HTC Vive

thewanted said:
That's not good news :(
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Yeah, I was a bit surprised how bad it was actually. Admittedly it's the first time I've ever tried a racing game in VR, so I may just not be used to it, but after several flawless days doing standing stuff in the Vive it was a bit of a shock. Definite disconnect between my brain, inner ear and what I was seeing as I physically felt like my actual body was moving forward which was :cool: at first but then quickly :o

Want to try again as it looked genuinely amazing even with LFS's fairly basic GFX, but maybe next time I'll try a car with a full cockpit rather than a formula racer and start off a bit more slowly. Also drink lots of ginger beer first :p

AlamoX said:
lol and what about your ears ?
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What about them? That's basically how I'm wearing mine now. I see a lot of people on Reddit are criticising him for how he has it going over the tops of his ears, but the problem is with everyone's head shape and eye/ear position being slightly different, there is no golden answer to how to adjust the Vive given the "sweet spot" for the lenses is fairly small. I don't have a problem with the straps sitting over the tops of my ears, I find there is little pressure on my face and the lenses sit in the right place every time now.

TLDR - you adjust any head device to how it feels best for you, not someone else.
 
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darkgen said:
Has anyone got ED working? I have no idea how I get the game to detect the HMD. If I launch Steam VR and then ED I can see an HMD option buts its greyed (red) out. If I exit Steam VR it does not even show up in the Graphics option menu.
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It's not obvious but have Steam + Steam VR running. Start ED in VR mode and when the game is running in a window on the desktop within the game set the 3D mode to stereoscopic HMD or whatever the wording is. It then should appear in the HMD.

I basically stumbled on the settings as there's not much help on the ED forums.

I also tried Live for Speed which has good support for VR and a very good menu system however make sure you start the game with Admin privileges as that stumped me for a few minutes.

Unfortunately the res just isn't that great IMO. Everything in or near the car is fine but looking towards corners in the distance is a blurry mess and I tried all the anti aliasing and AF options both high and off but couldn't play the game like that for long.

On the positive absolutely nothing has made me feel weird or woosey when using the HMD.
 
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bimbleuk said:
It's not obvious but have Steam + Steam VR running. Start ED in VR mode and when the game is running in a windows on the desktop. Within the game set the 3D mode to stereoscopic HMD or whatever the wording is. It then should appear in the HMD.
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What is meant by start ED in VR mode? How do you do that?

If I start ED without starting Steam VR I get additional options in the drop-down 3D menu but nothing which includes "stereoscropic HMD". If I start ED after starting Steam VR I get no options relating to HMD in the 3D menu.
 
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This is reassuring for those who have had their orders messed up, Sounds very much like someone else said earlier that when peoples CC payments failed, their stock was used to fulfil paypal orders instead. Hence there are some paypay orders from later having arrived while early CC orders are still in limbo.

Reading by this, it basically means that putting things back in order means those skipped CC orders will now come first.
 
what info do you have that confirms UK shipments have gone out today? there will have been shipments but the UK ones are specific stock as they include our UK only standard plug.

mine order was reordered with logmein, originally at 00:06 and yet to ship but given that it sounds like there are very small numbers going out daily even in the corrected order they wont necessarily have gotten to mine yet

I'm not saying you are wrong but he's only stated this on twitter earlier today, which likely means they have only just got around to correcting the situation and going forward new orders will be sequenced correctly. My payment wasnt taken last night, but to me this suggest that it could potentially be going out tonight or tomorrow and in time for the 14th which is when 'wave2' was supposed to start, i would presume that just means when they will get a second lot of stock and all talk of 'there are no waves' just to them means they are not back-piling stock and then releasing them as a wave.

Im not getting my hopes up yet ofc, Also I have found something less frustrating to pass a bit of time.. its called trying to eat skittles with chopsticks
 
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Yep, mine's a :04 order (at least thats when the confirmation email arrived). Still nothing. Charge came (and went!) on the debit card.

If I don't get it by Friday I'm gonna start getting a tad annoyed. Mind you, looks like Oculus are doing an even worse job than HTC. Neither company covering themselves in glory, although you'd think HTC would be slightly more used to a big product launch.
 
n3vrmind said:
what info do you have that confirms UK shipments have gone out today? there will have been shipments but the UK ones are specific stock as they include our UK only standard plug.

mine order was reordered with logmein, originally at 00:06 and yet to ship but given that it sounds like there are very small numbers going out daily even in the corrected order they wont necessarily have gotten to mine yet

I'm not saying you are wrong but he's only stated this on twitter earlier today, which likely means they have only just got around to correcting the situation and going forward new orders will be sequenced correctly. My payment wasnt taken last night, but to me this suggest that it could potentially be going out tonight or tomorrow and in time for the 14th which is when 'wave2' was supposed to start, i would presume that just means when they will get a second lot of stock and all talk of 'there are no waves' just to them means they are not back-piling stock and then releasing them as a wave.

Im not getting my hopes up yet ofc, Also I have found something less frustrating to pass a bit of time.. its called trying to eat skittles with chopsticks
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Tracking threads on Reddit :)
 
darkgen said:
Didn't seem to work so gave up and linked the game to my steam account and then launched from Steam in VR and it works and wow is all I can say.

VR in ED is something else!

Thanks!
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Sorry I assumed you had done that as I did that months previously before the HMDs were announced for retail.
 
Another dumbo question, but can you actually turn the Vive headset off without unplugging the power cable from the link box?
 
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