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Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Just picked up a secondhand quest 2 off craigslist from someone who just got a quest 3. I am surprised that sitting next to the router makes such a huge difference for youtube vr but it totally does.

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Tunicate
May 15, 2012

ShaneB posted:

Yeah I have the dlink bridge thing on my desk and it's clearly better than trying to use even my high end Nighthawk house router. Just the direct connection and line of sight.

Is sticking a 15 dollar wifi usb into the computer gonna be better than the $80 cable the oculus guys are selling?

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

ChocNitty posted:

Cool thing to use to show off the Quest 2 or 3 to friends and family is the Titanic 3D trailer in the Bigscreen app. Like being in a movie theater for reals. They don’t have to mess with controls or anything.

stupid question, but did you have to download the video to your computer and stream it or what? I found the trailer on youtube but it's side-by-side and I can't figure out how to get that to turn into 3d using bigscreen

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

tried No More Rainbows trial and wow this is the first VR game that actually made me nauseous

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Half life alyx is now 66% off. Any other games i should pick up?

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Brutal Garcon posted:

Dumb question, but I'm stumped for Christmas present ideas: is there such a thing as a "cheap" (~$150) VR headset these days, that's actually worth having?

I can see the older Meta Quest model is going for a bit less than twice that, but that can't be the bottom end of the market can it? (Also those have quite a bit of onboard processing power, right? I'd be getting this for someone with a half-decent gaming laptop, so they don't really need that - I think, unless I'm wrong about how this works)

A used Quest 2 from craigslist will get you that price range

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

People talk about shopping in the metaverse with 3d models and such, but the quest store still doesn't even do that for games

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

c355n4 posted:

How much are used indexes going for? I've been tempted to pick up a used one.

Check your local craigslist, i bet a lot of people upgraded for christmas and will be dumping the old one

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

pun pundit posted:

Architecture (and anyone working with building plans; part of my job is to update plans of buildings as modifications are made), product design, and other fields that work with real objects in a theoretical way are all forced to look at 3D objects through a 2D abstraction because of the historic use of 2D surfaces for work in an office environment.

for chemical plant design post WWII they actually moved from 2d blueprints to building a full to-scale model of the entire factory, since making sure all the pipes and wires and poo poo lined up properly was way too tedious and error-prone otherwise

nowadays of course they render it in 3d, but it shows that the 3d workflow actually predates computers

Tunicate
May 15, 2012


Tunicate
May 15, 2012

smoobles posted:

Has anyone filmed 3D first-person porn yet. Seems like the ideal use case for the technology.

They have tried but failed since the headsets make you unfuckable.

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

I'm still waiting for a game where you get to be a cool werewolf and use hand locomotion to leap around and climb stuff and attack people. Someone please make it immediately.

Isnt that no more rainbows?

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Instead of inserts just get cheapest 7 dollar glasses from zenni, the frames are really flexible so they dont bother me at all, they do get a bit smeared on the edges sometimes but who cares

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

ScreenDoorThrillr posted:

I hope meta adds some kind of item recognition API to track physical objects, maybe you pass the API a trained model and get back results.

It'd be fun to use your real joystick or sword in game

Or do some dorky image tracking qr code pattern on things, like the sony magicbook

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Cojawfee posted:

Are you suggesting they go back to fiducial markers on the walls?

markers on your sword

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Oh pro nvm

Tunicate fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Feb 26, 2024

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

I tried flying wwii planes and kept crashing.

"Use your flaps"
No highlighted flap control or label, wtf

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Tunicate
May 15, 2012

Super Jay Mann posted:

Wait, where is this "huge swath" of kids that own VR/AR headsets right now? Or am I misunderstanding what you're saying?

I mean you certainly see a huge swarm of kids in a lot of VR spaces

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