Oculus Quest

Ill get one Quest soon as well. (probably 128gb)

It can be used with (nearly) all regular Oculus Rift titles as well, using "Oculus Link"
(a decent gaming PC attached to the Quest via USB cable)

https://www.oculus.com/blog/play-ri...ulus-link-available-now-in-beta/?locale=de_DE

Steam VR will work as well.

Hope to join a nice discussion here asap, as I dont know much about the Quest either. :)

 

Well, first of all "Skyrim VR"! It'll pop up soon for PC:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinm...ing-to-the-oculus-rift-and-htc-vive-in-april/
Ten years old graphics but still really impressive!
And you may check out "Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice" as well. It's a bit strange but great and you can get it now. It's also a 3D-audio experience by using the speakers of the headset!

Usually you can save your game. But sometimes just for one player. You can't save different points in Hellblade ... **ROLL EYES** At least in Skyrim you can create different characters and save them seperately. Every character exists independent of other characters.

Last but not least: "Google Earth VR". I like it so much! Okay, sometimes the 3D cities look like after bombing. But all in all it's awesome.

Regarding Oculus Quest compared to Oculus Rift:
Currently I run my Do X-project with an Oculus Rift. But I met two students last December who uses Quests for the same models. So we could compare them straight. They were in need of an USB-cable to run my models. But it worked with the cable. So all good with the Quest I think. Run free without cable or connect by cable for bigger jobs. Another point is the tracking. You can make a setup of 3 or 4 Sensors for the Rift. That would be essential for free movement and turning around. The Quest misses this opportunity. When the cameras of the headset don't see the controllers, the controllers will vanish and can't be used anymore. But those are marginal problems.

Finally: Do yourself a favour and buy a serious computer to run VR-software. Have fun!

 

I forgot to mention ISS VR. Not very exciting but interesting.

 

I don't know about the Quest. My friend who originally got the DKII (which has mainly been me setting up stuff and he comes over to try when I get it working) has just got a new PC and the new Valve one. We finally got the PC sorted (don't ask) and need to set up the VR some time soon.

Personally I'm really looking forward to trying this one. It looks like a lot of fun and good exercise (note the anime thing is an extra thing someone did for the video - it's complicated). I think I'm gonna get so tired playing. I have a rythm action game I play with Leap motion that just involves hands and I get quite worn out playing it!

 

WTF! Sorry, why do you want to test such a foolish bullshit? What the hell should be the fun in this stupid game? Not to speak about the idiotic music wich offends my ears.

Okay, I calm down already. Obviously you like it and I am too old for such things from Asia and it's strange modern culture. I will shut up and listen to solid music instead and enjoy completely different VR-experiances.

 

Chill @Jamira ;D

https://store.steampowered.com/app/620980/Beat_Saber/

Choose your music then...and excercise...thats all what it is about...the anime part ist just one way to use this.

 

LOL! I understand. But that's not I should do. My weight is 60kg (120lbs) only. Loosing 65lbs would kill me ...
My day is a bit more relaxed than yours:

• wake up around 10am
• get up at 12am and have breakfast, reading DER SPIEGEL
• play SpiderSolitair, check WhatsApp, mails and Entropia Planets, slowly start work on building some flight ships or submarines for VR at 4 or 5pm
  
• visit the local super market to buy the daily ration of beer, cigarettes and food
• eat and watch the news at 7pm
• either continue to work on some 3d-models for VR/3d-print or occasionally watch TV-series or play Elder Scrolls Online
• write messages to friends and partners or posts at forums between 2 and 4am
• go to bed at 4 am

That's the benefit of retirement. Fortunately I am blessedly endowed with natural low weight. My BMI is ~21 since more than 60 years, mainly "reached" by sitting in armchairs and moving my right hand (mouse) and left hand's fingers (SpacePilot) or behind the steering wheel of a car. Therefore sport is nothing I'm interested in. I'm focussed on good stories and good information instead of. Something for my mind, not for the body.

But good luck and fun to you with your VR-sports!

 

Haha. I quite like this response. It's so unfiltered and from the heart. I find it really interesting our generational differences. Actually such things have always been of interest to me through Entropia/MMOs. It levels the playing field. Anyone could be anyone and we can be friends and find commonalities regardless of who we are, how old we are or where we are.

Well yeh though, I like rhythm action games although I'll admit I'm not especially great at them. I think beat saber is a great example of the sort of thing you can do in VR that you can't in other games. There are many other examples too of course. Interestingly the song in the example is actually Swedish, it's just it got re-released at some point slightly sped up with the anime-ish styled dancers. Somewhere along the line after that it became "a thing". I first heard it at an anime con where there seems to be something of a tradition of playing it at some point during the con and everyone gets up and does this sort of cat ear dance thing. It's just a bit of silly wholesome fun.

In the case of beat saber, I just picked it because the bit with over head arm waving looked quite tiring especially with all the jumping about.

Incidentally Jamira I heard that that post apoc like cave girl with robots game you like will be coming to PC this year - maybe there will be a VR mode? dunno. Ah, Zero dawn? I forget the name (kinda hard to pay too much attention to games that are exclusively on console).

Anyhow going back to the reaction, yeh it is interesting. I remember my mum told me my Granddad once said "Cliff Richard can't sing and would never last" (my mum was big into Cliff as a kid). Similarly I remember my Grandma taking the piss out of The Bangles' song Eternal Flame. She was singing it in a sarcastic way. But we as kids liked that stuff in the 80s. Even today, I still hang out with a lot of people who are younger than me sometimes and what fascinates me is what music they have and have not heard of/like. e.g. they might know early 90s things but not Blur... (I was shocked). Still I guess it is the same for me. There is some older stuff I would know and probs others I never knew of. Then there are the things that don't seem to die... like my sisters kids like abba... I mean my mum liked abba so we did too as we grew up with it. I guess my sister continued that tradition and got her kids into it. These days with youtube and all the music services it is possible to get into more or less anything. I've found as time has gone on I've liked more and more types of music even stuff I'd have turned my nose up at as a teenager. My most recently discovered favourite band is Korean (and no it isn't BTS).

Back to Beat Saber though - I'm glad it is working out for the exercise. It looks so hard to me but I'm hoping it just "looks" hard and is easier in situe so to speak. Time will tell hopefully I'll get to try it out.

Wistrel

 

Haha, looks good. I will try it.

 

Thank you for being patient with a choleric old man. I agree with you: being part of such worlwide community expands the own horizon and leads to think about issues in a different way. Look, I was born in the fifties, a few years after WW2. Until 1980 this date was closer to the early thirties than to the present ;-)

Well, at the other hand I still do things most others never heard of nor ever tried them. Feels good :-)

 

Reset and new installation of the VR-computer yesterday because it was completely disturbed. Just to make it fit for VR presentations at fairs and exhibitions. Parallel a clean-up of the old computer. That was the point to deinstall Entropia Universe. A small tear in my eye. But I will follow Narfi:
Narfi's Life after Entropia
It's Jamira's Life after Entropia ;-)

Reality is something for those who can't do it better ...

 

To be fair, even I've been on hiatus from Calypso (and indeed the whole Universe) more or less since they broke the control system. I did pop in last week though (cause I got the email thingy thing thing) for a fairly typical "Wistrel lurk". Couple of nice things to report:

1. When you view your character from the side say, and then zoom in to FPV, it no longer rotates your avatar and instead swings the camera round to face the direction the avatar looks in (as it bloody well should do!)

2. Had a nice chat with Kira Red StarRigger who some of you oldies may know. We'd not crossed paths in a while so was nice to see she's still around. [OK she actually lives on Next Island but does frequent flights to Toulan and some others for trading]

Wistrel