The VR Thread - We all know what you really use it for.

[Battlefield42]

How is everyone's experience using the "Steam link" app on the Quest store? It has been fine for me and better than airlink but still isn't perfect.

Only problem i have had with wireless is when i snap turn it drops a frame or two. Isn't a game issue but streaming one. You can also change steam link streaming settings in steamvr. You can fix the awful default foveated streaming there.
Edit: didnt realize i already posted about this here. my bad

 

[Calandrino]

Okay tried some Resident Evil 4 on Quest 3. It starts off with all these warnings about the settings: "DO NOT use the Full Movement if you are new to VR or suffer from motion sickness". I'm new to VR and suffer from motion sickness but that sounded like a bunch of fag talk to me, I don't want to teleport around, I want the full experience. So yeah five minutes of that and I broke out in a cold sweat and nearly threw up. Not yet recovered. Very exciting and immersive!

Official store sure does have an extensive selection of horrible-looking garbage, and the reviews are written by bona fide retards. Almost as bad as trying to rifle through a phone storefront.

 

[Riverfagg1599]

Okay tried some Resident Evil 4 on Quest 3. It starts off with all these warnings about the settings: "DO NOT use the Full Movement if you are new to VR or suffer from motion sickness". I'm new to VR and suffer from motion sickness but that sounded like a bunch of fag talk to me, I don't want to teleport around, I want the full experience. So yeah five minutes of that and I broke out in a cold sweat and nearly threw up. Not yet recovered. Very exciting and immersive!

Official store sure does have an extensive selection of horrible-looking garbage, and the reviews are written by bona fide retards. Almost as bad as trying to rifle through a phone storefront.

man its wild. i never got motion sickness from vr ever. my first vr game was blade and sorcery on a quest 2 and walkabout. i have a quest 3 i use standalone and pcvr. if youre new to quest and havent tried i recommend the batman game. it might help you getting used to vr. its a bit more forgiving.
edit: i just purchased a katvr c2 plus enh and i made a thread about it before i saw this one.

 

[Dr Pavel I'm CIA]

I'm new to VR and suffer from motion sickness but that sounded like a bunch of fag talk to me, I don't want to teleport around, I want the full experience

It's very similar to sea-sickness, the more you use the VR headset the more comfortable you'll get with the movements.

One of the best methods is playing with games that have theses reticles that close around your eyes as your character move. (It's like small circles that reduce your peripheral vision during movement).

A lot of games have them implemented but sadly not all. HL alyx has it, the batman game has it even base Skyrim VR has it.

(I'd suggest to mod Skyrim vr though as the base game is really mid in term of interactivity while modded it gets to Alyx's level of interactions)

 

[San Marino]

Official store sure does have an extensive selection of horrible-looking garbage, and the reviews are written by bona fide retards. Almost as bad as trying to rifle through a phone storefront.

If you are going through the official meta quest store to find a good game you might as well also drive down to your local garbage dump and crawl around in the dumpsters looking for your mid-game snack.

There are a few good games but a lot of the stuff there is just boring.

 

[Battlefield42]

So yeah five minutes of that and I broke out in a cold sweat and nearly threw up. Not yet recovered. Very exciting and immersive!

It gets better. My first experience was like this as well. I noticed i was trying to "brace" for the movement. Try playing sitting maybe.

 

[Gatdam Animal Person]

How is everyone's experience using the "Steam link" app on the Quest store? It has been fine for me and better than airlink but still isn't perfect.

After configuring my firewall, it works splendid... at least on Windows. SteamVR still has severe issues on Linux, such as a full Steam crash whenever you attempt to view your own desktop. I'm very happy at the work they did for Steam Link (works great for normal games), it's just SteamVR that is bad.

I don't get those that insists on streaming VR over USB, you are tethered on something that doesn't rely on any cables, plus one wrong move and you're breaking your USB-C port. Poor Wifi? Just get a better dongle or Wifi Hotspot inside your room.

The saving grace for VR on linux has been Monado/WiVRn for OpenXR and OpenComposite/xriser for OpenVR compatibility. Mind you, most of these projects are ran by insufferable chomos, however the tech itself is very good.

 

[TenMilesWide]

I'm new to VR and suffer from motion sickness but that sounded like a bunch of fag talk to me, I don't want to teleport around, I want the full experience.

Teleporting around is a bunch of fag talk, you made the right call.

So yeah five minutes of that and I broke out in a cold sweat and nearly threw up. Not yet recovered. Very exciting and immersive!

My first experience was like this as well. I noticed i was trying to "brace" for the movement.

Yeah that'll be a fairly standard experience, I had a real problem with joystick movement early on especially in 'head & hands only' types (I don't know if the inclusion of a full-body player model really makes it better or if I was just getting used to it by the time more of those were coming out), found hand-based movement schemes like Gorn's or Climbey's defaults more bearable until some months into owning a headset.

I've seen claims that drinking a cup of ginger tea before playing in VR can help reduce motion sickness but I've tried it a few times and could never really tell if it was working.

 

[George Lucas]

My wife wanted to buy a Quest 3 because she ‘needed something fun to do for New Years’ and I told her to get the Quest 3S instead. Apparently it’s getting sold for discounts at various retailers. Also there’s a Steam sale for Half-Life Alyx so may as well give that a try. Well, it’s here, staring at me from my desk. My wife told me to set it up for her. I have no idea what I’m doing. Pls send recommendations for a casual girl gamer.

The last time I tried home VR was at some party in like 2018. The host was rich and had a room dedicated for it. I really hate the idea of dancing around a living room. Who even are these people who have these massive living rooms? Aren’t most gamers poor single males in shitty apartments?

Update: I strapped myself in and this thing is such a piece of crap lmao. Everything is blurry unless I position the device perfectly on my head and look in one spot, and even then only one eye is clear. No idea how this is supposed to work for multiple people.

Update 2: Got this thing set up with some shitty games, asked my wife to try it. She said ‘Sorry I’m not interested in playing by myself’. I think I got trolled. What a way to start the New Year.

 

[Battlefield42]

My wife wanted to buy a Quest 3 because she ‘needed something fun to do for New Years’ and I told her to get the Quest 3S instead. Apparently it’s getting sold for discounts at various retailers. Also there’s a Steam sale for Half-Life Alyx so may as well give that a try. Well, it’s here, staring at me from my desk. My wife told me to set it up for her. I have no idea what I’m doing. Pls send recommendations for a casual girl gamer.

The last time I tried home VR was at some party in like 2018. The host was rich and had a room dedicated for it. I really hate the idea of dancing around a living room. Who even are these people who have these massive living rooms? Aren’t most gamers poor single males in shitty apartments?

Update: I strapped myself in and this thing is such a piece of crap lmao. Everything is blurry unless I position the device perfectly on my head and look in one spot, and even then only one eye is clear. No idea how this is supposed to work for multiple people.

Update 2: Got this thing set up with some shitty games, asked my wife to try it. She said ‘Sorry I’m not interested in playing by myself’. I think I got trolled. What a way to start the New Year.

HLA is a good babies first vr game.

 

[Duane Dibbley]

So yeah five minutes of that and I broke out in a cold sweat and nearly threw up. Not yet recovered. Very exciting and immersive!

Try walking on the spot IRL for a few seconds. The few times I get motion sickness in Pavlov I just walk on the spot and it clears it up straight away. I only have to do this once during a session, or twice if it's a longer session but the motion sickness disappears instantly.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Got my first VR headset. PSVR2, and all the accessories to make it PCVR. I've had it a couple of weeks but haven't had a chance to boot it up yet. RL and beind exhausted.

I remember hearing recently (I think it was a relative) said a good way to get VR legs is to play cartoony/unrealistic games, as games like Saints and Sinners gave them motion sickness, but gamey looking games they could play all day. While too late to help @Calandrino I thought I'd mention it.



I'm putting serious thought into buying Fallout 4 VR. Not sure if it's worth it. I don't really care for Fallout 4, but mods apparently fix the problems with the VR version, and I hear mixed things about the compatibility of popular content mods like Sim Settlements 2, Point Lookout, and Fallout London. (I played an incomplete version of SS2 and loved it.)

I also don't know how shit Nexus has become, or what remains after the purge. I bailed on Nexus after the whole Spiderman flag incident resulted in some of my favourite New Vegas authors (and their mods) were removed. I've yet to see them post elsewhere. And no, Based Mods doesn't carry their work because it's not political. For those wondering, most are generic dungeon mods, and a single outfit mod. The rest were quality of life improvements like an intro skip or unlocking ballistic weave early. I vaguely remember them jumping on the real ID bandwagon at some point, but I don't know.

The mod ketaros treasures now seems to be it's own site.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Double post. Is there an accurate list of PS4/PS5 exclusive VR games? Even if it's just games that have a VR mode exclusive to the console.

This sounds like simple information. But I keep seeing it wrong. Listing games like Blade and Sorcery or Light Brigade when those games are on PC. Or not listing Resident Evil 4 Remake because the game is multi-plat, even if the official VR mode is PS5 exclusive.

Asking because I saw the PS5 Resident Evil games going cheap. I don't own a PS5, and have no interest in getting one. But £15 for a sealed copy of RE7 Gold seems cheap enough that I might grab a few games now so I can grab a PS5 in the future when no one wants them anymore in 3 years.

 

[TheArtilleryman]

Got my first VR headset. PSVR2, and all the accessories to make it PCVR. I've had it a couple of weeks but haven't had a chance to boot it up yet. RL and beind exhausted.

I remember hearing recently (I think it was a relative) said a good way to get VR legs is to play cartoony/unrealistic games, as games like Saints and Sinners gave them motion sickness, but gamey looking games they could play all day. While too late to help @Calandrino I thought I'd mention it.



I'm putting serious thought into buying Fallout 4 VR. Not sure if it's worth it. I don't really care for Fallout 4, but mods apparently fix the problems with the VR version, and I hear mixed things about the compatibility of popular content mods like Sim Settlements 2, Point Lookout, and Fallout London. (I played an incomplete version of SS2 and loved it.)

I also don't know how shit Nexus has become, or what remains after the purge. I bailed on Nexus after the whole Spiderman flag incident resulted in some of my favourite New Vegas authors (and their mods) were removed. I've yet to see them post elsewhere. And no, Based Mods doesn't carry their work because it's not political. For those wondering, most are generic dungeon mods, and a single outfit mod. The rest were quality of life improvements like an intro skip or unlocking ballistic weave early. I vaguely remember them jumping on the real ID bandwagon at some point, but I don't know.

The mod ketaros treasures now seems to be it's own site.

Double post. Is there an accurate list of PS4/PS5 exclusive VR games? Even if it's just games that have a VR mode exclusive to the console.

This sounds like simple information. But I keep seeing it wrong. Listing games like Blade and Sorcery or Light Brigade when those games are on PC. Or not listing Resident Evil 4 Remake because the game is multi-plat, even if the official VR mode is PS5 exclusive.

Asking because I saw the PS5 Resident Evil games going cheap. I don't own a PS5, and have no interest in getting one. But £15 for a sealed copy of RE7 Gold seems cheap enough that I might grab a few games now so I can grab a PS5 in the future when no one wants them anymore in 3 years.

I've heard good things about Fallout 4 VR and every Bethesda title on VR for that matter. I've only tried Skyrim so far but that was a blast.

I strongly recommend Hotdogs, Horseshoes and Handgrenades, it's PC exclusive but if you can deal with the headache that is SteamVR, its a lot of fun. Sandbox gun simulator pretty much. I've no experience with Playstation exclusive VR games, it's almost exclusively been SteamVR for me because I went with Quest and as others have said the Quest store is hot garbage with the sole exception of RE4 original in VR.

 

[Cod of War]

Got my first VR headset. PSVR2, and all the accessories to make it PCVR. I've had it a couple of weeks but haven't had a chance to boot it up yet. RL and beind exhausted.

I remember hearing recently (I think it was a relative) said a good way to get VR legs is to play cartoony/unrealistic games, as games like Saints and Sinners gave them motion sickness, but gamey looking games they could play all day. While too late to help @Calandrino I thought I'd mention it.



I'm putting serious thought into buying Fallout 4 VR. Not sure if it's worth it. I don't really care for Fallout 4, but mods apparently fix the problems with the VR version, and I hear mixed things about the compatibility of popular content mods like Sim Settlements 2, Point Lookout, and Fallout London. (I played an incomplete version of SS2 and loved it.)

I also don't know how shit Nexus has become, or what remains after the purge. I bailed on Nexus after the whole Spiderman flag incident resulted in some of my favourite New Vegas authors (and their mods) were removed. I've yet to see them post elsewhere. And no, Based Mods doesn't carry their work because it's not political. For those wondering, most are generic dungeon mods, and a single outfit mod. The rest were quality of life improvements like an intro skip or unlocking ballistic weave early. I vaguely remember them jumping on the real ID bandwagon at some point, but I don't know.

The mod ketaros treasures now seems to be it's own site.

About Fallout 4 VR. If I recall correctly, it doesn't come with any of the DLC but if you were to manually add files they should work

 

[Judge Dredd]

About Fallout 4 VR. If I recall correctly, it doesn't come with any of the DLC but if you were to manually add files they should work

Yeah. From what I understand it-

• Doesn't come with DLC/GOTY content, so you have to drag that from stock Fallout 4.
• The VR support is basic and you need a few mods to bring up to standard.
  • You can't just download the mods? You might need different mod managers to get it at all? Not sure.
• Runs on an older exe, so script extender doesn't work. You need a specific version of it.
  • Fallout London (a flatscreen mod) supposedly does the same thing, but requires rolling back or using the GoG version.
• Here's where things get complex, but-
  • Sim Settlements 2 works, but there's quest bugs, but there's a patch, but there's also bugs?
  • Point Lookout works, but requires some kind of recompile to get the landmass working? And there's no dragonflies.
    • There is some kind of issue with extended dialog UI, but also someone made a patch for the UI?
  • Fallout London has a dedicated VR port, but supposedly it's an exe/script to install?

This is to say, it's confusing, and a mess. While I can understand script extender breaking, I don't understand the difficulty with other mods. Surely a quest mod or dungeon mod wouldn't immediately shit the bed and be incompatible?



Since I'm posting, again. I heard some more advice I heard for RL/internet friends. My old plan was to play The Lab, then play the better slop games like Job Simulator to get my VR legs and dial it in before moving onto the classics like Alyx. But supposedly I should start with The Lab, then move immediately to Alyx, because it's built to be a first VR game.

 

[ZMOT]

it's built to be a first VR game.

and will spoil every other VR game in the process. it's not a perfect game but it does set the bar quite high for comparisons.

vr legs are also different for different people. sometimes even lowering resolution for higher frames is enough, sometimes the game is simple a bit more stressing. talos principle, as simple as it is, gave me major headaches for some reason.

I've heard good things about Fallout 4 VR

 

[Judge Dredd]

Having issues with PSVR2 on PC.

After spending all night fixing bluetooth issues, the big hurdle is one I didn't expect is updating the firmware. It keeps failing, telling me to check connections and make sure it's plugged into USB 3.0. After many hours of installing and uninstalling drivers, faffing around with .net framework, and so on. My next course of action is to find someone with a PS5.

If anyone has any experience with this, let me know.

 

[TheArtilleryman]

Having issues with PSVR2 on PC.

After spending all night fixing bluetooth issues, the big hurdle is one I didn't expect is updating the firmware. It keeps failing, telling me to check connections and make sure it's plugged into USB 3.0. After many hours of installing and uninstalling drivers, faffing around with .net framework, and so on. My next course of action is to find someone with a PS5.

If anyone has any experience with this, let me know.

Quest isn't much different. I had to install IVRy driver from Steam for it, still needs up to an hour of fucking around to get it working again sometimes. Truth is these things are still too inconvenient to just sit down and relax with after a day, like normal videogames, theres always something wrong or some other crap to change/install first. It's a videogame and a job, playing VR.

 

[Judge Dredd]

@TheArtilleryman When people said "VR is high effort gaming, consoles are low effort gaming", I assumed they meant sitting in a couch vs standing waving your arms around. I didn't realise it was all this set up nonsense. Maybe this is how console players view PC gamers.