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Apparently there was Gamescom this weekend. Sam'n'Max for VR was announced. lolwat
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Aug 30, 2020 15:54
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More things from Viveport: The Great C is a 30 minute short VR passive experience, adaptation of a short tale from Philip K Dick of the same name. It's pretty nice. The plot is at this point super typical, with post-apoc human tribes and overlord AI, but I guess that when it was published in freaking 1953 it was a tour de force in originality. War Remains, Dan Carlin presents... is another passive experience, very short in this case, about the horrors of WWI. It misses the mark, imo, as how the narrator sounds and how he expresses he makes it sound as something that is 'woahh dude, total badass' in its horror, instead just plain horror. The Scream is another short experience, about the famous painting of the same name, which actually gets to make something original and fitting for the work in question, a series of experiences for the audience to evoke the feelings the painting captures, while at the same time be also educational about it, telling the story of it and its author. Finally, I played an unknown title, VR Regatta and I was pleasantly surprised! It's in Steam, too. I don't see myself playing a ton, but as a VR experience it felt incredible, handling the rudder and trimming the sail with my own hands, seeing the sail turn around as the wind blew in one direction or another, and having to go zig-zagging to advance against the wind. When I noticed that I could change the balance of the boat by changing my body position slightly and inclining my head a bit, I was like  I guess the title is not more known because, well... it's the type of title that is destined to be niche, unless you are a person who sailed before IRL and are curious of how a VR version will be in comparison.
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Aug 30, 2020 15:58
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Dance central is Oculus exclusive right? Might pick it up for some cardio, but want to make sure there’s no chance it’ll be on steam before I add another game to my oculus account that has an end date on it.
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Aug 30, 2020 17:14
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It's published by Oculus Studios so yeah it's never coming to Steam
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Aug 30, 2020 17:22
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Stan Taylor posted:Dance central is Oculus exclusive right? Might pick it up for some cardio, but want to make sure there’s no chance it’ll be on steam before I add another game to my oculus account that has an end date on it. I just saw this fitness bundle on Steam, in case you are interested https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/14893/VR_Fitness_Bundle/
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Aug 30, 2020 18:14
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Turin Turambar posted:War Remains, Dan Carlin presents... is another passive experience, very short in this case, about the horrors of WWI. It misses the mark, imo, as how the narrator sounds and how he expresses he makes it sound as something that is 'woahh dude, total badass' in its horror, instead just plain horror. That's kinda the point. The 'Dan Carlin' part is the more important part of the title. He's a host of a very popular podcast called Hardcore History and that basically is his style.
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Aug 30, 2020 19:43
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VRChat trip report: I'm still not a furry. Instead, I very briefly turned into a big tiddie anime avatar with sparkly eyes and angel wings before coming to my senses and coming back to a basic rear end avatar. I ended up switching everything off in safety. Not switching safety off, but the other way around, turning off avatars, voice, etc. I have near zero interest in interacting with strangers in VR, even more in interacting with strangers with anime girl avatars with cat ears. But I can see myself coming back every two weeks to play the VR tourist and visit a few VR worlds, to see the pretty ones.
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Aug 30, 2020 20:00
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ishikabibble posted:That's kinda the point. The 'Dan Carlin' part is the more important part of the title. He's a host of a very popular podcast called Hardcore History and that basically is his style. My spouse loves that podcast and I'm buying the poo poo outta this for them.
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Aug 30, 2020 20:22
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My best VRChat experience so far was a world with a mirror and an orb that would give you a random avatar when you clicked it.
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Aug 30, 2020 20:35
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Combat Pretzel posted:Apparently there was Gamescom this weekend. From what's been shown it's a hey "you can hang out in this room with Sam and Max!" rather than an actual Sam and Max game.
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Aug 31, 2020 00:07
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ZombyDog posted:From what's been shown it's a hey "you can hang out in this room with Sam and Max!" rather than an actual Sam and Max game. What a shame, point and click is something that would translate really well to VR. Turin Turambar posted:I just saw this fitness bundle on Steam, in case you are interested I went ahead and grabbed Dance Central, I'm a sucker for Harmonix games. I'm kinda interested in Synth Riders though, does it differentiate itself enough from Beat Saber/Audica? Also how is Until You Fall? looks like that's on sale on the Humble Store.
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Aug 31, 2020 00:22
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Leal posted:I find fun in checking out the worlds and seeing what people can make. Someone made the FFIX overmap which owned. I think a lot of those people are afk on a desktop. I think. Turin Turambar posted:I will blame all of you if I turn into a erotic furry Sonic avatar or some poo poo like that. You already have a dragon av.
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Aug 31, 2020 00:28
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Yeah Deadhalls isn't scary at all.............. Easily worth the free $10 spent. A great game for introducing people to VR horror without long tutorials etc.
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Aug 31, 2020 07:03
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Marxalot posted:
Hah. I didn't pay or choose the avatar... and I'm supposed to be the guy on the right.
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Aug 31, 2020 07:09
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Turin Turambar posted:Hah. I didn't pay or choose the avatar... Same so fair enough. Taking this moment to highly recommend Thrill of the Fight and having a couple extra face gaskets again.
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Aug 31, 2020 07:46
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The Oculus Quest is currently over 10% of the Steam hardware survey -- more than windows mixed reality, half as many as the original Vive. That's a surprisingly large number of people tethering them.
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Aug 31, 2020 13:45
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Marxalot posted:Same so fair enough. I bought one of those silicon covers that slips over the original cloth one. More comfortable and wipes off super easy. I still haven't had time to give TotF another go after I got destroyed by it my very first time. Been working too much as well. 
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Aug 31, 2020 16:27
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ShadowHawk posted:The Oculus Quest is currently over 10% of the Steam hardware survey -- more than windows mixed reality, half as many as the original Vive. That's a surprisingly large number of people tethering them. The quest has a large list of attractive qualities. It's cheap, has the option to work without a pc, doesn't require lighthouses, and can be wrangled into being a fully wireless pcvr headset.
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Aug 31, 2020 16:42
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Great Beer posted:The quest has a large list of attractive qualities. It's cheap, has the option to work without a pc, doesn't require lighthouses, and can be wrangled into being a fully wireless pcvr headset.
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Aug 31, 2020 16:44
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The latest update to Pistol Whip is well worth checking out if you haven't played in a bit. I still don't really love any of the songs but these three feel different enough from the other ones and they're closer to something I might actually listen to. Good rear end game.
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Aug 31, 2020 16:53
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ShadowHawk posted:Yeah it's popular for a reason, it's just interesting that that last reason is actually getting very high use Eh, I'm not that surprised. I suspect a ton of those are incidental or one-time use though, unless the hardware survey cuts those out somehow. I connected mine just because I have 1 Quest and 1 PC, despite the thing being woefully underpowered for VR, just on a whim. I hadn't connected it back since but I'm probably in that 10%. If you had a way to trim any use that is below 5 hours, let's say, those numbers would probably look a lot different for Quest. That's just my gut feeling though.
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Aug 31, 2020 17:01
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I'm amused with the glider in Ultrawing (you know, plane without engine, super wide wings, etc). They have put a limited use jet to boost it, and it has a mounted weapon to fire balloons at! I tried the Morrigan and yeah, as someone said here time ago, it isn't very good. Nice art style and not a lot else. Limited to a basic rear end dungeon crawler and still feel clunky in lots of areas. In the passive experience side, I also did Manifest 99, a surreal train journey. Usually I dig weird tales in VR, but the wait it tried to tie all together made me roll my eyes. Finally, I also did Eleven Eleven, a somewhat ambitious short story VR experience done by SiFy where you live a story through six different PoVs that intertwine in different ways. It limits itself to 11 minutes, 11 seconds of play time, as it starts when only 11:11 remains before nukes destroy a fictional planet where everything happens. Overall it makes a good job in making the audience imagine a bigger story of what it is, by referencing past things and events, you can easily imagine this could have been done a rich tapestry of scifi story. The only flaw is that end it's very obvious, from the end of the first PoV.
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Aug 31, 2020 19:22
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Nah I think that the appeal of "get pcvr without loving around with lighthouses and committing a whole room for a toy" is what sells a lot of people on the Quest
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Aug 31, 2020 19:23
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Kikas posted:Nah I think that the appeal of "get pcvr without loving around with lighthouses and committing a whole room for a toy" is what sells a lot of people on the Quest This sold it for me - upgrading from psvr to quest in a way that also let me hedge my bets with "well, even if the pc part doesn't work at least i'll be able to play beat saber anywhere on the planet".
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Aug 31, 2020 19:55
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More confirmation of the previously leaked prices https://www.roadtovr.com/walmart-quest-2-price-storage/
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Aug 31, 2020 20:43
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Stan Taylor posted:The latest update to Pistol Whip is well worth checking out if you haven't played in a bit. I still don't really love any of the songs but these three feel different enough from the other ones and they're closer to something I might actually listen to. Good rear end game. Yeah I slept on Pistol Whip for a few months and there's so many songs now, and some of the new ones get a really good beat going.
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Aug 31, 2020 20:44
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Turin Turambar posted:More confirmation of the previously leaked prices $300 is a loving bonkers price
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Aug 31, 2020 20:44
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Turin Turambar posted:More confirmation of the previously leaked prices gently caress if this is true I will buy one immediately. I don't need one, I barely play the Quest as it is, but at that price I'll future proof myself based on whatever updates are made and not even give it a second thought.
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Aug 31, 2020 20:47
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Do we have any specs for the Quest 2? Also, I just got a call from Connection (the company handling the pre-orders of the Reverb G2) because they couldn't find that I was living at the shipping address I stated, so they wanted to confirm. I moved and never did a change of address so that's understandable. However the lady on the phone was nice enough to ball park "September" as the expected ship date and that cards would be getting charged soon. Excited to see that visual clarity.
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Aug 31, 2020 22:01
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wezmon posted:This is probably an unpopular opinion in this thread, but I'm actually okay with this. I don't intend to use it myself That's almost three panels. I fear for the sanity of the moderators looking in on that much PoV porn and dodgy gameplay. Won't anyone think of the corporate spooks? Neddy Seagoon posted:If it was anyone other than Facebook, I'd actually say the headset locally recording the last few minutes for a report is actually a good idea. But it's Facebook. And the first time your playlists got leaked would be an unfortunate error that nobody could have foreseen.
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Aug 31, 2020 22:17
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What's a fair price to put my Rift S up on Craigslist for? I've added some nice headphones and a bunch of 3d printed bullshit accessories I figured $250 is safe, $300 is hopeful, list it for $275?
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Aug 31, 2020 22:26
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Sockser posted:What's a fair price to put my Rift S up on Craigslist for? Its still getting "sold out" everytime it goes back in stock. 400 obo. Your pricing is SA mart pricing imo
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Aug 31, 2020 22:30
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sigher posted:Do we have any specs for the Quest 2? Not officially, but some info pointed to higher refresh rate for the screen and improved sensors for controllers, apart from a bit less weight.
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Aug 31, 2020 23:12
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Stan Taylor posted:The latest update to Pistol Whip is well worth checking out if you haven't played in a bit. I still don't really love any of the songs but these three feel different enough from the other ones and they're closer to something I might actually listen to. Good rear end game. Thanks for this! I just played for an hour and I'm sweaty as hell. Feels good!
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Sep 1, 2020 01:41
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Turin Turambar posted:Not officially, but some info pointed to higher refresh rate for the screen and improved sensors for controllers, apart from a bit less weight. If the resolution isn't higher or the FOV isn't greater I don't much of a reason to upgrade.
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Sep 1, 2020 02:17
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So if you have a Vive Wireless and seem to always get a black video screen a few minutes into playing, I have a solution: disable controller auto sleep in steam settings. It's clearly a software bug, and probably a Steam one. After exactly 5 minutes (the default sleep time), Steam decides to just black out the headset video. But the headset is still apparently working - you can hear sounds and if you look at a monitor it's still tracked.
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Sep 1, 2020 02:18
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Untill you Fall crossbuy has been confirmed in the Oculus store, and it has a 40% discount right now https://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/3629229127102494/?locale=en_US
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Sep 1, 2020 13:02
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sigher posted:If the resolution isn't higher or the FOV isn't greater I don't much of a reason to upgrade. Well yeah, I expect it to be a revision, not a "Quest 2", despite people using the term 'quest 2' on Internet. Quest 2 could be be next year with varifocal display, and who knows what else.
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Sep 1, 2020 15:33
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Anyone else have a weird issue where guardian just apparently doesn't work on the quest anymore? And by that I mean, it doesn't show up at all, as if I have infinite play area. If I click either of the guardian options on the main menu, they don't do anything. If I use the passthrough environment, it will just show a black screen through the camera with the UI intact. I can navigate the UI, play games and move around in 6DOF no problem... just no guardian. I've tried a hard reset and disabling experimental features and all to no avail. It's actually been like this for a couple of months now, but it hadn't bothered me that much since I play it mostly stationary.
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Isometric Bacon posted:Anyone else have a weird issue where guardian just apparently doesn't work on the quest anymore? There is a developer setting to turn off the guardian. Have you checked that?
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