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Cutedge posted:Man if Microsoft pivoted to having VR on Xbox right after firing their entire XR staff... honestly that would be the most Microsoft thing that has ever happened. I don’t think the hololens stuff had much overlap with VR. SCheeseman posted:They don't need to care, Meta would be doing most of the work and holding most of the risk and Microsoft get a percentage. They'd do it because they like money. Yeah at this point if VR does take off MS has no other real options but to partner with Meta. And Meta is bleeding itself dry so they would love it.
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Argue posted:Thanks, this is fun--a lot of VR games are focused on delivering some kind of first person adventure thing, but what I've been hoping for are more diorama style world manipulation games, of which there are shockingly few! I still don't have a VR Factoriolike, dammit! You may like Gadgeteer too. edit; something I forgot about Pathcraft is that is missing the ability of rotating with the joystick, you can only turn in real ilfe and it's a pain in the rear end something. It's something basic that is strangely missing. Turin Turambar fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Jan 24, 2023 |
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OK this isn't VR but Metro:Exodus SDK has just got released and that seems like big news.
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Nuts and Gum posted:I don’t think the hololens stuff had much overlap with VR. WMR was an offshoot of the original Hololens, and then someone got the idea to chase military contracts as the main Hololens market.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Why Microsoft never wrote a WMR driver for Xbox is beyond me. Seems like a slam dunk I touched on it before, it was never a good fit. The Series X has one HDMI video output and as far as I'm aware doesn't push DisplayPort over any of it's USB outputs like the PS5 does. This is complicated by there being WMR HMDs that can come with either HDMI or DisplayPort connectors. It would require a bespoke active switchbox+converter to deal with those problems, but that still leaves one video output to share, leaving the TV blank whenever the headset is being used. On top of that there's the controllers, which always sucked and only managed to become useful once the HP Reverb refreshed them to a more standard layout. I don't think it could have worked well even if they tried.
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With the theoretically upcoming Apple headset, I would be surprised if the preferred answer to 'how do you type' ends up as anything but 'use your iPhone'. Continuity controls and screen sharing between devices are already good enough that I'm sure they could sync an iPhone screen in real time and overlay it on passthrough tracking.Mode 7 posted:Well, dipped my toe into VRChat for the first time. Found a fun visualiser room, and a cool train-through-the-cosmos-with-lofi-hiphop room, and messed around in a movie world watching a bit of an episode of Star Trek TOS. For anything public in VRChat, stick to the PC-only worlds. That will get you mostly adults and older teenagers, and completely avoids the substantial demographic of small children whose parents stuck a Quest 2 on their heads in lieu of actually supervising them.
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For everyone curious I have a Pico 4 and it's really really good, especially with Virtual Desktop instead of the bundled pcvr software. It was designed to easily snap on lenses, so the prescription ones I put in there are super thin. The only thing I'd complain about is that the battery life is only about 2 hours, I had to buy an external battery and carry it in my pocket for longer sessions.
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Super long shot, but is there any way to play the hit 1999 arcade game Silent Scope in VR? I miss that game
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Try EmuVR and see if it’s supported, it works pretty well with the light gun games I’ve tried.
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New Retro Arcade: Neon uses libretro and has lightgun support, but it's been abandoned by the devs for a while. EmuVR has lightgun support too but does more of a 90s kids bedroom aesthetic rather than arcades. Neither have the capability of doing Silent Scope justice, though you might be able to hack something together with EmuVR and a libretro Dreamcast emulator? For the record the best version is on Xbox, but good luck with that. I've been whinging for VR arcade ports for ages. Lightgun games, sit down/in and motion machines, running on Quest you could even plunk them down in an AR environment. It would bring back a lot of value, something a bit more authentic than launching a ROM to play on a flat screen television.
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Nolgthorn posted:For everyone curious I have a Pico 4 and it's really really good, especially with Virtual Desktop instead of the bundled pcvr software. It was designed to easily snap on lenses, so the prescription ones I put in there are super thin. The only thing I'd complain about is that the battery life is only about 2 hours, I had to buy an external battery and carry it in my pocket for longer sessions. Who did you get your lenses from, I should look into (aha) getting similar for my Pico. Are they easy to snap back out again? I occasionally let friends have a look at VR and it would be handy to not break a lens when removing them. edit: agreed about the battery life, fun little lifehack if you buy a usb-c cable and it comes with one of those velcro cable tidies, you can roll it up on itself til its a little free-sliding tube on the cable, then put that tube inside the loop on the back of the top strap and it will velcro in place and let you route the cable out of the headset port, up to the top of your head and then down your back to a wallet pocket where you can put your power pack. NoneMoreNegative fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Jan 25, 2023 |
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Jan 25, 2023 16:34
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Manager Hoyden posted:Super long shot, but is there any way to play the hit 1999 arcade game Silent Scope in VR? Oh man, so many memories.I would play Sniper EliteVR instead 
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Who still uses a VirtualBoy? I was looking through some bins and just found a Flashboy Plus USB ROM cart. I will guess that it has Waterworld on it!
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I tried Walkabout on Quest rather than PC recently and it was noticeably lower res, so that's pretty fantastic news. Also, new map! They've been killing it with the new courses, I still haven't found all the balls and secrets in the Myst one.
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VR usage stats... from an unusual source https://www.reddit.com/r/virtualreality/comments/10lfbi2/most_popular_headsets_connected_to_sexlikereal_app/  What I don't understand is the difference between the Rift and the Vive here! In a way, porn is more universal than say, Steam, so I think funnily enough this is a more representative of all the VR market! Turin Turambar fucked around with this message at 12:07 on Jan 26, 2023 |
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Turin Turambar posted:What I don't understand is the difference between the Rift and the Vive here! This may or may not be it but if I connect my Quest2 to the PC using a link cable, rather than using airlink, for some reason the oculus software shows it as a "Rift" that is connected.
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Shemp the Stooge posted:This may or may not be it but if I connect my Quest2 to the PC using a link cable, rather than using airlink, for some reason the oculus software shows it as a "Rift" that is connected. Now I think about it, it could be this, together the fact there is no Rift S on the list. So that number surely is Rift + Rift S + some Quest users like you.
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Turin Turambar posted:In a way, porn is more universal than say, Steam, so I think funnily enough this is a more representative of all the VR market! On the other hand, everybody hates the SLR app and equally hates Deo for ruining their app chasing their approval even if they are now gradually unfucking it and brought back DLNA support. The very gradual decline of Cardboard is interesting though, as is the complete abandonment of GearVR. I also wonder what that Unknown category is though my assumption would be it's the Oculus Go.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Who did you get your lenses from, I should look into (aha) getting similar for my Pico. Yes I went with vroptician, they're held on by tiny magnets extremely easy to snap in and out and came with little microfiber baggies to store them.
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Lynx update via some youtube live thing, anyone catch it / learn anything new? Last update (back in early December) said first headsets were leaving the factory and shipping to developers and KS backers first. KS backers & pre-orders will get asked a few questions re: shipping (they've said before this is about accepting a pre-certification unit for dev work, or opting to wait for the consumer version.) I haven't heard squat, personally.
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The Eyes Have It posted:I haven't heard squat, personally. That sums up my whole experience with lynx so far, having to chase down info on every other corner of the web except their kickstarter page. This time it's "all units sent out by March", I expect November.
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Barbaria coming to Quest https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/5296016923775393/ This looks interesting? It looks goofy at first, but it can work? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkQdvfnai0o The new dlc for WMG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po5bs-gt80E Not for Broadcast coming to VR https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/10lyvdl/not_for_broadcast_vr_is_coming_to_quest_2_on/ I think this is based on a reality tv show? https://store.steampowered.com/app/2185160/Survivorman_VR_The_Descent/ SuperHot + archery? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYXSvFaO5qk Finally, if you want a cheap VR game, this is less than $1 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1887260/Timberman_VR/?utm_source=discord&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=non_paid edit: one more. If you hate robots, this is your game! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uwOg0lKhAI While watching the trailer, I thought of an idea, here it's for free: a VR shooter where if you reload doing a fancy move (ie, throwing the magazine in the air spinning around and then letting it fall inside the pistol by putting it upside down), those bullets will have +40% damage. Turin Turambar fucked around with this message at 08:43 on Jan 27, 2023 |
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KwegiboHB posted:That sums up my whole experience with lynx so far, having to chase down info on every other corner of the web except their kickstarter page. This time it's "all units sent out by March", I expect November. This last update, they're excited to see the first units out of the factory. But wait, the last time they updated way back in early December they were also getting the "first units out of the factory" on Dec 9th. None of it yet "means" that KS or pre order units fulfillment is around the corner but they're not very clear about that. It's pre production to verify things, or "we got enough on hand to use for demos at CES", and so on. E: for clarity of my own, my god trying to wrap up phone posting in a hurry and mashing POST turned out bad The Eyes Have It fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Jan 27, 2023 |
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Turin Turambar posted:While watching the trailer, I thought of an idea, here it's for free: a VR shooter where if you reload doing a fancy move (ie, throwing the magazine in the air spinning around and then letting it fall inside the pistol by putting it upside down), those bullets will have +40% damage. Here's your free QA: Players are trying to do it constantly the moment they find out about it and either (if it's too easy) reduce it to a rote action or (if it's too hard) ultimately end up frustrated that they're not getting Optimal Damage.
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make a game that's all about reloading guns in the coolest ways but you never actually get to shoot them
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Pavlov already exists. Heyooooo!
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TIP posted:make a game that's all about reloading guns in the coolest ways but you never actually get to shoot them There are some viral videos of a guy doing tacticool reloads with random household items. I'd play that game.
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hiddenriverninja posted:There are some viral videos of a guy doing tacticool reloads with random household items. I'd play that game. lol that would be a great gimmick, should be an add on to HHH
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Nuts and Gum posted:lol that would be a great gimmick, should be an add on to HHH A couple of Commander Carl's toys are actually in HHH! There's one I know of, and I believe one or two more are coming in the pipeline.
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Finally tried multiplayer Walkabout yesterday. I was delighted to discover that the map overview literally just blows you up to the size of a giant, and you can see the other players all tiny and block their view by putting your giant hand in the way.
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I found out the other day that you can actually do some of the puzzles on the Myst course. Extremely cool stuff
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Neddy Seagoon posted:A couple of Commander Carl's toys are actually in HHH! There's one I know of, and I believe one or two more are coming in the pipeline.  That’s very cool. Ugh okay I should dust off my index this weekend and poke around.
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Quest Pro has dropped $400. It's now $1,099 instead of $1,499.
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chird posted:Quest Pro has dropped $400. It's now $1,099 instead of $1,499. goddamn, ice cold dropping it to exactly the price of the vive xr elite
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chird posted:Quest Pro has dropped $400. It's now $1,099 instead of $1,499.
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:this does not suggest Quest Pro has found a blossoming and welcoming market lol It does not. Although, it seems it's a one week offer, and only in US (and UK, but with smaller discount).
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Hey quick question, me and my mate both have headsets now, what are some easy and good things we could try multiplayer between a quest 2 (link available) and a reverb g2 that won't take us hours to troubleshoot?
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