VR Gaming - Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, HTC Vive

Hekotat said:

Sim Racing is the only thing I use it for, I can't be bothered to play anything else after Alyx set the bar.

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It's the classic catch-22 dilemma: No one wants to buy a VR system without excellent games that make full use of it and no one wants to make excellent games that make full use of it unless people buy VR systems. I'd love to play HL:Alyx on a good VR set and NMS would probably be entertaining for a little bit until the VR novelty wears off, but that alone makes it hard to justify the massive price tag.

If you had good controls, I'd wonder if RTS's good for giving you a better kinda top down 3d, looking at a digital battlefield map as a commander feel.

Cybsled said:

It's the classic catch-22 dilemma: No one wants to buy a VR system without excellent games that make full use of it and no one wants to make excellent games that make full use of it unless people buy VR systems. I'd love to play HL:Alyx on a good VR set and NMS would probably be entertaining for a little bit until the VR novelty wears off, but that alone makes it hard to justify the massive price tag.

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I agree, it's hard to justify. If I didn't love racing so much I wouldn't own one at all. The advantage it gives in sim racing with Depth of Field is just incredible, being able to spot minor elevation changes and seeing that a curb is actually 6" tall and not .5" tall as it appears on a monitor is just too good to give up.

Sludig said:

If you had good controls, I'd wonder if RTS's good for giving you a better kinda top down 3d, looking at a digital battlefield map as a commander feel.

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I was curious if there was a software that allowed you to do this at all, surely it's possible. could you imagine playing an mmo from the cameras location with the depth of field.

It has been way too hot this summer, like 2 months of 100+ temps, but looking forward to getting back to VR chat twice a week. It's my "exercise".

Cybsled said:

It's the classic catch-22 dilemma: No one wants to buy a VR system without excellent games that make full use of it and no one wants to make excellent games that make full use of it unless people buy VR systems. I'd love to play HL:Alyx on a good VR set and NMS would probably be entertaining for a little bit until the VR novelty wears off, but that alone makes it hard to justify the massive price tag.

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I now have 8 old VR systems just shoved in a closet collecting dust, at the time each one was purchased it was the newest thing, got used for a bit and then moved on. I'm not expecting much more from Steam Frame but at this point I might as well spend money on something, you can't take it with you. Looking forward to Steam Frame being #9 and something else cool and new coming out, hopefully with higher res panels.