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HTC Vive Launch Thread -- Computer, activate holodeck
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Dusktildawn48
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Dann lucky. I tried on another email to do that glitch and noda. My original order is march 13th
I don't know what you are upset about? I ordered March 1'st, said it was gonna ship in may and since they charged our cards, it will ship in May, which is next week. We are still in April sadly.
First world privilege.
I ordered on March 24th and got my shipping confirmation tonight saying it will be delivered on Monday.
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Twist the knife.
I have been checking my emails like mad myself. The anticipation is unreal.
Have you checked to make sure you bank isn't holding up the payment?
Had mine for a week, definitely still have a lot of fun every time I put it on. Audioshield has been my #1 go to game but there are a good amount of others I play regularly (Holopoint). A week is still early but the device seems like it has momentum from what I can see. There are times, driving around Hover Junkers where it makes me really want a large open world game in that universe. That in VR will be nuts. Huge potential it will probably be a while before companies think it will be profitable spending that much on developing a VR game though.
Yeah I think this might well be it then. That my TV defaults to 640x480 because it thinks it's the fourth or fifth screen, even though it doesn't show any other connections.
artsi
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It's cool. It's not blowing my mind every day or anything, but I think the purchase was worth it. I'm kind of bored with the game content, but there's always porn, AltspaceVR, and stuff.
Only if Project Cars worked properly, the graphic settings are fucked up right now playing with the Revive injector.
Wrestlemania
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Still using it to demo to people. Not using it when I'm on my own.
I have it since three weeks already. I played a lot of SPT, Audioshield and Hover Junkers. Those are the ones with great replayability. Then I have Vanishing Realms, Final Approach and The Gallery which I played at a slower pace. And each time I put the headset on I try a new thing from the big list of games/experiences that I have on my Steam VR. So I still enjoy it as much.
I'm still not done even trying everything out since every time I put the headset on I only play Audioshield and Holopoint
After about 2 weeks of playing games with it, I've finally moved over to developing for the thing and am falling even deeper in love with the Vive. I still play games because I have the headset hooked up pretty much constantly, but I've switched over from the living room to the office primarily because it's easier to do work there.
Some of the shallower games have lost their appeal, but that's expected. When you talk about "shine wearing off" you are talking about two things - is there enough engaging content to keep me entertained, and am I still taken by VR. As with all early product launches, content is light. Some games, like Space Pirate Trainer or Audio shield, I feel I can keep coming back to for a long time, and indeed I do keep coming back. Experiences like TheBlu are more like VHS tapes to me, I'm glad I own them and they're good to pop out every now and then when I want to blow my mind, but like video tapes I'm not going back and watching them every day. As more content comes out, I will continue to consume it, however. I'm trying to decide between buying The Climb now and playing with Revive or waiting to see if they announce a native Vive port.
One thing is clear, however - I am still very much taken by VR. The feeling that I'm doing something I've never really done before is still really strong, and I like it. Funnily enough, as we've transitioned into the VR era, I find myself being nostalgic about the Sega Saturn, because that was really my big transition into 3D, not the N64 (although I had a 32X before my saturn). I remember looking at games like Panzer Dragoon and Virtua Fighter and thinking that entirely new games were possible that weren't possible before. And I feel that same feeling of exploration in VR. That's precisely why I've fallen more in love with VR while developing for the Vive. Having a VR headset is fun, but having a reliable expectation of something to track your hands (without wires!), and having the headset work in 360 degrees instead of forward 180, and all around the room at that, is incredibly liberating. I got peaks of this type of set up when I would dev with my DK2 and Razer Hydra, but the Vive as a piece of kit is so far beyond in every way. Especially the SDK - SteamVR makes doing hand tracking and tracking my position in the room a breeze. I feel like I have an entirely new kind of blank canvas before me, like finally everything in VR is good enough to the point where I can start making the kind of projects I've been dreaming about since I first read about the DK1.
In the next couple of years, some incredible VR stuff is going to come out simply because everything is finally good enough.
I'm still not done even trying everything out since every time I put the headset on I only play Audioshield and Holopoint
I keep trying Audioshield and it mostly still crashes (although, last time it started without problems,) only refunded TheBlu (it's boring, Irrational Exuberance demo is much better as a demo,) don't have Holopoint yet and I still have the same problem.
just tried - both Xbox one streaming and PS4 remote play work fine in Virtual Desktop. The downside is that you need a relatively large field of view covered to mitigate the low resolution (on the 'home theater' environment the screen is quite small and therefore a lot of detail is lost). But if you make it too big so that you lose some of the surrounding environment as an anchor, then it can feel a bit weird - Forza Horizon 2 and Trackmania Turbo might be extreme examples, but you need some grounding.
VlaudTheImpaler
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This is very interesting, and I'd love to know how they're doing it. Their website is very vague.
It *looks* like light fields, but they say it's something else.
I *think* it's a low-poly scene, unlit, with the rendered lighting baked in. This explains the lack of correct specular information.
I couldn't get this to launch directly from SteamVR, had to go into desktop mode and launch from there.
Interesting demo. You have a few static scenes and quite a limited space to move in - you get a white outlined box to show where your head needs to be. But the parallax does add something to the effect and the quality is decent. It flips between a few static scenes including one on a bridge with two soldiers which is a bit freaky because one of them is very close to you and you're just hoping he doesn't suddenly turn to look you in the eye. There are a few images showing the fancy room with the robot in too, which are taken from the animation but are just presented as static scenes.
There are two animated scenes - one you need 12GB ram for. The first is a clip from an advert it looks like - a world made of kitchen towel with tiny people running around in a garden. You have to sit down to watch this clip. The effect with parallax is impressive and you have full 360 views.
The large demo takes a while to load and requires you to have 12GB ram. This clip is of the fancy room with robot and beaver. This one made me jump because when you start the demo it shows you the same static views - dragon, soliders on bridge, robot in room. But then a big furry beaver jumps out from behind the chair the robot is sitting on and then it all goes weird.
Definitely worth checking out and I assume it should work on both OR and Vive as its just a passive experience.
some of the demos are really impressive - the first one is a fairy with a huge dragon behind her. The dragon is too far away to see close up, but the fairy's hair has some edge aliasing. The soldiers on the bridge look great - quite like the photogrammetry scans I tried back on the DK1. The separate cars demo looked a lot more low fidelity - there was a lot of noise in shadows and quite a lot of edge aliasing - the first car is an old one with big wheel arches and it was noticable there.
VlaudTheImpaler
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Oh, and I wasn't talking about that app in general I was referring to the technique used. I can imagine so many possibilities for movie makers.
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I paid with PayPal. Money went out straight away. My order says "in process"
http://steamcommunity.com/games/322770/announcements/detail/603856846835513394
Vanishing Realms got a great update:
Edit: also beta SteamVR adds support for skins for controllers and lighthouses models via workshop.
Edit2: new Space Pirate Trainer update:
Vanishing Realms got a great update:
Edit: also beta SteamVR adds support for skins for controllers and lighthouses models via workshop.
Edit2: new Space Pirate Trainer update:
Will the Thrill
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My Vive shipped! Scheduled for Delivery on Monday! Never thought I'd get it this early, now just gotta make sure I'm home quick after my one class in the morning...... Are you able to leave a note with a signature for fed ex?
I certainly would, but my current office room is large enough to do both.
In steam, right mouse button click SteamVR, select properties, go to the last tab en select beta from the dropdown. (And then curse out bitdefender for flagging it
)(This is from memory, so it might be a different tab.)
In steam, right mouse button click SteamVR, select properties, go to the last tab en select beta from the dropdown. (And then curse out bitdefender for flagging it
(This is from memory, so it might be a different tab.)
Ahh that makes sense. Don't know why I didn't think to try that.
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GuitarAtomik
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Legend of Luca got updated with teleport movement as well. It's now the default option:
Moved weapon selection to the pause menu.
Fixed Victory achievement not being awarded.
Fixed controller vibration haptics.
Added 5 new upgrade items created by Dragonsslay http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198042030562/
Zalusithix
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Depth from occlusion, parallax, convergence, stereoscopy and such: yes. Depth from eye accommodation: no. Everything is focused on the same plane.
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I'm planning on mounting my lighthouses to the walls, is there going to be an issue when I want to do seated games like Elite? Do they recommend placing them any differently for these type of games?
Sleeping Lesson
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Nope, you'll be fine. Tracking is extremely accurate.
Vyse The Legend
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VR is exhausting, y'all. I'm physically fit, but I was playing Budget Cuts yesterday, and man... I was ducking, dodging, heart racing whenever the robots spotted me.
Also, a quick anecdote on immersion: I was playing barefoot, and walking around in The Lab when I saw some sharp floor grating. I stopped in my tracks, and feared that I would hurt myself if I stepped on it.
Also, a quick anecdote on immersion: I was playing barefoot, and walking around in The Lab when I saw some sharp floor grating. I stopped in my tracks, and feared that I would hurt myself if I stepped on it.
Zalusithix
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So long as your seated area is within the lighthouse bounds, you'll be fine.
And on a completely unrelated note, I did my first return to contacts last night after over a decade of using only glasses. Going to need toric lenses I think. Have slight astigmatism that my glasses correct, and everything is crystal clear. I guess she figured it was low enough to give normal contacts a shot, but everything was slightly off - moreso in the closer ranges. Sometimes could focus nearly perfectly, sometimes it would be off. Fine details were objectively worse than glasses at all ranges. Thought it might have just been an adjustment thing at first, but after hours it was no better. Damn you VR for enticing me down this route again!
It's in my living room. I just need to move the coffee table anytime I want to play
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Thanks people. Didn't want to mount them and then realise I'd fucked up my seated experience.
Dusktildawn48
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Order date?
DOT DASH DOT
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Just an update for anyone wondering if HTC replace over stuck/dead pixels, I've just heard back (with Julia pushing my end) that mine is regarded as faulty with 1 blue stuck pixel, and they'll send me a new headset tomorrow, which is a Saturday, but we'll see.
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