/vrg/ - virtual reality general

Good goy, don't you want an oculus now? Time for low effort shilling.

>Amazon US bundle includes a $100 gift card to sweeten the honey trap further

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youtube.com/watch?v=W7JjANVKINA
youtube.com/watch?v=k4JVv94W6QQ
vr-lens.eu/
reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/4lpj41/vrprotect_a_vive_lens_protector_with_optional/
widmovr.com/product/oculus-rift-prescription-lenses-adapter/
thingiverse.com/thing:1602460
twitter.com/NSFWRedditVideo

The Vive's also having a sale it's $100 off now.

Just gonna put this here but even for porn, it's just not worth it. Thank me later.

Yeah even $400 is a bit much. Google Cardboard is arguably enough for VR porn.

>not wanting to be a space trucker in vr with the ability to switch to vr porn
man you are sad

Wai wait wait, hol up, you sayin I can watch VR porn while in Elite Dangerous?

no i explicitly stated switch ie changing the window
sorry to bring up false hopes

Fuck. They need to make like plugins for all these games or something. Imagine if you could have a waifu in the cockpit with you.

Waifu dis waifu dat, god you virgins

What did you expect? This is Sup Forums.

Damn that would be the best.
Flying through space while your waifu does stuff around the cockpit.
Though i doubt that would happen anytime soon in Elite at least seeing how they can´t be arsed to implement npc crew-members to fill the empty seats in the cockpits
god you are a sad person can´t people have fun?
The way you talk i bet you are the virgin here.

Your enthusiasm makes me cringe...Calm. Down.

The best porn isn't on cardboard

So you going to post a source or what?

VR Kanojo

Fuck. For $299 I may just have to get it. Doesn't it kind of suck for compatability/not support all games or something tho?

Link to 100 gift card?

amazon.com/gp/product/B071L1G57S/?th=1

what is the space trucker vr game m8?

It's just Elite Dangerous, but to be fair it's the best space trucking you'll get anytime soon. The visuals and sound design are top tier.

Does it have a player driven economy like Eve Online or are you just shipping infinite supplies from one npc to the other?

it has a "player driven" economy but on a level far below at least if my memories of eve are correct

Yeah it doesn't really have any economy. It's not at all like Eve

i'll give it a whirl. just getting used to vr now, get kinda sick

what frames are you playing at user?

Just a tip: don't power through the sickness, it only makes your brain associate the sickness with VR more. Instead, if you get a hint of sickness, stop using it. If you're genetics aren't totally shit you should see improvement in tolerance after a week or two.

I lost interest as soon as it went from innovative head mounted display with head tracking to proprietary walled-garden horseshit with no games. Considering it still hasn't caught on years later, clearly everyone else did.

don't have a counter on. i'm playing at what a r5 1600 and a gtx 1070 can pull.
don't you shit on my genetics pls. should have figured i would get hit with this since i can get slightly motion sick in cars. i'll try easing my way into it

Shame. Part of the appeal was how wars and disputes lived on real trade and vice versa. You can fuck a station's supply if you had the money to buy it all and resell higher.

Then again, having pic related be possible in a realtime space fighter would be a dream for everybody.

VR need a big push now and AAA content will follow

I used to get motion sickness while playing Descent, despite not getting motion sickness in any other game ever. What worked for was looking at the floor whenever I felt sick until it passed, and then continuing.

You'd think that if all VR headsets could cost like 200-400 then AAA developers would probably be much more enticed.

It's a shame they didn't go that way for Elite Dangerous. Really would have made it feel more like a "complete" game and world rather than simply a cool experience that happens to be able to give you a lot of playtime.

how hard would it be to just take an OLED phone panel and some gyros and make a cheapo $200 VR headset?

It shouldn't be hard at all. I don't know if they do this, but they should make the screen detachable so it's easily replaced. That way you can upgrade to a higher display without replacing everything.

that´s what they do
then they go and add headphones
controllers both their own and xbox
and other things that you don´t get for free in the real world ie (((7 games)))
someone made a price list of the components back when the retardation of 600$ for it came out
the implication of that list was that the price increase correlated with the things noone asked for like integrated headphones which i think were 100-200$ if my memory serves me right

Not too hard. Look at Cardboard or the Chinese VR headsets. But then you're talking about a shit experience, even with the best quality ones. Look at reviews and comparison articles, the Vive or Oculus blow them away.

oh no 200$ was the complete hardware cost

>someone made a price list of the components back when the

That "price list" was mostly based on pure speculation. In reality we have no idea what the BOM is for a Rift, or Vive, or any of the current headsets. For instance, both of them use custom lenses that aren't components you can just order to be made somewhere. They're developed and manufactured in-house. It's entirely reasonable they could be a major cost in the package.

a barebones, modular VR headset would be pretty cool
>basic product is just a box with power/data and lenses for $30
>choice of panels ranging from shit-tier 480p TN for $20 to top-of-the-line twin 4k OLEDs for a few hundred - just pop open the box and slide it into the convenient plug-and-play slot
>slots for optional gyro or positional tracker purchased separately with some version of those box things that come with the HTC Vive
>optional space for integrated headphones, just swap out the strap and plug them in
>maybe throw in a special strap with space for you to add your own drivers
>add an optional temple massage component
>give it USB ports and open up the schematics so anyone can develop their own shitty third-party components
I'd buy it, but I dunno who else will
supply and demand is a bitch sometimes

That's basically the idea OSVR had. Look where that went (it failed and no one's buying it, because it's shit).

maybe the key is to make it not shit

this zero-g game beta is fun, even if i suck at it. thinking about buying the single player so i don't get yelled at by the tryhards.

Nah m8 you'll be fine. Just pirate it. I mean I guess you'll have to maybe wait a few months if it uses Denuvo though. But fuck VR games are expensive. At least the multiplayer is free.

yes they are. gonna try the ol' bay sampler. see if any are good. then i'll buy them come sale time.

Vr is shit
Fuck you

where did luckey hurt you user?

It's weird. Of all the high dev environments I've been in, the photogrammetry stuff is eerily real to be in.

It's not really weird at all. While some say you don't need great graphics for VR to look real, the reality is that VR is very imperfect right now, so any additional perceptual "cue" that is more similar to something we encounter or are used to in real life adds to the feeling of it being real.

Yeah, lighting and fine details are a must. The Talos Principle team released a small map of their assets on SteamHome and you could see how badly pixelated leaves and such where.

I think that's Croteam you're talking about who also makes Serious Sam.

Is it worth getting the oculus? Isn't rift better in every way and has the knuckles coming soon?

oculus rift v. htc vive.

Never tried the Vive, so I can't comment on the visuals. I think the light house tracking is a better option than needing to rig and wire 2-3 USB3 cameras and the knuckles look like a big upgrade from the Touch. The only over benefit of the Rift is the rigid headstrap but you can get one of those for Vive with built in earphones.

But who knows how long that'll take to come out and how much it'll cost. I don't think anybody buys these things expecting them to last for more than a few years.

Anyone have both and can comment on the ergonomics?
Vive (original release) is a literal pain in the neck and I heard the rift is a bit better.

The headsets are basically identical, the differences are the Vive is supposedly easier to setup the sensors and it has a camera so it can show you obstacles, the Rift has better controllers and is quite a bit cheaper.

The knuckles controllers seems similar to the Rift ones, they have the advantage of being able to detect the ring and pinky finger (guess it's useful if you want to flash someone a shocker or devil horns) and they strap to your hand. The downsides would be the additional cost and the touchpads will likely be shit.

>even for porn, it's just not worth it
wrong

It depends on the person but for most the Rift is more comfortable. The Vive with the delux audio strap accessory brings it up to the same level of comfort or better.

I heard the deluxe audio strap isn't worth it at all so I haven't bothered

I've heard some complaints myself but in general the response to it has been positive. Ultimately it's hard to say without trying it on yourself.

From reviews it sounds comfy but only worth the price if the want the headphones, which are pretty decent.

I'd be surprised if there aren't already knockoffs of it going for cheaper.

How's VR for getting some exercise? I heard it's good to get up and move, as you have to play shooters standing up with your hands and shit.

I'm sure these posts are annoying, but will I be fine with my specs?

My CPU is the only thing that fails the benchmark tests, but would overclocking + decreasing settings fix that issue or is it not worth buying the Rift at all

I have an OSVR and I'm trying to get it to work with SteamVR. I keep on getting error 400 and 306. How do I fix this?

I've looked at so many guides, and a lot of them have things that are just not there.

Also, I bought this shit when it was $300. Shit's cash, man.

Now if I can only get it to work...

You can buy a vive for 480$ on ebay

Dude no fucking game can touch X3
It's a goddamn nerdgasm masterpiece
I spent weeks running ore before starting my own automated fleet to do it for me
Game was YEARS ahead of its time

I think SuperHot is the best for exercise, since you'll move your body around to dodge bullets. The Climb also gives your shoulders a work out because your arms are raised up for grabbing ledges for a long duration. Stuff like sword fighting games are also going to exercise your arms a bit.

Though I'll be honest, most games I play, it's my feet that start to ache the most. Probably should wear comfy shoes in insoles for my sessions.

>not being the first to fap with them on

It's where the industry will probably get in time, especially since OpenVR seems to have won out over proprietary standards (at least for the moment, until Windows Holographic becomes real). right now things are moving so quickly there's no real possibility for consumer-oriented component sales. everything is custom made for particular HMDs.

The fact that Valve is making SteamVR trackers is a very good sign that they have modularity somewhere in the backs of their minds.

Hey guys whats a good starter VR set for computer? Something like 100-200$?

I want something to use in HoneySelect till the Vive 2 comes out

The tracking pucks are a pretty smart move. Both the consumer and the third parties save money by not having to remake the most expensive parts involved. Just pick a visible spot to screw it in and hook up the buttons to the usb port.

don't think there are any worthwhile ones that low.
400 was my breaking point, then i could justify getting in on gen 1, and it seems gen 2 is still a ways away.

Gen 2 is probably going to cost 800 bucks yet again. What happens then? Do we buy it or not? Assuming it's as good as we can expect.

>we
i don't know about you so i'll speak for myself, was hesitating because of my budget as a student. hope when gen 2 rolls around, that won't be that much of a problem.

The Vive is awesome... The rift is great if you remove all negative aspects due to Facebook and Palmer but not as good with the limited room scale it has...

Only poor people don't like VR and to be clear the phone and other cheap versions are crappy.

My go to for exercise has been Holo Ball ever since it came out. When playing with a larger room size on a harder difficulty it get's intense moving around for the corner shots. Quell 4D is great too if you change the movement options and really get in to moving around and dodging using the terrain as a cover system.

A little higher resolution and fov could be all it needs to work properly.

On top of that there are a lot of research and addons that could become standard later on. Like wireless and this thing.
youtube.com/watch?v=W7JjANVKINA

Like all tech, the new stuff will be expensive and the old get cheaper. Same way not everybody had DVD or HDTV the day they first came out.

>Only poor people don't like VR

I'm rich and I get nauseous

not rich if you can't afford to fix your defect

can I solve that with money? I'd be willing to

Anyone who uses random excuses to wait is just a fool looking for excuses for what they can't afford. Sure it could be better in a lot of ways but the next level immersion the it offers is worth it... The hardcore VR enthusiasts who have had it since launch or sooner are the ones who are graphics whores on regular 3D games. I do 100+FPS minimum on a 144hz G Sync panel in all my regular games and 120-144 on FPS titles... Yet in VR I don't give a fuck about the lower resolution display and lower quality graphics when the game is made well and executes a unique or just plain fun concept that utilizes the VR scale and controls.

It boils down to people who have tried it and want one or those who haven't and can't afford it and choose to be bitter and attempt to rationalize the disappointment.

Eat ginger. Take pills. Be a man and power through it until your body adjusts. Most people who have had those problems can get over it with time unlike other real life situations. Remember it's new technology and the depth it gives you intensifies anything you feel and some peoples eye balls are just different from "normal" and need to adjust. Hell it takes weeks for a new strong prescription lens to fully adjust your vision but people expect god damn miracles with new VR tech.

I wear specs and am quite short sighted. Can I use a Rift?

There's a reason they train astronauts in a spinning frame every day and sailors say you grow your 'sea legs'. You just adapt to these things.

I just sold mine for a little more than this. Glad I did it when I did.

Dodged that bullet with my lasik surgery but I heard it's easy to fit some glasses in there. There's also the VR Lens Lab.

Meh, unless it's under like $100 USD total, I'm waiting a generation or two.

Not like there's even any games worth playing right now. Probably good for porn, though.

Gorn is awesome

Standing atop a pile of chopped up bodies, knee deep in blood, arms exhausted and drenched in sweat

This is what VR was made for honestly, not mediocre flat porn videos

...

youtube.com/watch?v=k4JVv94W6QQ So who wants to play this demo?

VR Lens Lab is bad and has distortion problems. Here I'll copy paste the /vrg/ guide recommendations.

>Vive
Here is a reputable lens adapter that does ship to the US:
vr-lens.eu/
Here is a cheaper option but you need to have someone or a company 3D print for you:
reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/4lpj41/vrprotect_a_vive_lens_protector_with_optional/


>Rift
widmovr.com/product/oculus-rift-prescription-lenses-adapter/
Here is a cheaper option but you need to have someone or a company 3D print for you:
thingiverse.com/thing:1602460

The knuckles look sick, kinda sold me on vive vs rift, of the lighthouses weren't enough. Assuming I can afford the new gpu I need around the end of this year, will my best bet be to wait for the next gen headsets if they ever come of go for a discounted vive?

How do you feel about Lasik? Worth it? Is the tech there yet that it's almost completely safe?

That depends, Satan, are you a poor or rich fag?

I'd for wait the second gen announcements. They should come near 2019, so if you can hold off for like another year then you should be good. By that time the discounts should be good too so if next gen isn't looking that great, you can decide then.

>this sale just doubled the amount of sales for VR Kanojo

Anybody?

You're probably alone here. I'd love to help you out, but I never got an HDK.

That's unfortunate that you didn't find it worth it. To me, I got all my worth. If you want a really great porn experience then I recommend VR kanojo.

>then I recommend VR kanojo.

So people like you are what is causing