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I actually bought a Saitek X52 pro for Elite Dangerous when the Vive was announced because I wanted to play it in VR, but when the VR patch came out and the rendering was borked on the Vive I gave it up. I wan't to pick it up again and try it out, I think it would be a pretty great experience seeing the scale of everything.

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I actually bought a Saitek X52 pro for Elite Dangerous when the Vive was announced because I wanted to play it in VR, but when the VR patch came out and the rendering was borked on the Vive I gave it up. I wan't to pick it up again and try it out, I think it would be a pretty great experience seeing the scale of everything.

Definitely give it another go, imo. Elite Dangerous is one of the killer apps for me. Super Hot VR being the other.

 

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OK Skyrim VR is pretty remarkable. I loaded up a good amount of mods increasing texture resolution and NPC model quality and am pretty blown away. The melee combat doesn't feel great since you don't get any feedback for swinging and you can cheese it up just wagging your controller around to swing super fast, but the magic and bow gameplay is GREAT.

Fighting a spider that is 8x larger than you or seeing a dragon breathe fire on you is super trippy.

I'm planning on going through the game with a magic/archery build currently and the immersion is unparalleled. This game runs way better than fallout does.

The UI is a fucking trainwreck. Easily the most difficult menu navigation in any game I've ever played. The Vive trackpads make it super easy to accidentally swipe up rather than left/right and you have to constantly access your favorites menu to swap back and forth. The radial menu for FO4VR was lightyears better than this stupid shit.

I'm not sure if that is something that someone can mod to fix but that will fix the greatest downfall of this game. The interactive environmental items like chests and drawers etc still are just point and click rather than physically opening, which breaks the immersion a bit but I never really expected them to change how you interact with these.

Resolution still isn't as good as I would like, but thats a hardware limitation. Supersampling only does so much. All in all I'm very excited about this game, this is the first time I've been looking forward to play a VR game while I'm away at work in quite a while.

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Played a fun little game called Boogeyman where you play this child protecting their bed from the boogeyman.  You have to keep your head on a swivel and efficiently use the limited battery power of your flashlight, which repels him.  It's pretty intense when you look under the bed and his face is staring right at you.

But the gold standard for scary VR games, imo, is Alien: Isolation.  Fuck that game.

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On 4/12/2018 at 8:24 AM, Shenanigans said:

OK Skyrim VR is pretty remarkable. I loaded up a good amount of mods increasing texture resolution and NPC model quality and am pretty blown away. The melee combat doesn't feel great since you don't get any feedback for swinging and you can cheese it up just wagging your controller around to swing super fast, but the magic and bow gameplay is GREAT.

Fighting a spider that is 8x larger than you or seeing a dragon breathe fire on you is super trippy.

I'm planning on going through the game with a magic/archery build currently and the immersion is unparalleled. This game runs way better than fallout does.

The UI is a fucking trainwreck. Easily the most difficult menu navigation in any game I've ever played. The Vive trackpads make it super easy to accidentally swipe up rather than left/right and you have to constantly access your favorites menu to swap back and forth. The radial menu for FO4VR was lightyears better than this stupid shit.

I'm not sure if that is something that someone can mod to fix but that will fix the greatest downfall of this game. The interactive environmental items like chests and drawers etc still are just point and click rather than physically opening, which breaks the immersion a bit but I never really expected them to change how you interact with these.

Resolution still isn't as good as I would like, but thats a hardware limitation. Supersampling only does so much. All in all I'm very excited about this game, this is the first time I've been looking forward to play a VR game while I'm away at work in quite a while.

Yep. Wow. Fired Skyrim VR up this weekend.  Super immersive. Best gaming VR experience I have had to date

Keeping an eye on Skyrim Together mod, which seems like it might be close. Multiplayer Skyrim in VR would be epic

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TPCast for my Oculus arrived this morning and by noon I installed OpenTPCast. The standard firmware worked fine, but the dropped frames every so often were annoying. With OpenTPCast those drops are all but nonexistent. Since I got the TPCast on sale through their website, the added expense of OpenTPCast brought the whole shebang back to regular price. 
 
After playing for the last few hours I can honestly say that the upgrade to the experience of going wireless is greater than the upgrade of adding the Touch controllers, and adding the Touch controllers was a massive upgrade.
 
Wireless quality VR brings us a significant step closer to realizing VR's potential. I'm well impressed.

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I am cheap and not into gaming, but I came across this on slickdeals.  I was thinking of buying one.  This is one unit old, but $70 on ebay, newest is $100

$30

https://www.verizonwireless.com/accessories/samsung-gear-vr-controller/

It should arrive tomorrow.  I was reading an article, and I am mainly looking into checking out sports, Movies, and some cheesy games.

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Yeah, too much screen door, like when I bought a projector when HD just came out.

Just a cool experience to check out at $30. I'm glad I didn't pay more.

 

I look forward to getting a full on VR experience down the road though..

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My dad came over and I finally convinced him to try the Oculus. Video games are from another planet as far he's concerned. I'm thinking video games was how I chose to rebel, but that's a conversation for my therapist. He's an avid hunter and plenty comfortable around guns so I fired up Gun Club VR for him.

 

He played for 2 hours straight and refused to answer the phone when my mom called wondering where he was.

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Cross posting this from the "For Sale" thread:

My younger son has spent the last year begging for a VR system for Christmas.  We gave him the "we'll see" runaround, told him to think about it and make sure it's what he wants, reminded him over and over how expensive they are, we'll pay for some of it but you need to save your money and chip in and all that.  Kid saved every dime of his birthday and chore money which is quite a feat for him, he's got enough to pay for 80% of it.  I'm really impressed with him, money usually burns a hole in his pocket.   The thing is he won't shut the fuck up about what system he wants.  He wants the htc vive and not the oculus rift and reminds us nonstop, just convinced I'll screw this up.  So the vive is purchased and resting in a secure location but I really want an oculus rift box to repackage this thing in so he opens it on Christmas and for a few moments thinks his life is shit and I'm the dumbest fuck ever.  Willing to buy or borrow, I'll cover shipping both ways of course.

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On 4/26/2021 at 6:35 PM, Grimas said:

Got my kid the new Oculus Quest 2 the other day and thought I'd bump this thread to see what people are playing.  Damn cool device (except it requires a FB account...)

I enjoy VR paintball and laser tag through Rec Room.

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Got into VR late last year. Never really was a big PC gamer. Had a few older games from a few years back.Mostly racing simulations that I purchased a wheel set up for. But only played now and then. Plus a combat flight sim.

Was given the Rift S and realized all my games were VR capable. Now I’m hooked! Not only do I now play those same games on a weekly basis. I’ve added I Racing,MSFS 2020,Half Life Alyx,Star Wars Squadrons and Elite Dangerous.

Also bought Fallout 4 and Skyrim dirt cheap on a Steam sale.

Had to upgrade my PC. But now I’ve officially become a “gamer”.......

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My brother got the oculus 2 and I went over there to try it out. Both of us are mostly into rpgs but for this we are seeing flight Sims like star wars could be really cool if they put money into it. We are following some virtual mmos that look a lot like everquest.

 

That said this space is still in its pre infancy but man it's going to be main stream once people see how bad ass it can be. That's just for us gaming nerds. I won't even comment on the possibilities for porn. 

Critiques are the batteries die after about 2 hours on a wireless headset and the ports mostly suck like star wars etc because so few people have this and companies won't put in proper resources to make bad ass games due to risk.

Here is what is coming with the omni one.

 

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Got my kid an oculus 2 for his 9th birthday. This thing is cool as hell. All I have him so far is Tetris. I guess there’s some sort of drawing game that he got for free. Wanted to start out with a basic game so he can get the hang of it. Wife said no violent games... anyone have cool non fighting non violent games they play on there? 

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Got my kid an oculus 2 for his 9th birthday. This thing is cool as hell. All I have him so far is Tetris. I guess there’s some sort of drawing game that he got for free. Wanted to start out with a basic game so he can get the hang of it. Wife said no violent games... anyone have cool non fighting non violent games they play on there? 

Climb 2. Also there’s a free fishing game. My 7 year old enjoys both but he also enjoys the free videos like roller coasters etc.

@UTGrad98 sorry to inform you, no porn on oculus. Trust me I’ve looked. It’s all run on Facebook platform so I’d imagine they’d nix anything with nudity unfortunately.

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On 8/5/2021 at 8:03 PM, Wulaw Horn said:

Got my kid an oculus 2 for his 9th birthday. This thing is cool as hell. All I have him so far is Tetris. I guess there’s some sort of drawing game that he got for free. Wanted to start out with a basic game so he can get the hang of it. Wife said no violent games... anyone have cool non fighting non violent games they play on there? 

Where's the bar on violence set? Moss is a very cute and well-designed platformer, but you jump on enemies to kill them a la Super Mario. If the bar is lower than that, and regardless of where the bar is, Beat Saber is a crowd favorite. You can't go wrong with that one.

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Bought an Oculus Quest 2 for my wife and me for Christmas. We bought the Walking Dead game, Thrill of the Fight, and some Star Wars games that were on sale. So far, all of the games have been awesome. The Walking Dead game is really immersive, and the boxing game is a legitimate workout. I'm in pretty good shape, and after three two-minute rounds I was sweaty and out of breath.  

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Bought an Oculus Quest 2 for my wife and me for Christmas. We bought the Walking Dead game, Thrill of the Fight, and some Star Wars games that were on sale. So far, all of the games have been awesome. The Walking Dead game is really immersive, and the boxing game is a legitimate workout. I'm in pretty good shape, and after three two-minute rounds I was sweaty and out of breath.  

I was just going to post that the Oculus boxing game is a no joke workout. This stuff is very realistic 

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I got my kids the Oculus 2 for Xmas and it has pretty much turned into my deal. It is a blast.

I downloaded "Thrill of the Fight" and holy shit is it a good workout. I end up sweating my ass off. I did 4 "fights" today (three were three rounds and last one was four)

Basically ended up doing ~25mins of boxing across the four fights and fucking A are my shoulders/arms feeling it.

It is a lot of fun and I never thought I would get into VR but it is really immersive and enjoyable.

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Some other games I like:

Demeo (top down board game - think dungeon exploration with choice of 5 character types to play and card based combat) has single player and multiplayer. I only do single as I don't like people

Beat Saber - it is dorky but fun

Thrill of the Fight - Boxing

Climb 2 - Climbing simulator

Super Hot  - Physics based combat game where the people trying to kill you move as fast as you do, (think a variable speed "bullet time)

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On 2/12/2022 at 12:13 AM, iodeac said:

I was thinking about getting the Oculus since I need some motivation to exercise when the weather is bad. Should I get the version with more memory, and what other accessories should I get?

Enviado desde mi SM-G973U mediante Tapatalk
 

I just got the oculus 2 but less memory. It’s cool so far. Just played the plank adventure though and it’s nuts. But looking forward to downloading the walking dead game tonight  

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I was home alone with COVID over the holiday weekend so I grabbed a quest 2 - holy shit it's some impressive hardware. I am less than happy about the requirement to link a facebook account to my oculus account to use the headset, but I actually read through the privacy policy, and they at least claim the headset isn't capturing imagery and data of your room to enable the room-scale.

Functionality, the inside-out tracking is remarkably good. It's crazy that I can just make a clear space in any room in my house, put on the headset, draw an outline around the play area, and the headset does the rest. No lighthouse sensors, no calibration, no nothing. It's worked with steamVR with minimal effort and configuration, and I've even been able to fully wirelessly do steamlink to my gaming PC to play HL Alyx.

I'm floored that at $300 headset can do 120hz VR, surprisingly accurate hand and finger tracking, fully wireless connectivity to a powerful gaming PC that actually works, and is even moddable on the headset itself! I've got a shitload of cool custom tracks in BeatSaber now and the headset can be sideloaded with custom apps and mods for Oculus store apps

EDIT: also I strongly recommend grabbing an upgrade to the headset strap - I grabbed this $40 replacement on amazon that just snapped in to replace the straps, and it's sooo much more comfortable and less wobbly

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On 7/6/2022 at 9:16 AM, Captainant said:

I was home alone with COVID over the holiday weekend so I grabbed a quest 2 - holy shit it's some impressive hardware. I am less than happy about the requirement to link a facebook account to my oculus account to use the headset, but I actually read through the privacy policy, and they at least claim the headset isn't capturing imagery and data of your room to enable the room-scale.

Functionality, the inside-out tracking is remarkably good. It's crazy that I can just make a clear space in any room in my house, put on the headset, draw an outline around the play area, and the headset does the rest. No lighthouse sensors, no calibration, no nothing. It's worked with steamVR with minimal effort and configuration, and I've even been able to fully wirelessly do steamlink to my gaming PC to play HL Alyx.

I'm floored that at $300 headset can do 120hz VR, surprisingly accurate hand and finger tracking, fully wireless connectivity to a powerful gaming PC that actually works, and is even moddable on the headset itself! I've got a shitload of cool custom tracks in BeatSaber now and the headset can be sideloaded with custom apps and mods for Oculus store apps

EDIT: also I strongly recommend grabbing an upgrade to the headset strap - I grabbed this $40 replacement on amazon that just snapped in to replace the straps, and it's sooo much more comfortable and less wobbly

Just grabbed that strap! It’s pretty awesome looking forward to playing the walking dead tonight 

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On 7/6/2022 at 8:16 AM, Captainant said:

I was home alone with COVID over the holiday weekend so I grabbed a quest 2 - holy shit it's some impressive hardware. I am less than happy about the requirement to link a facebook account to my oculus account to use the headset, but I actually read through the privacy policy, and they at least claim the headset isn't capturing imagery and data of your room to enable the room-scale.

Functionality, the inside-out tracking is remarkably good. It's crazy that I can just make a clear space in any room in my house, put on the headset, draw an outline around the play area, and the headset does the rest. No lighthouse sensors, no calibration, no nothing. It's worked with steamVR with minimal effort and configuration, and I've even been able to fully wirelessly do steamlink to my gaming PC to play HL Alyx.

I'm floored that at $300 headset can do 120hz VR, surprisingly accurate hand and finger tracking, fully wireless connectivity to a powerful gaming PC that actually works, and is even moddable on the headset itself! I've got a shitload of cool custom tracks in BeatSaber now and the headset can be sideloaded with custom apps and mods for Oculus store apps

EDIT: also I strongly recommend grabbing an upgrade to the headset strap - I grabbed this $40 replacement on amazon that just snapped in to replace the straps, and it's sooo much more comfortable and less wobbly

Will need a Meta account starting in 2023 though... 

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44 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

Will need a Meta account starting in 2023 though... 

lmfao yeah when I saw the email all hyping up that "YOU NO LONGER NEED A FACEBOOK ACCOUNT!!! WOOOOO!" it's the same shit as a meta account, just a different label.

I'm resigned to the fact that the hardware is tied to the oculus platform. But I mainly use the headset just to get to my steamVR, so I don't have the concerns of a library lock out or bans due to modding or anything. I don't think there's a cheaper or easier entry to roomscale VR than a quest. Being able to game in VR in any space in my house without any additional sensors or wires ran through the house is quite a feat

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I love my Oculus. A friend of mine referred me so we both got a $60 credit which I used to get Super Hot, Moss, and Wander. The technology is really fascinating. Now I almost exclusively use mine for Supernatural. It's kind of like Beat Saber but they come up with new playlists and workouts every day. I think it's about 17 a month but well worth the cost and it's incredibly immersive and addictive

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10 hours ago, Chico_SA said:

So its Meta Quest now right?  My youngest came home from Target telling me he is saving his money for a Meta Quest. 

Yeah, the quest 2 is the one to get right now. $300 is a pretty awesome deal, and it makes for good birthday/Christmas gifts to give as  small upgrades like a better head strap ($35-40) or knuckle straps for the controllers ($20ish)

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