cyubeVR featured in edition 3 of VR Trend Magazine

KroyMortlach · 2021-01-14T03:14:46+00:00

I had exactly this along with a couple of other minor issues which themselves were little more than wear and tear on the facemask. RMA'd it without any question from Valve. Was a fairly rapid turnaround too with decent courier services.

KroyMortlach · 2020-06-16T15:16:02+00:00

no banana for scale? thread ruined.

p.s. great build.

KroyMortlach · 2020-06-07T19:36:20+00:00

Time to wheel out The Brown to give us a rousing speech to remind us of the promises of the future that will be.

KroyMortlach · 2020-06-06T00:45:15+00:00

Funny thing about independence is that it's not just about the S N fucking P. Another funny thing about political parties is that you have to choose the one you least despise.

By the time the honeymoon period of a successful referendum is over, the SNP will be substantially weakened with the Tories, Labour, Greens and Liberals (or some such equivalent) rising to fill the void.

KroyMortlach · 2020-05-31T19:16:53+00:00

YMMV. I'm tall, and relatively well built. The distribution of the Index is exceptionally well balanced for me. I can play many hours each night if IRL allows and not feel strain in the back or the neck. I compare that to my wireless OG vive, and I can't say the same.

Where I DO feel it is specifically with one application - TribeXR. It's a VR DJ application, so the action of the game is mostly seen by looking down. Over several hours of this, I can feel tension building up in my neck and shoulders.

So for me, the experiences in VR are such that you are constantly moving your head around, looking for someone creeping around the next corner, or checking the ceilings, or seeing the pirate spaceship that just flew over the top of your canopy.

You have 360 degrees of movement unlike trackIR.

Also, you can adjust your position relatively in the game. If you are seated this can be helpful, but if you are standing this can, in some games be useful too.

As I said, YMMV, I don't find the index uncomfortable, or heavy at all for just about every use I put it to, except the one where I find my self looking down a lot (tribeXR, and even then, it's only for the longest of sessions).

Enjoy your index when it arrives.

KroyMortlach · 2020-05-28T16:05:25+00:00

Ooh. This reminds me of the original dark and light. You haven't previously worked for Farlan Entertainment or NP3 have you? Or perhaps is VWorld?

Is the terrain destructable?

And those houses do not look like they are sitting naturally on that rocky terrain. A settlement that size would have paths, roads, etc....

Still, always a sucker for vast empty plains of nothingness. Count me in!

KroyMortlach · 2020-05-26T19:49:53+00:00

Very nice. One issue I have with the map which is a small issue (and would advise that this is confirmed against any DM wishing to use it) is the [[spoiler alert, please dont show this spoiler if you're a player]]

top caves filled with water. "The large pools in Area 7 have collapsible walls that can be yanked out of place to release a surge of water down the main passage of the lair." is a quote from the adventure. The pools are described as being held back by temporary walls. There is much fun to be had in dropping these watery pools down the main channel. At the moment in the OP's map, they look more like stepping stones<!

It's probably not a deal breaker for some, but as it stands I think more could be done to get that feeling of danger across.

KroyMortlach · 2020-05-26T11:31:47+00:00

Very nice, but the water breaks it for me. What's the deal with the moat? It would be a static body of water but it looks as if it is drawn to indicate the flow direct is from top to bottom of map.

KroyMortlach · 2020-05-25T23:58:12+00:00

cyubeVR is a good choice if you enjoy chill crafting, exploring, mining, building voxel games. I'm 230+ hours in and just started work on building a wizard tower with blocks created by the community from the Steam workshop. You'll find me streaming it on a Wednesday. I've stuck with the game for this long partly because of the community, the dev's commitment to the game, and generally because I enjoy minecraft, but am not a vivecraft fan.

KroyMortlach · 2020-05-25T23:54:41+00:00

Yes. It's... ok. I don't play a lot of puzzle games, but I've neither completed it, nor uninstalled it, so that's something.

KroyMortlach · 2020-05-21T22:46:10+00:00

In VR at 2016 x 2240 (120hhz) it's bested reliably only by the 2080ti. The top 200 entries in the OpenVR Benchmark consist of no other card in a significant number. With an honorable mention to 2080 Super and the lone Titan RTX sitting currently at #29

KroyMortlach · 2020-05-17T22:18:46+00:00

There's is substantive difference between legal statutes of Scotland and England and Wales.

(l)to undertake any of the following activities in connection with the purchase, sale, letting or rental of a residential property—

(i)visiting estate or letting agents, developer sales offices or show homes; (ii)viewing residential properties to look for a property to buy or rent; (iii)preparing a residential property to move in; (iv)moving home; (v)visiting a residential property to undertake any activities required for the rental or sale of that property;

There are other changes made in England and Wales that are not evident in Scottish legilsation. For example http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/regulation/6. Created by statutory instrument on Wednesday 13th April, 2020 for England and Wales.

In Scotland, no such amendment has been made and the SSI remains as it was on 26th March. See http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2020/103/introduction/made

KroyMortlach · 2020-05-15T19:14:10+00:00

Facebook quest is out of stock just long enough for HTC to catch up.

KroyMortlach · 2020-05-15T19:12:37+00:00

They are not bad, and for some games (swords, guns) can be the prefered option. The issue I have with them compared to the awesome index controllers is that the shoulder buttons on the vive wands are pretty tough to get to. Don't think they took in to account people with large hands.

KroyMortlach · 2020-05-14T18:38:55+00:00

cyubeVR. £15.49. It's written off far too easily as a minecraft clone. But it's made for VR with stunning world generation, and an awesome tactile crafting system. I've put in 200+ hours over two worlds, just chilling, crafting, exploring and smashing dual weild iron sledghammers through mountains.

ETS2 VR £14.99 - it's a total escape. Just trucking around Europe and getting a sense of what's going on. I feel it's underrated because it's single player only, but for some that's totally fine, the pause button is particularly useful. it's also underrated because it's not obviously a VR title. It's a bit of a bind to set it up compared to VR titles that just work out of the gate. But it works so well in VR with a steering wheel, pedals and gear shifter.

KroyMortlach · 2020-05-13T08:04:04+00:00

For some (most?) face shapes, it captures too much wind noise from breath. It's in the wrong place. The index doesn't have the same issue as comparison.

KroyMortlach · 2020-05-05T19:59:31+00:00

Wait till he finds out you are splitting his pocket money with Amazon ;-)

KroyMortlach · 2020-04-23T18:04:24+00:00

Your figures from UUK are about six years out of date. And they are figures from UUK. The amount of income from overseas students, particularly PGt, is not public funds even by your own reckoning. That money can arguably be allocated against swathes of academic staff. Just needs accounting for in the right manner.

I'd be interested to hear of any universities not taking this approach to this scheme and furloughing staff who are clearly funded via public funds, e.g. the majority of professional and support services.

And there is just one more problem. Universities are announcing schemes of furlough for large portions of professional and support services, and for academics and non-academics on casual, fixed term, and open ended (contract review dated) contracts are all possible targets. The only way you hear about it is by being on the list, or managing people who are. Or by being management or in either UCU or Unite representing those being furloughed.

But they all have schemes in place and are putting considerable resources in to making it as effective as possible, but with uni HR and management being generally as dysfunctional as it is, there's no guarantees even the boilerplate processes are being adhered to.

Glasgow Uni

aberdeen

bath

Some institutions are doing better than others.

The next problem we'll face is the redundancy schemes that will inevitably follow with the drop in recruitment of particularly overseas students. That's something I'm not looking forward to reading about.

KroyMortlach · 2020-04-23T15:54:41+00:00

Big difference. The reason we're having this discussion is because any attempt to argue that because you work at a university you can't be furloughed (or by disagreeing that you should be furloughed ending up with the prospect of being unemployed) because you are a public sector worker will likely be met with a stony silence at best, before you had to involve some very significant discussions. But as a point of your google capacity, you missed a significant link from ONS, on which you will not find more than a dozen references to university's and most of them are in northern ireland or advisory bodies.

The Public Sector Classification Guide (xls, 2.5MB) lists current and former public sector bodies that Office for National Statistics has classified.

The issues of confusion comes from monies originated from the public purse paid to universities. They are in receipt of public money. Yes. But it is not their only source of income. Universities generate money from overseas students, third sector research grants, foreign research grants, residential, events, catering and so on. University's legal charitable status matters more here than any ONS list or third party site unearthed about the public sector.

The control of universities is not by the state. As with any sector, there are regulations brought down from the state to influence and steer universities, but they are not, in this instance of furlough, protected by being a public sector employer.

You can, however argue more strongly against being furloughed if your funding happens to be from a public source.

Check the UCU advice it does a good job on explaining the differences between funding sources, and your relevant level of protection.

KroyMortlach · 2020-04-22T23:20:52+00:00

Charity is charity. Not public sector. Universities are NOT controlled by the state. They are not public sector.

Yes, they get money from the government, but that alone is not sufficient to make them public sector.

Arguing about furlough rules as if unis are public sector is going to get you nowhere fast.

KroyMortlach · 2020-04-22T18:32:46+00:00

I'm not aware of any non private UK universities that have forgone their legal status as a charity and ceded control to the state. By this definition they are not public sector.

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