ShadowKingpin
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Brad tried it at his home and still had issues.
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Brad tried it at his home and still had issues.
call_kotaku
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what kind of hardware fault would cause something like this? poorly-calibrated gyros?
InaudibleWhispa
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Dan read a tweet from a guy at Eurogamer mentioning that they had similar issues and they were fixed when Sony replaced their hardware
WoolyNinja
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Even though they've had issues they seem pretty positive actually. They're liking the tech, and seemed legit bummed its not working quite right all the time.
This stream is actually making me more excited to get mine
This stream is actually making me more excited to get mine
Death Metalist
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Yup, bet it looks amazing in VR.
Certainly could be a factor. But this is why the better headsets use IR based tracking. Imagine if people have colours in their living room.
Hmm I thought the effective experience while playing would be one of 120fps, with some artifacts and such.
Native 120fps (and 90fps) is possible on the headset though.
MassiveNights
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Tested had problems with tracking too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi28_4HKVLE&feature=youtu.be&t=10m14s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi28_4HKVLE&feature=youtu.be&t=10m14s
Hmmm, okay.. Don't know what to make of all this. Hopefully Sony will be as forthcoming in replacing hardware for consumers, at the very least.
It's coming to PC as well, devs seem to be hinting at Vive/Oculus support later down the road as well, for anyone interested.
Basically this. I wouldn't be surprised now to hear that there's trouble with the preview hardware that have went out.
The issue now is whether there's gonna be a wider issue with hardware for the launch units. I'm really hoping not.
They tried it with the lights off earlier. The issues didn't go away.
jediyoshi
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Nothing resembling this happened or was alluded to by them. Also again, the point isn't that bad VR obviously causes sickness, it's literally just that Jeff's relative propensity to withstanding bad VR in cases not limited to bad hardware is traditionally solid.
shiftplusone
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I don't think Brad has big blue spotlights on his walls at home but I cannot confirm
Bananastand
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Thumper is pretty cool without VR too. Had a ton of fun with so far. Still pretty intense.
soundscream
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Oh god if Jeff still doesn't like it........
Gtagentleman
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cheezcake
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Na the cameras entire point is to re zero the IMU error after a set period of time by doing a more expensive calculation on where the actual headset is by looking at the the image on the camera
The only possible answer to this sort of long term drift is that the pose estimation by the camera has inherent inaccuracy to this degree which would be a tad disappointing, or some sort of software bug/error
I think they don't have those games, and they seem to have moved on from the demo disc.
Damn, sounds like the same issues.
No. The 120Hz reprojection is just there because 60Hz headtracking is not a good thing. It is a workaround for console power issues. For things at a distance artifacting is at a minimum, but it gets worse the closer an object is to the foreground.
Kenzodielocke
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Some games still have an embargo. Driveclub and RIGS are some of them I think.
Brads home is all phycadelic stuff.
styl3s
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But they didn't get preview versions of the headset they got retail versions.
Hopefully there is a somewhat easy way to know if you have a defective unit or just have things calibrated improperly.
forgeforsaken
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They seemed to have loss of tracking and not jitter like GB is seeing.
That's good to hear. Nice how they made it work within the limitations.
Did kid mode make it in this version?
cheezcake
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Sort of, the game only updates at 60 frames a second but you do get 120 distinct frames on the headset. You get artifacts because your head might move in a way so that you should be able to see something the game hasn't actually rendered yet.
Piston Hyundai
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Brad lives in a Magic Eye picture so it's pretty obvious that the camera is going to give him trouble
Spiral Insanity
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I can't imagine Job Simulator being much fun without room tracking, but i'm probably so wrong. The movement/position stuff in it is minimal.
MassiveNights
Banned
The stuff they describe is definitely what we seen with the Batman stuff at the start of the stream. Jeff got super sick super quick.
He's looking for the option
Spiral Insanity
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Well, it's hard to get excited about PSVR after having tried a Vive. Not hating, it's just fact.
Okay so, where are we on the headset thing from general populous? the GB guys seem to be having some rough results, but they looked at general response and most of them are fine?
I know we don't have like a percentage analysis, but I'd kinda like to have a general sense of the dice roll I'm maknig if I get in gen 1
I was/am completely prepared for gen 1 of such specific hardware (especially the cheapest version) to be a bit off the rails, but I'd like to know if it's a problem worth saving another 400-500 to get a Vive
I know we don't have like a percentage analysis, but I'd kinda like to have a general sense of the dice roll I'm maknig if I get in gen 1
I was/am completely prepared for gen 1 of such specific hardware (especially the cheapest version) to be a bit off the rails, but I'd like to know if it's a problem worth saving another 400-500 to get a Vive
Death Metalist
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It's easy to be disappointed when you see the 2 other headsets do these things better? At least at a more consistent level, not to mention faster.