HTC Vive

stooeh · 24 May 2016 at 22:14

Chojin said:
Will check it out thanks. I'm curious to see how different 3D video is within VR compared to a 3DTV.

If you have Vorpx it has a pretty good video player system - uses VLC or whatever and supports SBS 3D.

Skynet5 · 24 May 2016 at 23:03

darkgen said:
Hmm; anyone had to update their base stations? Was unable to update wirelessly and connected the first via USB but it’s now been stuck updating for over 10 minutes with a warning not to unplug in case it renders the BS unusable!

Keep us posted of your experience, youre the first I've heard of getting an up date personally.

RayzaNC · 24 May 2016 at 23:26

If there was some way to get a 3d blu ray playing through the Vive that could be pretty great

Nismo · 25 May 2016 at 05:26

There are numerous VR video players as well as Virtual Desktop which support 3D SBS. The resolution and SDE means it's still not quite good enough for watching media though IMO.

darkgen · 25 May 2016 at 07:25

lnoton said:
Keep us posted of your experience, youre the first I've heard of getting an up date personally.

Something has definitely gone awry. Yesterday I launched and played ED for around an hour without any issue at all. Then decided to do something which needed the controllers, it would show tracking of the controllers within the headset but the instant I would press the system button it would instantly lose tracking. It would then complain it required an update to the base stations and hinted at bluetooth connectivity issues etc. Anyway after various rounds of it not updating I gave up with it.

I'll try a reinstall later.

ThePainBarrier · 25 May 2016 at 07:31

Have you still got the joystick plugged in from playing Elite (assuming you use one)?
Causes all sorts of problems with the hand held motion trackers if I don't unplug the joystick on mine.

Skynet5 · 25 May 2016 at 08:38

I get this too. Kinda sucks that a problem that I experienced 20years a go, still exists today.

Scarecrow · 25 May 2016 at 09:21

Just tried the big screen update and loved it so much. I was watching jurassic park and one of the other guys in the room loaded his up and synced it to the same time. Such a great experience.

Skynet5 · 25 May 2016 at 10:01

So just got an email from TNT saying they have been requested to ship a consignment from dynafix to me. Goes today. I sent it on Friday and it got there Monday.

Fast turnaround, but are they actually just shipping me back my hmd unfixed? Apparently some peeps have had this happen. I have no email telling me what they have done.

Skynet5 · 25 May 2016 at 10:47

Here is some interesting news. I received an email from TNT about a shipment going to me. It had a guys email address from dynafix added to it. I emailed him and asked what was the status update? He said the unit had been swapped and I was given the new serial number.

No idea if its a new one or a refurb. But tbh I doubt dynafix are doing refurbs at the moment. But either way at least I'm not getting the same one back. Find out soon I guess.

Skynet5 · 25 May 2016 at 11:04

Old unit FA64F...

New unit FA63Z....

I guess older, but not necessarily a refurb. I've emailed the guy again to see if its a refurb or new unit.

Skynet5 · 25 May 2016 at 11:21

Another email from dynafix. The replacement is a new unit from HTC.

So if this one comes in with no issues, I would say the HTC support has been the best experience I have had with any company.

darkgen · 25 May 2016 at 11:45

ThePainBarrier said:
Have you still got the joystick plugged in from playing Elite (assuming you use one)?
Causes all sorts of problems with the hand held motion trackers if I don't unplug the joystick on mine.

I use a wired 360 controller and set-up has remained unchanged throughout. So re-installation has not fixed the issue. Can calibrate room without issue but as soon as I hit the system button the headset drops tracking. Hmmmmmmm; the only difference was a Nvidia driver update - 368.22 (23/05/2016). I guess I should roll back the drivers and test.

RayzaNC · 25 May 2016 at 15:13

I read about a way to play Rift games on the Vive, how well does it work?

GBRusty · 25 May 2016 at 15:40

RayzaNC said:
I read about a way to play Rift games on the Vive, how well does it work?

It's called Revive
I haven't yet got anything to run on it but haven't spent any time tweaking stuff like DLL injections (or whatever needs doing) as I have a DK2 to actually play those games.

Don't buy anything on the basis of being able to play them currently as there may be an onging war between revive and oculus with patches etc blocking the hack.

sunshinewelly · 25 May 2016 at 15:41

is anyone still waiting their postage cost refund from the first batch of vives that were delivered. paid for express but got economy

Nismo · 25 May 2016 at 16:45

RayzaNC said:
I read about a way to play Rift games on the Vive, how well does it work?

It was great, currently fairly broken due to the headset DRM Oculus implemented to combat it.

The Revive developer is working on getting it going again, but I'd expect a game of cat and mouse to continue. Probably better just waiting to see if the current Rift-only games eventually get Vive support, there's honestly not that much worth playing that is exclusive anyway.

darkgen · 25 May 2016 at 17:17

Worked it out. I swapped out my PSU last week and had rejigged my USB connections and plugged the Vive into USB3 port.

Having the camera enabled and running at 60Hz caused all kinds of weirdness as soon as I opened up the dashboard where the camera is enabled in window view to include:
Bluetooth connectivity/driver issues.
Loss of tracking on headset and controllers.
Base stations refusing to respond (wake up or go into sleep mode).

Reducing the camera refresh rate to 30Hz prevents all of the above events when using USB3.

Well that was annoying!

Nismo · 25 May 2016 at 17:28

Can't you just use a USB 2.0 port? It does say in the settings that reducing the camera frequency is one of the main cures for tracking issues.

Luckily mine runs quite happily at 60Hz and off a USB 3.0 port.

darkgen · 25 May 2016 at 17:34

Well tracking issues is one thing; however I would not expect that having the camera enabled @ 60Hz and the Vive connected via USB3 would instantly break connectivity across the board! The Bluetooth connectivity would instantly break with the base stations which would require a power cycle before working again.

Now then; it seems things are not completely fixed as the base stations are not going to sleep.