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Neddy Seagoon posted:I think HTC's really trying to make the Cosmos A Thing, because there were several used in PAX-AUS's VR Free-Play area this year. Looked like there might've been tracking issues with all of them sadly, as everyone seemed to be favouring one hand heavily for Job Simulator and tucking the other controller out of tracking range. Remember the level of whining about Rift S tracking when it first came out? So as unsurprising as it is that HTC haters would instantly dismiss the Cosmos as a complete dud, this thread should at least attempt some degree of balance if it is to be an accurate source of info for VR newbies. Rift S tracking didnt get good until a number of updates had been pushed out, lets see how HTC go now that they are in the same position. The Cosmos at least deserves some information in the OP other than outright dismissal. And i say this as a Rift S owner. Which brings me onto another point that seems to get overlooked, the Quests sole selling point is freedom from being tethered to a set playing area. Which is great if you have a desktop PC. So what if you have a gaming laptop which these days are easily capable of the CPU/GPU grunt to drive VR? The Quest doesnt have quite the same advantage when you can already get your VR on instantly anywhere within reach of a power point. Hence me still going for the S despite knowing the Q link was a thing. I think that needs to be pointed out.
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For sure, im not saying no one should criticise the pricing or whatever other aspects objectively (hell, i have...) but my point is the Rift S was in a similar position when it came out and now 6 months on with lots of tweaking its turned out to be a great headset. The Cosmos has been out, all of 2 weeks and HTC has already acknowledged issues and pushed out at least one update. Lets at least give it some space in the OP and see how it goes... ROFLBOT fucked around with this message at 10:01 on Oct 12, 2019 |
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Pretty happy with this, just a pair of headphones and a small screwdriver and Rift S lovely sound is gone  No 3D printed bits or ridiculously expensive kits either. ROFLBOT fucked around with this message at 12:31 on Apr 18, 2020 |
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Is there something I’m missing with the whole Quest/Rift S & Facebook paranoia thing? You don’t have to put any personally identifiable information or even a Facebook account in to use these things, so what’s the big deal?
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EbolaIvory posted:Huh? Clearly im an outlier as i have a Rift S, a couple of dozen VR-specific games and am yet to be struck by any required link to FB or request for identifiable information Having said that my entire collection exists in the Steam environment, have seen no need to buy anything from the Oculus store 
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So i managed to break my Rift S Finished a late-night gaming session, took it off and left it on the couch thinking it’d put it away in the morning. Got up about 9am, had breakfast etc, then freaked out when i noticed i had left it in exactly the right position for the sun to stream in through the window behind the couch and right into the lenses... Yep, two permanent dark streaks on the LCD panel  Luckily Oculus/FB have been good, i managed to arrange a return and replacement under warranty, though given the current situation i’ll probably be VR-less for a few weeks tl;dr - don’t let the sun see your headset lenses!
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If you buy the right on-ear headphones you can literally pull the cans off and strap then straight on to the Rift S, no addon kits or 3D printed parts required...
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Turin Turambar posted:I liked the horror parts of Stalker so that's good to hear. The part where that thing teleports you from the other end of a corridor* was scary enough in pancake mode, i cant imagine how freaked out that would be in VR *excuse my possibly dodgy recollection, it was a long time ago
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Neddy Seagoon posted:If it's tied to the Hololens 2 in any way like the original WMR headsets were, they might not have a choice in the matter. The Rift S tracking with 5 cams seems about as rock-solid as you could want (despite what all the Index-having elitists will tell you) so the 4 camera of the Reverb 2 is the only concern i have as a potential next-step upgrade to the S
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Sony MDR-ZXxx and a small screwdriver.
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veni veni veni posted:
This is exactly the spec of my gaming laptop, Alyx will run fine (and look great) on reasonably good gfx settings, though fps will drop noticeably in some of the larger open spaces so you may want to adjust to suit ROFLBOT fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Jul 30, 2020 |
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I am finally getting in on the PCVR world. Very Excited. My friend is selling me a relatively new VR ready laptop for extremely cheap so I ordered a Rift today.
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I know its probably cold comfort at this point but if youre not above a bit of dodgy 'shopping of your ID/drivers license its easy to create and keep a FB account under pretty much any name. The FB monkeys dont appear to do any cross-checking. Suffice to say my FB account for the past 6 years or whatever is something similar to HUGH JARSE/ IVOR BIGGUN etc The other point to make is 3 years is a long time if youre a current RiftS/Quest owner - the original Rift has only just been around for longer than that. I should think many here will be well onto their next VR headset by then. ROFLBOT fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Aug 20, 2020 |
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Reverb 2 will be $1100 aussie pesos, pre-orders next week
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Has anyone seen any details on the Reverb G2 connectivity? My understanding is it uses USB-C and standard Displayport - im assuming that means it needs both, not "you dont need the Displayport connection if you have Thunderbolt USB-C"? Thats going to be a dealbreaker for me if so as i already use the one USB-C port on my laptop with an adaptor to get a Displayport connection
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GutBomb posted:I fixed it With the newer version of those Sonys you can take the band apart and mount the earpieces directly to the headset 
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Stan Taylor posted:I feel like I’m wearing the rift wrong if you guys have your ears that far below the band.... none of my over ear headphones are anywhere close to being able to fit comfortably. Its more likely that i just have a big head 
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was about to post this man... at aud1100 it was doable but happy to wait until reviews came out, now at aud900..... aww geez!
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I remember before it came out i was willing to give HTC the benefit of the doubt How silly was I? Anyhoo if i pick up a G2 i also need to factor in a new laptop to run it This is going to be a very spendy exercise. Still, YOLO!
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Jezus the amount of FUD in here is ridiculous It is literally trivial to create a fake account in FB FB is not a government entity, it cannot access centralised records to cross-check anything. My FB account has both names that are blatantly not real - how did this happen? - a drivers license, a scanner and photoshop. There is no "link" to me, i blurred out my address and any other identifiable information on the license and they still accepted it. Hell i probably couldve Googled for a funny license pic, created an account, sent them that and they would have accepted that too If you re worried that they might delete your account then what makes a real-name account so secure? The same fakeable ID? I mean yeah i get it, lovely company. But lol if the only reason youre holding out on a Quest is because of this poo poo ROFLBOT fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Sep 17, 2020 |
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buy Quest create fake account if asked for ID, provide ID .... its not hard
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Zaphod42 posted:They may not be the government but they have algorithms to detect suspicious patterns. I have a fake name, my wife has a fake name and several of my friends, and all have been using their accounts for years Hell, i just did a FB search for "ROFLBOT" and got like a dozen matches This isnt the big thing its being made out to be.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Those accounts aren't really "fake" then, if they're all tied together socially. No, but it proves the FB account thing is not the big hurdle its being made out to be. Whether you choose to use that account for genuine social interaction or just to use a VR device doesnt really matter. Any data that you think can be gleaned from you being friends with User 7743278 and User 9932667 is rendered useless by HUGH JANUS not actually existing.
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Zaphod42 posted:Making sweeping generalizations from your sample size of 3-4 isn't good dude are you insinuating i only have 3 or 4 friends? 
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Aside from all those neat little data points directing to IP addresses at your physical location, along with whatever else they might have to the tune of whatever you're using to pay for Oculus games with. Right, so the logical conclusion of this argument is that FB already *knows* these accounts are not real names..... yet does not delete them. Thats one argument against Quest ownership shot down.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Your exact argument was "Just make a fake account, they'll never know its you". I dont know what to tell you guy? If your barrier to Quest ownership is "i dont want my name on FB", - you can. If your barrier to Quest ownership is "what if they delete my account?" - they wont. If your barrier to Quest ownership is "i dont want any personally identifiable information on the internet" - best unplug and go live under a rock?
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Zaphod42 posted:Do you talk to every person you meet about if they have a fake facebook account? You made it sound like it was just your family and a couple close friends who had the fake accounts. I have no reason to think im some weird outlier who just happens to know an overly large group of people who dont use their real names on FB. Go and look through the member list of any large FB group and tell me there arent a bunch of names that arent real. This is not edge-case stuff. Do a search for blatantly obvious fake-name accounts - the aforementioned Hugh Janus, Busta Gut, etc etc - you will be scrolling through accounts that are clearly not bots for pages.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:They will. Yours aren't deleted because they're actually being used for Facebook, you just think you're somehow evading the system with a pseudonym (you're not, lol). A proper fake Facebook account would be one that just sits doing nothing except accumulating Oculus game purchases, and that can get dinged because Facebook can't make a link between those purchases and a Facebook user acting like a real person. Guess what my FB account does? gently caress all. Pretty sure theres nothing in the TOS that says you need to make a minimum number of posts/likes/whatever. Think about it, its not in FB interest to delete accounts other than for the usual fake news/hate speech etc... and theyre not even good at that...
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Completely and utterly wrong. Facebook might not ban hate speech and fake news, but they absolutely have the tools to nuke that poo poo on-demand if it wasn't such a big money-earner for them. Fake accounts that just get a few Oculus purchases are not revenue-making products for them. Again, i dont know what to tell you but if FB are nuking low-value fake accounts theyre not doing a very good job of it. This conversation reminded me of another fake account i set up 6 years ago (i think it was to autologin to some website, IDK) The profile has no friends, no personal info, no photos (other than the profile one you can see posted below), no posts and only a handful of likes for some bands for whatever reason. Here is what the activity log looks like  Hasnt been logged in to for 6 years until today (back when i used to use one pw for everything!) Zero data value to FB. Still exists. If that is what is required to use a Quest or whatever, i dont see that as a bridge too far. Maybe you do, fine dont buy one.
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TACD posted:It's fairly hilarious watching everybody trip over themselves to make excuses for Facebook so they can get a $300 VR headset when just a few weeks ago everybody was so outraged that Facebook hosed them over in a way they'd pinky-promised not to. Honestly don’t care either way mate, my next headset will likely be a G2 - i have no interest in a Quest. What i am pointing out is this idea that you have no choice other than to use a FB account with all your bona-fide personal details as if there is literally no way to game FB at all, is rubbish.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:A pseudonym for a Facebook account, that you're actively using for actual Facebook purposes, is about as effective as a false moustache. You're really not as clever as you think with this one and have gamed squat. Did you miss the part where i posted my other fake still-active account, the one with no information in it, no activity, no posts, no logins for 6 years? why yes, you did.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:We've been over this; They can and have been. Your old fake account can't be hit by their algorithm, but recent ones absolutely can be, and your "fake" accounts used by you and your friends are just constantly generating data points doing far more to ID all of you than your name alone would give. OP does not mention anything about a fake account (whatever you choose that to mean). The question is about whether a "low content" account would be banned. If you think even FB would dumb enough to risk the PR disaster that would be thousands of Quest-buyers having their accounts wiped literally for not posting enough (especially given their "algorithms" cant even catch all of these anyway) we really have reached next-level FUD ROFLBOT fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Sep 22, 2020 |
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I started in pancake mode and got several hours into the game, quite enjoyed it. Then i got my Rift S but at that stage the NMS VR experience didnt really grab me - havent touched it since. With this new update (and a G2 on the way) i might get back into it again. Also tried Vivecraft last night, awesome! Makes up for Mojang/MS shafting me on the free Windows version (that supports VR)
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WirelessPillow posted:I feel like you could just buy a powerful laptop with a good battery and strap it in a baby carrier for cheaper. If PCVR does continue to be a thing and doesnt just stall at the G2 and Index, laptops for VR are going to be the next stumbling block. The gulf between desktop GPU performance and laptop GPU performance was bad enough with the RTX2xxx series and only looks to be even worse with the 3000 series. Gaming Laptops are typically running around 200-250w total system power, and thats with many struggling with thermal management as it is. When a desktop 3080 consumes about 330w on its own, there just no way the laptop versions arent going to be massively nerfed. I think those purpose-designed backpacks like that HP are probably a good solution if they free up portable form factors from the limitations of laptop design
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Neddy Seagoon posted:PCVR is very much a thing, I think the problem is we're kinda in a lull between development cycles right this instant. Samsung's thing is probably still cooking (and almost certainly delayed by COVID as everything else has been), Sony's thing is at least a year out even if it's just PSVR2, and the Reverb G2 suggests there might be a new WMR HDK floating around but who knows when it went out and how long whoever might have it has had time to play with it. I think so too, that comment was more in the context of the discussion above about the scenario of FB controlling the VR market. I havent had a desktop PC for years and with the Rift S proving inside-out tracking VR can be pretty drat decent i see no reason to change that, save for laptop performance hitting a power and thermal management brick wall. Truga posted:99% of PCVR stuff runs on a gtx 1060 equivalent tho?? you definitely don't need a 300w card, i'm still on an olde 980ti and the only things i play that don't run well are things where vr was tacked on after the fact You might be able to get away with a 1060 with the first gen headsets or the Rift S but trying to push 2160 x 2160 per eye on a G2 is going to take considerably more GPU grunt. ROFLBOT fucked around with this message at 11:18 on Sep 27, 2020 |
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:For those of you with NMS performance issues in VR, I may have stumbled on a fix. I think YMMV on this one, i have a 6-core CPU, when i opened up that file mine was set to 3 high, 6 low. Set to 4 high, 1 low and it made no difference to the stuttering at all (NMS used to run perfectly fine prior to this latest update) ROFLBOT fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Oct 3, 2020 |
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LA Noire VR popped up for sale on Steam - i know it was nowhere near worth a full-price game but is it ok for 50% off? (i already have the original game)
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Zaphod42 posted:Its mixed IMO. I would say its probably worth it at 50% off. It helps if you're already familiar with the game from 2D a bit, but they did put work into making sure to adapt the game for VR. Yeah with the original i did my typical "buy game, complete 20% of it then never touch it again" thing despite really liking it so just maybe i might get back into it in VR. Thanks
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