Virtual Reality

spronk

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family is finally out so I can fuck around with VR today, tried to watch some porn but it was massively unsatisfying. First to watch your own videos with Rift, you have to manually edit the file C:\Program Files (x86)\Oculus\Software\oculus-oculus-video\video_settings.ini and set a path to your video files, like edit movie_dir_4 to D:\taxes\1997\audit\_done for example. It does fortunately recursively read all the files in the directory and all subdirs but just dumps them as a list of files.

Wholely unsatisfying watching any porn that way, its like going back to the 80s and watching VHS tape porn on scanline TVs, grainy and not that good.

Unfortunately pornhub's 360 VR porn player isn't recompiled yet for CV1 so I can't run it, I tried for a while to browse to the website in SteamVR but I just can't figure out the UI inside steamVR web browser, and there is no web browser with Oculus as far as I can tell

I paid $14.99 for Virtual Desktop on steam, since the steamVR desktop is just fucked for me. Works a little better but running videos inside of it projects them onto a IMAX sized screen inside your headset, so you end up looking at 80 foot vaginas and dicks and its a bit too scary for me.

all in all Oculus Rift so far is the equivalent of Virtual Blue balls

Virtual Desktop is pretty good for old games though, I was able to run Tomb Raider DE on it and it looked decent although I'd still prefer to play on my gSync monitor. So far the only true VR game I have enjoyed is Eve Valkyrie, I'm waiting for the next version of Elite and I think I'll like that too.
 

Leadsalad

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"I don't think I could eat popcorn staring at a 90 foot vagina. Oooh this is a bit graphic, these cameras are incredible! Good thing I wore me galoshes! Ladies nudging their man in the theatre, 'can you find the gspot now?'"
 

Tripamang

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I rather reluctantly pulled the trigger on a HTC Vive, fucker is 1300$ Canadian. It looks like mine won't ship until some time in June, which works out well since the next-gen video cards aren't out until then anyways.
 

Soygen

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I ordered Vive on 4/1 and as of this morning there's a pending charge on my credit card for it. I expect it will ship next week sometime. Looking forward to it!
 

meStevo

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I got the 'going to charge you soon, reach out to your bank!' email last week, anxiously waiting for the charge to hit my card.
 

Soygen

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I got the 'going to charge you soon, reach out to your bank!' email last week, anxiously waiting for the charge to hit my card.
I never got that email, so I found it odd my card was charged today.
 

Skanda

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I went ahead and ordered the Vive today as well. Hopefully I don't actually have to wait until the June estimation ship date.
 

Attog

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Elite was a motherfucker to get all setup with my HOTAS and everything, and I don't really know what the fuck I'm doing in the game itself but man it is cool in VR.
 

Attog

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Bogus that you would have to pay to upgrade to a VR version.

The Climb came out yesterday and I really want to play that but $50 for what I suspect will turn out to be a beautiful but very shallow game experience seems ridiculous.
 

Sir Funk

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I got the "you're about to get charged!" email and ended up cancelling my Vive. I'll probably be back in this summer, but the lack of any sort of good games kind of killed my initial enthusiasm. $900 for VR porn and Tilt Brush was too much to handle atm.
 

Tripamang

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I went ahead and ordered the Vive today as well. Hopefully I don't actually have to wait until the June estimation ship date.
Does yours still say June? My shipment month now reads as blank, and I don't have a hold on my CC...
 

Skanda

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The link they gave in the email receipt still has a generic "estimated June" paragraph. Actually logging onto their site and checking the date is blank but this is the first time I've looked at that page so I don't know if that's a change or not.
 

meStevo

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Happened to check mine and it says released to fulfillment, so checked my Discover and now have a pending charge from the 26th, the day after my 'going to charge you soon!' email. Had a stated ship date of May. Waiting for some tracking info, ordered some tripods for the lighthouses
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Tripamang

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My shipment month was always blank on their site.
Yea you're probably right, I can't seem to find anything in my profile that says June.

Happened to check mine and it says released to fulfillment, so checked my Discover and now have a pending charge from the 26th, the day after my 'going to charge you soon!' email. Had a stated ship date of May. Waiting for some tracking info, ordered some tripods for the lighthouses
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Good to know, I was concerned that the charge didn't go through and the month was blank because of it. Sounds like they just delay it until they're ready to ship.