There is very minimal use for controllers in that game anyway. Will test it out and report back today.
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HTC Vive Launch Thread -- Computer, activate holodeck
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There is very minimal use for controllers in that game anyway. Will test it out and report back today.
Sleeping Lesson
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I have had a couple of very minor tracking issues. My base stations are right at (or slightly past) their recommended limit (16 feet apart), though.
The issues have been rare, and seemed to only be when the controllers are close to the headset.
Cool. I'd rather not use a gamepad if I don't have to.
My new favorite thing in VR is walking into stuff. It's crazy how good the presence is on the Vive, at first I was always walking around or avoiding things physically or trying to lean on stuff. Walking into things fucks with your brain so much. So trippy!!!
I have one lighthouse on a shelf about 6.5 feet up slightly angled down.
The other is opposite sitting on my couch about 3.5 feet off the ground not angled at all pointing at the lighthouse on the shelf.
They are about 8 feet away from each other.
The tracking is pretty much flawless, and this is a far from ideal lighthouse setup.
Pops Maellard
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You're good duder, don't stress it. It was a vaguely worded post that just barely inferred that I had missed it.
Sleeping Lesson
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Really now? I wonder if I could sell my DK2 and make a slight profit at this point?
Astral/H3X
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I sold my $350 DK2 for $530 just a week or two ago.
Still waiting on the Vive to come sweep me off my feet.
Really? I guess I am setting up an Ebay account when I get home. If any Gaffer wants to buy this contact me via PM. I would rather sell it to one of you guys instead of a random.
Vyse The Legend
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I sold mine for $640 right before the Rift launched.
Wildstar75
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Worked great on my overclocked 780ti with 4790k. The whale part is the most boring for me. The other two parts are more beautiful!
ThatsMytrunks
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I played Windlands for a half hour and nearly fell over multiple times. Maybe that's more of a sitting game.
The controls for moving on foot leave a lot to be desired, and god forbid you touch the left touch pad (you'll get motion sick for sure). But the swinging feels SO GOOD.
I'm optimistic they could come up with better control configurations for the Vive's controllers soon.
The controls for moving on foot leave a lot to be desired, and god forbid you touch the left touch pad (you'll get motion sick for sure). But the swinging feels SO GOOD.
I'm optimistic they could come up with better control configurations for the Vive's controllers soon.
Yeah, using the circle pad to translate is the worst. Luckily, almost no games use this method... it's almost all teleport and walk around.
Guardian Monkey
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LOL
Appreciate it! Carpet it is!!
wanderingprostheyltite
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Not entirely sure how accurate this is but there's a free app called Smart Measure that uses your phone's camera to approximate distance by aiming at the end point from where you're positioned. I used it for my space and it seems to be a decent ballpark, from what I can judge by eye at least. Tape measures are dirt cheap anyhow but still might give you a good idea of what you have to work with.
DOT DASH DOT
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LOL
Haha mine was the other way around earlier, when the keyboard froze and I couldn't reply to her, ffs! They are near the top of worst company ever for me.
I'll try it out when I get home, thanks.
Compsiox
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LOL
I can hardly believe that. HTC you bad
Guardian Monkey
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The hell FedEx?
I'm in Virginia. So either it's not coming today or they will be throwing it from an airplane.
4:11 pm Departed FedEx location MEMPHIS, TN
Scheduled delivery: Thu 4/07/2016 by 8:00 pm
I'm in Virginia. So either it's not coming today or they will be throwing it from an airplane.
4:11 pm Departed FedEx location MEMPHIS, TN
Scheduled delivery: Thu 4/07/2016 by 8:00 pm
Dreams-Visions
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hey guys who do i reset my position in VR?
In SteamVR I'm centered but in the game when i start it i'm below the map. halp
In SteamVR I'm centered but in the game when i start it i'm below the map. halp
Sleeping Lesson
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Had the same issue. You have to (on your desktop) click the dropdown in the little Steam VR window and do the room setup again.
Dreams-Visions
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ThatsMytrunks
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Just played some Audio Shield. The videos I watched of people playing it didn't really do it justice. And it's a little bit of a workout after sitting on my ass all day. Highly worth the $18.
Guardian Monkey
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What are your general favorites so far everyone?
IMACOMPUTA
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"Wait Like a Bitch" by HTC
Guardian Monkey
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Found the flight
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/FDX594/history/20160407/2103Z/KMEM/KRIC
Arrives at 6:35pm. Maybe they leave directly from airport? All I do know is that I am getting obsessive to the point where I actually looked up the flight and should probably step away for awhile.
The lab, fantastic contraption, windlands and budget cuts. And I've only played those 4 so far. For 10 hours! Yet I've barely scratched the surface of any of those games, except budget cuts
The Lab - Xortex, Longbow, and Slingshot in particar
Audioshield
Space Pirate Trainer
Job Simulator
Budget Cuts
Hover Junkers
The Gallery
All of the above games are absolutely amazing
Still haven't tried but look awesome
Fantastic Contraption
Vanishing Realms
Windlands
I know in starting to sound like a broken record but this is by far the best launch lineup I've ever experienced
I've played all of those as well.
The Gallery is the best I've played so far.
Followed by Vanishing Realms, then The Lab.
Guardian Monkey
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Awesome thanks!
LOL that camera is impressive.
Iced_Eagle
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If that's true, that's HUGE to me.
I have a Rift CV1 and it's annoying to need to re-center it every now and then. Though, I wonder how that would work in Eve Valkyrie. I don't believe they take player height into account, so when I've let different people try it, each one has a different camera height which messes with the visuals since the camera is always supposed to be attached to the body (which is neat because the entire body has IK so you can lean and the in-game body leans as well). Every time I let someone new try the game, I always need to re-center it / re-orient so it gets in the correct position with the body. Though, I suppose that does highlight an issue with how to properly do full-body immersion in games. Future iterations might need to take into account player height on player meshes or something (but then how would that factor into jump height, collisions, etc without feeling too weird)
For seated experiences, there is a reset HMD command for the Vive. It's a hotkey (not sure what it is) as well as an option you can select by holding down the Steam button on either motion controller.
Viveks86 I saw a post u made a while back about not liking 1st person games with a gamepad in VR and then noticed that u proceeded to say that u had been playing at 60 fps the whole time due to having RTSS running. Did having the games running at 90 fps afterward affect your opinion at all or did u still hate seated gamepad experiences either way? Tbh one of the things that excited me most for VR was a YouTube video I saw of a guy playing a modded half life 2 with the oculus. I should mention that even though he was seated he was using the hydra motion controls.
piratepwnsninja
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That's my favorite, too.
wanderingprostheyltite
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Not them obviously but to chime in - as someone mostly tired of seated VR I think HL2 is still a very cool thing to experience on an hmd. The npc gaze focus in particular gives you such an eerie feeling, also the City Scanners coming right up to you to snap a pic tripped me the hell out first time I played it in vr. The scene in the apartments as the Combine roll up outside was incredibly immersive as well. Obviously room scale will give you more but when you have excellent atmosphere and the kind of facial animation Valve has goin on it really elevates the immersion for the medium, even when dealing with standard gamepad. Really hope we get something from the HL universe for Vive sooner rather than later.
I was talking more about standing/room scale tracked games. For cockpit stuff in particular it makes sense (though not in-universe sense
) to have it "auto-scale" to your height, and as per FlyinJ it seems to exist.Sleeping Lesson
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Has HL2 VR changed much in the past year? I got nauseous playing it with my DK2, and I hated moving with a gamepad.
wanderingprostheyltite
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Pretty sure krejlooc and the guys he worked with on it were mostly busy developing a medical scan oriented VR app, afaik they haven't touched it in awhile. I really hope they come back to it for Vive though.
Anyone seen this?
How we made a room-scale VR game work on your desk ... or floor
It's great to see them make this more accessible.
How we made a room-scale VR game work on your desk ... or floor
It's great to see them make this more accessible.
As long as the action you are performing isn't a complete abstraction of what's in-game, seated experiences could be just as good
Haven't played a seated game since I went to 90. Will be playing ethan carter today and possibly go back to Mind and try them both standing and seated.
Going from 60 to 90 made a HUGE difference in room scale though. The motion controls were smoother, movement within the game felt just like in real life. Even the IQ felt improved. I was completely awestruck by robot repair when I played it the second time at 90. The attention to detail is out of this world!
wanderingprostheyltite
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So does htc not allow you to pick these up at distro centers? Got mine off an ebay seller and it's set to come Monday but assuming those restrictions wouldn't apply to me, but maybe it's a fedex thing?
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I wouldn't worry, that's not really that far. Plenty of things I order come from that distance and further overnight.
My dad used to play video games back in the atari 2600 days, and he would play Sega Master System games with me, but as games got more than 2 buttons he sort of fell off and found them too difficult to try. Put a modern Xbox controller in his hand and he is completely lost - analog sticks in general make no sense to him. It was in this context that, about a year ago, I invited him over to my house and let him try Elite Dangerous with my HOTAS rig. He put on the headset and played a bit, and when he took off the headset he thought he had been playing for like 10 minutes when he'd really played for 45.
Well, today I invited him over to try the HTC Vive. The controls were immediately understandable to him, even the concept of teleporting. He played many games, including hover junkers and his favorite, Budget Cuts. He was absolutely enthralled by what he played. When it was all said and done, he thought he had played for maybe 30 or so minutes, when he actually wound up playing 4 and a half hours non-stop. This is the longest video game session my dad has ever done, period. He was shocked he played for that long.
VR is fucking magic. This saturday, I'm bringing a bunch of family over for a BBQ and letting them try this. I can't wait to see my mom and niece and nephews try this.
Well, today I invited him over to try the HTC Vive. The controls were immediately understandable to him, even the concept of teleporting. He played many games, including hover junkers and his favorite, Budget Cuts. He was absolutely enthralled by what he played. When it was all said and done, he thought he had played for maybe 30 or so minutes, when he actually wound up playing 4 and a half hours non-stop. This is the longest video game session my dad has ever done, period. He was shocked he played for that long.
VR is fucking magic. This saturday, I'm bringing a bunch of family over for a BBQ and letting them try this. I can't wait to see my mom and niece and nephews try this.
313km are a lot farther in Europe than in those stretches of nothingness you call "the country" in the US
But yeah, I probably shouldn't worry too much.
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