HTC Vive

Beta version of Vorpx released last night (with Vive support). Allows you to play a number of standard games in VR. Performance hit is pretty hefty though.

Also has a nice theatre mode which can be used to play videos/games (inc 3D) on a big virtual screen. I'll give a good test later to see how sick I feel :p

The virtual theater mode and for that matter the desktop mode are the best implementations I've tried yet.

Virtual Desktop has more options to play with but for a simple install and use VorpX has it.

I tried a couple of 3D films and again VorpX is very straight forward and simply recognises the video player and takes over the active window. Best 3D player by far once you realise you have to open the hidden menu with DEL and enable the SBS mode.

I tried Fallout 4 but found it too compromised with "forced 3D" to play for long. Other games with better native support or the geometry 3D mode enabled may fair better. The in game theater mode will probably do for me
 
Here are the Reddit comments from the guy who basically was in charge of the creation of lighthouses. As expected he comes across as a really smart guy.

Really useful and interesting information here. while not specifically about your problem, here are some comments that stand out.

"Sounds like classic USB or radio interference problems, especially if the HMD is pretty much OK but the controllers are blowing up often.

There is lots of stuff you can try: Disable or down-rate the camera, try a different USB port (on a different root hub/HCI). Turn off WiFi if the PC has it.
It might be reflections, especially if your bases aren't pointed down a lot, or are pointed at that glass door at angles that would scatter back into the room. If you can see the base station status light reflected in something sensors can probably see beam reflections at the same location as your eyeball. Lighthouse is pretty resistant to reflections in good conditions but when all it has left to see are reflections it can get confused. Stories of daylight and normal room lighting breaking it are nonsense. There are unconfirmed reports of some kinds of fancy LED lighting causing problems at very close range, might be RFI rather than optical interference.

You can have more than one problem simultaneously. I can't stress this strongly enough, as this can really confuse the heck out of you. If the USB is blowing up only when the chaperone comes up (because of camera activation) it can cause very strange behaviour. You might have minor reflection issues in one region of the tracked volume that make the HMD wig-out only there, but bad RFI problems from a WiFi gateway coupling into the tether or your PC's power connections that bugger up the controllers all over the place. The system is simply too complex to document every possible interaction, the real world is full of EMC and software interactions that are basically unpredictable.

The main approach is to apply science to debugging. The full hardware and software stack is a very complicated system, debugging takes patience and attention to detail. Change one variable at a time, look at the logs and system report, track from one base at a time (in mode A) with the other turned off, etc. Think about how the system actually works and test your mental model with experiments, use this to reason about how it might be broken. Look for correlations, but try not to fall prey to cargo cult beliefs without good repeatable evidence to support your conclusions."
 
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Just to add Portal 2 works very well once you're in the game. The menus appear to get messed up on a lot of games with the way the VorpX is altering the game engine but yep that's a good example as it uses the preferred geometry 3D mode.
 
Maybe try running with only one lighthouse in 'A' mode. My controllers track just fine like that when I'm at my desk. Might see that one lighthouse is busted and not the other?

Yea also tried that, using one at a time, taking them down and using in a seated position, link cable and different settings (a, b, c etc)
Try his Vive on your PC too perhaps? Ruling out a few more things that way. Good luck.

How are his lighthouses installed by the way?

That is a good point actually, try it on another machine. His lighthouses are mounted on the wall securely at around 6.5ft in each corner in what i would guess and a 2.5x3.5m space, maybe a bit larger :D

Here are the Reddit comments from the guy who basically was in charge of the creation of lighthouses. As expected he comes across as a really smart guy.

Really useful and interesting information here. while not specifically about your problem, here are some comments that stand out.


Nice, that's got some interesting things.

Thanks again all :)
 
Thinking of getting vorpx, dont mind the setting up of games but just wanted to see if theee may be other similar systems/software that may be coming out as an alternative.
 
It's fine. It's a bit hit and miss though. Some games are awful when played through VR and some don't play nicely. When it works it's nice. Weird being in Skyrim in person!
 
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Thinking of getting vorpx, dont mind the setting up of games but just wanted to see if theee may be other similar systems/software that may be coming out as an alternative.

It's fine. It's a bit hit and miss though. Some games are awful when played through VR and some don't play nicely. When it works it's nice. Weird being in Skyrim in person!

I've not found anything in my library that plays nicely with VorpX to be honest.
 
Anyone tried the demo for Klepto? It either hates my system, or has to be the biggest mess of a demo I've ever played. Terrible controls, worse location accuracy, teleporting, juddery framerate. It's the first game that's made me pull the hmd off in discomfort.
 
Received my shipping confirmation for my Vive today, only ordered it on 4th April.

My Rift however, ordered about 20mins after website went live due to getting kicked out multiple times and no movement on it yet, although it is due in May.

Time for some room re-arranging me-thinks
 
Well it's 10:32 and I think I have worn my front window out already looking out of it waiting for a DHL van :D

Lol, same here. Though am a little annoyed there's no tracking info beyond it arriving at the delivery facility yesterday.

All in all should be great timing though, as it's also my birthday.
 
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