Oculus Rift Catch-All

Orphu wrote:

I caved and bought Lone Echo today. Echo Arena doesn't interest me, but the campaign game is really top notch. Definitely in my top 5 VR titles so far.

What else is in your top 5?

chooka1 wrote:
Orphu wrote:

I caved and bought Lone Echo today. Echo Arena doesn't interest me, but the campaign game is really top notch. Definitely in my top 5 VR titles so far.

What else is in your top 5?

In no particular order:

Elite: Dangerous
Super Hot VR
Robo Recall
Cosmic Trip (Still EA, but a really neat take on RTS in VR. Not just looking at a table)
Lone Echo

Also worth it:

Chronos
Thumper
Fantastic Contraption
Job Simulator

Cosmic Trip actually just came out of EA recently. It's pretty great.

You didn't ask me but I'll give you my top five as well:

- Vanishing Realms
- Raw Data
- Onward
- Elite Dangerous
- Robo Recall

Runners up would be Super Hot, House of the Dying Sun, Space Pirate Trainer and the Budget Cuts Demo.

Ah, I would have crammed Vanishing Realms in there too (It's super great), but it's not for Oculus and this is the Oculus thread.

Thanks for the tip on Comic Trip finally being out of EA! I've been avoiding playing until it was "done." Woot!

Thank you and apologies to warrior poet. Thanks to everyone for sharing. I have about $100 birthday money to spend on vr software.

Chad

Orphu wrote:

Ah, I would have crammed Vanishing Realms in there too (It's super great), but it's not for Oculus and this is the Oculus thread.

Thanks for the tip on Comic Trip finally being out of EA! I've been avoiding playing until it was "done." Woot!

I understand Vanishing Realms works fine on Oculus.

Hooked up the Oculus yesterday and only had a chance to do the dream deck intro and a little Elite Dangerous. Still need to fiddle around with settings for Elite. Not sure if I should be using the in game super sampling, the Oculus tray setting, or a combination of both. I'll start messing with other stuff when my Touch controllers arrive.

First impressions are pretty WOW though. Watching videos really don't do VR justice. You really don't understand until you experience it for yourself. If it's this jaw dropping now I can't even imagine where we'll be in 5-10 years.

JeremyK wrote:

Hooked up the Oculus yesterday and only had a chance to do the dream deck intro and a little Elite Dangerous. Still need to fiddle around with settings for Elite. Not sure if I should be using the in game super sampling, the Oculus tray setting, or a combination of both. I'll start messing with other stuff when my Touch controllers arrive.

First impressions are pretty WOW though. Watching videos really don't do VR justice. You really don't understand until you experience it for yourself. If it's this jaw dropping now I can't even imagine where we'll be in 5-10 years.

The consensus I've been able to gather from ED is to lower the in game SS and up the system settings but I don't know if that has changed after recent patches.

chooka1 wrote:
Orphu wrote:

Ah, I would have crammed Vanishing Realms in there too (It's super great), but it's not for Oculus and this is the Oculus thread.

Thanks for the tip on Comic Trip finally being out of EA! I've been avoiding playing until it was "done." Woot!

I understand Vanishing Realms works fine on Oculus. :)

Oh! Well then. Great! I was going by the little steam icons, I never actually tried it.

Up and running. Stayed up to way to late and I haven't even played a real game yet. And I have a huge smile on my face.

Checkout this free Spider-Man knock-off Web slinger. Amazing.
https://uploadvr.com/someone-made-un...

I tried out a Vanishing Realms on Oculus. Works fine and is a great experience even though Vanishing Realms is designed for Vive.
Chad

Hooked up the Touch controllers last night and played some Robo Recall. I'm officially all in on VR. This stuff is amazing.

Welcome. I'm new too to VR. Amazing.
Try that spider man web slinging demo I posted. It's not pretty--created by one guy--but a really cool web slinging experience with Spider-Man music. You start by walking off a skyscraper and then...

As a fellow newbie, I've most enjoyed Superhot VR and Vanishing Realms. $45 well spent.

How many people have Quivr? Would love to get a GWJ VR Co-op night together. There are a few games now that worth playing that have it. I have both Rift/Vive but finding games that run on both would probably be best.

escher77 wrote:

How many people have Quivr? Would love to get a GWJ VR Co-op night together. There are a few games now that worth playing that have it. I have both Rift/Vive but finding games that run on both would probably be best.

The only two games I've bought so far are Onward & Vanishing Realms. The rest either came with the Touch Controllers or are free. Robo Recall and Elite: Dangerous are the only ones I've actually had time to play other than the tech demos you start with.

escher77 wrote:

How many people have Quivr? Would love to get a GWJ VR Co-op night together. There are a few games now that worth playing that have it. I have both Rift/Vive but finding games that run on both would probably be best.

I'd buy it. Onward, Raw Data and Arizona Sunshine would all be good as well.

Tell us about Quivr if you don't mind.
New to VR and looking for things to experience.

Whelp, the surprise release of Rez Infinite on PC plus the rift sale finally made me cave. New Rift incoming.

I've heard a lot about Rez over the years. So, worth the plunge on VR?

I have to play Quivr been about a month. However, it is a 4 player co-op Archery game with Waves and you need to push out to multiple points (teleport using set teleportation points) . Also loot system so you get bonus special abilities based on loot drops. Similar feel to other archery games, just a bit more enemy variety and multiplayer.

It's not amazing, but it's solid with good replay ability because of loot.

I do not care about "Quivr" for instance just would be nice to get a bunch of goojers together every x often for co-op VR. I will buy anything decent games i have now that i know of co-op that are good are

Good Games

Quivr
Arizonia Sunshine

Decent Games

Hover Junkies
Battle Dome

Weird one is Horde Z . Good graphics, decent shooting but weird controls. Boring in single player but I could see it being fun in multiplayer.

chooka1 wrote:

I've heard a lot about Rez over the years. So, worth the plunge on VR?

It's a rails shooter, and a pretty average one TBH. But it remains one of my favorite games of all time just because of the way it incorporates music and wireframe techno abstractions into a seamless experience. It's the kind of thing that was MADE for VR before VR was really an option. It was the reason I still dug my Dreamcast out until it was released on X360, and until now was the reason I still dug my X360 out occasionally. (Ikaruga also applies to these but now I have it and Rez on PC!) I think it's the kind of thing you love or hate, but if you watch a video or two and are intrigued I'd definitely go for it.

edit edit: Yeah, and after playing it a bit, the new "Area X" is definitely something that's going on the list of things to show anyone who asks "why VR?"

edit: What's the state of virtual desktops in VR? The resolution seems a bit lacking to me but is there a favorite app for this? I imagine in the future I'll be able to replace my multiple monitors with just a good VR headset and would like to see what the current state of the art is.

I have finally gotten to join you all in Oculus bliss. I ordered my rig from Amazon not 5 minutes ago. Supposed to arrive next week and I cannot WAIT! I have a Vive from my office currently setup at the house, but dear GOD this thing is fickle and doesn't want to startup half the time! Hopefully I'll have better luck with the Rift. Either way, I can't wait to get into some multiplayer with you!

Scottish_Leprechaun wrote:

I have finally gotten to join you all in Oculus bliss. I ordered my rig from Amazon not 5 minutes ago. Supposed to arrive next week and I cannot WAIT! I have a Vive from my office currently setup at the house, but dear GOD this thing is fickle and doesn't want to startup half the time! Hopefully I'll have better luck with the Rift. Either way, I can't wait to get into some multiplayer with you!

I think something's wrong with that Vive.

I'm enjoying my Rift. I have had, although, more hard crashes (complete reboot do system due to blue screen errors--"something went wrong") while playing vr games. Is my experience isolated or so others find similar error and reboot issues?

chooka1 wrote:

I'm enjoying my Rift. I have had, although, more hard crashes (complete reboot do system due to blue screen errors--"something went wrong") while playing vr games. Is my experience isolated or so others find similar error and reboot issues?

I haven't had that problem at all, so I'm not sure what could be going on for you. The worst I've had is a couple times where I'd wake up my computer from sleeping and the headset won't turn on. Everything looks like it's working, but it's just black. A reboot fixes it. During games though I don't think I've ever had a crash.

I was wondering about Rez Infinite myself. I've been loving Thumper, and I thought it was really similar to Rez, which I played way back on the 360.

As for virtual desktops, I've used Virtual Desktop, which is a Steam "game". I thought it was great. It worked well for when I wanted to do some VR development work in Unity, because I didn't have to keep taking the headset off to program and then back on to see how my changes looked. The resolution seemed fine to me, and it was good enough to do programming anyway. I can't tell you how it would work with multiple monitors though, like I'm not sure if you'd get them all in VR or not.

Orphu wrote:
Scottish_Leprechaun wrote:

I have finally gotten to join you all in Oculus bliss. I ordered my rig from Amazon not 5 minutes ago. Supposed to arrive next week and I cannot WAIT! I have a Vive from my office currently setup at the house, but dear GOD this thing is fickle and doesn't want to startup half the time! Hopefully I'll have better luck with the Rift. Either way, I can't wait to get into some multiplayer with you!

I think something's wrong with that Vive.

Wouldn't be surprised. These don't get treated with the care they need and just recently got back from a Chicago conference and their boxes were beaten to hell. Having a discussion with my asset control guy to acquire some Pelican cases to use in the future. Either way, I'm excited for my Oculus to arrive. When the need for room-scale arises, I'll buy the 3rd camera (though I've heard it works fine with 2).

Bigscreen is the virtual computer environment of choice. It also supports multi user lobbies.

Really enjoyed Batman Arkham VR. The graphics were awesome and the investigations were pretty cool. Hopefully they can make a fully featured Batman VR game soon.

Scottish_Leprechaun wrote:
Orphu wrote:
Scottish_Leprechaun wrote:

I have finally gotten to join you all in Oculus bliss. I ordered my rig from Amazon not 5 minutes ago. Supposed to arrive next week and I cannot WAIT! I have a Vive from my office currently setup at the house, but dear GOD this thing is fickle and doesn't want to startup half the time! Hopefully I'll have better luck with the Rift. Either way, I can't wait to get into some multiplayer with you!

I think something's wrong with that Vive.

Wouldn't be surprised. These don't get treated with the care they need and just recently got back from a Chicago conference and their boxes were beaten to hell. Having a discussion with my asset control guy to acquire some Pelican cases to use in the future. Either way, I'm excited for my Oculus to arrive. When the need for room-scale arises, I'll buy the 3rd camera (though I've heard it works fine with 2).

You'll love it I'm sure!

Tracking remains the weak point for Oculus. The two front facing cameras still leave too many opportunities for occlusion. It's not terrible, but lighthouse has a clear advantage here. Three helps, but it's still not as good.

I'll check out Bigscreen -- I actually think having "monitors" in VR is anachronistic as individual windows could serve the same function and be more dynamic. That will probably require support at the OS level, though.