Fool me, this is real good shit ! [the VR thread]

[Whiteball]

Super Mario Galaxy Running around those planets in VR would be ace!

[KlaxonCow]

I reckon they should join forces with HTC-Valve and have their own store within steam.

That's where Valve have the advantage.

Because they have designed SteamVR as a hardware-agnostic API. You code to a generic VR profile and then Steam does the behind-the-scenes work of hooking that up to whatever real hardware is there. So SteamVR supports not only the Vive, but also the Rift.

And should Google, Apple, Nintendo or whoever else decide to join the fray, then their hardware can be added to the roster of supported VR hardware and SteamVR games should all then "just work".

(Valve are quite good at playing the long game like this. I mean, when they first forced us to install the Steam Store in order to play Half-life 2 and Portal on the Orange Box, everyone wondered what the fuck they were doing. No-one remotely wonders that anymore.)

[Rhythm]

I noticed on twitter yesterday that Jason Bradbury (Gadget Show) had tweeted that he has spent £3000 on a new computer in order to run his Vive VR!
He said all the PC's he had weren't good enough to use it to it's full capacity. Getting expensive this VR stuff isn't it?

I bet he felt a bit of a fool when the GTX 1070 and 1080 got announced then? :-)

Starting to see what my upgrade path might look like this year, irrespective of VR :-)

[pogo]

your future, should you choose to accept it

[zip accident]

I noticed on twitter yesterday that Jason Bradbury (Gadget Show) had tweeted that he has spent £3000 on a new computer in order to run his Vive VR!
He said all the PC's he had weren't good enough to use it to it's full capacity. Getting expensive this VR stuff isn't it?

I bet he felt a bit of a fool when the GTX 1070 and 1080 got announced then? :-)

Starting to see what my upgrade path might look like this year, irrespective of VR :-)

I am waiting to see. There is the AMD side to show yet, it sounds as if they are going to show mid-low end kit first off, but presumably they will have something at the high end sometime this year, and nVidia's pricing seems extreme at this point.

[gravy]

Maybe, rumours are Vega now moved from 2017 to October 2016

Hopefully hear more on June 1st

I noticed on twitter yesterday that Jason Bradbury (Gadget Show) had tweeted that he has spent £3000 on a new computer in order to run his Vive VR!
He said all the PC's he had weren't good enough to use it to it's full capacity. Getting expensive this VR stuff isn't it?

I bet he felt a bit of a fool when the GTX 1070 and 1080 got announced then? :-)

A good, hard look in the mirror is all he needs for that to happen.

Don't Scare The Hare, never forget.

[KlaxonCow]

I noticed on twitter yesterday that Jason Bradbury (Gadget Show) had tweeted that he has spent £3000 on a new computer in order to run his Vive VR!

Don't confuse someone showing off his new "status symbol" to his Twitter followers with the actual reality of the situation.

He's just trying to win a pissing contest. But the thing is, if you piss that high up the wall to win the pissing contest, then you're bound to get some "splash back" and give yourself an unintentional golden shower. Spent £3000 on a new computer? They saw him coming from a mile away, didn't they?

#PCMasterRace

[PumaG]

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[PumaG]

So the PS4 will be around £699 with VR/Camera bundle ?

The one to go for if you have no intention of owning a powerful PC


here's some perspective if you want to justify a Vive

Midrange 27" iMac in all its beauty

Intel i5 - 3.2GHZ, 1TB HDD, 8GB RAM, 3DMark score 6819

£1600

OR

£1650

( £2100 cheaper than Jason Bradbury's laptop set-up with same GFX card )

Dual-boot Hackintosh/Win 10 - HTC Vive VR kit

Intel i5 - 3.5GHZ, 2 x SSD, 8GB RAM, 3DMark 17512

HTC Vive £750 + £900 (inc paying for OSX) (beg for old monitor, keyboard and mouse)

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor (£179.98 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97-D3H ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£57.99 @ Ebuyer)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£23.99 @ Ebuyer)
Storage: Sandisk Ultra II 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£42.90 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£69.99 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 980 4GB Twin Frozr Video Card (£399.98 @ Amazon UK)
Case: BitFenix Comrade ATX Mid Tower Case (£32.38 @ CCL Computers)
Power Supply: be quiet! 530W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (£69.60 @ CCL Computers)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit)
Total: £876.81

Price of 4690K has just dropped a further £10 in Germany and expect price drop on GTX980 next month

[Bod]

I noticed on twitter yesterday that Jason Bradbury (Gadget Show) had tweeted that he has spent £3000 on a new computer in order to run his Vive VR!

Don't confuse someone showing off his new "status symbol" to his Twitter followers with the actual reality of the situation.

He's just trying to win a pissing contest. But the thing is, if you piss that high up the wall to win the pissing contest, then you're bound to get some "splash back" and give yourself an unintentional golden shower. Spent £3000 on a new computer? They saw him coming from a mile away, didn't they?

#PCMasterRace

Love the terminology.

[Baggypants]

Slow hand claps all round.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/0 ... ve-revive/

Oculus added DRM, worse still, stupid DRM. What were they expecting to happen to it?

Edit: I'm not pro-piracy, but I am anti-drm.

[gilesgoat]

... a stupid question .. ( yes I am into this kind of shit ) .. I can't remember ( and never cared so far much, i.e. click and skip all time ) .. does OR when you play something come out with some "Health and Safety warning" issued by OR itself and/or any game has "some shit of its own" like "Photosensitive warning" and such ?

Given that VR in some way is truly "relatively unknown" i.e. I can't really have a clue if someone can trigger a psychotic shit by using VR ( I think you can ) and if in that case someone can jump at you and you claim "look I really don't have a clue about what this thing can do and/or how much safe really is or isn't " wtf are you supposed to put as "warning" before someone plays your game or such ?

Has anyone yet got batshit bananas or masturbated to death while watching VR pr0n and someone sued some VR developers for gazillions ?

Is that serious stuff that a developer should be concerned of ?

WTF could I know other than tell you "I don't have a clue and I don't assume any responsibilities for you using this VR stuff and what it can do for/to you ?" ..

[Space Cowboy]

Looks like my Oculus Rift will be arriving shortly ...

Hi Paul,

Your order has been processed and your Rift is almost on its way! Look for a shipping confirmation email with tracking information soon.

They've taken the money from my account as well. (Used PayPal and got a separate notification from them.)

So, what's an unopened, unused Oculus Rift worth these days? (Think I'd rather have an Nvidia GTX 1080 really.)

[gilesgoat]

Looks like my Oculus Rift will be arriving shortly ...

Hi Paul,

Your order has been processed and your Rift is almost on its way! Look for a shipping confirmation email with tracking information soon.

They've taken the money from my account as well. (Used PayPal and got a separate notification from them.)

So, what's an unopened, unused Oculus Rift worth these days? (Think I'd rather have an Nvidia GTX 1080 really.)

What you selling a brand new OR ?

[Space Cowboy]

Well it looks like it's on its way - still waiting for the dispatch notification - but, after ordering, I've decided I'm not really that bothered about VR - can't see I'll be using it - so yeah, would be interested in offloading it if anyone was interested.