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  1. DooKey

    Payday 2: VR Available in Main Game

    I have good news for all of you VR fans out there that weren't part of the Payday 2 VR beta - VR is now part of the main game. Go now and update your game in Steam and give it a try. It looks pretty good to me. Let those of us without VR gear know how you like it. Thanks cageymaru. Nearly...
  2. R

    Skyrim VR for PC April 3 (With oculus support!)

    https://bethesda.net/en/article/4YSRrlXtpuKeWIK6EMiG84/skyrim-vr-comes-to-steamvr This is awesome, super excited for this and pleasently surprised to find out they are including native Oculus and windows HMDs support at launch. This may be a day 1 purchase for me just because of that lol
  3. R

    Skyrim VR Available For Pre-Order Now

    In its 429th re-release since launching 7 years ago, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is back again, this time in VR. Launching on April 3rd and available for pre-order now on Steam for $59.99, the game supports the HTC Vive, the Oculus Rift, and Windows Mixed Reality headsets. $59.99 is a big ask...
  4. DooKey

    Those Wacky Japanese Develop VR Headset to Feed You Candy

    Just when you thought nothing could ever surprise you again I offer up this "unique" use of VR technology brought to us by those crazy Japanese inventors. Case in point is a VR headset that has an arm on it that will feed you candy while displaying your favorite Japanese idol handing you the...
  5. R

    Rise Of Insanity Releases Today On Steam

    First person psychological horror game "Rise Of Insanity" has been released today on Steam with VR support after being released in August 2017 in Early Access. RedLimb Studio says the game "draws inspiration from greatest psychological horror movies such as The Shining, The Exorcist and Silent...
  6. R

    Haptic Feedback Glove in VR

    Youtube channel SmarterEveryDay for a demo of a real life haptic feedback glove for VR from the company HaptX. The companies press release from November 20th 2017 states that the gloves are the result of years of research and development, and that the gloves feature over 100 points of high...
  7. FrgMstr

    Island 359 - Let's Play VR

    Watch the VR Viking get eaten alive by dinosaurs on Island 359 in VR that just came out of Early Release yesterday. The island itself covers six square miles and it is incredibly easy to lose your bearings. He just dropped in and looks like lunch to me. The thumbnail below shows a menu...
  8. FrgMstr

    Forbes Explains VR, AR, and MR to Your Mom

    We often use the term "real VR" around here when talking about VR as all VR experiences are not equal. Forbes is addressing the entire XR landscape in case you are not in-the-know on all things that are not reality. The author gets points for putting then entire article into three sentences...
  9. R

    Pluto Wants To Become Like The Discord Of VR

    Until now VR didn't have a Discord-like social app to converse with friends. Pluto is looking to change that and is available now in Steam Early Access. Pluto runs as a background app alongside SteamVR. After you create an avatar, friends can start a call with you, if you toggle on your Pluto...
  10. R

    VR Finally Gets a Quality RTS With "Brass Tactics"

    Brass Tactics has come out for the Oculus Rift and UploadVR is giving it a glowing review. Fans of the genre will be happy with the classic RTS style gameplay set in a steampunk setting. The game's campaign has 4-6 hours of content, and the whole game features 20 different maps, multiple armies...
  11. R

    Emulator games in VR

    I just recently found out about Dolphin VR and its amazing, played about 1-2 hours of Mario Kart Wii in VR and it was a blast but now I want to try more games out lol. Anyone have some good recommendations for some good Wii/GameCube games to try out in VR? You are suppost to be able to map your...
  12. FrgMstr

    Shapeshifting VR Controller Homemade Mod Simulates Real Feel

    This guy's mod on a VIVE controller weights the controller dynamically to simpulate how VR weapons would feel in your hand and also simulates recoil as well. While I would love to give this a try, you would probably want a very large roomscale environment to start playing about with this...
  13. A

    Entry VR equipment

    Hey, I'm intersted in VR and have a more than capable PC... (Ryzen 7 w/1080), but was wondering what all do I need for a basic entry level setup for head unit and controls?
  14. R

    Twitter's Director of AR/VR Leaves the Company

    The head of Twitter's AR/VR team Alessandro Sabatelli announced via tweet that he was moving on from the company after being hired in June 2016. TechCrunch reached out to Sabatelli for more details on where he is going next, but has not had a response at the time of writing. Sabatelli was hired...
  15. A

    humble vr sale

    https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/vr-sale/ went up yesterday but whatever, Call of the Starseed for $8 seems like a no brainer to me..
  16. H

    Humble Bundle VR Sale

    https://www.humblebundle.com/store/promo/vr-sale/ Runs through Friday 1 PM ET. Some good titles on here.
  17. FrgMstr

    Winter Olympics in VR Thanks to Eurosport

    DUDE! Curling in VR on February 12th! Mixed doubles too! In all seriousness, Eurosport is broadcasting much of the Winter Olympics in a VR format that will be available to damn near anyone with a smartphone. This is almost certainly a big portion of how VR will intersect sports in our...
  18. B

    Vive Sli?

    Anyone with sli tried Vive in sli? I'd really like to know if sli works.
  19. R

    Tobii Showing Off VR With Eye Tracking

    At CES, The Tech Report got a private demo of a prototype Vive headset with Tobii eye tracking baked in. The demo starts with an accurate setting of interpupillary distance, which with today's headsets is a bit of guesswork. After that came several demos, including robots that could tell when...
  20. FrgMstr

    Plex Goes VR and Allows You to Watch Together

    I know we have a lot of folks around here that use Plex. Plex has now added a VR extension to its software. While many of us will probably still want to put those expensive TVs to use in order to watch movies, Plex has added a social aspect to the program that I could see benefitting a lot of...
  21. FrgMstr

    Guitar Hero Meets VR Lightsabers

    Seeing this game, "Beat Saber," conjures up memories of many happy hours of playing Guitar Hero back in the day. Instead of having a fake guitar, you get fake lightsabers inside your VR world and slice and dice the notes to play the song of your people. My kids still refer to "Run to the...
  22. S

    TPCast Connectivity Issues

    I don't expect to see a lot of traffic on this thread, as the number of us that have TPCast units is likely pretty small, but I'm wondering if anyone else has been experiencing connectivity issues with their TPCast/Vive or TPCast/Rift combinations? Some background on my setup, I'm running the...
  23. H

    Recommendations for a Non-Wave Shooter VR Game?

    Got a few steam gift cards for christmas and wanted to see what others recommendation for non-wave shooters for the Vive.. Got fallout 4 vr and enjoying it but what else is out there that is a good non-wave shooter type game (locomotion seems to be the #1 issue right now with creating that epic...
  24. A

    Has hardware requirements changed much?

    OK, so I almost finally bit on the most recent Oculus Black Friday sale prices ($425 canadian), and it is now currently on sale for $499 canadian.. hoping it will go back down to $425 for Boxing Day but we'll see. My concern is that my system is too under powered to even bother: CPU: i5 3570k...
  25. C

    Today only - Up to $200 off Microsoft Windows Mixed Reality headsets w/controllers

    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/collections/12DD-WMR-headsets Acer HMD - $199 Dell Visor - Out of stock HP HMD - $249 Lenovo Explorer - $199 Samsung Odyssey - $449
  26. R

    An Intro to Fallout 4 VR, pre-launch overview (free locomotion confirmed!)

    So like many of you I was very disappointed in Doom's lack of proper locomotion. Fallout 4's lead producer has just released a new video for us showing off the game and different features such as movement, combat (including VATS) and power armor. This game just went much higher up my going to...
  27. DooKey

    Virtual Reality Headset Shipments Top 1 Million for the First Time

    According to Canalys, VR headset shipments hit 1 million units in the last quarter. This is the first time 1 million units have ever shipped in a quarter. That's a lot of headsets and It seems to me that the reason more units are selling is because prices are starting to drop to reasonable...
  28. G

    New owner questions

    So I ordered a rift from best buys pre black friday sale, figured 350 was not a bad price to try it out. Anyway I am looking for any tips/tricks on use and or setup you have. I have read the owners thread and saw the tips in there such as dont go right into flight sims etc.
  29. Supercharged_Z06

    VR GPU power needed going forward

    Found an interesting visual comparison of the graphics quality we can look forward to and the GPU rendering power that's going to be required for the Pimax 8K X going forward. Not my work (from the Pimax forums), but interesting nonetheless. Note that they are taking into account...
  30. DooKey

    "Harry Potter" Technology Lets Scientists Explore the Brain

    Scientists have discovered that rendering techniques used in the Harry Potter movies is also good for MRI scans. What it does is convert all of the data into images that can be used to explore the brain in 3-D and they found they can use VR to trace neurons. Using VR they aren't limited to the...
  31. DooKey

    NVIDIA Shows the Power of VR at Autodesk University 2017

    Sean Wagstaff, Technical Marketing Manager at NVIDIA, gives a demonstration of the power of VR for architectural design reviews using Revit at Autodesk University 2017. Once you view the video you'll see how cool this technology really is. Watch the video here.
  32. DooKey

    Virtual Reality Training May Be As Effective As Regular Therapy After Stroke

    Using virtual reality therapy to improve arm and hand movement after a stroke is equally as effective as regular therapy, according to a study published in the November 15, 2017, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. This really does make a lot of...
  33. S

    Samsung HMD Odyssey

    Who's picking one up? I plan to pick one up for flight sims. Flyinside is working on microsoft mr support, and steam support appears to be solid. Also gonna do racing games and DCS World flying.
  34. M

    Does this Oculus setup make sense?

    Just posted this in another thread here but based on what I'm reading, and when I really think about it, I think I have magic going on...or maybe I'm not the only one? Anyways, I have my Oculus on the following setup: I have a Asus Z170i Pro Gaming ITX motherboard. I have my setup just on one...
  35. B

    Oculus+touch for $399 with $50 oculus store credit.

    Just a PSA. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=26-910-005 If you have a larger play area, this would allow a 3 camera Rift setup for $409, which is a great deal (imo). That or a couple of games to go with the free ones it comes with if you have a smaller area (~12'x12').
  36. DooKey

    Virtual reality's Next Big Leap is Real-World Pong and Pac-Man

    Munich-based HolodeckVR is using optical and radio tracking to create giant VR gaming arenas. The company is currently using Samsung Gear mobile VR headsets and a combination of tracking technology it has developed in-house. They have created two different sized arenas for people to play...
  37. P

    CCP closes VR studios until the VR market improves

    CCP announced that 100 staff members at their VR studios have been let go with the closing of their UK based Newcastle office and their office in Atlanta... “Despite the success of the VR games we have released we will be shifting our focus to our PC and mobile initiatives, and will be...
  38. S

    Elite: Dangerous

    Thrustmaster T.16000M FCS HOTAS I recently bought this HOTAS as my overall pick of the market. It was designed in conjunction with Elite: Dangerous, which didn't really sell me on the stick, but did sell me on Elite this weekend while I was looking for something else to test the HOTAS with...
  39. FrgMstr

    From Hentai VR Pool Party to Anduril and AR Battlefields

    Just when you possibly thought that Palmer Luckey was concerned only with Hentai VR Pool Parties, we find out that he is back in the Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality business with a company called Anduril. TechCrunch has a detailed writeup about the bones of the company that is looking to...
  40. B

    Who Will Buy Windows VR too?

    Current Rift / Vive owners, will you pick up a Windows VR unit too? Yea or nay and why? I'm thinking about grabbing one of the higher resolution Windows VR units. The extra pixels are supposed to be a solid visual upgrade over Rift / Vive. I plan to wait for Steam VR support first though.
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