pantsfree posted:

Larcenauts is out today, 6v6 class-based shooter in the vein of tf2/apex/overwatch, on both quest and pc:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HkHolOKvm8

https://store.steampowered.com/app/421190/Larcenauts/
https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/3126295830741280/

Launches with 8 classes and 4 maps. If they've executed it well this could be v popular.

dupersaurus posted:

I have a last-tick-on-a-baseball-hat big head and that halo strap is pretty good

Ibram Gaunt posted:

I've been getting back into VR after upgrading some PC parts and this is probably a stupid question but is it like...Normal, for stuff to be a little hazy? I'm not talking 'i forgot my glasses' blurry (which is all googling seems to bring up) but the image never feels particularly sharp. I dunno if this is just how VR is or what. It's not a huge deal though but it is a bit annoying when it makes me feel nearsighted in games like Alyx where stuff a little far away is out of focus a tad bit. Mostly talking like text and such. I tried messing around with the IPD and didn't notice a real difference.

Skyarb posted:

Does it have crossplay with oculus/pcvr/steam?

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Now it makes sense why they bought the population one devs. The game is littered with billboards that just display the Pop1 logo. Someone’s boutta be replacing all those with real ads

Leathal posted:

Yep, my head is gigantic to the point where the DAS has to be all the way extended to fit (granted I have aftermarket padding) but the halo strap has plenty of additional room.

Actually just yesterday I 3d printed adapters to put the DAS headphones on my halo strap. That free VRCover replacement padding provides just enough additional support to ditch the top strap too.

Still not as comfy as PSVR though.

njsykora posted:

The problem with that kind of granular ad data is if you promote that you have it, it gets very awkward if the data that comes through over time shows that people aren't actually looking at them at all. Then you get asked why you stopped showing the data you were so proud of 3 months ago. A lot of in-game advertising has the same issue which is that people don't tend to actually look at them for long because the only way to ensure people look at them is to have them actively interfere with the game. It really only works long term in genres where advertising actually fits in, aka sports games and racing games where you have hoardings around the play area where people expect advertising and might even actively want them kept up to date for immersion reasons.

A Bag of Milk posted:

please say "precision tools for your family jewels" to skip forward 30 seconds

Jack Trades posted:

https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/facebook-to-begin-testing-oculus-ads-in-vr-headsets

Future is now. Black Mirror kind of future.

Leal posted:

I'm legit surprised this hasn't been done already. I'm sure activision could make bank if they just provided advertisers a heat map of areas that were looked at the most by players and bid for where to place their ads on the billboards.

mutata posted:

fuf posted:

~Air Link will turn off automatically if it isn't in use for 24 hours~

fuckin WHY

fuf posted:

~Air Link will turn off automatically if it isn't in use for 24 hours~

fuckin WHY

Turin Turambar posted:

I think the public reaction will be potentially very negative, if the ads are overt/intrusive. VR games aren't like mobile games that are played casually almost like time wasters, VR games instead are things that people go and isolate themselves from their surroundings to play them, and their key factors is the immersion. So ads floating in front of your face or being in places where they don't make sense, breaking immersion, will be super unpopular.

mutata posted:

"What are you gonna do? Buy a Vive?"

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Gimme the TikTok VR headset

Senator Drinksalot posted:

Yeah the Quest 2 isnt the issue for me it's the fact that FB is buying up any and every competent VR dev, it's the complete social media takeover with Instagram all over again

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Valve, in my mind, really dropped the ball on VR software. Yes they have made good, competent VR headsets and SteamVR is very important but they really didn’t do anything on the software side other than Alyx.

Recall back in the day they bought the team that made Portal, they did the same with the team fortress team.

The games that resulted from that are legendary, genre defining games that changed the face of the industry. There are a ton of games that just wouldn’t exist today if not for them.

They could have done that for VR. They produced this amazing new hardware, not once but twice and then just went “well, I guess make games or something, we don’t know”. They have the money, the leverage and the reach to dominate the industry but they just for some reason don’t do it and it’s really frustrating.

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So I think for a while there after that and after the Episodes, it wasn't so clear what that next thing was going to be, and we weren't really used to trying to build a Half-Life where we weren't quite sure what problem it was solving. Then, I think, VR in this product kinda did that for us. Instead of sitting there at the start of it going, "What is Half-Life 3?" we already had a prototype using Half-Life 2 assets that people could play in VR. It was supposed to be about 15 minutes long, but people would spend about 45 minutes in it, and you'd just watch them and it became really clear what to do. It was like, "I get this." You take all the things that we understand that work in Half-Life 2 and figure out how VR makes them better, and there were some of them that were obvious from day one, and as time went on we found more and more opportunities.

But it meant that instead of sitting there with an existential abstract problem that you don't know how to work on until you've, you know, it's like, "Well, we'll start working on [this] and hopefully in a year or two maybe we'll have got an answer to why people should play this game." With VR, it was like, "All right, I get it, I know what work I can do on this today. I can start writing code, I can start building levels and all this stuff," and so I think that was enough to convince us to, you know, to allow us to dodge that harder existential question and just get to work and do our best there.

mutata posted:

There are a LOT of headsets in production at the moment, but no one has a full stack product (hardware and software and controllers), and everyone is on their back foot. Hard to compete with a money faucet monopoly even when you're well-positioned. Time will tell, I guess.

Edit: Valve is a club, not a company. They do whatever they find interesting in any given day and get bored very easily. That's basically it.

Senator Drinksalot posted:

Google VR would most definitely flash ads at people, too. Doesn't Valve still have 2 more big VR games in production?

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“All the resource for VR game development later in the cycle, during Alyx’s development, all of those resources got moved onto Alyx,” Coomer explained. “So at the moment, no, there aren’t three other titles in development. But, as for what’s coming, we don’t really have something new or newsworthy for you to say: ‘Once Alyx is out the door here’s what you should expect to have happen.'”

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"Privately, most of the team hopes that the next big thing will indeed be a full-scale Half-Life game built not for VR," writes Keighley, "but as a game accessible across all traditional gaming platforms."

However, he says that there's some doubt within the company as to whether Valve will commit to a large-scale development project like that—which is a bit odd if Valve is truly a leaderless, 'flat' company as it has claimed to be. (I'm going to speculate and guess that it isn't really flat, and someone up top has to approve this sort of thing.) Whatever form it takes, though, more Half-Life is definitely ahead.