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

[Misfit]

Squee! My driver is 2 stops away so I'll have mine shortly. Thankfully they're using Yodel rather than DPD so I'll actually receive it

That must be area specific as our Yodel driver is a nightmare. He does deliver but we often get packages for people down the road/across the city...

[Cloudane]

Meanwhile here DPD are excellent.

Will have a go at the debug options later. To be honest I already seem to be stressing what I thought was a powerful system (Ryzen 3600, Vega56)

[Rhythm]

Man, DPD are the worst. Sure I've said this before but when I worked in IT Procurement we banned vendors from using them as they were so utterly useless. Across 3 addresses over the last decade I've had maybe one or two deliveries go right the first time.

My favourite recent escapade:

- waiting in for a delivery, watching him on the tracker. Gets to "you're next" and receive a message saying "we tried to deliver and you weren't in". Look at the attached picture and... it's not my house. I live at 32, he'd tried to deliver to 29. Had to deal with their ridiculous callcentre to finally re-arrange a delivery. Earliest day.... 2 weeks later. They could have done sooner but "because you weren't in it's you're fault". So I book it and wait and gets to the day. I'd figured out which address he'd seen that he flagged as mine (it was down the street), and kept an eye on the property from my window. Gets to "you're next" and I watch him pull into the square... and get out and try to deliver to that same wrong property again. Ran outside to collar him, explained which address I was from. Asked him why he was delivering to the wrong house and he answered "I was looking for 32 but I couldn't see any numbers higher than 29 on this street"

[gilesgoat]

Man, DPD are the worst. Sure I've said this before but when I worked in IT Procurement we banned vendors from using them as they were so utterly useless. Across 3 addresses over the last decade I've had maybe one or two deliveries go right the first time.

My favourite recent escapade:

- waiting in for a delivery, watching him on the tracker. Gets to "you're next" and receive a message saying "we tried to deliver and you weren't in". Look at the attached picture and... it's not my house. I live at 32, he'd tried to deliver to 29. Had to deal with their ridiculous callcentre to finally re-arrange a delivery. Earliest day.... 2 weeks later. They could have done sooner but "because you weren't in it's you're fault". So I book it and wait and gets to the day. I'd figured out which address he'd seen that he flagged as mine (it was down the street), and kept an eye on the property from my window. Gets to "you're next" and I watch him pull into the square... and get out and try to deliver to that same wrong property again. Ran outside to collar him, explained which address I was from. Asked him why he was delivering to the wrong house and he answered "I was looking for 32 but I couldn't see any numbers higher than 29 on this street"

Imagine here, there are NO house numbers, there's NO house sign, there's NO road name, there's NO village name properly either and the post code points a really large vague area

[Rhythm]

Imagine here, there are NO house numbers, there's NO house sign, there's NO road name, there's NO village name properly either and the post code points a really large vague area

That's it, I'd expect this in the middle of nowhere but I live in a pretty established bit of Leeds

[Rhythm]

First impressions are very good indeed! The backlight is brighter than on the WMR so it’s deffo not purely an “OLED vs LCD” thing but it’s buttery smooth, easy to use. The “double tap headset to see the real world” feature is amazing, miles better than the flashlight equivalent on WMR.

Going to stock up on freebie apps for now, wait for sales on the official games. And just deciding whether I drop £15 for Virtual Desktop or the same price for a 5m USBC cable

[Cloudane]

Now it's pissing me off again.

I just want to play the desktop (Steam) version of Beat Saber. But a) the picture quality over Link is ABSOLUTE GARBAGE (even with official cable) and b) the controllers don't vibrate, making it near impossible to play

This is a good standalone headset, but I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion it's the worst PC headset in the world. "It'S tHe BeSt Of BoTh WoRlDs!!!!!! YoU'lL nEvEr NeEd A rIfT aGaIn!!!" - every shill for this thing ever. It's fine on its own, but is 10000000% DEFINITELY NOT a PC headset in any way shape or form.

[Cloudane]

Did some resetting and reinstalling, Beat Saber works now. It'll definitely be better if they can up the bitrate and if I can find a PCIe USB card that keeps it charged, but rage of the day over for now.

[Misfit]

Did some resetting and reinstalling, Beat Saber works now. It'll definitely be better if they can up the bitrate and if I can find a PCIe USB card that keeps it charged, but rage of the day over for now.

You’re on quite a rollercoaster!

[Harlequin]

Did some resetting and reinstalling, Beat Saber works now. It'll definitely be better if they can up the bitrate and if I can find a PCIe USB card that keeps it charged, but rage of the day over for now.

Damn. I researched a reply only to find you had solved the problem before I got to post it.

[Cloudane]

Thanks anyway! Yeah, I definitely have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the Quest 2. It's got a loooong way to go before I'll be properly happy with it (link needs higher res, less compression artifacts, more contrast, Steam needs better everything, colours need to be calibrated for LCD in a lot of stuff, need some way to actually use the damn thing on PC for more than 2-3 hours, need a better way to make the link cable stay out of the way.. probably that overpriced replacement head strap) but whenever I put the CV1 back on in a huff, I realise how much the resolution has improved and that it's hopefully worth persevering.

[THEDARKPRIESTCYRIC]

Now it's pissing me off again.

I just want to play the desktop (Steam) version of Beat Saber. But a) the picture quality over Link is ABSOLUTE GARBAGE (even with official cable) and b) the controllers don't vibrate, making it near impossible to play

This is a good standalone headset, but I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion it's the worst PC headset in the world. "It'S tHe BeSt Of BoTh WoRlDs!!!!!! YoU'lL nEvEr NeEd A rIfT aGaIn!!!" - every shill for this thing ever. It's fine on its own, but is 10000000% DEFINITELY NOT a PC headset in any way shape or form.

I've seen there is some hack to get better a better image over the cable but is there any reason your not just streaming over WiFi with Virtual Desktop? I hear that is a far better experience than the link cable.

[Cloudane]

Wifi is no good for Beat Saber on Expert+, and Virtual Desktop for some reason is pants with Steam VR (it's great with Oculus API stuff). Sometimes I can persuade BS to launch with "-vrmode oculus" but the latency is still a bit high for that. Hopefully they'll upgrade the link as in theory that should always be better than wireless!

I did use VD for VRchat last night though, mostly after I'd gone to bed (decided to try one of the sleep worlds with a buddy), very impressive, in most cases it is better.

[PVB]

Some funny posts on here. Both funny ha-ha and funny peculiar.

Got several complaining about having to buy the same game again after already having it on other (PC) headsets and Giles agreeing, saying that it’s easy to port the games to the Quest.
Then a few posts on, Giles saying that Quest Moose Life is nowhere near finished as it’s a lot of work to port to the Quest.

Then there’s the PC VR brigade complaining about the Quest/Quest 2’s quality compared to much more expensive headset/PC set ups.

From my point of view, having a PSVR v1 as my first ever VR headset, the Quest 1 was a slight improvement in visuals, but a lot easier to use due to the wireless connection, meaning I could sit anywhere in the house and use the Quest.

I was hoping the Quest 2 would be a significant step up in resolution to Q1, but it’s not.
Quest 2 has a per-eye resolution of 1,832 × 1,920, compared to the original's 1,440 × 1,600.
I would’ve wanted at least double the original’s resolution.
So unless certain future games play a lot better on Q2, I’ll stay with Q1 for now.

[Cloudane]

I was hoping the Quest 2 would be a significant step up in resolution to Q1, but it’s not.

Wait.. are you... complaining?