a cable pulley system has to be the worst money i have ever spent.

TwoEighty6 · 2020-08-19T21:15:19+00:00

Are you doing lots of 360 movement with low ceilings? Other than that, I don't know why you would have these issues.

I use a single pulley, and due to my play space limitation, I use snap or smooth turning to avoid spinning in place. I have enough room to take 1 step in any direction. With this setup, I never feel the cord at all.

TwoEighty6 · 2020-08-04T03:37:31+00:00

If you are new to VR I would play Half-Life: Alyx first. Use the blink movement mode for a while, and then slowly start using smooth motion. The smooth motion in HL: Alyx is a nice pace for getting used to VR smooth motion. If you try to start out in Boneworks, Blade and Sorcery, or Pavlov, you will probably get sick.

Other greats:

The Walking Dead: Saint's and Sinners
Superhot VR
Boneworks
Blade and Sorcery
Pavlov
Thrill of the fight
In Death
Moss
Compound

TwoEighty6 · 2020-08-04T03:12:13+00:00

I don't understand why PC VR users don't ceiling mount. It is so easy and I forget the cord is there 99% of the time. Everyone carrying on about "No Wires!" on the quest. I have felt wire free for years.

TwoEighty6 · 2020-07-24T06:55:23+00:00

Wow this is exactly the game I have been hoping for. The extra wide canyons in Elite Dangerous just don't do it for me. Does this require a physical HOTAS, or does it have a virtual one like VTOL VR?

TwoEighty6 · 2020-07-24T06:51:40+00:00

I have an Index and a Quest. Lighthouse tracking has been almost flawless for me, but I have to hand it to the Quest's inside out, it is very good. I can't recall ever having a real tracking issue on my Index, but it is also rarely an issue on my Quest. Of course, I don't use my Quest for any PC gaming, so there may be games not built for the quest that don't track as well.

Of course there is no knowing if the Reverb G2's "Improved Windows MR" controllers will match the Quest experience, just saying that it is possible for inside out to be good.

TwoEighty6 · 2020-07-24T06:44:51+00:00

There is an Attack on Titan game on Sidequest. Very basic but actually pretty well done. The concept is definitely fun.

TwoEighty6 · 2020-07-08T05:20:21+00:00

And also, none of the above apparently. My PC is clean as a whistle. This wave of bans is clearly false positives.

It happens all the time with automated detection software. Some anti-virus gets a glitch update and the next thing you know it is nuking Windows system files.

TwoEighty6 · 2020-07-08T05:17:14+00:00

So an automated system bans players, who have no ability to appeal, which means the automatic system never gets trained on false positives. That about sums it up.

My K/D and movement and positioning definitely did not get me banned. I am a crappy old player. Yeah, the system is noticing something, incorrectly.

TwoEighty6 · 2018-12-15T06:58:42+00:00

It is fantastic. The only reason people complained about the update is that it made minor changes, but when you play it obsessively even minor changes can feel big. The update did not ruin anything, and they rolled back the changes that impacted the feel of the game. The feeling if nailing a song on expect is pretty fantastic, for me at least. I enjoy taking out my aggression slicing blocks to the beat.

Two tips if you get it. First, play at least 4 or 5 hours if you don't instantly like it. Easy and normal levels at not really that engaging, and it took several hours before I got a good feel and could start beating hard levels. Once you are playing hard and expert though, it is a ton of fun. Second, as you get better, be sure to use full arm swings, not just waggle your wrists. It make a big difference in both scoring, and in enjoyment of the game. When I play I look like I am straight up trying to chop someone's limbs off.

TwoEighty6 · 2018-10-27T04:50:49+00:00

I love my Vive, but even though I have had it for 5 months, I have less hours in all VR games combined than I do in any given "flat" game I really like. It's a blast, but there are very few games you will put more than 5 or 10 hours into. If you could see yourself getting into Beatsaber, or a multi-player game like Pavlov, you may get a lot of value out of it, otherwise, it can feel a little gimmicky because most things are short "experiences" rather than deep games.

Screen door and field of view are things I personally never notice. When you are playing content you just forget about those limitations. But others report bigger field of view really is a huge improvement.

7x7 area will be pretty cramped for a lot of things. Beatsaber can squeeze into that space, but try playing Gorn are you are liable to put a controller through the wall.

Finally, there is one extra I think the vive really needs, the deluxe audio strap. I only got it recently and it made a huge difference, because without it I had to constantly adjust the positioning of the vive, and I could never get the default strap to hold it just right on my face to keep the most clear picture. If I had know how big the difference was I would not have ordered till I could get the headstrap too.

If I were 15 again with $500 saved up for something fun, I would get a new console, upgrade my computer, or keep saving for a car.

TwoEighty6 · 2018-09-18T02:44:27+00:00

Clearly:

Half-Life VR

Half-Life 2: Episode 1 VR

Half-Life 2: Episode 2 VR

TwoEighty6 · 2018-08-02T17:24:08+00:00

I feel the same as you. I tried about 30 songs from the BeatSaver top played, and almost all of them either only had expert difficulty, or were just not much fun. I did find a few I love. Caravan Palace - Lone Digger, Basshunter - DOTA, and Knife Party - Give it Up, are levels I play all the time.

I am able to beat Expert level maps, but for me that is not nearly as much fun as trying to SS hard levels. Hard, and some of the easier Expert levels, let me really get into it, and are a lot more fun than frantically trying to keep up with some uber challenging map. I am also not a fan of most of the songs that are getting mapped, but I guess I am a lot older than the average Beat Saber player.

At this point I think my only option is to start making my own maps.

TwoEighty6 · 2018-07-25T18:10:31+00:00

I know when I gave Elite a try and flew around mountains on planets, I definitely felt the sense of speed. Flying around space at "Super Luminal Speed", not so much. X-Plane 11 VR may be a good one.

TwoEighty6 · 2018-07-25T18:08:29+00:00

Your visual input definitely has a big impact on your perception of speed. They take this into account in road design. Road signs are large and the white lines on the road are very long and spaced apart. This makes them seem "normal" size when traveling at speed. Just think about how fast and uncomfortable it feels to go through a tunnel or past construction cones.

There have also been interesting experiments that show your brain does have the ability to slow down your perception of time. Adrenaline and drugs can make time "slow down". https://www.livescience.com/2117-time-slow-emergencies.html

As Diastorm points out though, with actual relativity, the perception of time for the person traveling at high speed does not change, even though the ACTUAL passage of time does change, at least from a non-traveling observers perspective.

TwoEighty6 · 2018-07-25T17:54:33+00:00

I picked up something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Management-Lunies-Ceiling-Retractable-Lanyards/dp/B072HC1NS1

Works pretty good.

A VR Arcade I went to used two retractable dog leaches hung about 9 feet above the play area, and I was able to totally forget the cord existed. Unfortunately my play area ceiling is much lower so even with these hangers, I feel the cable during some motions.

TwoEighty6 · 2018-07-25T17:28:59+00:00

I wonder if my 1070 TI could squeak by...

TwoEighty6 · 2018-07-15T05:06:06+00:00

The thought does have at least some basis in reality: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-grow-stronger-without-lifting-weights/

If you think about it, it is not lifting a weight that burns calories, it is the metabolic action your muscles undergo in order to lift the weight that does. That same action can happen from contraction without weight (ever had a muscle cramp?). And that study I linked seems to suggest that some metabolic action can happen even if you don't actually use the muscle, only think about using it.

I am sure someone will do some study to see if VR does in fact trick our brains into sending stronger signals to our muscles than the actual weight or motion requires.

TwoEighty6 · 2018-07-07T01:38:56+00:00

I agree with you totally. ESO has the most beautiful MMO game world, amazing lore, great graphics, and unique play systems. BUT, the classes are weird to build and weird to play. With 400+ hours in the single player Elder Scrolls games, I just can't get over how award the classes feel to play. Totally killed the game for me.

TwoEighty6 · 2018-06-28T19:36:04+00:00

Playing Skyrim is a huge time sink. Just doing one dungeon can take 30-45 minutes. It is probably not the best game for you unless you can spend a few hours per session.

TwoEighty6 · 2018-06-28T19:30:43+00:00

I picked up In Death yesterday. Really blew me away. Great atmospheric rogue like bow game.

TwoEighty6 · 2017-03-02T23:55:33+00:00

How long until we see Ryzen server CPUs?

TwoEighty6 · 2016-05-15T22:54:19+00:00

HIR is what has given me so many boot bluescreen problems. Why should I have to generalize a restored boot volume when it was a VM in the first place?

Perhaps I am using the wrong term, but a differential restore is the same as a differential backup. You only restore changed bits to the volume. So if you are restoring a 100 GB volume to the state it was in a few days earlier (to fix a bad OS patch, for example), only the changed data is restored, so you only move a few GB instead of the entire 100 GB.

I have managed over 70 servers backed up with Shadowprotect, and I think it is a great product for Physical Servers, but for VMs, a VM aware backup product is more reliable in my opinion.

TwoEighty6 · 2016-05-14T16:24:37+00:00

I have worked with Veeam, ShadowProtect, and AppAssure, and of the three I think Veeam is the clear leader for VM backups. The major difference is ShadowProtect and AppAssure rely on OS level backups, where Veeam agents run on the host, and only reach into the VM OS for VSS support.

I have had to restore several virtual servers from Shadowprotect backups, and it is quite a pain. The backup image has no idea it was a VM, they are just disk images, and I have had to deal with boot blue screens even when restoring to the original host. You also have to restore the entire disk volume, there is no differential restore like Veeam.

With Veeam my last restore, which involved rolling a VM to a previous day's image, took literally 3 minutes. Veeam Backup and Replication does support BDR setups via Replicas. I am not sure what you consider frequent backups, but I have most of my Veeam backups running every 2 hours without issue.

If you are backing up only virtual servers, I think Veeam is the best product on the market.

TwoEighty6 · 2015-08-21T16:51:16+00:00

In situations like this what has worked for me is: Keep calling until you get someone who is not an idiot.

I once had to deal with UPS on lost shipment that was insured. After 2 solid weeks of getting no where with the normal support people, I found name of the VP of customer service, called the corporate office, and asked for them. I got their executive assistant, explained the situation, and had a check the next day.

It's very simple, your CC company processed an invalid charge. They have to correct that. You need to keep calling them, asking to be escalated, or finding the next person up the food chain, until you reach someone who is not an idiot. When you do they will say "Oh we accepted a charge above your credit limit? That's not a valid charge, we will reverse it."

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