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I was thinking about these instead. With the clamps you linked.
http://www.amazon.com/StudioPRO-Photography-Stands-Carrying-Studio/dp/B00HNZJLG4?ie=UTF8&keywords=set%20of%202%20tripods&qid=1461618725&ref_=sr_1_1&s=instant-video&sr=8-1
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HTC Vive Launch Thread -- Computer, activate holodeck
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I was thinking about these instead. With the clamps you linked.
http://www.amazon.com/StudioPRO-Photography-Stands-Carrying-Studio/dp/B00HNZJLG4?ie=UTF8&keywords=set%20of%202%20tripods&qid=1461618725&ref_=sr_1_1&s=instant-video&sr=8-1
Some noobish questions - do the base stations need to be facing downward at an angle, or can I just sit them on a shelf in a "straight" position? Follow up question - can I just sit them on a shelf by themselves, or do they have to be immobilized/stabilized somehow? I have shelves and closets in the corners of my room so I am looking for a method of installing the base stations which has highest possible Spouse Acceptance Factor
888
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According to the manual for the vive it is recommended that they be at an angle downwards.
AwesomeMeat
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So the Revive injector project is just bad ass. Subnautica (steam version) is working fine using it on the Vive. I have quite a few games that I bought when I thought I was going to have the Rift... and now I can play them!
OmarTheHippo
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Just mount it to a piece of wood, angle it down, and put some weights on it (books, rocks, etc). Seen a few people post setups like thatI was afraid of that. The kit should include sloping stands for shelf or top of cupboard placement
CarbonFire
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I was afraid of that. The kit should include sloping stands for shelf or top of cupboard placement
If you're at all handy, you can cut a 2x4 at an angle, drill a hole through the center, and screw the base stations into the block with a 1/4" bolt from underneath.
If not, since you're not fighting with gravity, you can use command adhesive underneath the included mounting bracket and temporarily mount them on whatever shelves you're using.
I was afraid of that. The kit should include sloping stands for shelf or top of cupboard placement
I have one on top of a shelf angled down on the long strip as much as possible as to still be in equilibrium and not topple over. On top of that the cable is heavy enough to act as a safety weight anyhow. Now I put also this photos box to have it higher, but previously I had it directly on the shelf:
I just watched Dredd in Theater mode. Was pretty cool.
How do you do this? Just got mine today, so I'm still figuring things out.
eternalthree
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I use a mini tripod for one basestation located on top of a tall ikea bookcase. the other one is on a tripod on top of a bunch of boxes. Moving next week, and I'm looking toward possibly poles and clamps, or clamps and bookshelves. last option is to wall mount.
Ive been spending the last few days remaking the first level of goldeneye in vr. Ive built a teleport system similar to budget cuts and cloned the gunplay of space pirate trainer, including the bullet time and "shield pull" system, and I've got rudimentary ai. Now im I'm working on the actual map itself.
This is just a little exercise to familiarize myself with steamvr and vive development. If this winds up being fun to play, i'll throw it online for people try.
This is just a little exercise to familiarize myself with steamvr and vive development. If this winds up being fun to play, i'll throw it online for people try.
The field of view for the lighthouses is 120 degrees. So if you mount them horizontally on the edge of a bookcase, there will be a blind spot directly below them. If you have e ought space that shouldn't be a problem. Otherwise you'll need to angle them down at least 30 degrees to cover the space directly below them
Hellshadow
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Rent a movie on Steam. Using your Vive bring up the steam interface, your movie will be under videos. Then select theater mode and enjoy.
Dreams-Visions
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has quite a bit of charm, though simple and fairly empty.
AllenSpawn
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Omg that would be amazing! Golden/budget eye cross would really work! Sneaky shooting fun!
Get it online!
Not sure about the Dam jump at the end though!
Aah, so you have to rent it. That's what I was missing. Thanks.
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Someone was selling their Vive for the price he paid for it in the OcUK member market. I was so tempted to buy it from them, but then someone else local to the seller nabbed it.
Thanks!
Sucks that this will essentially make the Vive cost an extra hundred bucks though.
It's mainly a learning exercise and a base to build off of for an original title. I'm just recreating that level from goldeneye so I don't have to waste time designing a level to test my concepts.
I also have this idea I'm working on to expand the chaperone system to include a chair in the corner of your play space. I've got an idea so that players will be able to walk up to vehicles and actually sit down in them like they're a part of the level, but it involves devoting a tiny bit of your chaperone area to a chair in the corner. It's conceptual right now, but that's probably the next thing I'm going to work on.
flashburn2012
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I just watched Dredd in Theater mode. Was pretty cool.
Stupid question, but how do you do this?
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Post #5113 on this very page.
flashburn2012
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Ah thanks. Too bad it only works with rentals in Steam. It'd be nice if we could view any video.
KatamariOnTheRocks
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Great idea, if you do end up putting it up online I'd love to try it out.
Did you follow any particular guides to implement the gunplay or are you figuring it out as you go along?
I'm curious what the process is like to decouple aiming compared to making a traditional fps.
Allnamestakenlol
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Whaaaaaaaa!! =O
Charles Alan Ratliff
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Just got done using my Vive for the first time. It's incredible. It gives me the magical feeling I was hoping to get with the Oculus Rift but didn't. I've only done a few levels of The Lab so far and am just taking a small break to eat. I have so much to try!
I got the Pre-Order Authorization email on April 15th and was charged on April 21st.
Also, anybody got an answer my question above? Can't get that to work.
flashburn2012
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Just got my Pre-authorization email for my order I placed on 4/4. It was listed as shipping in May at that time. I already got one through... other means, but I might get this one for... other means.
It's the best I could do with an unfinished basement and like $250, but I am ready for June now!
looks nice dude!
You can downsample Space Pirate Trainer as well. Hit Escape while in-game and you can adjust resolution scale in the steam VR options.
It murders performance though and I haven't seen much improvement visually. Seems like a lot of the aliasing in that game is shader aliasing
Hellsing321
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I just got my pre-authorization email! How helpful is it contact my bank? They've never declined a transaction for this credit card before but I want to make sure everything goes smoothly. I use Wells Fargo fwiw.
piratepwnsninja
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Which engine are you using? Unity or UE4?
UE4
speaking of which, does UE4 not have a state for the vive motion controllers to detect if you are touching the pad? Not pressing it, just touching it?
mrchampipi
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I was afraid of that. The kit should include sloping stands for shelf or top of cupboard placement
I know people don't recommand M3 tape, but it works really well if the lighthouses are sticked vertically on a bookshelf. Been rocking this setup for a week, and the mounting is perfecttly sturdy.
EDIT: of course, that lamp is off when I use the Vive.. said:
piratepwnsninja
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That's kind of what I've been leaning towards as well, just based on ease of use.
It'd be weird if it didn't have the touch pad detection, but I haven't gotten in to play with it yet.
ShadowSoldier89
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I was already playing that game...now its like the waiting with some kind of window gameJust got my Pre-Order Auth. email too! now we play the waiting game!!!
I've mainly worked in UE4 over unity in the past, but only with the Oculus Rift. This is also the first time I've really worked with motion controls in UE4 - with HL2VR we just worked with the Sixense API directly. But yeah, UE4 is super easy to use thus far. In just a weekend of work, I've already cloned a bunch of gameplay systems I've seen in smaller games that I want to use to build a larger, more featured game. It's pretty easy to go from concept to execution in UE4. Also part of my exercise - I've done absolutely everything in blueprint. I've been trying to learn blueprint for a while now, and it's sort of starting to click.
UE4's abstraction for the motion controllers is awesome, I tested it and it works interoperably with my razer hydra and my vive controllers. But their abstraction is also why it seems to be lacking a touch state. You have a variety of states for the controller, but no touch on/off. You can detect a state of pressing the touchpad (it's seen as a thumbstick click), you can detect an X/Y of the touchpad (it's seen as a thumbstick X/Y), and you can treat the touchpad as 4 buttons in a diamond cluster (they are facebuttons 1-4), but I can't find anything to detect touch state.
The Steam Controller API itself has a separate state for touch on/off. I've only been working with their abstraction layer for motion controls, so perhaps the vive api itself has a state for touch that UE4 doesn't report right now.
Figuring it out on my own. I just started with a completely blank UE4 project and began from there.
UE4 takes care of a lot of the abstraction for you. Your default character pawn's camera will automatically inherit the VR camera if you've chosen the option. You have to add a SteamVR component to your pawn so that it'll track around the room. You also add a couple of motion controller components - one for each hand - and can bind them to a mesh to represent your limbs. There are 2 different SteamVR state machines that return information you need - one for head tracking component, and one for hand tracking component (which handles both left and right). From these state machines you can get real world position and real world orientation, as well as control steamVR directly (turn on and off chaperone, interface with vive controllers, etc). Your camera position is separate from your pawn position, but you can get relative position by using the location of the pawn vs the real world location of the camera (or hands).
So, like, I'm not really starting out with an FPS template. I've just got my head and hands tracked, and I've been designing concepts around that. Like, I don't have to program "aim" into my game - I just look at which direction my hands are facing and use that as a forward vector.
VR game development is really very different from normal game development, and there are little tutorials or guides that explain how concepts work, both programmatically and functionally. Like, there is no drag and drop VR teleportation system yet, so I had to create one from scratch. It involved some trajectory calculation, I wound up actually projecting a small sphere mesh that I gave rubber properties around the scene, and as soon as it touched a ground object it would stick and spawn a camera location for the viewport on my hand.
MyleMan1010
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I got my email too! This is crazy exciting. Hopefully the wait from here isn't too bad.
TheChewyWaffles
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I got a couple hours in with the Vive. Pretty cool, but I have a couple issues:
1. I feel like things are always slightly out of focus for some reason. It would work better if I could keep the HMD tighter to my face, but the headband doesn't wrap around far enough behind my head to get a good grip. What should I do here?
2. The front of the Vive kinda digs into my cheeks right below my eye sockets. Seems like they could figure out how to fix this in the future.
3. It's hot.
4. It's a bit heavy.
5. I can't get the Virtual Desktop or Steam's VR desktop to work. I just get a black screen with a mouse cursor that doesn't move.
6. What's the best way to mirror the display so others can see it? Since the Vive uses my HDMI port to send a display to the HMD I don't have another port to plug in to since I want to run it to a projector which needs an HDMI port.
All in all, it was a fun experience. My son and daughter really got a kick out of it and kept asking to do more.
1. I feel like things are always slightly out of focus for some reason. It would work better if I could keep the HMD tighter to my face, but the headband doesn't wrap around far enough behind my head to get a good grip. What should I do here?
2. The front of the Vive kinda digs into my cheeks right below my eye sockets. Seems like they could figure out how to fix this in the future.
3. It's hot.
4. It's a bit heavy.
5. I can't get the Virtual Desktop or Steam's VR desktop to work. I just get a black screen with a mouse cursor that doesn't move.
6. What's the best way to mirror the display so others can see it? Since the Vive uses my HDMI port to send a display to the HMD I don't have another port to plug in to since I want to run it to a projector which needs an HDMI port.
All in all, it was a fun experience. My son and daughter really got a kick out of it and kept asking to do more.
Your video card only has 1 video port? no Display port connection, no DVI?
TheChewyWaffles
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Yah, it has more than 1, but my 2nd screen is a projector that I hook up to via HDMI. My 980ti only has 1 HDMI port
1. 2. I thought tighting it would make it better too. But it ends up helping if you actually loosen it to the point where the side straps almost but don't touch your ears. Then rest the hedset comfortably and then tightend the sides.
3. 4. Yeah it is, but I've gotten used to it. I don't sweat playing Windlands but I did during Vanishing Realms. Buckets.
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