Where it's so much more compact it feels far nicer on the face.
Quest 3 owners etc
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Where it's so much more compact it feels far nicer on the face.
£10 for an elite style strap. Do intend on getting a new facial interface as well, still waiting to see what vrcover do.
It has pancake lenses, which means the sweetspot is almost the full lense, as oppose to an area in the middle, vast improvement.
Sims are a tough way to go into VR, flight sims especially, best advice is stop when you feel ill, build your tolerance, rather than push through and start associating VR with sickness.
A fan blowing in your face, ginger before you start are two common methods used to try and stop it a bit.
Tend to get fog, usually can't be bothered to wipe so just play for 5 minutes and it's gone as the lenses warm.
Does it come with controllers? That's insanely cheap for a working model.
Even without controllers you could buy some quest pro controllers to setup with, and you're still getting a cheap deal.
Edit looking at vinted I see a couple there for that price. One has a photo of a quest 2 box in one of the pictures. Very suspicious in my mind. Still, could be a bargain.
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I suspect he receives a Quest 2. £100 is about the right price for those now.
I get some light bleed on the default, it's why I've avoided the amvr and held out for vrcover reviews.
Better than the default for light bleed then?
Walkabout mini golf. Especially in a good group. Like Monday evenings at 8pm, room name OCUK in the social hangout thread
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If you're using it for Sims, that's absolutely fine, if you plan on doing more active things, it may be a little on the short side, but I'd strongly recommend using wireless for more active games anyway, so you can have proper freedom.
Wireless needs to be tweaked a bit more I believe, but you can get similar results with it.
You will need to buy again, it's not cross platform.
Best experience will probably be standalone actually, since it will have the least delay, but it's slightly trickier to modify.
First 12 months I think comes down to whoever sold you the device, after that, the rest of the warranty is on the manufacuror. I've had some good experiences with meta support before. Needed a bit of patience and to go through the steps they asked first, but they aren't unreasonable steps to ask.
The USB typically won't supply enough power to also charge the headset whilst sending data. Think you can get special USB splitter type things that also plug into the wall to supply more power.
Personally I prefer wireless and a powerbank on the back to act as a counterweight anyway.
What type of games do you like?
Monday evenings, 8pm, Walkabout Golf, private game password = OCUK
That's the social group gaming night, usually a good laugh, if you check the thread you can see if it's still the plan, next week is a new course, so it'll almost definitely be walkabout golf
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Check to see if you have a trial period for Meta Plus (think that's what it's called), it's the subscription service, it gives 2 different games per week/month but importantly, also has a large catalogue of games to just play. Great way to try a load of different stuff.
So I installed Meta plus 6 month trial and installed Red Matter, Green Hell and Fruit Ninja. Red Matter seems a great game, lot of wow moments and just seems very well done. Green Hell seems a bit meh but I'll persevere and F Ninja is a lot of fun I can play with my girlfriend. So good shout Unseul.
Plus another great thing is so far I haven't experienced any VR sickness. I think it's because I'm mostly using teleport movement in stuff I've tried so far.
I'd reckon that Walkabout mini golf is a half decent way to build your VR legs, in flight mode. Start off with a low movement speed, and make sure you're 100% OK, then start to increase it.
Township tale is a game a few of us bought a while back, and I'm thinking about trying again, seeing how many updates they've done, but it's another with smooth movement options that could be a good way to get into it. Take it slow, build up, and quit if you start to feel at all nauseous. Careful with driving and flight sims, as that's a quick way to push it too hard
It's a screen that's at most a couple of inches from your face. You'll be able to see pixels, but once you get into a game, that should be less of an issue.
I've not tried steamlink, but mostly use VD, it has quite a few settings, but I don't play with it too much.
Some will just work, some will need fiddling etc, different people seem to have different experiences too (perhaps tolerance for slightly lower performance etc).
As for the suggestion that Meta is trying to kill off pcvr, that's basically nonsense in my mind. Yes, they're pushing standalone because that's where they have a walled garden, but I've not felt (Since owning the q2 on release) that PCVR was made deliberately difficult. Never owned a rift etc, but from what I've read, they could often take a load of fiddling around to get going. Truth is, meta has done more for VR, and in turn, PCVR, than anyone else at this stage, VR is now genuinely in the mainstream in terms of recognition.
I've not tried steamlink, but mostly use VD, it has quite a few settings, but I don't play with it too much.
Some will just work, some will need fiddling etc, different people seem to have different experiences too (perhaps tolerance for slightly lower performance etc).
As for the suggestion that Meta is trying to kill off pcvr, that's basically nonsense in my mind. Yes, they're pushing standalone because that's where they have a walled garden, but I've not felt (Since owning the q2 on release) that PCVR was made deliberately difficult. Never owned a rift etc, but from what I've read, they could often take a load of fiddling around to get going. Truth is, meta has done more for VR, and in turn, PCVR, than anyone else at this stage, VR is now genuinely in the mainstream in terms of recognition.
How is someone going to snipe a referral though? The poster would still get the referral? The next person can still use the link?
Could we skirt the restrictions a bit? A thread where everyone posts a list of the games they have, it grows into a large list. People take the top name for the game they want, DM them, and once referred, repost the list, but with the person who just gave the referral now on the bottom.
That way the names get rotated, no actual link is posted, but we help each other out?
From what I've seen it's a pretty new change they've made.
This is good advice.
If you have a power bank, I'd suggest some velcro cable ties or hair bands, and connect it to the back of the quest strap, longer play time and counterweight for comfort.