ChainsawFilms
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Thanks for confirming that. Not the best design decision imo, they should have the 3D levels based around the player's position, with no auto camera at all. That would have been awesome.
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HTC Vive Launch Thread -- Computer, activate holodeck
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Thanks for confirming that. Not the best design decision imo, they should have the 3D levels based around the player's position, with no auto camera at all. That would have been awesome.
Fried Food
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Holopoint is fun. I bet I looked really cool in the real world while playing. I felt like I was moving naturally at least.
ChainsawFilms
Member
The Lab has framerate drops during loading screens. I'm running Steam on a SSD and the OS on a separate SSD, with 32gb of DDR4.
I now just close my eyes during all loading screens, for all games.
Fried Food
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Anyway to adjust how close you have to be to the boundary before the lines show up?
Dusktildawn48
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Game is super funny. Only played the office one but the parodying of a certain movie was great.
DOT DASH DOT
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Great! Sounds like I'll give it a go then.
Yep! I love all the references.
I really hope the technology takes off. The potential is huge for all sorts of applications.
GuitarAtomik
Member
Kind of cross-posting from the Oculus thread, but I played a little bit of Chronos last night. It's amazing how different the game feels in game compared to Youtube videos. I kind of expected it to feel like Lucky's Tale where I was looking at a plushy sized person in a diorama (which is cool in it's own right), but it actually feels like you're a person in the world sitting and watching another person (that you're controlling). It's really cool. Can't wait to see what Edge of Nowhere looks like in game.
Holy crap Budget Cuts. I've been quitting out of the demo because I'm afraid of the robots, but it is so good. Just moving around that level with the teleportation feels so good, and nailing the robots with knives you feel like a badass. That feel when you miss all your knife throws and the robot is staring at you.
Charles Alan Ratliff
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Still no response from HTC regarding replacing my Vive with the dead pixels. Terrible customer service. To make things worse, I was using my Vive without headphones since I was talking on the phone and I noticed that my left Vive controller's trigger makes a squeaky, creaking noise when it depresses.
UnrealEck
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Dusktildawn48
Member
Is there a way to teleport around without it showing the preview of where you're going?
AwesomeMeat
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Depends on the person and on the game. Since there is really no teleporting, simply playing a FPS with a controller for some people will be nauseating.
The other issue is frame drops. If you are unable to rock GTAV and Fallout 4 at high framerates outside of VR, you shouldn't expect more in VR.
The VorpX theater does help with a lot of this. Unlike the other theater modes out there, it actually injects 3D.
Generally if you are prone to nausea and motion sickness, I'd say stay away.
I'm pretty much immune but some games I would still describe as "uncomfortable".
bloodydrake
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just an FYI for racing fans one of the Project Cars Dev's just posted that native Vive support is almost ready for release so good news for those frustrate with the Revive lack of detail.
UnrealEck
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The only things that gave me any nausea was that spell fighter game where you can choose to move around using the trackpad. But that's really extreme. It moves you really fast and like you're hovering.
The other game was Lucky's Tale but that was very very minor. I could still play it but I'd prefer to take a break after every hour or so.
UnrealEck
Member
Open the Steam overlay and go to settings at the bottom right. Then go to general VR settings and reset seated position. Other than that, if it's standing/roomscale you'll need to do room setup again I guess.
metareferential
Member
Finally! I don't want to dig out my DK2 from the closet xD
That sucks, with the dk2 I could of recalibrated myself with the press of a button. I can't play the flight sim.
I got Minecraft Vive up and running with shader mods today. It's amazing to see and I highly recommend using the Lagless shader mod along with Forge. It hardly impacts performance and has a significantly better looks. Set in-game graphics to "fast" for performance if you're worried about that.
UnrealEck
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Maybe you still can. I bet some games will have a binding for it themselves. But for the Vive software/SteamVR itself I don't think there's a button for it.
I noticed in some Rift games they have one. Like Lucky's Tale. You just press the Back button on the Xbox controller.
mr stroke
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link? I've been trying to figure how to watch porn on this thing and can't figure it out. Do I need a separate app or do I need to buy and download "Virtual Desktop"?
Pops Maellard
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How did you install this? I had some shaders installed prior to the VR mod, and the shaders have to be run from a different profile so I can't use them while using VR.
VlaudTheImpaler
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Can you give instructions on how you did it? I think I have forge working finally but I have no mods folder in minecraft. I downloaded shader mod core and I'm supposed to put the file in the minecraft. > mods folder but there is no such folder on my PC so I don't know where to put it to get it to work. There is a Minecraft folder, just not a minecraft"." folder like many things I've seen have been calling for.
EDIT: This is what the install path for minecraft looks like on my PC. C:\Program Files (x86)\Minecraft
Is that normal? The (x86) folder is pretty much what any game that I install on my PC defaults to. Don't know if I should be doing it different. I also can't find the "User > App Data" file path for mincraft or anything else for that matter on my PC without specifically searching for it in explorer.
A possibly faster way is to hold the Steam button (on the Vive controller, Xbox button, or side of headset) until a menu appears. This menu has the recenter right there
Dusktildawn48
Member
Fuck this thing is amazing. Watching the blues play and all I can think about is getting back to the virtual world. Very few things can do that.
artsi
Member
I don't think DCS is playable with Vive right now. Needs ATW at least, plane maneuvers + judder = puke
I can do analog locomotion and whatever, but DCS makes me sick very fast.
War Thunder is pretty nice though, but it's not a simulator.
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Using this tonight has given me a splitting headache, I think I had the straps too tight. My wife is obsessed with job simulator though, so I'm just sat here watching. Might just push through the pain and have a go on Hover Junkers in a bit.
Does anyone know a way to find out what a good motherboard is for high USB bandwidth? I'm going to get one at some point in the next few months and probably one of the new Nvidia cards, but not having 60fps on the Vive camera is driving me nuts and I would like to get a motherboard with insane USB bandwidth. Hell I'm already full up on the one i'm using now. If I plug in another USB device (like my Kindle) it can't handle it.
Nobody has ever looked cool in the real world while playing any VR game
AllenSpawn
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Just finished Vanishing Realms.
Absolutely blown away by it.
I've stupidly spent about £150 on software since I got my vive....turns out I should have only spent £20.
Holopoint...vanishing realms and all the demos/free stuff. (Actually that's unfair...there is some other good stuff).
The sword and shield fighting in Vanishing a Realms is visceral. There was a point when I was fighting two skeletons at once, and waiting for them to swing , so I could block and thrust, that I thought I could have been a contender in the Roman coliseum....it made me feel that good. Ridiculous I know.....
Well worth £15 anyway.
Absolutely blown away by it.
I've stupidly spent about £150 on software since I got my vive....turns out I should have only spent £20.
Holopoint...vanishing realms and all the demos/free stuff. (Actually that's unfair...there is some other good stuff).
The sword and shield fighting in Vanishing a Realms is visceral. There was a point when I was fighting two skeletons at once, and waiting for them to swing , so I could block and thrust, that I thought I could have been a contender in the Roman coliseum....it made me feel that good. Ridiculous I know.....
Well worth £15 anyway.
Drunk Skywalker
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I understand the complaints about elite dangerous and I'm running it on high but holy shit!!! Incredible. Especially with a Hotas
Did you buy Audioshield? You should have bought Audioshield.
Yeah really. Im doing these crazy maneuvers in the virtual space and feeling cool, and my wife walks by and says "you look dumb"
Drunk Skywalker
Member
Ok. So I found some VR videos but how do I actually view them? Using steam VR and it just gives me big screen mode
Dreams-Visions
Member
*high 5*
AllenSpawn
Member
Ha. Yes I did, but I've only managed a few songs so far. Must give it a fair crack of the whip.
Between showing the vive off and Holopoint...haven't really give it a go.
The couple of songs I've tried were on normal and the beats/notes didn't match that well. Is it better to up the difficulty, to get a better note rhythm match??
Teknopathetic
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"When are you supposed to get the free games that comes with the Vive ? They email you the keys sometimes after it shipped ?"
You'll get the bundle code around the time the credit card charge is finalized.
You'll get the bundle code around the time the credit card charge is finalized.
Thanks ! I'll go ahead and read the dozens of previous pages in this thread now lol.
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