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Switched.on posted:For anyone who is looking for a good cheap RX lens solution, I bought the $20 Harry Potter glasses online from Zenni Optical with the intention of 3D printing the frame someone designed for the lenses, but instead I just put them on my face and look stupid. It's the best way if you intend to share your VR often, as you don't need to muck around with taking inserts out. The dumb Harry Potter glasses fit in my Rift perfectly. Zenni's great! a previous post of mine: Manky posted:Adding on to this. I've been buying my normal glasses through Zenni and highly recommend them all around. Recently I got these sunglasses, and when they arrived, I found that the prescription part is a detachable inner lens. Was pretty easy to pop it out, and just let it rest in my vive behind the face cushion. It works fantastically for me! I'm just horribly nearsighted, but this was a huge usability upgrade for me.Good sunglasses too.
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Tomahawk posted:So a $350 Rift w/ Touch was finally my breaking point. Is there a easy to parse resource for upcoming games? The fact that Doom, Fallout and Skyrim (I think??) are all on the way were also what I needed to make the jump. The game question comes up a lot, theres a wiki someone put together of some of the more major VR releases here and some of the upcoming ones here, along with some of the non gaming apps and experiences here. There is still a MASSIVE ton of games missing from those lists, a lot of small indie/early access type stuff from steam mainly. Honestly the best thing to know about VR right now is there are too many games worth considering to easily list. I'll quote a post I made a couple weeks ago about some personal games that were worth buying for myself: Tom Guycot posted:I think theres a lot worth buying. In no particular order here's a list of ones I consider worth their cost, your mileage may vary of course depending on particular tastes and genres but maybe this will give you an idea of some stuff to look at. *note, this post was in response to someone with a vive so you can ignore all the stuff about revive. EDIT: WMain00 posted:I'm trying to order a Rift through their website but i'm having massive issues. My card isn't being accepted whatsoever, whether through their website or paypal. It's got the funds and everything but it just bounces back saying it's not being accepted? You could contact support or try just ordering through amazon or newegg or whatever 3rd party if you don't want to wait 24 hours for a response. Are you trying to order from another country or something like that where its not technically for sale? Its such a vague situation there could be a million reasons its not working. Tom Guycot fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Nov 23, 2017 |
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No worries I cancelled it and swapped over to Amazon. No idea what's wrong with their payment system.
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# ? Nov 24, 2017 00:10 |
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Less Fat Luke posted:How do people find the Vorpx drivers? I see a lot of Reddit people poo poo on them but it seems mostly just cause it's not a free package. I've had them for ages along with Tridef, from back in the DK1 days when me and my nerd pal who also got one were in the 'Oh man IMAGINE GUILD WARS!!, no no BIOSHOCK!!!!!! no no no no WoW!!!' phase of VR, where we wanted to try everything in it. They are a real fudge imo, the depth is way off, as in pretty much non existent, feels much more like you really have a big TV strapped to your head. Early on it was good, but now Vorpx looks really out dated and feels like the band aid that it is.
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# ? Nov 24, 2017 00:19 |
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I just decided that £350 (us poor Brits are going to being looking back with nostalgia to the days when 1£ = 1$) was my "ah, gently caress it, go on" breakpoint for an Oculus Rift. I may have had a few drinks earlier on this evening... I think I eventually managed to buy one. Their payment/checkout process is terrible though. I suppose I can't blame Oculus/Facebook/whatever for my bank immediately declining the $1 test transaction they presumably sent to make sure it's a real card, and to be fair to bank the message with 'text us back a "Y" to confirm this is you and unlock the card' is a huge improvement on the usual poo poo I have to go through whenever I'm daft enough to try and buy expensive electronics online. But I dare anyone to try and get the Oculus site to accept a different payment/delivery address after card is unlocked.
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# ? Nov 24, 2017 00:55 |
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Yeah, don't bother getting VorpX at this point. It was kind of neat to try lots of things when VR was new and lacked content (dk2 era). Can put that money into actual games now.
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# ? Nov 24, 2017 01:51 |
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Phuzun posted:Yeah, don't bother getting VorpX at this point. It was kind of neat to try lots of things when VR was new and lacked content (dk2 era). Can put that money into actual games now. Gotcha, thanks!
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# ? Nov 24, 2017 02:29 |
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I've been playing the hell out of Sairento now that I figured out the progression, relic, and loadout system. I don't particularly love the melee weapons because it feels wrong compared to Gorn but shotgun + sniper rifle (as a giant pistol) is crazy good and satisfying.
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# ? Nov 24, 2017 03:00 |
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EbolaIvory posted:Open VR advanced settings. Floor Fix. Please explain this like I'm a retarded four year old... What do I actually do with this GitHub? Installing it doesn't seem to change any Steam VR settings for me... My overlay is still the same. I followed their instructions but must be missing something (my brain).
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smoobles posted:Please explain this like I'm a retarded four year old... In the steamVR desktop dashboard there’s an option for applications and check the box next to advanced settings to get the feature
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# ? Nov 24, 2017 03:25 |
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smoobles posted:Please explain this like I'm a retarded four year old... Open up your big picture thingy. Look down. Theres a new option Advanced settings. Go there. Theres an option for floor fix. Do that.
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# ? Nov 24, 2017 03:51 |
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EbolaIvory posted:Open up your big picture thingy. Look down. Theres a new option Advanced settings. Go there. Theres an option for floor fix. Do that. Oh cool, that fixed the height. Didn't do anything for the tilt though. I've read that tilt is a headset issue, so I'm probably hosed. It's out of warranty too, dang. edit: Starting SteamVR with the headset facing upward seems to fix my issue, in tandem with the Floor Fix feature. I guess this is my routine when starting SteamVR now until some sort of official fix comes out. smoobles fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Nov 24, 2017 |
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smoobles posted:Oh cool, that fixed the height. Didn't do anything for the tilt though. https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/5i5ntv/room_calibration_tilt_angle_solved_finally/ All I could find without going super ham google fu. Looks like the solution unless you dropped your headset? EDIT: You saved as I hit quote you bastage! Glad you fixed it man.
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# ? Nov 24, 2017 04:07 |
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Manky posted:Zenni's great! a previous post of mine: I bought Zenni's and got the Oculus rift inserts 3d printed by a service. Worked great even with my poo poo prescription and only cost me like $55 total for both thinner lenses + coating and the printing. You could def getting cheaper if your prescription is better and you have access to a printer. I'd recommend it.
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# ? Nov 24, 2017 05:04 |
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Dunno if anyone cares, but the PSVR core headset seems to be $200 at Gamestop and Target right now: https://www.gamestop.com/ps4/accessories/playstation-vr/129497 https://www.target.com/p/playstation-174-vr/-/A-50985363 If you're a US military vet, you can get it tax free and shipping free at the exchange site: https://www.shopmyexchange.com/sony-playstation-vr/8177310 Fake edit: Also, I'm really loving glad I flipped my Dell Visor + Controllers on eBay a week ago for $430; now there's piles of them on eBay for $250, talk about a stinker: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_sop=15&_nkw=dell+headset+visor&rt=nc&LH_BIN=1
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# ? Nov 24, 2017 05:09 |
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Batman Arkham VR - When the Joker told me to come closer, I physically shook my head and out loud said "No."
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# ? Nov 24, 2017 06:30 |
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w00tazn posted:I bought Zenni's and got the Oculus rift inserts 3d printed by a service. Worked great even with my poo poo prescription and only cost me like $55 total for both thinner lenses + coating and the printing. You could def getting cheaper if your prescription is better and you have access to a printer. Just bought these myself. Have said poo poo prescription (-6) so they ended up being more expensive, but hopefully worth it. My current glasses, despite being quite big still fit ok in the headset. I just get tired of them smearing all the time and getting stuck if I'm doing Dev work continually pulling theheadset on and off. Will be interesting to see if I can 3d print the frames for the oculus. I don't have a 3d printer, but a local library does....
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# ? Nov 24, 2017 08:12 |
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smoobles posted:Anyone know how to fix Vive floor tilt problem? My floor is tilted like 15 degrees and the floor is 3 feet too high. Redo the room setup but look at the pictures of how the controllers are placed. Place your controllers exactly in the center of the room in the way they ask (touchpads up). I had the same issue when I placed the controllers touchpad down. Touchpad down makes more sense to me since it would be more stable but the software wants touchpads up.
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# ? Nov 24, 2017 16:36 |
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Is the Google Daydream worthwhile for anything?
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Main Paineframe posted:Is the Google Daydream worthwhile for anything? Not really.
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# ? Nov 24, 2017 17:05 |
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Whoa, just found this thing called CAOTS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiQJS8ir9sQ The VR locomotion problem may have a decent solution without having to purchase a dumb treadmill.
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Exioce posted:Whoa, just found this thing called CAOTS Don't understand why this implementation hasn't been incorporated yet, as it seems like the easiest, cheapest and arguably safest solution to provide locomotion. That and your brain can be easily fooled into thinking its moving if you're performing standing walk actions.
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Exioce posted:Whoa, just found this thing called CAOTS I think me and saq have joked about this a dozen times. Download the demo from steam. It’s “fine” but for anything with lots of actual walking and running it would be obnoxious.
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# ? Nov 24, 2017 18:37 |
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It also sounds like hell for people who tend to sweat a lot and fog up their headsets
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# ? Nov 24, 2017 19:24 |
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I purchased a Lenovo mixed reality headset through microsoft's black friday deals. $150 off. I'll strictly be using it for racing sim stuff, the reviews from sim racers using it for assetto corsa and iracing say it works perfectly fine but enjoy the extra clarity from the resolution boost. Cool! time to start building a new racing cockpit. I was having a hard time searching google... Can anyone tell me what frames per second to look for in a benchmark on a 2d screen in order to get 90fps in a vr setup ? I'm averaging a little over 250fps in assetto corsa on max settings with post processing disabled on a 2d monitor with max fps in the benchmark over 300. Will I be able to run assetto at 90fps in vr with the same settings ? How does 2d performance scale to VR performance ?
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SwissCM posted:Not really. Ugh, that sucks. I'm interested in VR but am probably going to have to wait till I get a new computer to actually be able to use the main headsets.
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Main Paineframe posted:Is the Google Daydream worthwhile for anything?
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# ? Nov 24, 2017 20:07 |
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I gotta say the Oculus store sucks in regards to sales. This morning I thought to myself now would be a good time to pick up Lone Echo and Superhot VR since it's Black Friday and surely everything on the site is on sale to some extent! Nope. Neither one is. Ok, well, I enjoy a good dungeon crawl; I guess I'll give Mage's Tale a shot.. Not on sale. What the everloving gently caress??
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# ? Nov 24, 2017 20:14 |
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Maybe things will go on sale for cyber monday
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Exioce posted:Whoa, just found this thing called CAOTS This is my favorite locomotion system so far, unfortunately its not really used anywhere. The demo is on steam as Freedom Locomotion VR. Play it til you unlock the hiking trail then raise the speed to the max and head over to the frozen lake. Its the closest any vr game has come to making me feel like I am actually the one running at 50 kmh. Then again I haven't tried any of the other arm waving locomotion games.
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Terrific Accident posted:It also sounds like hell for people who tend to sweat a lot and fog up their headsets Also doesn’t work well for people who have some sort of disability that prevents them from walking in place. I’d like to think that whatever locomotion solution VR lands on will be on that can accommodate people in wheelchairs. But that being said, it does look like a good step forward! I’m excited to see where VR is in a year or two from now. Hot Dog Day #82 fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Nov 24, 2017 |
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The other nice things about the CAOTS system in Freedom Locomotion is you can raise the amount of speed from your arm swings vs the headset bounce of jogging in place. So if you want you could move from just arm swinging or just the running in place, but if you raise the limit on both to the max that's where the fastest movement comes from.
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# ? Nov 24, 2017 20:28 |
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I had never played Serious Sam 3 before. The first couple of levels aren't the greatest but I just hit the first 'real' level where the corridors open up into your typical SS arenas and hoooooly hell. The frantic Sam action I love with more complex battlegrounds, killer graphics and even some destructible environments. Taking on the mancubus things with the Devastator as sandstone columns crashed down around me is now in my top 10 favourite vr experiences. Actually, let me try to rank those experiences, just for fun. 1. Jamming my head into the floor at That Part in Budget Cuts 2. Sitting on top of the CN Tower in Google Earth 3. lone echo spoilers: trying to rescue and then rescussitate Liz. 4. Getting above 100 in an endless mode in Superhot 5. Climbing up The Well in Climbey with a random dude. Took us more than an hour to get to the top. 6. Aforementioned Serious Sam 3 fight 7. Injuring my hand on the ceiling playing with the balloons in the tutorial 8. Beating the level with the flying neon dragon guy in Last Hope on Hard 9. The one day a bunch of goons got together for Rec Room 10. Watching 'Tour de Pharmacy' on Bigscreen, some randoms came in with no idea what it was and good times were had by all. I friggin love vr.
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TheKeeper posted:I gotta say the Oculus store sucks in regards to sales. This morning I thought to myself now would be a good time to pick up Lone Echo and Superhot VR since it's Black Friday and surely everything on the site is on sale to some extent! All of those are in the collection pack 1 with some other games like space pirate trainer for $100. I think the others were I Expect You to Die, some RC car thing I haven't tried yet, and eagle flight something. If you want those three it's probably worth it. SPT and IEYTD are good too. Edit: RC thing is Blaze Rush. Collection Pack 1 It also lowers the price if you already own some. Brightman fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Nov 24, 2017 |
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GTX 1080 and 1070Ti both seem like a reasonable price point for something generally considered okay for VR-- can anyone confirm that the 1080 (non-Ti) is desirable over the other and worth the small price difference? Also, is the 1080Ti better than the 1080 by enough to justify the large price difference?
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Seashell Salesman posted:GTX 1080 and 1070Ti both seem like a reasonable price point for something generally considered okay for VR-- can anyone confirm that the 1080 (non-Ti) is desirable over the other and worth the small price difference? Also, is the 1080Ti better than the 1080 by enough to justify the large price difference? Buying a 1080 is worth it. Don’t go 1070. Not this late in the cycle. I wish I’d of spent the 200ish sometimes on the ti. Other times I’m glad I didn’t. Ultimately I’m happy with my 1080 non ti and am super happy I spent the extra 50 bucks for it.
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EbolaIvory posted:Buying a 1080 is worth it. Don’t go 1070. Not this late in the cycle. 1070ti is new and about equal to the 1080. I would get whichever is cheaper.
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Haha now I'm even less sure which to buy than before I asked. It seems like 1080 is 40-90 dollars more than 1070Ti but without doing days of research it's hard to know which pairs of cards are a fair comparison. e: I'm inclined to buy this because the equivalent card in 1080 is out of stock, but before I do I'm curious to know what the important spec difference(s) are between this an non-Ti 1080 for VR purposes if anyone knows off the top of their head? Seashell Salesman fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Nov 24, 2017 |
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rage-saq posted:1070ti is new and about equal to the 1080. I would get whichever is cheaper. The 1080 is faster and for 50 bucks you’d be dumb to not go that route. 499-509 all day long on 1080s. There’s 4 1080s on Amazon for 504-508 I picked mine up for 509 from Newegg. EbolaIvory fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Nov 24, 2017 |
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Tom Guycot posted:So I haven't posted anything my ongoing photogrammetry tests in a while, because frankly I was getting burnt out manualy editing the meshes on large structures. It was so painful to try to smooth out lumpy geometry, fill in shapes that weren't flat square things like walls and dressers etc, and even with the easy stuff it was time consuming to make it line up. This is an incredible idea. Work has done some laser + photogrammetry scans that I have access too and I've been mucking about with them trying to see if I can get a decent mesh out of it that I can experiment with retopologising. I'm definitely going to have to try this. Problem at the moment is I can't find a decent laser + photogrammetry program that isn't stupidly expensive or locked behind a subscription. I've tried meshlab, but since my initial geometry has so many holes the poission reconstruction creates giant bubbles everywhere. Ball pivot always crashes. I got an amazing laser mesh + photo reconstruction out of Autodesk Recap Pro, this one looks great. But one caveat is you need to upload your project to their servers to do the conversion. I want to try Reality Capture but it looks like the free version disables mesh export. I'll have to see if I can get a trial and experiment. I've been repairing and painting what I've managed to get out in Blender - but I love the idea of using Medium. Seems very zen. When I last tried I had difficulty since whenever I scaled the model up the z (up) offset was too high and I couldn't actually reach anything. I assume I can just offset that in Blender though and reimport - I just haven't tried it yet.
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