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Oculus refuses to let me start any Oculus apps until I install an update for it and I refuse to install the update because it's going to download 10GB of Home bullshit again that I'm going to have to delete, again. Joke's on them, I'm running everything through Steam VR instead.
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I just realized I can use the Quest to watch giant YouTube while washing dishes. The real world is black and white, and the visual delay to my hand movements is a little strange, but it works.
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May 3, 2020 22:15
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eddiewalker posted:I just realized I can use the Quest to watch giant YouTube while washing dishes. The real world is black and white, and the visual delay to my hand movements is a little strange, but it works. One more step into the glorious VR future. Jack Trades posted:Oculus refuses to let me start any Oculus apps until I install an update for it and I refuse to install the update because it's going to download 10GB of Home bullshit again that I'm going to have to delete, again. Eh, on one hand I also totally ignore Oculus Home, on the other, 10gb is nowadays not so much.
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May 3, 2020 22:40
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Turin Turambar posted:Eh, on one hand I also totally ignore Oculus Home, on the other, 10gb is nowadays not so much. I only got a 500GB SSD and all that porn isn't going to store itself.
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The observant goon may have noticed I referred to Stormland in my previous post about Virtual Desktop. That's because I started to play it three days ago! The first impressions are good, very good. If they maintain, it will be together Lone Echo the best Oculus game. The graphics are good, the performance is decent, and world is well done. It's immersive, it makes you believe that you are in a cool alien world full of weird flora with outrageous colors and impressive vistas with fantastic spires on the distance, which at the end of the day, it's what VR is about. Speaking of cool, the movement is very cool, with a freestyle climbing system and cool Superman-style flying/(gliding?). The combat is nice, it starts fairly mundane but after a while you discover stealth possibilities (there are patches of tall grass, you gain a powered stun shot, you can sneak upon enemies from behind and remove their power source, which is actually a healthkit for you), and the difficulty ramps up so the game ask you to do cool poo poo, and not because it's cool but because it's needed to survive, you can't hold fire while using the shield to win, so you start chaining actions, like picking an enemy in a tower with a sniper rifle, then get close and stealth kill another, you go around a stronghold climbing a cliff to reach the cusp of a tower and later throw a nade inside a room with elite enemies, one survives and pop in from hole to the cliff where I am, firing me, and you start firing at him with one hand while you are hanging from the other from the side of the cliff. The enemy AI is in fact more interesting to fight than HL Alyx combine, it feels more dynamic. I like the transforming weapons, that changes depending if you use them with one hand or two. The upgrades are decent, a straightforward system but still with a good range of possibilities. I like how nonsense is, despite the game having different ores, it's all goes actually to the same 'metal' counter, no need to having recipes that requires X amounts of gold and Y amounts of copper; and it feels good to fire and hear the *clink*clink* when it's collected automatically as you get close. The ideas of getting upgrade points with the extra fruits and the 'collecthaton' by using the scanner to gain the second type of points are good, too. The holographic ui systems like the map and the scanner are nifty. Finally , the story is intriguing, I liked what I saw, I'd like to know what happened to the missing humans, what is the goal of the expedition (colonization?) and the whole thing with the alien flower that started casually but ends up being key to the story reminds me of some serious scifi works (is it some king of alien collective intelligence?), I hope it won't disappoint me.
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May 3, 2020 22:58
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Organza Quiz posted:I enjoyed dipping into those levels once a session or so just because it's an interesting brain challenge to find places you can intentionally miss cuts or do wrong cuts without continuing to gently caress up and losing the level. Definitely way different to the normal beat saber experience though. The challenges with the disappearing arrows really helped me get better at reading notes as they spawned in, which was great when I was starting out. I did stop when I got to the 'move your hands as little as possible challenges though, I get the lesson the game was trying to teach but I am at peace with never being a super high scoring player who can beat ghost camellia +++++ or whatevs, please just let me dance.
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May 3, 2020 22:58
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZpgjymt9Xc
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May 3, 2020 23:04
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So today I found out the Steam VR order page both A) counts down how many weeks you have to go and B) doesn't go higher than eight weeks. I'm three weeks into my order being placed and it still says 8+ and therefore I am In Despair.Turin Turambar posted:The observant goon may have noticed I referred to Stormland in my previous post about Virtual Desktop. That's because I started to play it three days ago!
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May 3, 2020 23:16
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really appreciated the disgusting sweaty palmed gamer demonstration. they should have applied some frito detritus and sticky bawls residue for a more robust research demonstration
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May 3, 2020 23:16
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How does cheeto dust affect the tracking
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May 3, 2020 23:18
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Inb4 it's discovered that aerosolized cheeto dust actually improves the tracking.
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May 4, 2020 00:07
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One interesting thing there is to look at what's driving the tracking on those prototypes.
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May 4, 2020 02:47
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What's the state of quest link cables. They ever get that figured out or has the supply chain gotten hit by the way if the world?
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May 4, 2020 03:12
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Reznor posted:What's the state of quest link cables. They ever get that figured out or has the supply chain gotten hit by the way if the world? A Quest link cable is literally just a decent USB3 to USB-C cable, you don't need the £80 one Oculus sells. I have an Anker one I bought for £8 attached to a £6 Amazon Basics extension when I need a bit more length and it works perfectly.
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May 4, 2020 04:58
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Turin Turambar posted:Eh, on one hand I also totally ignore Oculus Home, on the other, 10gb is nowadays not so much.
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May 4, 2020 05:47
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Not an Oculus user, but the 10GB probably is the differential update - if you delete the Oculus Home stuff as Jack Trades apparently does. 
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May 4, 2020 07:50
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Pierson posted:So today I found out the Steam VR order page both A) counts down how many weeks you have to go and B) doesn't go higher than eight weeks. I'm three weeks into my order being placed and it still says 8+ and therefore I am In Despair. The latter.
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May 4, 2020 08:26
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Pierson posted:So today I found out the Steam VR order page both A) counts down how many weeks you have to go and B) doesn't go higher than eight weeks. I'm three weeks into my order being placed and it still says 8+ and therefore I am In Despair. Same but 6 weeks in. 
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May 4, 2020 17:44
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Stormland is testing the Link system, to be honest when it rains and I'm moving around I can notice the compression.
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May 4, 2020 20:16
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Tetris Effect for Quest. It only makes sense. Also, tomorrow is the open beat for Echo Vr and Espire1 has a content update.
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May 4, 2020 21:55
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Tetris Effect on Quest might finally get me to play that game.
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May 4, 2020 22:09
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Looking forward to replaying Tetris Effect when it comes to Steam. Its Epic exclusivity should be up in a little over two months. I don't normally have any issue buying games from Epic, but for VR games it feels wrong.
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May 4, 2020 22:32
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Turin Turambar posted:Tetris Effect for Quest. It only makes sense. Is that a US-only link? I'm getting an error on that link.
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May 4, 2020 22:44
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Merijn posted:Is that a US-only link? I'm getting an error on that link. I'm USA and getting the same error. My guess is that was an oops, and it got yanked for now.
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May 4, 2020 22:54
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Turin Turambar posted:Tetris Effect for Quest. It only makes sense. Looking forward to all three of these, this is a great lineup for spring. I was on the fence about Espire (what a lovely name?) but that looks like Budget Cuts to me so I'm all in. Tetris link isn't working for me, I'm guessing they accidentally released it early
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May 4, 2020 22:59
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Yeah someone totally jumped the gun, it was working and even showed up under the upcoming releases list.
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May 4, 2020 23:00
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EbolaIvory posted:I'm USA and getting the same error. Your guess is good. I'm not from USA and it worked before... now it doesn't. Here it's a screenshot of the mobile app https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/gdj36y/tetris_effect_found_in_the_coming_soon_section_in/
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May 4, 2020 23:20
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EbolaIvory posted:I'm USA and getting the same error. Ah glad it's not just me. I was super excited to hear about it on the quest then couldn't find anything else on the internet about it other than this post. Any idea on a release date?
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May 5, 2020 04:43
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X-wing VR got a big update: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/gdgzoz/xwing_vr_free_university_student_project_gets/ After the experience of all the neat early Oculus demos for fan made licensed stuff getting yanked, I always download these as soon as possible. e: To be clear for those not following, this is not the even cooler remake of X-wing in VR, this is just a little arcade demo.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-05/facebook-s-oculus-developing-smaller-lighter-quest-vr-headsetquote:The social-networking giant is working on multiple potential successors to the Quest. Some models in advanced testing are smaller, lighter, and have a faster image refresh rate for more realistic content, according to people familiar with the matter. These headsets also have redesigned controllers, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing unannounced products. It sounds like a revision, more than a Quest 2.
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IMO the weight just needs to be distributed better, not removed. I mean I won't say no to a lighter Quest but I've never been like "hey this is heavy". Then again I did the DAS mod with battery counterweight after a week so maybe it did bother me more than I remember?
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Martytoof posted:IMO the weight just needs to be distributed better, not removed. I mean I won't say no to a lighter Quest but I've never been like "hey this is heavy". Yeah. This thing is arriving this week, and I couldn't be more excited: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vrbalance/vr-balance-oculus-quest-comfort-mod I got the 'comfort strap' accessory he's selling too, which is basically that 'sock trick' (sounds grosser than it is) in a nicer formulation.
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Turin Turambar posted:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-05/facebook-s-oculus-developing-smaller-lighter-quest-vr-headset It sounds more like they've got several prototypes kicking around, and one/some of them are "merely" an optimized/revised Quest that they're trying to decide if it's worth releasing as an actual product as an interim thing between Quest 1 and 2.
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May 5, 2020 14:23
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Chinook posted:Yeah. This thing is arriving this week, and I couldn't be more excited: I saw one that's also a powerbank (not just the weight of one) which is interesting but also very sold out.
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May 5, 2020 16:14
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Chinook posted:Yeah. This thing is arriving this week, and I couldn't be more excited: This is pretty great - I would love it if the battery weight would be on the back, but I'm not sure if adding even more weight to the existing Quest would improve things. Though the video says it's only 19 ounce, which comes down to 0.5kg? That seems ok.
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Aphrodite posted:I saw one that's also a powerbank (not just the weight of one) which is interesting but also very sold out. Just DIY it, I have a 13k mAh battery velcroed securely to the back of my Quest and it serves as a fantastic counterweight AND gives something like 8 extra hours of battery.
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TraderStav posted:Just DIY it, I have a 13k mAh battery velcroed securely to the back of my Quest and it serves as a fantastic counterweight AND gives something like 8 extra hours of battery. Oh yeah, I'd never pay for that (especially for the price they were asking) but it's a neat idea.
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May 5, 2020 17:06
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All the Quest really needs is another revision to fix the weight balance issues, enable 90hz refresh (if only for PCVR) and maybe increase battery life a bit.
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honestly I'd just rather see them wait until its going to have eye tracking and the electronic variable focus with improved Link and refresh to get a full gen 2 and not just a quest s. I almost feel like they risk releasing too many too quick if its just incremental and not a bigger improvement.
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The OG Quest is flawed enough that it could use an incremental step to fix it's biggest issues as a stopgap for the next big thing. If they could also somehow get Link latency down to Rift-S levels then they could also sunset that SKU and consolidate their product line entirely to the Quest.
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