Oculus Rift

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scorp

8,783 posts

228 months

Thursday 13th October 2016
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8bit said:
It will have to render each frame from two different view points though, even if at low resolution - at least I think that's right.
Yeah that's right, it pushes a lot of extra work on the GPU. But the bandwidth is a single 1920x1080 frame.

snuffy

9,662 posts

283 months

Monday 24th October 2016
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Game is charging people to have a try of the Playstation version:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37751428

And people are up in arms about it. Well, don't pay Game then. Why is that difficult to work out ?


Guvernator

13,109 posts

164 months

Monday 24th October 2016
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To be fair it's only a fiver, I wouldn't mind paying that to see if I liked it before shelling out £400. In fact I might see if my local store are doing it so I can have a go at the weekend.

born2bslow

1,674 posts

133 months

Monday 24th October 2016
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Overclockers let you try HTC Vive for free, with room scale as well. Only one location rather than however many Game stores though.

FourWheelDrift

88,382 posts

283 months

Monday 24th October 2016
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snuffy said:
Game is charging people to have a try of the Playstation version:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37751428

And people are up in arms about it. Well, don't pay Game then. Why is that difficult to work out ?
Maybe they don't have accident insurance cover - (big gif) - https://i.imgur.com/Szpj4da.gifv

snuffy

9,662 posts

283 months

Monday 24th October 2016
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Guvernator said:
To be fair it's only a fiver, I wouldn't mind paying that to see if I liked it before shelling out £400. In fact I might see if my local store are doing it so I can have a go at the weekend.
But you don't do that anywhere else.

If I went into a Hi-Fi shop and said "I want to have a listen to xyz" and they said "Fine, that will be five pounds sir" then my reply would be "Shuve it up your arse" and I'd walk out !

But having said that,I can see a bunch of kids turning up to Game and playing on the thing all day, with absolutely no intention of buying one. So in that respect I can see their point.

Guvernator

13,109 posts

164 months

Monday 24th October 2016
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Yep different clientele for someone shopping for audio equipment and this. Whenever I've been in a Game, I see kids playing on the consoles ALL the time. If they had a VR demo you'd never get a go so the fiver should prevent that.

However personally if I were Sony I'd have sent a few hundred kits out and set up a proper booth in as many games shops and shopping centres as possible. A touring demo of a few locations really isn't enough IMO. I know quite a few people who don't even know it's out yet or even if they do they want to give it a go first to see what all the fuss is about. Get it out in the wild and into the hands of people, get people to try VR and the buzz it will generate would have been worth many times the marketing\PR outlay. A bit of an own goal by Sony I think.

snuffy

9,662 posts

283 months

Monday 24th October 2016
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FourWheelDrift said:
Maybe they don't have accident insurance cover - (big gif) - https://i.imgur.com/Szpj4da.gifv
I suppose it shows just how much that chap thought he was actually climbing.


MissChief

7,095 posts

167 months

Monday 7th August 2017
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Not sure if there's a more recent one but I've just ordered one of these, delivery due on Thursday!

Jabbah

1,331 posts

153 months

Friday 11th August 2017
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Got mine yesterday after slumming it with the DK2 for a couple of years. I was going to wait for CV2 but at £399 with the touch controllers thought it would be worth it and wasn't disappointed. The quality of the image is a lot better with greatly reduced SDE and the touch controllers are a joy to use.

MissChief

7,095 posts

167 months

Friday 11th August 2017
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Jabbah said:
Got mine yesterday after slumming it with the DK2 for a couple of years. I was going to wait for CV2 but at £399 with the touch controllers thought it would be worth it and wasn't disappointed. The quality of the image is a lot better with greatly reduced SDE and the touch controllers are a joy to use.
Agreed. Never tried the DK but loving the CV and so little SDE you don't notice it at all after a minute or two.

tvrforever

3,182 posts

264 months

Sunday 20th August 2017
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what are the compelling Oculus games?

Shadow R1

3,798 posts

175 months

Sunday 20th August 2017
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Got mine on Friday.
Elite dangerous is brilliant with it.
Robo recall is very good from the free games that you get.


born2bslow

1,674 posts

133 months

Sunday 20th August 2017
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Shadow R1 said:
Got mine on Friday.
Elite dangerous is brilliant with it.
Robo recall is very good from the free games that you get.
I've mostly been playing racing games Project Cars and Assetto Corsa, ETS2 for sts n giggles, but I've had a first proper go on Elite Dangerous tonight and just wow! the controls are complex but holy cow it's good....

Edit: I just remembered why i stopped playing flight/space sim games...I can't dogfight for st, I can't even complete the combat training missions...

I'm so bad it's laughable.

Edited by born2bslow on Sunday 20th August 22:51

RobGT81

5,227 posts

185 months

Monday 21st August 2017
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tvrforever said:
what are the compelling Oculus games?
Lone Echo, Robo Recall, The Climb. Any racing/flight/space sim. Assetto Corsa, Elite and DCS are particularly good. Also, Dirt Rally.

8bit

4,846 posts

154 months

Monday 21st August 2017
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RobGT81 said:
Lone Echo, Robo Recall, The Climb. Any racing/flight/space sim. Assetto Corsa, Elite and DCS are particularly good. Also, Dirt Rally.
I guess you play DCS with a proper HOTAS setup? I tried it and found it impossible, had to keep lifting the Rift off to see the keyboard.

born2bslow

1,674 posts

133 months

Monday 21st August 2017
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8bit said:
I guess you play DCS with a proper HOTAS setup? I tried it and found it impossible, had to keep lifting the Rift off to see the keyboard.
Similar issue with Elite, you can get some cheap software called VoiceAttack that works with Elite, not sure if it will work with DCS too. It allows you to assign voice commands rather than finding the keyboard.

RobGT81

5,227 posts

185 months

Monday 21st August 2017
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born2bslow said:
Similar issue with Elite, you can get some cheap software called VoiceAttack that works with Elite, not sure if it will work with DCS too. It allows you to assign voice commands rather than finding the keyboard.
Yeah it should work with anything as it just runs in the background.

8bit

4,846 posts

154 months

Monday 21st August 2017
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OK thanks. I use an Xbox 360 controller currently for Elite, I can get pretty much all the controls I use mapped onto that, DCS has a lot more controls though. I tend to only play games at night once the wife and kids are asleep so I use headphones, don't want to be shouting at the PC to play...

mickmcpaddy

1,445 posts

104 months

Thursday 7th September 2017
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Not sure if this has been mentioned here before but I downloaded 'Affected - The Manor' a couple of days ago. For a fiver its excellent, I don't get on with the racing games as they make me dizzy but stuff like this is what the Oculus is all about.

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/1171399169...