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Facebook already has a file on you whether you use them or not. That's probably why they're so quick to lock fake accounts. As someone who already linked accounts, this is still really lovely.
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I can't believe no one commented on this! I laughed like an idiot!
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Aug 20, 2020 14:28
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DrBox posted:It's annoying to have to tie my Facebook account I never use to the Oculus but they already had my name and address from when I bought it as well as in order to make credit card purchases so I highly doubt at this point it gives them any more info. In the shady future when there's eye tracking and in-game ads I guess they'll have more data to sell, but by then hopefully they will have strong competition. They can extrapolate a fair bit of information about your health just using it now as-is. The insurance companies'll love it.
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Aug 20, 2020 14:32
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Great Beer posted:Facebook seem to be massively overestimating the draw of the oculus environment and their own hardware. They killed any hype the quest 2 might have been able to generate as any future oculus news for the foreseeable future is going to be about the account changes and the backlash to the announcement. Literally killed the future of oculus outright imho
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Aug 20, 2020 15:58
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DrBox posted:It's annoying to have to tie my Facebook account I never use to the Oculus but they already had my name and address from when I bought it as well as in order to make credit card purchases so I highly doubt at this point it gives them any more info. In the shady future when there's eye tracking and in-game ads I guess they'll have more data to sell, but by then hopefully they will have strong competition. There are some cool articles I'm too lazy to find but somehow Facebook tracks you really loving well even if you don't use Facebook. Enjoy!
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Aug 20, 2020 16:43
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Sucks about the facebook poo poo, but at least we have a 3 year grace period. Will probably buy games on steam instead of Oculus from now on though. I kinda knew this going in, and I'm the kind of guy running tutanota email, pi-hole, duckgogo etc to limit the tracking done. Hopefully someone jailbreaks it, but in 3 years I've likely upgraded and sold the Quest.
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Aug 20, 2020 16:47
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Kazy posted:Facebook already has a file on you whether you use them or not. That's probably why they're so quick to lock fake accounts. this actually makes me wonder why they never went after my blatant alt account for being trans on
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Aug 20, 2020 19:11
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The new Hitman was just announced as a Epic Games Store exclusive on PC. I don't think they do vr :worry:
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Aug 20, 2020 20:02
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Kikas posted:The new Hitman was just announced as a Epic Games Store exclusive on PC. I don't think they do vr :worry: They do. Tetris effect was epic store exclusive at first
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Aug 20, 2020 20:03
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epic does VR, they just install steam for you so you can run steamvr lmao
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Aug 20, 2020 20:07
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Truga posted:epic does VR, they just install steam for you so you can run steamvr lmao and so does viveport. Its not like you can have steamVR shoved into your own store lmao.
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Aug 20, 2020 20:29
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Epic storefront just launches poo poo on the proper storefront in the most roundabout way. Like for GTA5 you launch epic which launches rockstart’s launcher which verifies with epic then it starts the game. With Assassin’s Creed it launches uplay which then starts the game. Tetris Effect you have to choose to start with VR. It’s clunky as gently caress.
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Aug 20, 2020 20:35
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Kikas posted:The new Hitman was just announced as a Epic Games Store exclusive on PC. I don't think they do vr :worry: They do but it relies on Steam for the VR funny enough. What a disappointment though, not giving them any money. I can wait.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Epic storefront just launches poo poo on the proper storefront in the most roundabout way. Like for GTA5 you launch epic which launches rockstart’s launcher which verifies with epic then it starts the game. With Assassin’s Creed it launches uplay which then starts the game. Tetris Effect you have to choose to start with VR. This sounds exactly like steam tho?
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Yeah, Steam will also launch Uplay for Ubisoft stuff as a 3rd party DRM. It's annoying as gently caress.
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Aug 20, 2020 21:00
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Cool, i can give them more money by buying it on Epic. And not get annoyed by achievement popups
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Aug 20, 2020 21:33
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That makes it easier for me to be patient and wait and hope for PC VR support, I guess.
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Twibbit posted:Cool, i can give them more money by buying it on Epic. And not get annoyed by achievement popups Just disable the steam overlay. Unless you mean in vr in which case I have no idea if that works. Skyarb fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Aug 20, 2020 |
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Aug 20, 2020 22:34
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Skyarb posted:Just disable the steam overlay. Unless you mean in vr in which case I have no idea if that works. Or I can buy it on Epic
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Aug 20, 2020 22:37
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Cirque du Soleil VR is  Highly recommended for that price. It's around 60 minutes of high quality VR experience, but in practical terms because some of the videos have stuff all around you, they have to be watched twice so experience everything. /search on Google ...oh look, it's a Facebook exclusive! lol
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Aug 20, 2020 23:05
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Turin Turambar posted:Cirque du Soleil VR is https://store.steampowered.com/app/712410/Cirque_du_Soleil/ ?
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One of the reviews on that: quote:I recently sold my Vive and switched to another VR headset. When they say "HTC Vive" only, they mean it. They actively block other headsets with an error message. This is the second time I've been burned by them. I bought all of their content on the GearVR. Within a year, it was yanked from the store so it couldn't be re-downloaded and even the content I'd already downloaded began failing DRM. Seems like they're trying to lock it to the specific platform...
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Aug 20, 2020 23:30
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Twibbit posted:Or I can buy it on Epic Consumers self owning will never not be funny to me.
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Sure thing bud.
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Turin Turambar posted:Cirque du Soleil VR is Yeah I really enjoyed this too! I would recommend watching them in order though, they've kind of arranged them in order of increasing intensity of experience. The first one is like "oh cool the circus is performing on stage just for me" and some of the later ones are creepy dudes standing right in your face staring at you.
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Aug 21, 2020 01:05
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I have a quest but the FB thing made me just submit my order for the Reverb. Are there no upcoming alternative mobile VR platforms? If not....why not?
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Captain Apollo posted:I have a quest but the FB thing made me just submit my order for the Reverb. Standalone is difficult and nobody else has wanted to put in the effort to do a good job
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Aug 21, 2020 02:58
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There's no open ecosystem for standalone VR akin to Steam for PC VR, so any new contender would have to build up a content library entirely from scratch all while barely anyone buys their product because Quest has a bigger library It's an incredibly hard hill to climb at this point
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Captain Apollo posted:Are there no upcoming alternative mobile VR platforms? It's a chicken-and-egg problem with hardware and software. Without a software platform - which there isn't now that Daydream is dead - there's no reason for people to buy hardware. Without hardware it doesn't make sense to set up a software platform. So the only mobile VR platforms are either from people with the pockets to make both at once - Facebook, Google in the past, Apple surely in the future - or they're targeted at enterprise users who don't care about a software store, like PicoVR is.
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Just wait until Facebook gets eye-tracking working smoothly and you start getting ad's following you around based on things you looked at in VR.
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Half Life: Alyx is about to be run at SGDQ, for anyone interested in seeing a VR speedrun. EDIT: It was... bonkers. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/714783117?t=45h29m48s El Jeffe fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Aug 21, 2020 |
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More broadly, the Quest has only really existed in its final release form for about a year now, and there's only been that year's worth of sales data to show it's a viable success. Even if someone started right at the moment the Quest was first announced, they'd only be a year or two into development at best.
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El Jeffe posted:Half Life: Alyx is about to be run at SGDQ, for anyone interested in seeing a VR speedrun. Thanks for the link, I love how HL:A runs are already at the level of HL21.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:More broadly, the Quest has only really existed in its final release form for about a year now, and there's only been that year's worth of sales data to show it's a viable success. Even if someone started right at the moment the Quest was first announced, they'd only be a year or two into development at best. And realistically, they didn't do it because they had any particular inside knowledge that standalone was going to be the right longer term move. As far as I can tell a huge, huge part was Carmack personally pushing things in that direction - I distinctly remember one of his Oculus Connect keynotes talking about how he wishes he could get some of the computer vision PHDs working there to help him with inside out camera tracking, and then the Windows MR headsets came out a little bit after and that was the first proof of it working in a consumer headset. But by then he was already laying the foundation with Gear VR and stuff So now Facebook got early control and everyone else is playing catch up, whoops Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EbsQbD-GPE&t=186s Lemming fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Aug 21, 2020 |
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Return to Castle Wolfenstein is finally out on SideQuest. Ported to VR by the same dude who did HL1, Quake, Doom but he really did a particularly amazing job with this one. Almost feels like an official release minus some jank in the menus. And wow is it pretty for a standalone Quest title.
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El Jeffe posted:Half Life: Alyx is about to be run at SGDQ, for anyone interested in seeing a VR speedrun. What the hell. This was amazing.
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I went from loving Asgards wrath to somewhere in the realm of despising it. I think I hate the combat in this game more than any game I have ever played in my life. It's absolutely infuriating and just feels goddamn awful.
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I was just looking at the official site here https://www.cirquedusoleil.com/es/otras-actividades/vr-app It shows 'available in...' and images of only Oculus devices. Also, Steam version is missing one experience and it's more expensive than in Oculus? Uhm.
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El Jeffe posted:Half Life: Alyx is about to be run at SGDQ, for anyone interested in seeing a VR speedrun. alyxSpeedrun.gif : https://i.imgur.com/4oyaez9.mp4 (he is glitching through the floor)
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Quest Build 20.0 Release Notes Parties When you’re in a party, you can now choose to mute anyone else in the party on a person-by-person basis. This means that you can mute anyone in the party in your own headset without muting them for the whole party. Fixes Fixed a bug that caused audio to stop when a Touch controller was disconnected in some apps and experiences. PC Software Build 20.0 Release Notes Recording in-VR We’ve improved in-VR recording by adding an image stabilization feature. This enhancement will reduce unwanted motion that can happen when looking around in-VR while streaming. Tracking We’ve enhanced rendering stability for Rift S to improve head tracking. Oculus Link Users are now able to hide the ‘Activate Oculus Link’ modal. You can always enable Oculus Link from the Settings > Quick Actions menu.
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