MattyP wrote:Picked up an Oculus S for the PC a few weeks back! Essentially the same thing except its slightly higher res and is powered by the PC.
My tag is : CypherQ...
Sorry, but send it back and get a Quest. It connects to the PC so you get the best of both worlds. Can't tell you how good it is to be wire-free....
I wanted a quest but they were out of stock everywhere and for the forseeable.
I had a lot of game credit that needed using up so decided to take a punt on a S and I'm more than happy with it! Its great!
I'll wait for the Quest to get better before heading over to that. Sure there will be another couple of versions coming over the next couple of years. Right now though loving my S. Its great.....And I really don't mind the wires at the moment....
A light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
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I'm part of the Oculus Quest club now! got one for my 50th birthday
So far just done the intro - sooo many possibilities. Where to go from now? I guess Beat Sabre and Sidequest are a must and this thread have some other recommendations.
But suggestions are more than welcome - what to try/do?
Welcome! An happy 50th, that seems to be happening to a lot of us lately...
Beat Saber, BoxVR and Pistol whip are my main things for exercise at the moment.
Superhot is great in VR. Racket NX is a cool squash/tennis type game, but you do need some space. Racket Fury and Eleven are excellent table tennis games, the later more realistic and you can 3D print a handle for your controller!
My son loves Space Pirates a 3D shooter. There is a demo.
Try a few demos and download Netflix, Prime Video, Youtube etc. The latter two have VR stuff.
Virtual Desktop is cool to get your PC desktop in VR and with the Sidequest version, you can use Steam and Rift games without the wire. If you've got a really good router I've seen people have better results than with the cable. Of course, you need a decent PC (I have a new router and an RTX 2070 Super turning up today just to try this!)
I'm going to pick up the Room this week I think.
Worth noting, if you have played less than 2 hours and owned the game for less than 2 weeks you can apply for a no questions asked refund. I've used it twice without an issue so far...
Welcome to the club. Fujii is brilliant and like nothing else on the store. It’s an abstract gardening/platforming hybrid. Watch a few vids online to see if it’s your cup of tea. It’s quite calming and beautiful in VR.
Feel free to add me to your friends list if you want to try multiplayer, or get friends high scores - Hardbattle
Dio wrote:I got one to play Alyx through the link cable. Works really well for it, and that game is astonishing.
I'm concerned I'll be too scared!
This is a good video, where someone with a decent router was actually getting slightly better results out of virtual desktop than with the link cable. I'm hoping to achieve that, as don't want to go back to wires...
I can't really see any compelling reasons to by a Rift over a Quest as you have the best of both worlds with very little compromise.
Now have my Quest working pretty flawlessly and wirelessly with my PC using Virtual Desktop. The only place that seemed glitchy was the Steam 'home' room.
I got games on the Oculus store, Steam VR and Viveport all working without a problem.
It's fantastic to try some of the PC stuff. Messing around with Steam's 'The Lab' and Google Earth took a fair chunk of my evening. Elite was lovely although I had problems centring the view and Arizona sunshine was I assume better than the Quest version (it's 'free' in Viveport Infinity, I didn't want it enough to pay for the Quest version - And I got Infinity in a recent offer for £27 for the year as opposed to £108!)
OK, so I did have to invest in a new fast router and I really did need an RTX 2070 Super to power my word processing and spreadsheets to make it all work so well, but who's counting??
Now to Alyx or not to Alyx. It seems expensive if I'm going to wimp out on it (I found the space crabs/spiders in Farpoint on PSVR and the Resident Evil demo rather 'challenging'!)
I don't have any trouble with horror stuff, so I can't help you on the psychological aspects of it (I just don't notice), but the game is simply awesome. It's a HL game in VR, delivers pretty much exactly what it says on the tin.
Steam has a couple of 'vr homes' based on the new Alyx environments.
One of which is the tech blokes place. Quite interesting just to look around and see what the actual visuals are like before any potential purchase (as there is no demo )
agree its not about the visuals, but more a sense of the atmosphere they create.
I have no doubt the game in and of itself would be good etc. its mainly about the movement not being clunky and awkward (which a lot of VR titles are simply because they try to hard not to be) and the hands/gloves thing working well.
The 'homes' environment at least gives you a chance to move about and explore to get a 'little sample'
Dio wrote:It's not about the visuals. (Although they are quite alright). If you loved HL2 you will love this, as long as you can get on with the VR stuff.
I love HL2.
I love horror movies.
Turns out I don't love BEING in horror movies!
Got a load of stuff still to try now I'm PC connected, so I think I'll wait until a Steam sale and see if HLA is in it, that way I won't feel as bad if I wimp out...
Dio wrote:It's not about the visuals. (Although they are quite alright). If you loved HL2 you will love this, as long as you can get on with the VR stuff.
I love HL2.
I love horror movies.
Turns out I don't love BEING in horror movies!
Got a load of stuff still to try now I'm PC connected, so I think I'll wait until a Steam sale and see if HLA is in it, that way I won't feel as bad if I wimp out...
I DO NOT like BEING in horror anything ..
I tried my best .. I did "ok" until .. OMG what's that SUPER CREEPY thing in that tunnel ?
OMG BARNACLES !!
OMG CRABHEADS !!
.. I still haven't found courage to try it again ...
And yes .. I had to have Yak telling me 3 times "no that thing is NOT coming out that container" before I used one of those "recharging machines" .. and yet .. I still find creepy what happens to that poor bug ...
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