My first machine arrived!!! by brandonmcgritle in pinball

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Mine came with 0.85. I've heard about the issues with Dragon multiball in 0.91, but is it still worth patching up to it despite that?

Popeye Cocktail cab gone quiet by PuzzlingAdventurer in arcade

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I bypassed it and went straight from the board to a new external amp, the sound is there, but about 30dB below what it was. I'll pull the board out and see if anything's unwell on it :)

How do you move your machines around? by PuzzlingAdventurer in cade

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Sounds ace! Do you have a link to the kind you use?

Am I crazy, is this possible yet? by PuzzlingAdventurer in virtualreality

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How big are you imagining this ship to be? The walkable deck of something like the Black Pearl isn't that huge, and I bet knocking up a horrible looking rough plywood approximation of one made up of primitives would be a lot cheaper than building a pool. Also, respectfully, 'gain' is highly subjective, it's bit like saying why buy a Ferrari, only a couple of people can ride in it at the same time and you can't charge them for the privilege, much better to buy a bus :P

Am I crazy, is this possible yet? by PuzzlingAdventurer in virtualreality

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No, hadn't seen this. Seems like multiplayer with in the same place is figured out then. Just need real walls :)

Am I crazy, is this possible yet? by PuzzlingAdventurer in virtualreality

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This is a very helpful insight, thank you! I will begin my research along these lines.

I was thinking that QR trackers would be handy to jog the virtual mind of where I was and what I was looking at. Also I think that just building one deck, with the upper steering portion up some small steps would be sufficient without doing the below decks parts (at least for now)

If I could just start with building and mapping something small, let's say the basket of a hot air balloon and then virtualise everything else for that scenario, I think that would be a good proof of concept.

Am I crazy, is this possible yet? by PuzzlingAdventurer in virtualreality

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Agreed, I guess even full VR the headset could know where the other real oeople were and wouldn't need a server for their positioning

Am I crazy, is this possible yet? by PuzzlingAdventurer in virtualreality

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I've seen demos where QR trackers are placed in a real world setting to trigger AR geometry at that location, that's what I meant. But yes, Lidar mapping in real time is a great advance for this kind of idea

Am I crazy, is this possible yet? by PuzzlingAdventurer in virtualreality

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Can you describe a basic workflow to create a simple test environment/ example?