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blue squares posted:Holy poo poo I tried half life alyx Hell yeah! I first played Alyx while seated and got used to the movement/feeling, then worked up to where I can move around. Now it's no big deal, as long as I don't load up Serious Sam heh. veni veni veni posted:Glad to hear it! I never realized it, but my ceiling fan is directly above my playspace and I just was using it to keep cool but it definitely helps with spatial awareness.
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veni veni veni posted:Glad to hear it! Yeah, I always like to have some idea of which way I'm facing, so this helps a lot.
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Oct 14, 2020 04:34
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Why don’t you just align yourself with the earth’s magnetic field, like a pigeon, or a lobster? Like, how do you people migrate in the spring and fall? 
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Oct 14, 2020 04:36
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Tom Guycot posted:Sometimes the more mundane the experience the easier it is to feel like your there. Driving a truck in ATS at night, with the radio on, rain falling down, headlights on, i've legit started reaching for the AC vents to adjust them before catching myself, lol. Completely agree with this. All the big shooters and such are fun, but the game I wind up losing myself in the most is Eleven Table Tennis.
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Oct 14, 2020 04:52
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My Quest 2 just arrived! From Amazon, in Australia.
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sethsez posted:Completely agree with this. All the big shooters and such are fun, but the game I wind up losing myself in the most is Eleven Table Tennis. The more complex a game is the less immersive it can be. The game where I’m not thinking about the controllers at all or where I’m standing are often the ones I come out of and I’m just like “woah, I kind of forgot I was playing a game” this happens with Until You Fall a lot for me since the controls are so natural I sometimes sort of forget I’m playing a game. Saints and Sinners is a pretty good VR game but it has so many complex interactions I often feel hyper aware that I’m playing VR.
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Oct 14, 2020 04:57
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So, some goons were pretty adamant that this would never happen: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/ja5mon/facebook_your_account_has_been_disabled/ https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/jappkv/facebook_account_banned_within_10_minutes/ Just because things work out for you doesn't mean other people can't be outliers who have issues
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Zaphod42 posted:So, some goons were pretty adamant that this would never happen: Nah, that's not the same thing; I'd bet good money they're getting hammered with new Facebook accounts right now and their AI is accidentally flagging some of the rise in account creation as spammed bot accounts.
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Oct 14, 2020 05:10
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Nah, that's not the same thing; I'd bet good money they're getting hammered with new Facebook accounts right now and their AI is accidentally flagging some of the rise in account creation as spammed bot accounts. I mean it's still dumb as hell
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Oct 14, 2020 05:16
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Impressions from the Quest 2 setup screen — the screen door effect is basically like if i put my face about 30cm from my regular 72dpi monitor. its basically invisible unless you’re looking for it. it’s so profoundly different in fact that i immediately noticed how ugly the font rending is on android, which is something i never would pick up on the 1 because the resolution/screen door sort of covers it. Its a lot lighter and better built, it feels higher quality. The strap is much less easy to deal with though, but i’ve got the elite strap coming for that. my prescription lenses from the 1 Just Worked on the 2, which I’m very happy about. seeing some decrease in FOV that sort of jellybeans in at the IPD setting I have to use, but I've heard they can address that in software
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Oct 14, 2020 05:16
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chaosbreather posted:My Quest 2 just arrived! From Amazon, in Australia. Nice one! My buddy got his delivered today as well, I'm stuck playing the tracking game which is super annoying due to the Amazon FC being 15 minutes drive away
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Oct 14, 2020 05:22
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So if I make a new Facebook account with not-my-name, am I risking getting banned or bricked or something?
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Oct 14, 2020 05:29
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Yikes, looking at over a month's wait to buy a quest 2 in australia. Guess I should have pre ordered.
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Oct 14, 2020 05:31
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nightwisher posted:Yikes, looking at over a month's wait to buy a quest 2 in australia. Guess I should have pre ordered. Amazon is showing as in stock and delivered by the 21st
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Oct 14, 2020 05:47
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nightwisher posted:Yikes, looking at over a month's wait to buy a quest 2 in australia. Guess I should have pre ordered. All our packages get shipped over individually on driftwood. Its not a perfect system, but it works ok.
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Oct 14, 2020 05:48
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Anyone want to play Phasmophobia with me. Like, right now? Or another time? Just looking for people to play with.
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Oct 14, 2020 06:13
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I just found out that my mom pre-ordered the quest 2 and got it today. I was already surprised a couple weeks ago when I found out my dad was preordering one. They're both in their 60s and not really into playing videogames, this kinda blows my mind. It's gonna be massive. My mom really loves the thing so far, she had a lot of fun with Oculus first steps. She played the shooting game and she was like, "I don't normally like shooting games, but now I really want some shooting games." And she was laughing a lot in the dancing part, really getting into it. I tried it out, and drat, that screen is nice. After trying it out my mom asked if I wanted one for Christmas, and I was like, "yes please", and then she was like, "ok, well do you want this Friday to be Christmas?" So, despite being broke I have a Quest 2 on the way. 
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Oct 14, 2020 06:32
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Tip posted:I just found out that my mom pre-ordered the quest 2 and got it today. Yeah my 72 year old non-technical father was absolutely all about Thrill of the Fight to a degree that was way unexpected and tried to buy my Quest from me. It’s interesting what grabs people who aren’t conventional ‘gamers’.
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Oct 14, 2020 06:43
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Is it honestly worth getting a Quest 2 now if I have a Rift S?
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Oct 14, 2020 06:49
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Amazon's tracking says that my Q2 is in some holding centre in California but plugging in the DHL number says it cleared customs here early this morning  Apparently they still haven't shipped the fit pack though...
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Oct 14, 2020 07:00
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Tom Guycot posted:Yeah honestly thats one of the worst things you could try as a first vr experience. twisting around at fast speeds in a 6dof spaceship rolling and drifting.... not a great start. yeah, I read some comments of people in general, of being excited for Star Wars Squadron and how they will get a VR headset for the first time for it and I was like 'uhhh that's not going to be a good first VR experience...'
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Nah, that's not the same thing; I'd bet good money they're getting hammered with new Facebook accounts right now and their AI is accidentally flagging some of the rise in account creation as spammed bot accounts. I've been reading about people's pains with FB disabling new accounts and not giving good answers for a month, in Reddit. I actually hope CNN, BBC or someone writes an article about it and makes a bit of noise, because it's the only way FB is going to fix it.
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The good news is the devs for squadrons have been clear on reddit that they're working hard on bug fixes and are aware of all the problems The bad news is its been about two weeks and the game is still rendering at 30/60 fps in VR and that's just  (And even at 60 its not 60, I get terrible ghosting/doubling)Even without having access to the code I can tell what the problem is, so it has to be pretty clear to them too, but I guess fixing it isn't so easy. Seeing all the goons posting in the Squadrons thread has me legit depressed. I can only play for about 15 minutes before I feel ill. (Meanwhile I spend literal hours racing in PCars or iRacing)
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Still waiting on any kind of tracking update for my replacement touch controls on my rift s. I dropped both of them off at ups on September 30th and got confirmation emails saying they received one on October sixth and the other on the seventh each saying it would be 2-3 business days before they’d give me a shipping update or tracking numbers. poo poo sucks man, I wanna whip some pistols. Also after squadrons running poorly in non-vr mode I decided it’s finally time to get a new pc, my current one was built in early 2014. Half Life here I come!
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:
If you already have sidequest, and you say you have it, there is a icon to open an adb console and type the command there.  It seems the setting is lost if you reboot the device, that's when you have to type it again. I still haven't tried but I read very positive comments from Eleven TT players.
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Tenacious J posted:So if I make a new Facebook account with not-my-name, am I risking getting banned or bricked or something? Not bricked, but it can get banned, yeah.
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For those with the VR issues in squadrons make sure you set the game to fullscreen exclusive mode in the video settings, with 60hz refresh rate. Also make sure it's always the active window. Most of my performance issues went away then and I can crank up the render resolution and quality settings. Though I am running on the original quest, which is locked to 72hz. ... Seriously considering a Quest 2. Is it worth the upgrade over the first gen for the refresh rate and resolution boost?
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Text is significantly clearer in Elite Dangerous. I can now comfortably read most of the control panels without squinting or leaning forward, which definitely wasn't the case with the CV1. Couple of the smaller bits of the UI are still hard to make out (like the galaxy map button on the left panel) but it's a massive improvement overall. And this is without mucking around with supersampling or anything, so no doubt it can be made better.
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Isometric Bacon posted:For those with the VR issues in squadrons make sure you set the game to fullscreen exclusive mode in the video settings, with 60hz refresh rate. Also make sure it's always the active window. Pros: -refresh rate -resolution -rgb screen -extra power (+50% cpu and ram) -wifi6 -controller with strong haptics, very reduced battery drain -modular strap system, official optional elite straps Cons: -fixed ipd system with lower min and max -lower fov if you use ipd setting 3 -overall comfort, strap and still front loaded in balance -black levels -battery seems to deplete a lil' faster, like 5-6 minutes less of total usage? -strangely cheap in places (would be so expensive to include a 1.5mts usb cable instead of only 1.0mt so you can watch some tv show while charging up??) As long as you are inside a 'safe' ipd range, the it's a recommended upgrade yeah. If you use it a PCVR headset, I'd dare to say it's a very recommended upgrade, if only because if you think about it, the simple, usually stylized graphics of the Quest 1 are ok for its screen, but you really want the clarity of the Q2 screen with PCVR, because what's the point of the richer, more detailed graphics PC offers if 1/4 of it it's going to be 'hidden' by the old screen?? Turin Turambar fucked around with this message at 10:38 on Oct 14, 2020 |
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Seriously considering getting a Quest 2 - have a quick question for those that are using Virtual Desktop to stream from a PC. For games like BeatSaber or Superhot VR, which are available to play both on the Quest 2 standalone or stream from a PC, which method would you recommend? I suppose buying on Steam would mean I could play it on any VR headset should I upgrade in the future rather than be tied to Oculus/Facebook headsets? Also is there much of a quality/latency difference playing directly on the headset vs streaming?
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Raffles posted:Seriously considering getting a Quest 2 - have a quick question for those that are using Virtual Desktop to stream from a PC. Do you plan on playing standalone VR outside your house? Then you want it from Oculus. If not, Steam. Re virtual desktop, I can't help with a comparison to link cable or standalone, but I will say that so far wireless streaming has been delivering better image quality than my old CV1, without the ridiculous tangle of cables that setup had. I've not done any tweaking of settings yet either, just using the default config. I'll grab a cable at some point to compare but it's liberating not to be tethered.
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Tenacious J posted:So if I make a new Facebook account with not-my-name, am I risking getting banned or bricked or something? Banned and purchases gone. There's also killswitch flags in the Quest 1 firmware, apparently for if they think you're cheating in an online game or pirating, but I'm not sure if there's been any confirmed killswitch engagement yet: https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/dnuxfs/just_a_heads_up_that_the_latest_quest_90_update/ The one ray of hope is that Facebook announced today they're going to ban holocaust deniers, so there's a non-zero chance a bigot loses their games library.
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Raffles posted:Seriously considering getting a Quest 2 - have a quick question for those that are using Virtual Desktop to stream from a PC. Latency using Link/VD is mostly fine but problems can rear their head in with games that are reliant on good timing timing and reflexes. The majority of latency sensitive games (Beat Saber and it's ilk) are also on Quest and generally look fine there, so you're better off getting the native versions of those. SuperHot in particular looks almost identical to the PCVR version and you gain the benefit of taking your headset to a basketball court or something and playing the game with a massive tracked area.
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Literally billions of people manage to use Facebook every day, but VR nerds are getting banned for some reason.
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Key difference being those people actually use Facebook, their algorithm might be sensitive to stub accounts that are empty of information or activity.
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I really just want impressions of the quest 2 resolution vs rift S. Really don't care about the quest as a standalone HMD at all tbh. But if it was actually a really noticable resolution bump at that price it would be pretty tempting. Rift S is so comfortable though. I really have no desire to switch, but resolution is king with VR.
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SCheeseman posted:Key difference being those people actually use Facebook, their algorithm might be sensitive to stub accounts that are empty of information or activity. It's absolutely this. Something that bot farms started doing a few years ago was mass creating accounts and then doing nothing with them for months / years so that when they were finally 'activated' to start commenting on articles and spreading disinformation it wasn't as clear that they were new accounts (kinda similar to the idea of 'shelf companies' and the way that new businesses take over old zombie companies to gain a history and credibility). So when Facebook started seriously cracking down on (some) bot/spam/disinformation activity, accounts that have no activity or content were a big signal that the automated systems look for. It's also why basically every new Facebook account these days gets autolocked until it's ID is verified. This isn't a Facebook exclusive thing either though - if anyone here has tried to make a new twitter account in the last year or so you've almost certainly been auto locked after your first tweet until you provide a working phone number. The fact that Facebook didn't update their algorithms to say 'hey these accounts that are being created against a $300 piece of hardware probably aren't bots', or that the contractors they use to review these decisions obviously haven't been trained to look for that is absolutely absurd though. E: rightly or wrongly I'm willing to bet that all of these accounts that are getting locked and then being banned are skipping the "optional" sign-up steps like sending connection requests to friends, following pages etc, which are again flags for being a bot because a human signing up for a social network would want to make connections. blunt fucked around with this message at 10:49 on Oct 14, 2020 |
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iron buns posted:Literally billions of people manage to use Facebook every day, but VR nerds are getting banned for some reason. I am not suggesting it I don't believe that the 2 reddit posts linked itt thread aren't true, because they may very well be. But even if they are it's pretty loving meaningless tbh. Obviously sucks rear end that FB is requiring an account for Quest 2, but lol at suggesting 2 unconfirmed reports being proof of everyone's worst fears being real. If this is actually an issue it will be on full blast by tomorrow.
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veni veni veni posted:Anyone want to play Phasmophobia with me. Like, right now? Or another time? Just looking for people to play with. Yeah, I'll join next time. Didn't see this earlier or I would've. Steam name is Electric J
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Zero VGS posted:Banned and purchases gone. In 11 months I never heard of anyone getting banned. FYI, things like 'performAntiPiracyKillSwitchAction()' surely means kill... the process (the cracked app) running on the device. Not kill the device, or kill the account, or kill the user (lol). This is how the Internet telephone game works, and it ends up with people believing crazy things after a few steps down the chain.
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