General VR Catch-All

To everybody enjoying Moss, take a look at Down the Rabbit Hole. It has a similar "diorama" feel, but relies more on puzzles than platforming. It's not a long game, but I thought it was lovely.

I've been binging on Hyper Dash since it released last week. I'm not usually into the shooty-shooty stuff, but it's been a joy to frantically scramble around in an arena-style FPS with a bunch of other noobs.

I just found out that you can get virtual desktop on the official Oculus store now without all those crazy steps so I tried it out. The result was..playable but every minute or so there'd be a slight stutter that would break my immersion so I think I'll stick with the cable until I get a faster router. And trying Hellblade in VR made me feel a bit woozy even with the more stable link connection. Still trying to get those VR legs..

Forlorn Hope wrote:

I just found out that you can get virtual desktop on the official Oculus store now without all those crazy steps so I tried it out. The result was..playable but every minute or so there'd be a slight stutter that would break my immersion so I think I'll stick with the cable until I get a faster router. And trying Hellblade in VR made me feel a bit woozy even with the more stable link connection. Still trying to get those VR legs.. :oops:

There are a few things you can adjust on your router (assuming you have access) that might help with these hiccups. If you decide you want to try again, the VirtualDesktop discord has a guide.

Thanks, I'll have to give it a look but I suspect it's just the default Google Fiber box not being up to par.

Welp the Quest 2 arrived today, might not be able to set it up until tomorrow though. Really hoping the USB-C port on my video card works okay.

I've just downloaded SYNTHSPACE (modular synth simulator in VR), am really exicted to play around with it and make bloopy noises.

I use my Quest 2 as a VR Console. I can’t be arsed to maintain or manage a PC after all I’ve seen in my IT history (and after working in front of a computer all day).

Layers of Fear is apparently on sale today, but I don’t hate myself THAT much.

Superhot on sale through tomorrow on oculus. Top 3 on my list. Great party game. $19.99 sale.

New free course in Walkabout Mini Golf on Oculus. This time we're going to SPAAAAAAAACE!

ThingumBob wrote:

New free course in Walkabout Mini Golf on Oculus. This time we're going to SPAAAAAAAACE!

Sweet!

Spoiler:

And, fear of heights, here we come.

Well, Oculus sent me a dead unit. Won't even take a charge (no light on the side when plugged in, tried multiple cords), so I contacted Oculus support, since I bought it directly through them, and I waited. And waited. Pinged them on Twitter, Reddit and Facebook and waited some more.

As of this morning, still no response from support, so I just put in for a refund via Oculus and ordered another Quest 2 from Amazon, which should arrive tomorrow. While I was at the UPS store returning the dead Quest 2, Amazon shipped the new one. Hopefully the Amazon unit works.

Not a great start to my VR adventure. Gods forbid I ever need Oculus support for anything ever because geezus.

Veloxi wrote:

Not a great start to my VR adventure. Gods forbid I ever need Oculus support for anything ever because geezus.

Is this the part where we tell you that the Amazon one is going to be broken too, like how we tortured you by telling you how badly your local PC shop was gonna mess up your PC build?

I see the problem now. You keep buying the Quest 2. That's for designers, not gamers.

I've been curious about The Climb, and now The Climb 2 is out. Anyone have any experience with it? Worth picking up? There's a bundle in the Oculus store to get both for $40 (they're normally $30 each).

Both Climbs were money well spent for me, but they are not without flaws. The graphics suffer from trying to do too much on Quest 2 hardware. Lots of textures and assets popping in and obvious blurring around the edges of the Field of View. Tragically, I crash out of the game menus back to the home screen with some regularity. But if you can get past all that...

I really enjoy clambering around these environments. For me, it reminds me of places I've hiked and climbed in meat-space before the pandemic (especially the Canyon levels). If I could just get my wife to point a space heater at my face and sprinkle some sand in my hair, I'd be all set.

Climb 1 and Climb 2 have really similar game play and environments, but Climb 1 is significantly more difficult than #2. As a bundle, I would say the first iteration is properly priced as a $10 "DLC" once you master Climb 2. Even better, if you have PCVR setup you can enjoy 3 extra beautiful and brutally hard levels in Climb 1.

Welp, I'm sold. I can't use my current glasses with it, but my last set of glasses with an older prescription works great. Played aircar, low-fi, first steps and no man's sky. Wow.

I'm excited to try out No Man's Sky in VR but it will have to wait for a new computer. My current one can barely handle it in 2D.

Phades wrote:

I'm excited to try out No Man's Sky in VR but it will have to wait for a new computer. My current one can barely handle it in 2D.

I actually might like it more in VR because rather than walking around, you teleport around, which is way more fun and faster.

You have the option to do either, but I always walk; even walking's more fun in VR. Annoyingly, though, the melee-jetpack shortcut doesn't work in VR.

Oh I didn't know you could do either. I'll have to suss that out.

Not sure I could commit to an MMO in VR.

Phades wrote:

I'm excited to try out No Man's Sky in VR but it will have to wait for a new computer. My current one can barely handle it in 2D.

Is there a trick to getting NMS to work in VR? Because I'm running a 2080ti and a Ryzen 3900 and I can barely squeeze out 20 FPS at medium settings.

staygold wrote:
Phades wrote:

I'm excited to try out No Man's Sky in VR but it will have to wait for a new computer. My current one can barely handle it in 2D.

Is there a trick to getting NMS to work in VR? Because I'm running a 2080ti and a Ryzen 3900 and I can barely squeeze out 20 FPS at medium settings.

I don't know of any tricks, but it runs ok on my aging 1070. Not great, but a lot better than 20 fps.

Beat Saber news: OST4 will be released on 3/18.

I'm excited for more official songs.

NMS runs fine on my rig as well, 3900 and 2080 Super. I was initially over the moon with it but damn if it doesn't look a ton better non-VR. Also the flying is just absolutely horrible in VR.

4 songs in the new Beatsaber OST4. I really like the new environment for these songs. I played the first one on hard and amazed myself by getting a full combo and an A on the first try. I promptly looked at where I stood in the world rankings for hard difficulty since the update had only been out a few hours, and I was around 3100. I'll enjoy being ranked that high up that while it lasts.

Tscott wrote:

4 songs in the new Beatsaber OST4. I really like the new environment for these songs. I played the first one on hard and amazed myself by getting a full combo and an A on the first try. I promptly looked at where I stood in the world rankings for hard difficulty since the update had only been out a few hours, and I was around 3100. I'll enjoy being ranked that high up that while it lasts.

Neat! Fresh leaderboards so I can give myself an inflated opinion of my skills!

So I finally got my 3D printed plate and battery combo from Etsy!

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Before this, I could only play for maybe 5-10 minutes at a go, since the thing was front heavy. Now with the counterweight it is SO much more comfortable. I just played two Serious Sam games for around an hour with no problems, even with the heavy link cable attached. Yay!

So some good news. When I play Virtual Desktop in our large bedroom, which is closer to the router, there is NO glitching at all. This’ll be great for games that require more space like Superhot and such. I might’ve also solved my link disconnection problem, though one of three solutions could’ve worked.

First, apparently with the current software, if the Quest is near fully charged, it’ll disconnect all over the place, so let it drain a bit, which I did. Another is changing the bitrate in the debug program to 300, which worked for someone else with a 2080ti. The final thing I did was change “OVRServer_x64.exe” in the task manager to “realtime” priority.

So whereas yesterday I was dropping left and right, today had not one drop. Progress!

None of that makes any sense. Sounds like a random thing just randomly hit you less.

I say that as someone who doesn't actually believe in random bugs. At the very least your battery level has f*ck all to do with anything.