Melchettsmoustache
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Just bought a VR cover. Early June delivery.
They must be turning a decent profit on those with a healthy backlog
They must be turning a decent profit on those with a healthy backlog
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HTC Vive Launch Thread -- Computer, activate holodeck
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You just have to adjust the headset until your eyes line up properly, only takes a few seconds
Which one did you get?
I ordered the waterproof one back at the end of March and it said it wouldn't be ready until May. I'm glad I did because it's really easy to work up a sweat in the more active games.
Awesome, cant wait until I get Motion Sickness in Dying Light, again and again.
artsi
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vorpX works but it seems damn weird in many ways. From the games I tried Skyrim was the only one that felt somewhat right, but it's difficult to setup. I have to continue fiddling with it.
But what I noticed is that the cinema mode beats Virtual Desktop and SteamVR cinema modes, it looks very nice and also supports 3D.
But what I noticed is that the cinema mode beats Virtual Desktop and SteamVR cinema modes, it looks very nice and also supports 3D.
ReVive lets you play Rift-supported games on Vive, whereas VorpX lets you play non-VR games in VR. Not to be confused with apps that let you play non-VR games on a virtual flatscreen in VR.
Dusktildawn48
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Any chance you could try alien isolation? Id be forever grateful
Wow, that's a hell of a nice thing! Must've been quite the call to get.
artsi
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I would, but don't have the game
Witcher 3 seems to work pretty nicely. The only problem is that the camera still rotates around Geralt, if it was independent camera like in Lucky's Tale, Chronos etc. it would be awesome.
Definitely made me feel important, haha. Just very unexpected and exciting for sure!
EDIT: Now time for my money to disappear into VR games.
Awesome, thanks for the clarification. Would definitely like to hear impressions about how well vorpx works as there are many titles I would look foward to replaying in vr.
Melchettsmoustache
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The waterproof one is the only one in stock just now.
It's probably the one I'd have went for regardless. I'll be doing lots of demoing.
Would you think it would be worth it even without demoing?
Has anyone tried Alan Wake with this? Alan Wake is one of my most favorite games. I imagine it doesn't work well though. If anyone has any experience with Alan Wake on VR, let me know your thoughts and whether not it's worth experiencing in VR or not.
Sleeping Lesson
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I'd love to know too, Kevin! I don't even need to play through the game, I just want to be in Bright Falls.
Melchettsmoustache
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I'd lean that way anyway because it's more of a faux leather I think which should clean easier and I'd prefer that anyway.
That just happened to me for the first time. I thought it was an update or something. Well there was an update for Vive I installed just before I used it. Just to clarify, it looks like of like the normal SteamVR but with a lot of features missing including desktop mode and some other round icons you'd see on the bottom part.
BigTnaples
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Zepp Twofist
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Has anyone tried The Climb with revive?
VlaudTheImpaler
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So, any VorpX Vive Impressions? I want to buy It but I need to know that it runs good on my hardware since it's $40 bones and there are no refunds.
Allnamestakenlol
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I think I'm going to start doing the same. Really weird how it continues to put out so much heat when not in use.
Militant17
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You're good. I think GPU RAM would be more important for VR. But you're good for Vive.
Allnamestakenlol
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So, do games played using vorpx need to be running at 90fps to prevent sickness, and if so, how does that work with the fallout (and skyrim) games where physics and other stuff go nuts over 60fps?
Charles Alan Ratliff
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Wanted to exercise tonight, so I played a bunch of Audioshield on its hardest difficulty. Then I moved on to Hover Junkers, which was the most fun I've had with it by far. I partnered up with other players on their own ships for the first time, and I ended up with one guy who was quite good at both driving and shooting. He would collect the loot and fly us around while I kept on the lookout for enemies. My aiming certainly improved, and it felt great so be surrounded by foes and take them all out. At one point I was lying on my back using dual pistols to shoot the person in front of me. So cool.
Then, before taking off my headset for the day, I decided to see what was happening in AltspaceVR. A few minutes after getting in and trying (unsuccessfully) to get someone to play Air Hockey with me, a woman came on. I heard her say that she was on Shark Tank last night, and since I follow her brother on Twitter, I immediately knew who she was. "Are you Justin's sister?" I asked, to which she confirmed. I then looked at her name and saw that she was using his account, which is simply named "justin roiland". It didn't take long for someone to do a Lemongrab impression, which was actually really good. So we all talked about her fashion app, what you can do in AltspaceVR, how people seem to be nicer in virtual reality, and then we all did this (she's the happy floating robot):
The Vive controller train got much longer but I wasn't able to get a good shot of it.
Selfie!
Then, before taking off my headset for the day, I decided to see what was happening in AltspaceVR. A few minutes after getting in and trying (unsuccessfully) to get someone to play Air Hockey with me, a woman came on. I heard her say that she was on Shark Tank last night, and since I follow her brother on Twitter, I immediately knew who she was. "Are you Justin's sister?" I asked, to which she confirmed. I then looked at her name and saw that she was using his account, which is simply named "justin roiland". It didn't take long for someone to do a Lemongrab impression, which was actually really good. So we all talked about her fashion app, what you can do in AltspaceVR, how people seem to be nicer in virtual reality, and then we all did this (she's the happy floating robot):
The Vive controller train got much longer but I wasn't able to get a good shot of it.
Selfie!
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Thanks for the reply. It seems like I'm ok but I saw that movie game that recommended 12GB. I'm wondering whether that's going to be a trend or if I can ignore it until I make a new build.
It wouldn't hurt to upgrade but I think the recommended specs are 8GB. I have 16GB and haven't had any problems.
Militant17
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It is very noticeable, i was actually a bit disappointed with that aspect.
Should be fine. That presenz app only needed 12GB for one of the demos (the beaver jumping around the room). You can check out the static scenes and one shorter video with 8GB
Mr. Pointy
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Friend has a Vive. Been fucking around on Job Simulator, Audioshield and Holoball.
Dreams-Visions
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Well...did you enjoy yourself?
BigTnaples
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Doing a bit of prep for my Vive, downloading Oculus home and whatnot. Stumbled upon this on Reddit from 11 hours ago..
Looks like the creator/s of ReVive have started working on an easy to use UI for launching Rift games via your Vive.
Super pumped.
Looks like the creator/s of ReVive have started working on an easy to use UI for launching Rift games via your Vive.
Super pumped.
Mr. Pointy
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metareferential
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As I said after that one post, yes: it is very noticeable.
But it's far from what VR enthusiasts were accustomed to.
Damn, those fellers are doing the Lord's work!
After seeing your comment I went to youtube and looked around for reviews and VR footage. When I went to the Steam store to buy it I noticed that I had already bought it ages ago and forgot about it.. lol. The sad thing is that this is pretty normal..
metareferential
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Has anyone tried Alan Wake with this? Alan Wake is one of my most favorite games. I imagine it doesn't work well though. If anyone has any experience with Alan Wake on VR, let me know your thoughts and whether not it's worth experiencing in VR or not.
Alan Wake worked great with 3D vision; maybe it's worth a try running it in virtual deskop while enabling 3d vision.
Or trying it in VR altogether with Vorpx.
A shame. Wouldn't that greatly distract you from the VR experience ?
It's hard spending that amount of money without being able to actually try the device.....
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