Dreams-Visions
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was going to order, but $17 shipped? wut.
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HTC Vive Launch Thread -- Computer, activate holodeck
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was going to order, but $17 shipped? wut.
runningjoke
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It makes Assetto Corsa look much better. I can actually read the numbers on the tach now instead of just seeing a blur. Now to find a way to add AA.
Assetto Corsetta works with the Vive? How good is it with a controller?
Got some clothespins? Works too.
runningjoke
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Needs Revive. I found it fun enough with a controller, but I'm now using a T300RS
Ah, ok. Thanks for clearing that up. I'm happy that I was wrong ☺
Zalusithix
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Yeah, the service linked to from Thingiverse nails you on the shipping/startup. They're not really optimized around making a single small object. There might be better values out there, but I haven't shopped around, and would depend on where in the world it's being shipped to.
Ouside of having somebody you know make one on the cheap, also check locally for makerspaces. I know our local library has 3D printers available.
MrCompletely
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They are calling this a tech demo, be patient.
AwesomeMeat
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I just tested it and the xbox 360 controller works fine. Just like I mentioned though, be very careful not to set your vive controller down too far away or it will think you left the cabinet/console.
This is good
Zalusithix
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I've been doing advanced from the get go. Should just be the default. Clicking around is extremely easy and works like a charm. Also, everybody should make asymmetrical chaperone bounds, even if its artificial. Makes it super easy to tell which way you're oriented in the real world without pulling up the camera feed.
Fried Food
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Nice tip. My only concern is that I'd have to make the discrepancy large enough to notice and therefore lose crucial real-estate.
Zalusithix
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I use developer settings for chaperone. So no walls for me, and a constant dim boundary on the ground plane. Any notch with those settings is quite easy to see at a glance. You could even notch outwards into "unsafe" territory if you're not using a full room. It's not like you wouldn't know that small chunk of space is still unsafe, and it wouldn't be factored into the actual created play zone either way.
shiftplusone
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I got a s-biner for like 4 dollars at a home depot, works great
amazon has em too
Pool Nation VR gets an Air Hockey table (in beta for now) and new darts modes.
http://steamcommunity.com/games/269170/announcements/detail/877456033724020446
http://steamcommunity.com/games/269170/announcements/detail/877456033724020446
Zalusithix
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You'd have to zip tie the cable to one of those to be comparable as the clip serves to keep the cable in place, but also to keep the cable weight and pulling force from ever reaching the headset.
You can technically emulate it for free by just stuffing a loop of cable through a belt loop. Has its downsides, but it costs nothing, and everybody already has the materials. The clip is just an elegant solution designed specifically for the issue.
Hari Seldon
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IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad has added Preliminary VIVE Support!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is immediately the best game currently on VR if you like realistic WWII flight sims.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/307960/
Has anyone tried it yet? I really need to get home and try this.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/307960/
Has anyone tried it yet? I really need to get home and try this.
Hey GAF! I've been having way too much trouble with HTC Support. SO annoying.
So I bought the Vive on the 16th, I can't find the bundled games Steam codes anywhere. I've checked HTC website and verified that the procedure is for them to send the codes via email after the purchase from their website.
However, I bought it straight from a retail Microsoft Store. Vive support told me the codes were supposed to be on the receipt but they weren't.
Has anyone dealt with a similar issue? If so, how did you solve it?
So I bought the Vive on the 16th, I can't find the bundled games Steam codes anywhere. I've checked HTC website and verified that the procedure is for them to send the codes via email after the purchase from their website.
However, I bought it straight from a retail Microsoft Store. Vive support told me the codes were supposed to be on the receipt but they weren't.
Has anyone dealt with a similar issue? If so, how did you solve it?
Hari Seldon
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IL-2 is probably the definitive WWII sim. War thunder is more of an arcade WWII game. I haven't played DCS so I'm not sure how it compares. I thought DCS was more of a regular sim and not a combat sim and only had a couple WWII planes.
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Really? It came to £5 for me.
Wow, I need to buy this now. Been waiting for a WW2 flight sim to get support.
Those steam reviews are not kind to this game tho...
DCS Is a normal sim, but of combat aircraft so it includes combat. I haven't played it but have watched a lot of videos of it. It looks very much like Su-27 flanker which I played a lot on PC about - gulp - 20 years ago!? By the same team too
Anyone know why my gpu usage on my 1080 stays around 30-40% in Project Cars in VR, is that usage in Afterburner accurate in VR? I expected a big leap over my 970 but it's just not doing it. The card runs correctly otherwise in other games on my monitor. Been playing tons of GTA V and Battlefront in 4K and The Division at 1440p just fine at 60 fps.Also played Elite Dangerous in VR with the VR High preset and it was butter smooth.
Hari Seldon
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Tried IL-2 with the supposed Vive support. Apparently it is not working, no one has got it to run correctly on their forums or reddit.
andrerobot
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Wow, renderTargetMultiplier makes the picture look so much better that it feels like you're unlocking some sort of secret sauce. Like enabling cores in a low tier CPU, or finding the mythical hidden dGPU in an Xbox One.
I just cannot believe there's no built in GUI for setting this option.
I just cannot believe there's no built in GUI for setting this option.
I tried 1.8 with a 980ti and it is marvelous. The Blu is way more crisper and realistic.
Besides I managed to run Oculus Home games, so good.
Only frustration I got was Dolphin VR: I spfnt an hour trying to run FZero: I couldn't go further than the memory card absence warning, and didn't see how I could enable VR. Do you have a good tutorial for this?
Besides I managed to run Oculus Home games, so good.
Only frustration I got was Dolphin VR: I spfnt an hour trying to run FZero: I couldn't go further than the memory card absence warning, and didn't see how I could enable VR. Do you have a good tutorial for this?
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Anybody with a 980ti have suggested settings for Elite using the rendering modifications? Like what settings you use in game as well as the what rendering multiplier you use.
So I guess one of my Lighthouse units must be broken? Just recently I started having tracking issues. Seems that one of the cameras when facing away from the other is unable to read my position properly anymore and I get warped all over the room or the tracking grays out. It also does not show up in the correct position in Virtual Space; completely off from it's actual location.
Bought straight from HTC myself, but if it was supposed to be on the receipt and it wasn't, maybe you should go to the store with your receipt?
asker
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Check the lighthouse. There is a good chance one your lasers died. Mine did. I had the exact same symptoms as you, and HTC replaced it.
Check the lighthouse. There is a good chance one your lasers died. Mine did. I had the exact same symptoms as you, and HTC replaced it.
Wow, hit the nail on the head - looks like the unit I thought was bad does have a laser out.
Here's a visual example of the issue it seems to cause - I'm pointing at the units directly in my room, but on-screen one of the units is positioned way off.
asker
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Yeah, contact HTC support. Hand them this Alan Yates tweet for reference.
https://twitter.com/vk2zay/status/725721043831136256
I'm having the same issue, it's actually making me consider doing my first Steam refund but I really don't want to.
This is old news, but I just found it and it's really interesting from a geek perspective: http://doc-ok.org/?p=1478
(Lighthouse tracking internals / measurements)
(Lighthouse tracking internals / measurements)
Owlowiscious
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play a little each time, stopping before you get as bad as you did. it'll take a few days but you will get used to it really quick.
Zalusithix
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First time I've seen that particular article as well. Halfway tempted to post it into the VentureBeat PS Move thread as it has explanations and visual representations of IMU drift. Granted they're positional measurements within a 3D space instead of rotational at a fixed location, but the same concept of drift applies. Also goes to show that the Vive tracking isn't perfect despite all the advances. How a few people in that thread seem to think a single optical tracking point and an IMU is all that's needed for perfect tracking makes me want to face-desk.
Then again, it's probably not worth it.
I've more or less given up on it. The only way I get back into this argument is if someone does scientific measurements on the same level for PSV -- but that probably won't happen since if you have access to the API you are invariably NDA-bound.
They plan to start selling parts soon. You can already find the prices online and there sadly aren't cheap.
One of my lighthouse boxes fall with its rod on top from 2,5m on the ground. It still works, put you can hear one broken part inside of it, if you shake it a little. I'm lucky, but their is a chance, that if have ti replace it one day.
Zalusithix
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They actually did sell the parts briefly through their "enterprise" site before they cut off access to it. Was halfway tempted to nab a set of the facial interfaces while it was up. I don't see the point in VR covers if I can just buy a set of completely new interfaces relatively cheaply.
some questions based on that
- If each lighthouse laser is scanning at 120Hz and they can't be on at the same time, does that mean it'll take 30Hz before a complete sweep of all four lasers is completed?
- It sounds like steamVR doesn't update the position of the headset or controllers partially when it has finished just a vertical or horizontal laser sweep - only when its done both to get a full amount,and it is relying on the dead reckoning between that? If so doesn't that mean that worst case is 1/30 second between drift correction? Assuming occlusion of one lighthouse so you're relying on only one.
- The video showing the kinky line to illustrate the lighthouse drift correction is mainly looking at positional tracking. Is there any information on how rapidly the rotational information starts drifting - is it more robust than the positional tracking.
This leads me onto the move - positional tracking done with the move should be fairly decent depending on the refresh rate of the camera - I think from a dev presentation it was updating at 1/60, and it provides X&Y at the same time. So actually should be robust for positional tracking of the move controller (and headset) when not occluded.
The rotational tracking is a whole other matter. I assume the headset gets some rotational drift correction from the widely spaced LEDs but the move won't. But the move must have decent rotational tracking even when it was first used with PS3 games, because even back then it couldn't use the camera to correct for it.
So - do the vive lighthouses provide drift correction for rotation on both headset and controllers (I'm guessing yes because otherwise you wouldn't need any special layout of the photodiodes). Does PSVR provide drift correction for rotation of the headset. And if PSVR can't correct for rotational drift of move, how is that handled?
Zepp Twofist
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That certainly isn't right. What is your anti aliasing set to?
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