Cojawfee posted:

I haven't really used either since I first got them. I do use Virtual Desktop with Assetto Corsa though. I can use Virtual Desktop to access the menus and get everything set up and when I hit the drive button, it automatically switches to Assetto Corsa on the rift.

Ludicrous Gibs! posted:

Yeah, as much as people would like to fit the whole Valve/Oculus rivalry into a good vs evil situation, the reality is much more complex (as realities tend to be). It's absolutely true that the Vive would not exist had Oculus not gotten the ball rolling 4 years ago. But the Rift wouldn't be what it is without Valve's early VR research. Honestly, I'm tempted to view the whole thing as a wash. Steam is a near-monopoly, too, and the fact that it's a monopoly that has mostly benefited gamers is the reason Valve tends to get a pass. But then, arbitrarily restricting content from headsets that could easily run it like Oculus Home is doing is anathema to the philosophy that the PC arena has operated under since time immemorial. It's a sticky situation.

For my part, I keep seesawing back and forth re: which one to buy. Vive has the more complete experience right now, that's a fact. I would hope that Oculus is watching how popular room-scale experiences are turning out to be and planning accordingly, but there's no way to know that for sure. In the meantime, the Rift is much more comfortable, and its screen is sharper and brighter.

This is the first time I've entertained being an early adopter, so I'm not used to this conundrum. I feel like there's a 50/50 chance I'm going to end up with the VR equivalent of HD-DVD.

Ludicrous Gibs! posted:

I'm just going by what I observed with the demo unit I tried, relative to my memories of the Rift 4 days earlier. The Rift did seem sharper and brighter than the Vive, which I observed by how immersed I felt in the non-interactive demo scenes on each headset. Though I might have a more favorable view of the Vive's optics if they'd had a cutout town too (seriously, that was so loving . VR board games are coming!).

Lemming posted:

Chronos spoiler

There's a part where you get tiny and are running along a bookshelf and you fight tiny wind-up soldier enemies and it's really great.

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The game is also being planned for release on the PC and PS4
Ars isn't at liberty to discuss the name of the game or the specific developer, but we can say that a well-known European studio is planning "a new VR game" set in the universe of an established, long-running franchise

Zaphod42 posted:

VR isn't remotely ready to tackle Assassin's Creed. Its like the exact hardest possible game to translate to VR, unless you just ditch the entire game and start from scratch.

You have all the locomotion problems of an FPS like Half-Life but with the added of freerunning and falling and climbing and stuff.

I guess you could just play it all in third person but then that's barely even VR, just sitting there with a controller just watching it in 3D.

Zaphod42 posted:

Ah yeah I'd love poo poo like that. I heard that some class on history was actually using AC Brotherhood for lectures because its one of the more realistic and complete renderings of Rome available.

EdEddnEddy posted:

Could it just be a port of that Ubisoft Flying one where you're a Bird? That would be easy enough to port over to the Xbox if the videos were any example of the graphics detail it delivered (hell they could even push that to Mobile almost. Microsoft's DX12/Vulkan ported to Windows Mobile? lol)

posted:

1 Download SDK 1.3.2 or 1.4 (same)
2 Launch ​OculusDebugTool ( \OculusSDK\Tools\ of SDK) and in ' Pixels Per Display Pixel Overide' choose 2 instead of 0 (or 1.2, 1.4... depend of the game and your graphic card) 'Enter'.
3 Leave OculusDebugTool open and launch your game/app

4 ENJOY !

If you use oculusdebugtool before launch oculus home, you will have lag and lose tracking, it's normal. Close OculusDebugTool, re-open it and choose the pixel overide again.

LegoPirateNinja posted:

Where can I go to demo these products?

SwissCM posted:

The Walrus posted:

Here's hoping my steam friends list isn't putting two and two together when they see me playing virtual desktop then something else five minutes later.

GlyphGryph posted:

Well, uh
...

I mean I would hope the majority of people buying a product had the recommended minimums.

Subjunctive posted:

https://www.facebook.com/mikeyk/posts/10102322332374103

Knifegrab posted:

20% is actually pretty small. Being an early adopter doesn't mean you just have lots of open space in your house. 20% is actually pretty drat impressive its that low, shows that most people really value roomscale over standing. I mean I have a pretty huge apartment and even I barely meet roomscale. I'm sure as time goes on and the tech becomes more ubiquitous people will start making the room for roomscale vr, like converting offices or something.

Roshnak posted:

80% of them are making space. What kind of numbers would give you hope?

Paul MaudDib posted:

What used to be here? Showing as 404'd for me.

Paul MaudDib posted:

They want to sell CV1 units to users forced into upgrades? Same reason they'd block Vive users - all that stuff about Oculus being perfectly happy to just sell software is clearly in the past.

Particularly since they can say "well we said the DK2 was only supported as a developer platform, just get your boss to pay for it! Oh wait, you weren't trying to run the DK2 as a consumer, were you?". Palmer's last posts on Reddit were making noise about how if you're a consumer with a DK2 you can get hosed. That is, before Oculus finally told him to shut his goddamn piehole.

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4fi8cd/oculus_your_website_is_garbage/d29bpxt

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4fi8cd/oculus_your_website_is_garbage/d29avb0

SwissCM posted:

They work so similarly that if they do break compatibility it could only be a deliberate decision.

SwissCM posted:

Of course not, they're a lovely company with no respect for it's users.

Knifegrab posted:

Do you think they'll even do a Gen2 then?

But more to the point, what is Oculus's goal here. By barring out other HMD headsets they lose sales. So that hurts them where are they planning to recoup that cost? Is the end goal to encourage the market to buy Oculus HMD's where they will add tons of markup (I guess the apple model)? Or is the goal to just force every other HMD out of the market so then they are the de-facto VR distribution platform?

Jarmak posted:

Kind of tempted to do that I guess my main worry would be that the chargeback would cause them to actually get off their rear end and ship and and then have them try to make me pay for both.

Ciaphas posted:

I can make the room but I'm not 100% sure I'd want to do that on a regular basis (I'd have to move my couch and insanely heavy coffee table and probably a rug for safety)

I guess I'd have to try it to see if I'd like roomscale stuff, but I'm not sure there's anywhere I can demo that??

HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:

I disagree, even with Touch this first Rift is going to stay behind the Vive for roomscale, and right now all the best VR games are either cockpit or roomscale. You can make an informed decision on this based on whether or not you have space for roomscale, or would rather just play cockpit games. I'd much rather use a Rift for things like War Thunder and for driving games, but Budget Cuts, Vanishing Realms and Space Pirate Trainer are glimpses into what great VR will become.

Mordaedil posted:

How much are you getting paid to post?

Mordaedil posted:

It's a jest.

But you are just being extremely and oddly defensive about the Oculus Rift to the point where it looks almost like you are shilling for their product against any type of criticism. Like really, even not acknowledging the products current shortcomings.

Really, which is more insane in that context?

Incredulous Dylan posted:

Woo - I feel like I've come full circle here. I was the OP of the original VR megathread from 5 years ago and now I'll have the Vive hitting my door by the middle of next week. Here's hoping it doesn't suck rear end, haha. I have an open living room in my condo that is perfect for this kind of thing - big open space and a big ol' TV for spectators to see what the VR person is seeing. I can't loving wait to watch the DOTA 2 Internationals in VR mode like a serious goon.

Flashbackjack posted:

Just got out of an Iracing race and holy gently caress it was good. Racing against other people is a very different experience than just doing laps by yourself (duh). So much sweat!
The visuals are amazingly clear and I couldn't find any weird artifacts, though I need to see if i can up the AA a tiny bit. I have a homemade buttkicker lying in pieces because of poo poo soldering, but i need to get that fixed. I would buy simvibe (http://simxperience.com/en-us/products/simvibe/simvibesoftware.aspx) but it's loving 90 $. Someone tell me it's worth it.

One thing about VR is that i yell a lot more than i ever do on a normal monitor.

Cojawfee posted:

If you're interested in iRacing, there is a goon league that does stuff. We're currently in a hiatus but we normally do the skip barber on short ovals and sometimes road courses. We've been experimenting with other cars as well. There's also goon racing in Assetto Corsa as well. Both groups race on Sundays.

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Rexodus: A VR Story Experience is based on the Dark Horse Graphic Novel Rexodus. This is a VR narrative experience set in a universe where dinosaurs didn't go extinct, they left Earth. Those dinosaurs, utilizing their own advanced technology, are traversing the galaxy.

Flashbackjack posted:

I did a race in a SCCA Spec Racer Ford on Charlotte motor speedway. Made it 12 laps out of 20 before getting kicked out because of too many spin outs. The SSCA is very challenging but fun to drive, you have to be real gentle. Didn't cause any accidents or kill any spectators, and somehow managed to end on 9th out of 18 (best of the worst) so im quite proud of that. Being able to peek out on the mirrors without moving your head helps a ton.