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TIP posted:Roberta Williams herself worked on this update of the classic text adventure Colossal Cave to VR and... it's baffling that she jammed point and click adventure mechanics into it 'you are inside a building' (I... can see that) 'I can't use that yet' 'there is nothing to do here' 'that is useless' Baffling, to say the least.
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I kind of like that - unlike some other old devs jumping out of retirement - Roberta and Ken decided to go with a port of a fairly straightforward public domain game versus something wildly ambitious. Doesn't look great, but kind of funny they're bringing fighting with a parser that's constantly repeating to you "you can't do that" to 2023.
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Anyone had any experience with buying the VR prescription lenses? I got an index recently and my poo poo is blurry as hell, going to get my eyes checked now cause it's basically unusable currently. The idea of wearing glasses under that headset seems hellish though.
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Turin Turambar posted:'you are inside a building' (I... can see that) 'Tis beyond my reach!
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Cling-Wrap Condom posted:Anyone had any experience with buying the VR prescription lenses? I got an index recently and my poo poo is blurry as hell, going to get my eyes checked now cause it's basically unusable currently. The idea of wearing glasses under that headset seems hellish though. Glasses under a headset *are* hellish. The prescription inserts work about as well for me as wearing my contacts does, though they obviously add cost. (I normally wear glasses, I have contacts to wear biking/skiing mostly.)
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Turin Turambar posted:In more interesting news, we have an update for hl2 vr Whoa there is actually a lot of cool stuff in here
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I've never heard of this type of locomotion before. Did Roberta Williams just invent a one-handed combination of WASD and mouse look for VR?
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Lister posted:I've never heard of this type of locomotion before. Did Roberta Williams just invent a one-handed combination of WASD and mouse look for VR? 
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I got thin frames on my glasses primarily for vr, but they still fit in so snugly I'd expect it to break them or scratch the vr lenses so I never used it past that first test.
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Lister posted:I've never heard of this type of locomotion before. Did Roberta Williams just invent a one-handed combination of WASD and mouse look for VR? lol what the gently caress Edit: it's like the David Cage approach to VR controls Good soup! fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Jan 17, 2023 |
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Cling-Wrap Condom posted:Anyone had any experience with buying the VR prescription lenses? I got an index recently and my poo poo is blurry as hell, going to get my eyes checked now cause it's basically unusable currently. The idea of wearing glasses under that headset seems hellish though. I used https://vroptician.com/ for my Index and they were great, 100x better than trying to do glasses underneath
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I've been playing with my glasses on since my prescription lense frames cracked somehow and my next eye doc appointment is next month so I don't want to order in case my prescription changes. They barely fit but don't touch the headset lenses; it's fine for a while but I'm definitely having to have shorter sessions and am ready to have lenses again.
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Cling-Wrap Condom posted:Anyone had any experience with buying the VR prescription lenses? I got an index recently and my poo poo is blurry as hell, going to get my eyes checked now cause it's basically unusable currently. The idea of wearing glasses under that headset seems hellish though. Kazy posted:I got my lenses from AliExpress. Perestroika posted:Personally I used vroptician.com, which work very nicely even for my astigmatism. They are on the pricier side, though. Stormangel posted:I like my Reloptix. $79 flat rate even with my strong prescription. FilthyImp posted:If your headset is compatible with the $10 Zenni lenses, you can 3D Print (or order) lens inserts for like $30. Stormangel posted:I've done the Zenni and 3d printed holders for 2 years. In my experience they didn't stay in place well, were fragile even when printed with PETG, and you had to be extra sure that you clocked the lenses right or it's eye strain city. I updated my prescription this year and ordered lenses https://www.reloptix.com . They were a flat $80 even though my prescription was high enough that other insert makers wanted to charge extra. The inserts are rubber coated so if they do touch your nose it's not uncomfortable, unlike my experience with the 3D printed ones. I couldn't be happier. explosivo posted:I'll go ahead and plug VR Wave's prescription glasses inserts for the Quest again since these things have been a game changer for me. I used glasses in the headet for a while, then stopped because it was annoying, and then obviously everything was just always a little blurrier than it should be. I got these and it's been like night and day, and they snap on with magnets so the lenses themselves can go on and come off super easily if you have other people using the headset too.
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Hey, Compound is a lot of fun! No idea if it’s some 40 hours deep roguelite but it’s been fun for a few sessions which is like the crowning achievement of VR games so far.
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Cling-Wrap Condom posted:Anyone had any experience with buying the VR prescription lenses? I got an index recently and my poo poo is blurry as hell, going to get my eyes checked now cause it's basically unusable currently. The idea of wearing glasses under that headset seems hellish though. It was years ago that I got them, but I've been immensely pleased with https://vroptician.com/ inserts for my CV1.
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Gobbeldygook posted:yes, here are some recent-ish posts I just pulled up. I both appreciate and feel deeply attacked for this so, thankyou!
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This is only tangentially related to VR, but does anyone know if the Monster Hunter VR attraction at USJ is accessible to people not fluent in Japanese? It requires a separate ticket purchase and involves some degree of human interaction so I'd like to be sure first.
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https://twitter.com/thearperson/status/1614734954214338560 Another Time classic. Although it's always funny to see people complain of the bad publicity every time there is a image of someone with a VR headset. That's how we look with one in real life, people... And no, for normal people there won't be any meaningful difference if you change it from the Gear-like headset to a Quest 2.
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Yes you do look like a goober wearing a headset, this is just part of it.
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i also like how time just always manages to find the worst people for their covers these days, putin would fit right in there lmao
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Lol I think the Palmer Luckey TIME cover still holds the crown for Makes VR users look just the worst 
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That one wasn't really the headset's fault, though. If anything it was an improvement.
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Are they wearing the lovely Samsung GearVR headsets?
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Enos Cabell posted:Are they wearing the lovely Samsung GearVR headsets? My guess is that is all a Photoshop. -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfcVXv6eHWY Wait... is this a Horizon clone? lol I hadn't follow the game so I had no idea. Upload Vr likes it https://uploadvr.com/primal-hunt-review-a-bloody-thrill/
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Kalman posted:Glasses under a headset *are* hellish. The prescription inserts work about as well for me as wearing my contacts does, though they obviously add cost. (I normally wear glasses, I have contacts to wear biking/skiing mostly.) Hellish is having to put your glasses underneath a Magic Leap so you can do dev work porting your application to a platform that you know is basically doomed and being shocked that the company is still afloat. Then again that new HTC won't even allow for that, and their solution to it is that it has dials that go up to like 6 for people will poor eyesight. Which doesn't help when your eyesight is so bad you can't read a computer screen at 8 inches away  I have VRWaves for my quest 2 and they're pretty boss, but they're expensive as hell if you have a serious prescription so you may want to check other places to see about getting a better deal.
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Games Done Quick just posted an Alyx speedrun that seems pretty cool so far https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFJSgdzLJYE
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I remember a previous GDQ run where the person really abused the play area barriers and height settings to sequence break. It was a lot of fun watching them on camera basically crawl to the edges of their room. I think Alyx and Beat Saber are the only VR games that have been in GDQ. I would love to see more VR games thrown into future games. RE4 could be cool since you can now play through at a constant sprint One of my good friends and my brother both got Quests for Christmas. I played some Walkabout with them over the weekend. It's really cool that they could all play the DLC courses that I own. My brother let my 8 year old niece play for a bit, and she found a dead body in Sweetopia. So that was fun.
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Professor Wayne posted:I remember a previous GDQ run where the person really abused the play area barriers and height settings to sequence break. It was a lot of fun watching them on camera basically crawl to the edges of their room. I think Alyx and Beat Saber are the only VR games that have been in GDQ. I would love to see more VR games thrown into future games. RE4 could be cool since you can now play through at a constant sprint How was Beat Saber "done quick"? Sounds really dumb to me and I really like the games done quick poo poo.
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It's really a showcase, not a full on speed run. It looked a little goofy to me, but Beat Saber isn't really my thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T6PnJilqq4 Some showcases are cool though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKfdfNxnrw0
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EbolaIvory posted:How was Beat Saber "done quick"?
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wolrah posted:Most rhythm games let you adjust the playback speed, right? Seems like a reasonable "speedrun" could be just playing through the entire original playlist as fast as you can get away with, completing every song in the shortest combined time. If you push too hard and have to restart you just lost however much time. No I get that. Theres also a campaign and a dozen modifiers you could use. Its just, I'm trying to find a way to say "who cares, its still boring as poo poo to watch" without being an rear end in a top hat about it. Its a score driven game entirely. If you were going to speed run something they should be speed running the ranked ladders or something. At least then it makes some kind of sense. Professor Wayne posted:It's really a showcase, not a full on speed run. It looked a little goofy to me, but Beat Saber isn't really my thing. Yeah this is basically just an amateur beat saber player screwing around. EDIT: NO HATE ON THAT TO BE CLEAR EbolaIvory fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Jan 18, 2023 |
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GDQ doesn't show speedruns of rhythm games but it does frequently include showcases of high level play because playing a game that makes you move fast at a high level of skill is speedrun-adjacent enough that people like watching it. They don't pretend it's any kind of speedrun. The Beat Saber one was more "popular GDQ streamer shows off a game on a niche platform" than "best person in the entire world does their thing" but nothing wrong with that.
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Lemming posted:Honestly I was initially a little annoyed from there being so many straight up clones instead of people doing more original things with the locomotion, but a lot/most of these are being made by teenagers who just felt really inspired to try to make something, no matter how derivative. I think this is going to be a big part of how the next generation of developers think about vr design I really enjoy stick locomotion shooters, though. Hold the "zombie", though, I'm heartily sick of zombie anything.
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Was trying to play with Bigscreen tonight, but desktop streaming wasn’t sending audio. Did the in-app driver install, and ran the installer directly as admin, set the sound output to the newly-available big stream device, no love. Google gives me posts from a year or more ago saying it doesn’t work on windows 11. I also see posts from multiple years ago saying a friends list is coming, but I see no indication that ever happened. So two questions: 1) am I simply SOL for desktop audio streaming since I’m on windows 11, and 2) is this project dead or what? Is there another cross-platform option that actually works?
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Nthing the vroptician.com recommendation for lens inserts. I have a set for my Index and they're great. They fit snugly, yet come off easily if you want to let someone else play.
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Bad Munki posted:Was trying to play with Bigscreen tonight, but desktop streaming wasn’t sending audio. Did the in-app driver install, and ran the installer directly as admin, set the sound output to the newly-available big stream device, no love. Lol bigscreen gave me poo poo last night when I tried to log on for five minutes, it's worked fine on Windows 11 mostly, maybe they made a recent change? Not sure if I'm reading you wrong but if you're just trying to watch things, virtual desktop, immersed or something like that would do the job?
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