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Can you speak to it and make certain game moves like changing weapons? ..... just wait for the Oculus gloves which have sensors and are wireless! To hold a firearm you simply use your hands to hold an imaginary fire arm & to fire simply press the thumb to the index finger. Boxing is even better.
You could use something like voice attack for many games for voice input.
Takes a little time to set up but once it's done works pretty reliably!
Yes, because PC users should know and love using a ****ty controller. Why not ship it unfinished and upgrade the software afterwards. Or just change the old one for a brand new one when it's finished.
Just looked at the oculus website and made an uncontrollable noise, last heard at Christmas when i was 9 years old.
I may be one of a minority to be actually excited but I don't care, credit card at the ready.
I'm as excited about this as I am about any other massively cool yet prohibitively expensive cool-thing. No point getting all frantic about what I can't have.Originally Posted by Percy1983
HTC and Valve, trying to spoil the party with a little announcement of their own:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35229548
50/50 on whether I will be pre-ordering @ 4pm tomorrow. Needs to be less for £300 for me to commit I think. Expecting it to come in at £350...it's really hard to swallow the amount involved when I've had my Homido headset and Nexus 5 working in Elite Dangerous for £50ish!
BTW if anyone is thinking of getting a budget VR set...the best design and price I've currently seen is the "BoboVR Z3", meant to have large lenses, good field of view, adjustability, good cushioning (faux leather), good space for nose for less than £12 delivered!
http://www.gearbest.com/virtual-real...09FhoCzmPw_wcB
https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleCardb...edback_review/
As it will come with an xbox one controller I am happy up to £400.
With that I will probably get giddy and order at any price.
What is needed software wise to get ED wokring with a Samsung phone? Wasn't even aware you could tie the phone to a pc as a display.
Flibb, I made a tutorial on Youtube, see here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol2WdOKK8Aw
See the description for the pieces of software you need and how to set it up.
Note: Relies primarily on having a Geforce GPU, which I see you don't have, however I believe there is an AMD alternative if you do some research. Note it doesn't necessarily have it use this, there's build in decoders for TrinusVR, but using the method I've demonstrated gives 1080p 60fps picture quality.
TrinusVR has moved on since I made the video, it's creator telling me that Freetrack now works natively, and the 64bit DLL's I mention as included in the currentl release so that's a few issues that's meant to have been solved. I've yet to test it though so can't confirm. However my method shown definitely works. It's a bit of faff to set it up, but it's a good experience for £12 (headset BoboVR Z3) and £5 (TrinusVR app)
My conclusion is that it's currently too much effort to use regularly, but it was interesting to try it out.
Have you tried the DK2? Honestly you're in for a treat... yes there is depreciable gains in terms of basic VR is VR and a TV is a TV but the more you pay the better it gets. The positional tracking is fluid and doesnt drift (unlike the smartphones or GearVR) and the resolution is increased (much more than the N5 but still less than the latest Galaxy I believe), the DK2 still looks much better to me than the gearvr and using my nexus 5 and 6p, its an 'okay' experience on mobile devices but pc is there its at so I will be buying it tomorrow as long as its less than £1000 which it will be by a mile
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The enjoyment I got from my DK2 both programming games for it and playing others is just too much to pass up.. end of the day the price is just like a very high end monitor but its vastly superior (at least this is how I justify it!)
Yes I have tried the DK2, my friend bought one and I was underwhelmed to be honest. Obviously tracking and movement is way better but the image quality (from memory) wasn't any better than my Nexus 5 (both are 1080p by the way so it doesn't have better resolution). In fact I thought the screen door effect was worse on the DK2. To dip your toes into VR and if you're relatively tech savvy and don't mind a bit of trouble shooting, £17 for a reasonable VR experience is definitely worth it, but I'm not sure high end VR will meet my expectations to justify dropping £300+ for 1st gen hardware. I think I might hold off till the inevitable higher resolution 2nd gen sets next year.
Apologies in my reply I meant the CV1 has a higher resolution.
DK2 would have worse SDE than the N5 depending on lenses used (different magnification and enhancement) and the DK2 uses a pentile display so it isnt the same arrangement as an LCD 1080p panel unfortunately (but the lower persistence makes up for it).
Each to their own if you can or cannot justify it, everyone has different ideas on value
Im with you on that Percy, although I feel pre ordering one maybe an issue if the Oculus website gets hugged to death
I am more worried about all the ebay scalpers jumping on it.
Hopefully there won't be any problems and they have setup enough server provision to cope with the 4pm page refreshes.
Might be tempted, depends on price.
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