Metro comes to VR !

Noxia said:
Are there actually any decent headsets? I only tried a few, one of which I think was the Facebook one and it was like playing PS3 games.
It's one of these things I'm happy to delay until something high end is out because I know I won't be happy otherwise. Must be OLED as well (if that exists).

Edit: NVM, according to the 'best of' lists that would be a resounding no.
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The Quest 3 is a decent headset when paired with a decent gaming PC.

There are plenty of great looking PC VR games available as well as VR Mods, and UEVR allows you to play recent UE4 and UE5 games in VR.

And it can also be used as a standalone headset using the hardware inside.

The thing with the graphics is that once you're immersed in a game, you forget what it looks like.

Driving, flight and space sims and horror games are on a whole new level in VR
 
thesnowdog1971 said:
The Quest 3 is a decent headset when paired with a decent gaming PC.

There are plenty of great looking PC VR games available as well as VR Mods, and UEVR allows you to play recent UE4 and UE5 games in VR.

And it can also be used as a standalone headset using the hardware inside.

The thing with the graphics is that once you're immersed in a game, you forget what it looks like.

Driving, flight and space sims and horror games are on a whole new level in VR
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I looked at the Q3 and reviews certainly seem decent. Might try it on Amazon so I have the easy return option.
I played with my nephews Q2 it was quite fun, only one game made me feel sick which was a space station where you had to drag yourself around.
 
It’s a massive shame that Lone Echo isn’t (to my knowledge) available native. Such a compelling game I found, I just never remember to touch anything from the Oculus store on PCVR :p
 
MoNkeE said:
It’s a massive shame that Lone Echo isn’t (to my knowledge) available native. Such a compelling game I found, I just never remember to touch anything from the Oculus store on PCVR :p
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Yeah its PCVR only, I hold out hope that now the Quest 3 is available they might one day release a native version of Lone Echo
 
Noxia said:
I looked at the Q3 and reviews certainly seem decent. Might try it on Amazon so I have the easy return option.
I played with my nephews Q2 it was quite fun, only one game made me feel sick which was a space station where you had to drag yourself around.
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Yup. That's simulation sickness. What you need to do to increase your resistance to it is the following:

1) Play until you START to feel a little odd or uncomfortable.

2) STOP IMMEDIATELY by pressing the Oculus button (the button on the right controller just across from the A button).

3) Keep your headset on and chill out for a minute or two whilst nothing is moving.

4) Remove the headset and take a long break. At least a few hours.

5) Return to step 1.

Over time, you'll find that you'll last longer before you start to feel uncomfortable and if you're lucky you may end up becoming immune to sim sickness. Some people it can take only days, others weeks or even months.

Whatever you do, DO NOT try and power through it. If you make yourself physically ill too much and too often, your brain and body will associate just wearing a headset itself with being poisoned, and you may have trouble untraining your brain after that!
 
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thesnowdog1971 said:
Yup. That's simulation sickness. What you need to do to increase your resistance to it is the following:

1) Play until you START to feel a little odd or uncomfortable.

2) STOP IMMEDIATELY by pressing the Oculus button (the button on the right controller just across from the A button).

3) Keep your headset on and chill out for a minute or two whilst nothing is moving.

4) Remove the headset and take a long break. At least a few hours.

5) Return to step 1.

Over time, you'll find that you'll last longer before you start to feel uncomfortable and if you're lucky you may end up becoming immune to sim sickness. Some people it can take only days, others weeks or even months.

Whatever you do, DO NOT try and power through it. If you make yourself physically ill too much and too often, your brain and body will associate just wearing a headset itself with being poisoned, and you may have trouble untraining your brain after that!
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Another good tip, which bizarrely does work, is to position a sizeable fan in front of you blowing toward your face.

Thankfully for me I no longer get VR sickness in any game and am able to do 4 or 5 hour sessions in VR without the slightest hint of nausea. Though its taken me a little time to build up my VR legs to that point.
 
Tombstone said:
Another good tip, which bizarrely does work, is to position a sizeable fan in front of you blowing toward your face.

Thankfully for me I no longer get VR sickness in any game and am able to do 4 or 5 hour sessions in VR without the slightest hint of nausea. Though its taken me a little time to build up my VR legs to that point.
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I'm one of the lucky few that's 100% immune to sim sickness.

Back in 2016, before my OG Rift arrived for launch day, I decided to test things out by playing Half Life 2 with a Google Cardboard headset and Trinus VR. Played for hours without a problem
 
Fine with beatsabre and games like that but I tried population one and the movement made feel queasy for once of a better word.
 
This looks fantastic, love the Metro games, although I'm crap with jump scares in games, so we'll see... :D

My motion sickness is very hit and miss depending on the game, fallout 4 was "OMG I'm gonna puke" after 5 minutes, Zero calibre I can play for about an hour before I start to get dizzy/headache, Half Life Alyx I've played for 2 hours non stop with no issues.
 
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