Reverb Shock
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Thanks a lot for providing me with this information. I'll definitely take a look at this as I'd like to avoid drilling if I can!
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HTC Vive Launch Thread -- Computer, activate holodeck
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Thanks a lot for providing me with this information. I'll definitely take a look at this as I'd like to avoid drilling if I can!
Yeah, that's really the exciting part about all this, right? How is Bethesda going to make navigation work in an open-world. We could potentially see an experimental movement system instead of just the refactor teleport mechanic and that's very exciting.
qa_engineer
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I am surprised there aren't any Fallout 4 VR first impression videos out there. Very curious as to how it will play or control.
d00d3n
Member
Bethesda did not allow camera equipment at their venue if I remember correctly.
Pool Nation is so good, yet something is off about it. It looks great and the motion for taking shots feels good too. But the aiming is just weird. You're going through the motions of how you'd aim in real life, but really you're just watching the ghost ball and checking the dot on the cue ball is roughly in the right place. Your left hand floating in space is just wrong.
Has anyone tried it with a surface to rest your hand on - does it make a big difference?
Has anyone tried it with a surface to rest your hand on - does it make a big difference?
Karak
Member
Correct completely shut down everything in that regard
in Steam shortcuts turn off the theatre mode and the other option above it and play with those 2 in combination? Also make sure your headset is in direct mode.
GuitarAtomik
Member
Left-Hand Path should be releasing in early access next week. Looks cool, but I can see it going either way.
Dark Souls-inspired Room-Scale Virtual Reality RPG where you hold the power of magic in your hands. Learn arcane gestures to cast powerful spells. Battle fearsome foes who give no quarter, and find your way through a weird, magical landscape.
Wrestlemania
Banned
Serious Sam VR!
Early access in Summer. VIve and Rift, but uses motion controllers. Sweet! No movement, looks like it's forward facing like Space Pirate Trainer.
Early access in Summer. VIve and Rift, but uses motion controllers. Sweet! No movement, looks like it's forward facing like Space Pirate Trainer.
Zepp Twofist
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Hellshadow
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oh god my room is gonna get destroyed playing serious sam vr lol
So this is how Bethesda is getting me to buy Fallout 4.
FWIW, a gesture-controlled dungeon crawler with a focus on magic was one of my initial 3 room-scale-VR-game-with-tracked-controller ideas that I thought would work reall well and take advantage of the platform.
Sounds intriguing, but as you say it could go either way.
FWIW, a gesture-controlled dungeon crawler with a focus on magic was one of my initial 3 room-scale-VR-game-with-tracked-controller ideas that I thought would work reall well and take advantage of the platform.
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bloodydrake
Cool Smoke Luke
i use a cane in my front hand to keep it steady and so far it works ok
2 issues are 1. the floor height isn't consistent so i always have to adjust 2. the back grip hand is tucked tomuch into your side and this leads to tracking issues when they fix so you can hold it farther back on the stick that back hand will be behind your body and better exposed
Zalusithix
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Elaboration here? The floor of your real life play space isn't completely flat, or the game isn't mapping the virtual floor totally level with the real floor?
bloodydrake
Cool Smoke Luke
in the game you can raise or lower the height of the floor so the table height moves up or down with it.
However eversession it resets so you constantly need to readjust..once they fix calibrating your table height and it saves to your profile i'm sure it will be better
Abnormalia
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Astral/H3X
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Super Hot whyyyyyyy
I'd keep hopeful. Their "for now, we concentrate on Oculus" quote makes it seem like just a timed exclusive at most.
Unless there's some more recent quote I missed?
GuitarAtomik
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So looks like Giant Cop literally took out Vive support and is now Oculus Touch exclusive.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/4nxg2e/giant_cop_no_longer_coming_to_the_vive_now_listed/
I think I'm using the lowest AA setting right now. PCars is extremely demanding, and even the GTX1080 is struggling. So I use low settings in general. But without reprojection, at native 90Hz the image appears to be a lot clearer!
I turned off reprojection, turned on the frame drop notification in the Steam VR settings, and then tried different tracks, visuals, number of cars etc. It's hard to find the best scenario, because you need to restart the game for every graphic tweak, and every track has "that spot" which provokes framedrops.. Spa is impossible!
Oh, and a tip for everyone; PCars look extremely overexposed/washed out in the Vive at times. But go to the "Exposure Compensation" in the visuals setting and turn it down to "70" or something, that'll fix it.
After testing I found out that reprojection/timewarp is even worse than I imagined.. It kills IQ and steal presence. A little bit of async timewarp would help as a band aid for some light drops, but believe that developers is key to smooth out the difference between the highs and lows to ensure a somewhat stable power curve at native framerate.
Zalusithix
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Might just be a mistake. If it's Touch exclusive, I wouldn't expect it to even have a listing on Steam. Usually the Oculus buyouts result in a Oculus Home only situation.
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This is such a bad look. I know it won't matter to some, but I just find it disgusting.
GuitarAtomik
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95% sure it showed the Vive logo on the store page not too long ago so I believe that was removed as well. I don't think I would have put it on my wishlist if it hadn't.
EDIT: Clarification from devs. Timed exclusive.
Zalusithix
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Timed exclusive it is. Only a partial money hat. =P
I'm on a GTX 780 so I can't even use it yet.
The third parties need to hurry it up with those 1080s!
Wowfunhappy
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So for the past couple weeks I've been using my Vive with a GTX 970. It generally worked well, but I could definitely tell that most (if not all) games were stuttering, and largely for this reason I just got a 1070. I'd expected all the stutter to go away.
The weird thing is, the stutter isn't gone, or even improved as far as I can tell. It's not just my imagination either, SteamVR shows a ton of dropped frames.
What's going on?
The weird thing is, the stutter isn't gone, or even improved as far as I can tell. It's not just my imagination either, SteamVR shows a ton of dropped frames.
What's going on?
Why is that scary?
Compsiox
Banned
Free Vive
Wowfunhappy
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Huh?
Are you talking about native VR games/experiences in general?
Wowfunhappy
Member
Yeah.
Like, the first thing I did when I got my 1070 (after installing drivers and stuff) was fire up The Blu, and it was still getting noticeable framerate drops. Same thing in Lucky's Tale.
Performance in non-VR games has improved a ton, so my card is working.
Edit: AND I have an i6-6600K @ 4.4Ghz, so my cpu shouldn't be causing dips either.
Zalusithix
Member
CPU limited?
Edit: Never mind. Not that.
DouglasteR
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Weak CPU.
USB chipset is slow/weak (switch to USB 2.0, just to be sure)
Dont launch game thru the SteamVR interface (while using the vive)
Zepp Twofist
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I read someone on reddit having an issue like this a while back. They claimed they solved it by connecting to the USB2 instead of USB3 port on their moderboard.
Trojita
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Getting that shit stolen by a savvy passerby?
But you need to sign for delivery
Zalusithix
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You should need to sign, but some delivery people are less than honest about that sort of thing.
Compsiox
Banned
LOL im sorry replied to wrong post
Just chiming in here since getting my Vive. Awesome experience. I picked up the Avantree Audition Pro bluetooth headphones since the cable was driving me nuts. They seem to support low latency and in games timing sounded fine so far. Just a heads up if anyone is using a bluetooth headset, go into device manager and DISABLE wireless telephony. If it's enabled, the headphones take a huge quality hit on audio.
Hover Junker, HordeZ and Audioshield have been fantastic so far. Enjoying the experience immensely.
Hover Junker, HordeZ and Audioshield have been fantastic so far. Enjoying the experience immensely.
Hows HordeZ?
It was a pretty polished shooter. Instead of being stationary, the game slowly moves you through the dungeon area. Has a few different levels, different monsters, etc... All of your guns share the same pool of ammo and have different attributes (i.e. pistol is single shot but powerful and has a flashlight, assault rifle fires fast and has a laser sight). The game is fairly shallow, monsters rush you and you shoot them. You can move around a little and you use a special gravity gun to pick up ammo.
Production values and graphics are fairly good. It's just good fun though fighting off the monsters from multiple directions. It's interesting when you have to fire in two separate directions, one of which you can't see so you're just blind firing. Guns look cool.
Overall, I don't regret the purchase. It apparently has co-op or something too, but I've never found a network game.
MikeE21286
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I'm surprised to hear it isn't. I didn't have the audio on during the Ubi conference but I had just assumed they were showing a VR game
Just the fact that anyone along the shipping path knows exactly what's in the box at a glance.
Owlowiscious
Member
bleh. and now I'm trying to get a refund for a preorder.
Nope, wasn't required for mine at least. FedEx to Canada, going to a house - they just put it on the porch.
Croatoan
They/Them A-10 Warthog
People who bought the oculus chair are fucking over the future of VR with their money. Its depressing what that sellout, and his device, have become, and what Facebook is doing to this fledgling industry.
I cant belive Carmack went along with this crap.
Its not just exclusive games either, Oculus seems to still have nothing but contempt for room scale. But hey, get excited for your likely $300+ peripheral controllers for our niche display tech.
Ugh, sorry, just a Lil frustrated.
I cant belive Carmack went along with this crap.
Its not just exclusive games either, Oculus seems to still have nothing but contempt for room scale. But hey, get excited for your likely $300+ peripheral controllers for our niche display tech.
Ugh, sorry, just a Lil frustrated.
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