coming my way? Games, experiences, utilities, etc. Fun one-offs to let the friends/family try out when they visit, actual games with a goal, whatever. Personally don’t really care much about pure sandbox play, but other than that, what’s immediately recommended? Audica is better than beat saber. Fight me.
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Nalin posted:For some reason all of my brother's friends all want to play "I Expect You To Die" more than any other VR game on my Quest. Like, they don't care about Beat Saber or anything like that. I actually really enjoyed it when it came out. Nothing that really blows your mind, but a solid experience.
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Has anyone's Index shipping status progressed beyond "Processing" yet? Mine hasn't and I'm starting to get worried...
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Junk posted:Has anyone's Index shipping status progressed beyond "Processing" yet? Mine hasn't and I'm starting to get worried... Nope!  reddit has lots of people that changed from "Processing" to "Shipping Soon" this afternoon and it looks like tracking numbers started going out within the past few hours
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Junk posted:Has anyone's Index shipping status progressed beyond "Processing" yet? Mine hasn't and I'm starting to get worried... Mine went to "Shipping Soon" about an hour ago.
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Junk posted:Has anyone's Index shipping status progressed beyond "Processing" yet? Mine hasn't and I'm starting to get worried... You gotta consider just how many people slammed their ordering system on Monday. It's probably gonna take a wee bit to process gently caress-knows-how-many orders.
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