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Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Timing who you look at in Facebook Horizon and for how long. What you talk about and who you talk with. Which ads you look at, what part of them you look at, timed down to the millisecond. How long you play. How quickly you tire. What your range of movement is and how healthy you are. Are you getting fitter? More tired over time indicating an underlying health condition? They'll sell that on to your health insurance.

Jokes on them, I live in America lost my health insurance due to the pandemic.

Jumping on the Costco pre-order. Looking forward to escaping this hell hole reality for a few hours each week.

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Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
So this is cool, got the Quest 2 this afternoon but it gets stuck in an update loop while setting it up. It says Downloading Update 1 of 2, then restarts. Then Downloading Update 1 of 2 again. We've been at it for a few hours. I figured out how to do a factory reset and we got to the same spot and it started looping again.

Anyway, if anyone sees anyone else having this problem or a possible solution, let me know.

e: after a second reset it seems to be working

Reek fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Oct 14, 2020

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.

Lockback posted:

Oh that sucks. Have you reached out to Oculus yet? I think if the factory reset didn't fix it you'll need their help.

I put in a ticket but figured it would be a while before I heard from them on release day. It did finally just start working after hours of looping so, hooray! Now to get some games.

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.

PantsBandit posted:

Tbh if Sony was going to half rear end the VR thing they shouldn't have gone out of their way to lock down exclusives. Really not a good look for them and is ultimately just hobbling a new tech by making it harder to play the games that use it.

As someone who wanted to jump into VR for a while, I wasn't going to spend the $$ on psvr what seemed like a novelty without a ton of games to really play. By the time I finally decided to jump in the hardware was older and kind of seemed like the worst option. Seems like bad timing. If they had waited and pushed psvr with the ps5 I'd probably have been lining up to buy one but instead took this downtime to build a new gaming pc and grabbed a quest 2.

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.

SCheeseman posted:

Valve didn't make all the right decisions re: VR but one thing they nailed was that 180/360 video would be worthless as a medium outside of porn.

are all 360 videos super blurry or am I hitting some kind of snag in streaming to the quest

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
We were talking about narrative vr projects in a film class this morning and we watched some of these: https://www.with.in/

There is an app in the quest store as well, some of them are pretty cool if anyone wants some more free vr movie content.

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
anybody have one of these 3d printed gun stock accessories or a different brand they recommend?

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
so like, does anyone know how much this medal of honor game is going to cost?

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.

rage-saq posted:

Magtube by protubeVR, it’s the best. I’ve been using them for about 4 years now and instantly I couldn’t go back to playing shooting games without one of their stocks. Their designs and quality have evolved over time and they are really good stocks.

thanks for the input, I think I'll pony up the extra $$$ for the protube as that seems to be the consensus around the web

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
I remember playing the wwii cod on wii with one of these things:



and it was weirdly one of the more fun times I had with any cod game so I'm stoked for the vr upgrade. catching a grenade and throwing it back has been on my vr checklist of wants. the only thing I'm worried about is having to play tethered to my pc, my office space is currently kind of small :ohdear:

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
I put a 1tb ssd in my new build I have CoD installed and I've never even played it lol

Reek fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Dec 6, 2020

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
well the good news is cyberpunk is coming out so I can just play that and wait and see if moh gets its poo poo together

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
check your inbox I have a 30% off code for the Oculus store that expires Friday. Going to try and use it on Myst although it might just be the select games in which I'll just buy Beatsaber or something


side question, is the new Star Wars VR "Tales from the Galaxy's Edge" game any good? Haven't heard anyone mention it. Aside from looking like an ad for the disney park im thirsty for more star wars vr stuff

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.

TVs Ian posted:

I just checked my library and it's there. I activated mine about a week ago, and never submitted any tickets or anything.

Maybe it's people who activated before 11/30 who need to do the tickets?

yeah the whole issue was they offered free it for people who bought after 11/30 and everyone who bought at launch was butthurt. I just sent my ticket in, the serial number shows in the app next to the device name if you are lazy and don't want to pull apart the headset to find it like me

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.

Mr Beens posted:

This has just reminded me. I raised a ticket ( bought the q2 on launch day), they replied to ask me to send my serial number, which I sent. Not heard anything back from them. Need to chase them up I guess.

weird, yeah! I got a reply literally minutes after I sent mine so I'd try to reply again or open a new ticket

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
I was afraid of that with the Star Wars game. Pretty much why I haven't bought the Vader games either just seems like $$ for tech demos.

Back to Myst:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaKR-lor5Uc

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
Seems like they wanted to force the crowded holiday release date. If the patches move it from "broken" to "playable" i'll be in on the first sale

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
Cleared some space in my office so I can actually move around a little, started going through the humble bundle I grabbed a little while back. Starting with I Expect You To Die which is pretty fun but a little frustrating as some of the controls don't translate to the quest controllers very well. Hopefully I can figure out how to get them to work a little better

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
The only thing that would make pokerstars vr better is the ability to play on real money tables

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
I keep trying to catch/slap the ball with my offhand in Eleven to keep it from rolling away from the table

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
I really want to like watching movies but I get that little glare around the screen that kind of ruins it for me

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
There should be a discord for VR goons looking for people to play with

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.

Shine posted:

There is, in the top of the OP.

well dang, there ya go. joined!

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin is only 2 bucks on steam right now. I think the main complaint about the game is that it was short, so probably can't go wrong for two dollars

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.

Nocheez posted:

Discord needs to have the correct microphone chosen in the voice and video settings, just for one more thing to check.

this, and my seems to change occasionally for no reason

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
I got another $10 coupon on the Oculus store, one more and i'll have all three of those Darth Vader games for 80 cents a piece which seems like a good deal

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
The doom VR game is on sale, is it worth the 3 or 4 bucks?

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.

Hadlock posted:

3 yes, 4 no

Edit: USD?

$3.75 on Steam and I have about that much om my account but I don't want to waste it, I am very broke

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
I already own Doom 3 so I will just sidequest the drbeef port and save my duckets

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
I can't seem to talk any of my friends irl to reset their quest 2, so if anyone here wants to do the double reset/referral shoot me a pm and we can set it up.

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

That doesn't work any more, they patched out the reset loophole a few days ago (I just got my Quest and tried to do it lmao, confirmed with some ppl on reddit too)

drat, I knew I waited too long.

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
How is it playing with headphones? Cool or too cut off from your surroundings?

I want to try my pc headhpones but the cable is like 10 feet long, I would need to find a small mini 2.5 to 3.5mm cable or use just a regular old pair and get a small 3.5mm cable

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
What are some other good seated games? I don't have a lot of space right now and mostly play at my desk. I have I Expect You To Die and love that. I own Moss but haven't dove in yet. I got Archangel: Hellfire in a bundle but it seems the single player is borked and the multi is dead. I loved Subnautica 2d so I think I might start a vr replay.

Mostly looking for full on singleplayer games that don't require too much horizontal movement, but I'll take reqs for sims, puzzle games, and whatever else ya got.

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.

explosivo posted:

Room VR is excellent and can be played sitting. Lots of toggles and switches to futz with which is always the best part of VR imo

Thanks, I was interested in Room but wasn't sure of I needed to move arkund

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
Yeah im excited about playstion vr because Sony still has a lot of great exclusive stuff and there could be some great games, but if I have to buy a ps5 and an expensive headset when I already have a quest/pcvr I don't see it happening until it's in the bargain bin

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
Saw the cheap logitech joystick is on sale at amazon, would that be good for some basic squadrons/elite dangerous/no man's sky game play?

I've never been big into sims but I wanna give it a go in vr

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.

this looks so loving pleasant

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
wow I finally fired up Moss and man, its just really enjoyable. We need more games like this

Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.

Unlucky7 posted:

Is it preferable to play it seated or standing? Same question with the Room VR. I can easily do standing but seated is just more comfortable for long sessions.

That said I'm kind of holding off on VR a bit until my lenses get in.

100% seated, i just needed to clear enough space around my desk to be able to lean around a bit

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Reek
Nov 3, 2002

every.fucking.year.
I've had Alyx installed since day 1 but have yet to play it because yeah I don't want to ruin all the other janky games.

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