HTC Vive

n3vrmind said:
I keep seeing these posts, people so enthusiastic about racing sims where they intend to sit in a chair and use their wheel/pedal controls... and thats fine as one way of using it but this seems to be as far as they expect the VR experience to go, to just be eye candy, a slightly better visual experience than having surround monitors for example.

Its like they are thinking the improvement is something like what they were getting with 3D TVs, perhaps they think the motion controls are just going to be like wafting around a playstation move or wiimote thats a gimmick you wont really use or care about.

I'm half expecting that a good portion of the dedicated oculus rift crowd have this level of expectation, that they genuinely dont realise how limited that vision of VR actually is. On the one hand they may have their minds blown when they experience it proper but on the other, they may find they have bought into the wrong device because their expectation had been set too low.
Click to expand...

What you're not considering is the fact that I have absolutely no interest in any games that aren't sim racers. I've tried more than a few demos (including Alien: Isolation) on the DK2, and whilst the immersion is awesome, I just wouldn't play anything else.

I've tried the DK2 in iRacing and it was fantastic apart from the low pixel density. The sense of being "in the car" is something that triple screens cannot provide in my opinion. VR for me means not having 3 x 27" monitors taking up a huge amount of space, at a considerably lower cost.

Anyhow, I don't want to take this thread off in a different direction with my Rift speak. If I knew today that the games I play supported the Vive, I would've already ordered one.
 
ci_newman said:
This is the Vive thread, away with your Oculus posts :p
Click to expand...

whoops lol, sorry got thread confusion there.

thewanted said:
I've tried the DK2 in iRacing and it was fantastic apart from the low pixel density. The sense of being "in the car" is something that triple screens cannot provide in my opinion. VR for me means not having 3 x 27" monitors taking up a huge amount of space, at a considerably lower cost.
Click to expand...

Would have to agree completely. Not talking here about the Rift or the Vive, but about VR in general. The difference is really between looking through a window at your car and actually being in the car. The resolution is currently a problem (far more notably in the reason I have VR - flight sims) but nothing else gives that feeling of being inside the cockpit. Its so difficult to explain it unless you try it.
 
Last edited:
The only sim type racer I've heard with Vive support is Live for Speed, with others like PCars and maybe AC coming later.
 
thewanted said:
I'd also like to know this, but as far as I know, nobody has announced official support for it yet.
Click to expand...

The problem is, that unlike the DK1 and DK2, there has not been an opportunity for non-dev's to access the Vive. I think that this has meant that racing games have more or less given way to the Rift and also there has not been the same pressure from players for the Vive to be incorporated. on the bright side, there doesnt seem to be any reason why it shouldn't be!

LFS has announced its compatible (http://www.vrfocus.com/2015/12/live-for-speed-now-supports-htc-vive/) and rumour is asseto and Project Cars can work with injection drivers, so 'kind of work'.

Thats about it as far as I am aware, I am sure more will come quite quickly after launch.
 
Following: https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=29339564&postcount=3259

I've now preordered a Vive too.

I'll set it up permanently in the study then get some extender cables and some stands to set it up in the lounge for room scale...

How high do the lighthouses need to be? I've a cupboard and a piano in the study I could place them on? With the wall brackets ready for the lounge?

I'll cancel one Tuesday.

The Mrs is going to kill me.
 
Abooie said:
How high do the lighthouses need to be? I've a cupboard and a piano in the study I could place them on? With the wall brackets ready for the lounge?
Click to expand...
Apparently this joker tested the lighthouses at both floor and waist level without any discernible difference in experience.
 
ci_newman said:
Reports on Reddit of charges now being processed for USA :) Fingers crossed for EU tomorrow :D
Click to expand...

Awesome news :)

I checked with HTC and the UK pre orders will be going out DHL Express too so we should get them pretty quick after dispatch, I also asked which country they would be coming from but they have not got back to me yet.

Can't help but feel a bit sorry for the Rift pre orders not even being dispatched yet 4 days after their official release date.
 
Yeah looking on Reddit, it appears there are a lot of UK transactions going though now. Good sign at least lol. Paid ages ago with PayPal, but good to see that the payments are starting too for everyone else.
 
Why did I hover over the buy button for a week! I was hoping (grasping at straws) that HTC would have the manufacturing processes in place to get all orders out pronto, maybe even one huge first batch but no pre-auth for me yet. :(
 
My direct quote from HTC support:

From what I can see here that the order is still submitted and if the payment cleared with the bank we will re attempt to process the payment within the next couple of days
Click to expand...

So basically, I'm going to miss the first shipment dates as payment won't be done for another couple of days :( Man, what a start to the weekend.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom