Virtual Reality |OT| Follow the white rabbit

Thread: Virtual Reality |OT| Follow the white rabbit
Hype Thread

Have you tried VR?

  • Tried - liked it

    Votes: 13 21.7%

  • Tried - didn't like it

    Votes: 6 10.0%

  • Own one

    Votes: 30 50.0%

  • No interest

    Votes: 4 6.7%

  • No opportunity yet

    Votes: 7 11.7%
  • Total voters
    60
Thanks for this thread. I currently have the PSVR but I am wanting to purchase a new VR unit to take advantage of the modded songs on Beat Saber.

Thanks @XOR for posting the video on Black Friday deals. Since I am in the States, I'm leaning toward taking advantage of the Quest 2 bundle for $349. Haven't yet pulled the trigger yet...

Humble Bundle also has this deal that I am looking to take advantage of since the Quest 2 can play these games is my understanding:

www.humblebundle.com

Black Friday VR Voyager's Pack

Pay what you want for <<<product>>> and support a charity of your choice!
www.humblebundle.com www.humblebundle.com
 
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fatty said:
Thanks for this thread. I currently have the PSVR but I am wanting to purchase a new VR unit to take advantage of the modded songs on Beat Saber.

Thanks @XOR for posting the video on Black Friday deals. Since I am in the States, I'm leaning toward taking advantage of the Quest 2 bundle for $349. Haven't yet pulled the trigger yet...

Humble Bundle also has this deal that I am looking to take advantage of since the Quest 2 can play these games is my understanding:

www.humblebundle.com

Black Friday VR Voyager's Pack

Pay what you want for <<<product>>> and support a charity of your choice!
www.humblebundle.com www.humblebundle.com
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Quest2 Is an excellent headset.

But at least for me I'm an image quality purist, and the clean image of the reverb g2 is among the best of the best.
 
fatty said:
Humble Bundle also has this deal that I am looking to take advantage of since the Quest 2 can play these games is my understanding:
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I bought that bundle too even if I already had two of the games. Price was still worth it for the titles I didn't have.
They'll work great on the quest 2 but much will depend on your pc
 
I almost hate to admit that I've been pretty addicted to Beat Saber lately. The songs/levels that are designed well just feel so good. I feel like such a normie playing this shit every day. And fuck are those 360 levels good.

Switch it up with some Creed and Racket NX and I'm sweating my ass off by the time the Quest battery is dying lol
 
Will be waiting for Quest3, I guess. I had a Quest1 here for trying out, but a few things were not to my liking.
 
I've been playing vertigo 2 lately and damn Sony needs to be doing everything possible to get this on psvr 2. Apparently Sony has reached out to the dev (who is only like 22) and he has internet in doing it, but he's only 1 guy and he's still adding content like a sandbox mode for the pcvr version.

I would describe it as a mixture of half-life and boneworks. There is a lot of interactivity and the weapons have some weight to them; although not to the degree of day saints and sinners where a shotgun flops like a dong if you try and one hand it.
 

Skydance Interactive announced that Arashi: Castles of Sin - Final Cut, the stealth-action virtual reality game, is slated to launch November 16, 2023 on PlayStation VR2, PCVR and Meta Quest 2, with the Meta Quest 3 version coming soon.

Players will embark on a treacherous journey as a deadly shinobi assassin, as they invade castles, strike enemies with an arsenal of weapons and more alongside their loyal wolf companion Haru.
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CloudNull said:
Man the hype around the Vision Pro is wild. Everyone is ducking its dick.
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The question is, is the hype a general audience thing or the same tech enthusiasts that get hyped about every big new VR device, and the Apple fans who are basically cultists at the best of times.

Because I've discussed this with my normie family and work colleagues on more than one occasion, and they're as apathetic to it as they are the other VR headsets they bought one another for Christmas and birthdays, gushed about for a week, then shoved in the back of a cupboard.

Right now the hype reminds me mostly of the PSVR2, where we had Sony fanboys and Tech YouTubers hailing it as the second coming, before the reality of the price and lack of actual utility or even compelling games made everyone lose interest.
 
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The question is, is the hype a general audience thing or the same tech enthusiasts that get hyped about every big new VR device, and the Apple fans who are basically cultists at the best of times.

Because I've discussed this with my normie family and work colleagues on more than one occasion, and they're as apathetic to it as they are the other VR headsets they bought one another for Christmas and birthdays, gushed about for a week, then shoved in the back of a cupboard.

Right now the hype reminds me mostly of the PSVR2, where we had Sony fanboys and Tech YouTubers hailing it as the second coming, before the reality of the price and lack of actual utility or even compelling games made everyone lose interest.
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The only use case that might make it stand out is for work. The ability to keep your settings for every room for your house is pretty amazing. I still wouldn't wear it for more than an hour or two but we all know apples first gen products are always the worse.

If this thing improves drastically it could be a major game changer…. A watershed movement for the industry. We will have to see.
 
Its primary issue is likely to be that it's still an Apple product. "Apple product" is a pretty generic label, but you mostly know everything to expect when you hear it. And whether or not it's a good thing from your perspective, entirely depends on whether or not you're already making use of 'Apple products' on the regular.
 
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Wild video. I'm telling you all the content creators are gassing this thing up. I have yet to wear it so I have no dog in the fight.

Is this all fud or is a moment we'll look back on like the iPhone?

 
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CloudNull said:
Wild video. I'm telling you all the content creators are gassing this thing up. I have yet to wear it so I have no dog in the fight.

Is this all fud or is a moment we'll look back on like the iPhone?

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A thousand-dollar (optimistically) eye-covering box lasagna of glass and plastic is absolutely the most important thing to have strapped to your head while out driving a motorized longboard through city traffic, apparently.
 
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CloudNull said:
Man the hype around the Vision Pro is wild. Everyone is ducking its dick.
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I don't see any hype, only some of the usual glamour-youtubers doing marketing for Apple.

Vision Pro is a non-factor, it's too expensive and it doesn't even have VR-games apparently. I still hope it's successful enough to have Apple keep at it. VR-headsets need to be normalized as much possible.

I think Vision Pro 2 will be very different. Better in a lot of areas, but also dropping those shitty virtual eyes. Every reviewer said those are barely visible and look weird anyway. Removing that outwards-screen will save a lot of money to reduce price for the VP2.

Still, all hope for VR rests on Valve Deckard.
 
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Incredibly dangerous and irresponsible
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The videos going around like this are fud being used to drive clicks. They do make me laugh.

If you watch the video I posted above he shows while on the train or walking the monitor goes away or stays in the spot it was last at. If you move to fast it will not render any apps.

I can only assume the guy in this video is either faking it or attempting to get it to work while driving.

I bet we eventually get to a point where they will be usable on trains or riding in a car.
 
FactsAreDead said:
I don't see any hype, only some of the usual glamour-youtubers doing marketing for Apple.

Vision Pro is a non-factor, it's too expensive and it doesn't even have VR-games apparently. I still hope it's successful enough to have Apple keep at it. VR-headsets need to be normalized as much possible.

I think Vision Pro 2 will be very different. Better in a lot of areas, but also dropping those shitty virtual eyes. Every reviewer said those are barely visible and look weird anyway. Removing that outwards-screen will save a lot of money to reduce price for the VP2.

Still, all hope for VR rests on Valve Deckard.
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If I was in the Apple eco system I would totally get one of these. For now I will wait until it gets better.

Also Apple is not going after gaming but productivity.
 
More importantly, that only works for you. Only you see these screens. While a benefit in some ways, it's a detriment in others. Once again, highly dependent on what kind of person you are and what kind of tech you're using (and what kind of expense you're used to).
 
Sean Mirrsen said:
More importantly, that only works for you. Only you see these screens. While a benefit in some ways, it's a detriment in others. Once again, highly dependent on what kind of person you are and what kind of tech you're using (and what kind of expense you're used to).
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Imagine visionOS allows you to share sessions with others? That would be wild. Airdrop but for your digital screens
 
CloudNull said:
Imagine visionOS allows you to share sessions with others? That would be wild. Airdrop but for your digital screens
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That's not the problem. Rather, it's a solution to a problem of its own conjuring. A matter so conventionally trivial that 'solving' it via a piece of high-tech face-gear with corporate uplink feels more suspicious than convenient.

Sharing what you see on a screen, is called having a screen. Stuffing everyones' lives into their own pockets of personalized augmented reality should be counter to humans' very nature as social creatures, yet somehow this assisted socializing is presented as desirable. All the better to keep you happy with, I suppose.
 
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CloudNull said:
Wild video. I'm telling you all the content creators are gassing this thing up. I have yet to wear it so I have no dog in the fight.

Is this all fud or is a moment we'll look back on like the iPhone?

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It feels like an idea that, while technically cool, isn't really all that useful. Maybe not even desirable.

Like if I wanted to watch dinosaur videos while eating donuts I could already just do that on my phone.

Oh wow I can bring up a giant Web browser or movie while sitting on a bench and all I have to do is wear a giant expensive retarded headset.

Same issue with VR and gaming in a way. It isn't offering a good enough experience to take over from the traditional games and in some ways it's actually offering a lesser experience.

Pelting down the street on my dumb motorized skateboard and my screen starts spazzing the fuck out, what do I do?
 
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Just got done with a 3 hour session of Pavlov followed by Minigolf online with my brother. VR multiplayer is just so good. Like you get sassy with your brother and your in-game avatar is showing your real-life body language and movements. It just adds another dimension to the experience.

And running up and grabbing the magazine out of your friend's gun in Pavlov, leaving them just one shot in their chamber right before walking out into a firefight never gets old lol
 
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We taking the nest step in VR boys ?



If they can improve on some.QOL and get the price down.we.might be getting to mainstream. Finally a head set that isn't some.giant bulky thing strapped to your face.
 
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Are people still using their VR sets often? Overall how do you think the market is doing? Thriving, staying largely the same or dying?

Always tempted with a Quest 3, but still seems a bit more of a novelty.
 
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