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Inzombiac posted:This is incredibly niche but does anyone know if the Steam Deck will do PCVR? Depends on a few things, there's no Oculus support for Linux that I know of so none of those headsets will work but I assume the Index and Vive will if it's hooked up to its dock or a USB hub.
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Inzombiac posted:This is incredibly niche but does anyone know if the Steam Deck will do PCVR? The steam deck is still outclassed by just about any desktop system with a dedicated GPU from the past 5 years. It is able to play modern games by targeting 30fps on low-medium settings at a resolution lower than any modern monitor. Rendering two fields of view at 90fps while calculating physics is going to be a hell of an ask for that level of hardware.
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It will probably be able to play Alyx on low because it’s so well optimized but good luck with anything else.
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Inzombiac posted:This is incredibly niche but does anyone know if the Steam Deck will do PCVR? I'm hoping at least the sorts of games that are available on Quest might be playable with comparable visuals and performance.
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Feb 10, 2022 19:25
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Inzombiac posted:This is incredibly niche but does anyone know if the Steam Deck will do PCVR? Using the thing as a controller while playing Tetris effect off of it would be dope.
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Feb 10, 2022 19:33
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If you want to play Quest games on a portable device without having to be connected to a desktop, I have some good news for you!
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Don’t you do it, don’t you make fun of me for overcomplicating things.
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flavor.flv posted:If you want to play Quest games on a portable device without having to be connected to a desktop, I have some good news for you! If a Steam Deck bodge job can more or less achieve Quest 1 grade performance then that's exciting news for the potential of a hypothetical SteamVR standalone device down the line, so that's what I'm hoping for.
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Supposedly you can install Windows on the steam deck if you really want to, so that option is open. Velcro a Nighthawk M5 to the back and connect it to the Deck with a usb-c to ethernet adapter and you have a portable, wireless Virtual Desktop machine It won't play much but it can be done
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I think the first day the software embargo is up we'll see tons of footage of people testing it with wired, airlink, and VD, along with steam vr ecosystem poo poo tooManager Hoyden posted:Velcro a Nighthawk M5 to the back and connect it to the Deck with a usb-c to ethernet adapter and you have a portable, wireless Virtual Desktop machine dude just use it wired and have the deck on your back or something.
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id be suprised if you got a quest-level experience using a deck tbh
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Zenith will be a good benchmark. The PC version is primped up a bit but it's still designed to run on a snapdragon.
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Inzombiac posted:This is incredibly niche but does anyone know if the Steam Deck will do PCVR? A handful of devs have already shoved VR titles on it just to see if they would run. Pistol whip runs. As does a few others. Its getting the steamdeck to recognize the headset and all that or something is the big issues?
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Valve just give us the Deckard 
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Spotted this on the Ultrawings Discord, really gave me a good chuckle. Toilet plunger based flight sim immersion rig. Self re-centering force feedback haptic enhancement all with no electricity 
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New ad for Quest. It's slightly weird https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcmAlpIp3oM Lol at the plunger!
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Beer_Suitcase posted:Spotted this on the Ultrawings Discord, really gave me a good chuckle. Toilet plunger based flight sim immersion rig. Self re-centering force feedback haptic enhancement all with no electricity lmfao thats awesome, and probably works pretty well for the effort involved!
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Beer_Suitcase posted:Spotted this on the Ultrawings Discord, really gave me a good chuckle. Toilet plunger based flight sim immersion rig. Self re-centering force feedback haptic enhancement all with no electricity You just know they've gotta explain to every visitor that NO it's not a sex thing!
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Rolo posted:Using the thing as a controller while playing Tetris effect off of it would be dope. I use VirtualHere to cast my xbox controller from my laptop to my main pc for that purpose. https://www.virtualhere.com/home Handily its got a free trial of 1 device.
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Regarding MoH:VRTom Guycot posted:I think so, I quite enjoyed it at full price. It was a mess at launch though. body in the way you couldn't turn off, looking through scopes blacked out your whole view and just showed a circle in the center, missing options for movement types, etc, just lots of amateur VR stuff. To their credit they fixed every last problem by the 3rd patch, proper scopes, options etc etc. It doesn't push any new ground, the lack of a physics based system for interacting with random objects is something missed, the first mission or so were really short and staccato, but its a satisfying shooter and it looks great. Going house to house in bombed out french villages, hiding behind cover, motes of dust floating in light beams around you, shooting nazis with very satisfying gun handling (I love the fact you can do a one handed shotgun pump like Sara Connor in T2 while blasting nazis, feels great) and ragdoll impact physics on said nazis gave me my monies worth at least. Thanks for the response. I just grabbed it while it's still on sale (another 20 hours or so). I felt bad making GBS threads on it after I went back and watched a dev walkthrough and it was some lady's first-time making maps for a VR game, and she was proudly showing off her learnings of how VR is different than flat games. I want to support dev's who make an effort to fix stuff, but it's hard to not be reactionary and poo poo on AAA games that come out of the gate with glaring problems. Anyway, racking the shotty with one-hand like you mentioned should almost justify the price alone 
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Man the Kiwi strap is night and day better. I can’t wait to see how my VRCover face thingy only makes it better.
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I dropped into Microsoft Flight Sim for the first time since launch now that Ultrawings has me in the flight sim mode. I was amazed to find they implemented touch control cockpits back in November. I was able to take off, fly around my neighborhood, and land in a nearby field, using a lot of the info I picked up from the Ultrawings tutorials. The stick in the Icon A5 actually felt a bit better than Stallion as it seems to have more range of motion. I’m definitely going to play through more of it!
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LASER BEAM DREAM posted:I dropped into Microsoft Flight Sim for the first time since launch now that Ultrawings has me in the flight sim mode. Let me know if you have any airplane questions! It's what I do for work when I'm not being a huge dork online.
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I found an interesting website to check the growth of the PC VR market https://vrlfg.net/Charts "Monthly averages of the sum of the peak-player counts for every Steam VR game where the majority player base is VR-Only" However I wonder about the validity of their charts. Checking the numbers, it doesn't seem they include VRChat, and that surely is something 'where the majority player base is VR-Only'. And VRChat has grown a lot in the past years. But it's true that checking some popular games (Beat Saber, Pavlov, B&S, H3VR) their grow in 2021 is more or less like the number indicated below. This is the growth year over year, once mainstream VR started on 2016: 2017 57,36% 2018 52,28% 2019 28,45% 2020 24,63% 2021 15,67% (taking average of 2 months, October and December data as sample). And honestly, I think Quest 2 has helped to get that 15% on 2021, as it's a cheap entry point for pc vr that wouldn't exist if Meta wasn't subsidizing it. Turin Turambar fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Feb 11, 2022 |
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I just tried the Outer Wilds VR mod and it's really good--they didn't just slap on a controller mapping, they added immersive elements; your tools are holstered and you actually hold them out and aim them around to use them, and you use the ship systems by interacting with the corresponding monitors. I think I'll be playing the DLC in VR. Uh, on a tangential note, does the Outer Wilds DLC require me to remember all the poo poo that I've since long forgotten about the main game?
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Argue posted:I just tried the Outer Wilds VR mod and it's really good--they didn't just slap on a controller mapping, they added immersive elements; your tools are holstered and you actually hold them out and aim them around to use them, and you use the ship systems by interacting with the corresponding monitors. I think I'll be playing the DLC in VR. Nah, it's its own self-contained thing.
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Argue posted:Uh, on a tangential note, does the Outer Wilds DLC require me to remember all the poo poo that I've since long forgotten about the main game? I wanted to play through the DLC in VR but unfortunately my 1060 couldn't run it well enough even on lowest settings. Which is a shame, because they've clearly put a lot of work into it.
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I just got my Quest 2 in last night. After updating and having to swap to a long usb C cable (why did you give me such a short god drat cable?!) to charge it and use it, it's pretty neat. This is my first time using a VR headset and it's pretty comfortable, although I've moved the lenses several times and even with the glasses spacer I have some slight fuzziness to some text on screen. Otherwise it's pretty loving cool lol. Beat Saber is cool and hard, I bought pistol whip this morning to play later, and I played about 5 minutes of RE4 last night. RE4 is cool but so weird to adjust to. I ended up just stabbing the three dudes who attack outside the first house with the knife as I flailed around at them like an idiot. I like the physical inventory thing as well as the quick menu access, but I'm not sure which one I'll settle on yet. Walking in that game with the stick definitely hosed with my head a bit, but it was much less weird when sitting down. Also lol gently caress me, I ordered a pair of earbuds from Oculus and they loving suck. Swapped to a pair of over ear headphones and it was just fine, although I've accidentally hit the volume button a bunch trying to adjust the headset. I like it so far, and I'm looking forward to playing around with it more.
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Argue posted:Uh, on a tangential note, does the Outer Wilds DLC require me to remember all the poo poo that I've since long forgotten about the main game? Others have already answered this but something I will also add is that I would recommend playing on an old save file and not starting a new one for the DLC. There are some small but impactful moments you'll miss out on with a fresh save that beelines straight to the DLC world.
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I've been spending my nights in vrchat karaoke bars so I hadn't played any action games on this thing until last night when I loaded up Ancient Dungeon I don't know if I'm cut out for this. I got goosebumps when the first bat flew out of the darkness. When a zombie charged me, I full on screamed I already bought RE4, what the gently caress do I do
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flavor.flv posted:I've been spending my nights in vrchat karaoke bars so I hadn't played any action games on this thing until last night when I loaded up Ancient Dungeon Enjoy it! That monkey brain panic reaction goes away after a while, but while it lasts it's one of the most impressive things about VR.
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Sidequest question: Does this poo poo not work now because of hardware update? I've followed the instructions on the site and after connecting the Quest to both my PC laptop and my macbook pro, it doesn't pop up the debug warning and neither computer registers that a USB device has been attached. The headset charges while hooked up to either computer though, so I know it's not the cable.
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joylessdivision posted:Sidequest question: Do you have Airlink on? I always forget to turn it off when connecting via cable
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Do you have Airlink on? I always forget to turn it off when connecting via cable I apparently don't because I didn't realize that was a thing I needed to do. Edit: welp, apparently the Oculus software doesnt work on Windows 11 and they didn't have Mac software that I could find so I guess this air link thing might be a bust joylessdivision fucked around with this message at 17:48 on Feb 11, 2022 |
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joylessdivision posted:I apparently don't because I didn't realize that was a thing I needed to do. ? I just got a new PC set up with Windows 11 and had no issue installing the oculus software and playing HL:A over airlink yesterday.
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Yeah it works a-ok on windows 11. Was playing Zenith the other week using it.
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explosivo posted:Yeah it works a-ok on windows 11. Was playing Zenith the other week using it. Dunno, my laptop was not having it so I may try again this weekend with a different laptop.
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joylessdivision posted:Dunno, my laptop was not having it so I may try again this weekend with a different laptop. Might need to tell your PC to actually use the GPU for the headset on a laptop. Happens a lot with VR applications. Also win 11 is semi weird with VR. Most of it i hear has been fixed (and thread seems to agree), but my oculus poo poo didn't work right, i had to go back to 10 for work.
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wolrah posted:I want to play PCVR games in a reasonably portable configuration, I want modding to not be a pain in the rear end, and I don't want money going in to Zuck's pockets while I do it. I've never used this myself and it'll probably be a bad time, but you can try this if you want to try your luck with a PSVR or a Google Daydream https://www.trinusvirtualreality.com/
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