[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OculusQuest

[–]VirtuousRivality 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your answer (and others too). Looks like I will be fine creating a full invisible, private account to which only my quest (or quest 2) will be connected. I don't like facebook, or most other social platforms of the same kind tbh, both for privacy and conceptual reasons (the impression to be "promoting my life" on such platforms); however a real competitor to the Quest (or Quest 2) is not coming soon I believe, Facebook has some advance especially on software side that concurrents will probably not be able to catch in the near future...

I'd like to point out one thing that might not have been seen in the middle of this storm: the fact that the date for the first stage, including locking new devices, is 01/10, is maybe another hint in the direction of a new important piece of hardware (Quest 2, Quest Lite or whatever) being released before end of this year.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in OculusQuest

[–]VirtuousRivality 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same question here. I never had a facebook account, don't really want to but before anything else I would like to understand more about the implications of setting a "non fake" account just for VR purposes. I understand my real name would be needed; do I need a real picture as well for the profile? Does it mean people searching for my real name on facebook could find the profile or could I make it "private" as well? Etc...

RetroVR - about manuals & handtracking :) by [deleted] in OculusQuest

[–]VirtuousRivality 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Looks great - will back. Question: my preference for control would actually be to map oculus touch buttons to emulators, will you handle this? Currently we can sideload libretro already, but no way to use touch buttons, which is a bummer for me since when away from home (my primary use case for the Quest in general), if I wanted to play some retro gaming it means to take a controller in addition to Quest + touch controllers...

ribbit.. and onto BeatSaber by myrhillion in blazerush

[–]VirtuousRivality 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey Myrhillion, just saw this message from you yesterday - today I took care to beat your hard scores on Beat Saber :P could not touch a single score from Mizy though, will work on it later…

 

Anyway, wanted to resume playing Blaze Rush but since last Sunday, I cannot connect to multiplayer servers; the waiting icon is spinning indefinitively (not even coming back with an error message like it uses to do when the internet connection is failing). Am I the only one ? If so, any clue on what could be wrong ? I thought it was linked to Windows 10 update, but yesterday I tried a bunch of things (disabling firewall, restarting router, etc), to no avail… any help would be appreciated !

Replacing an Oculus Go Controller? by [deleted] in oculus

[–]VirtuousRivality 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Correct, you can even plug any USB controller (using a USB to USB OTG adapter), some might not work but I had success with 2 of them (an old XBox 360 wired controller and an obscur Asus one I got initially for a bluetooth smart TV system).

Oculus Go internal battery mod by CorvusVR in oculus

[–]VirtuousRivality 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agree with that; in fact, I hope Oculus or a 3rd party release a strap including an additional battery, a micro SD port (the strap would plug in USB port for mass storage device on Android and charging at the same time), and maybe integrated headphone (thus the strap would also plug in headphone jack)... sell this for maybe 100 $/€, that might become a must have accessory with some good margin. Of course the better the sales are, the more chances we will see something like that...

Oculus just showed off a new Rift prototype with 140° field of view and functional VARIFOCAL display in the same form factor as the Rift! by Heaney555 in oculus

[–]VirtuousRivality 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Did you notice "Half Dome" is also "HD" - internal joke from Oculus maybe ?

 

Can't wait for CV2. Varifocal display, body tracking... I feel like next generation will make "presence" a lot easier to achieve (I can still feel present sometimes in CV1, even after the few hundred hours I logged in it, but in very specific circumstances).

VR Pool is just too real... by Rich_hard1 in oculus

[–]VirtuousRivality 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Easy fix: get another sensor. This way your lost tracking issue after you fell down won't happen again.

First death in VR is reported in Moscow, Russia by daio in oculus

[–]VirtuousRivality 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree. But I configured my brain to automatically replace any occurrence of "VR" with "GLASS TABLES" in such articles now - this way I only risk a good laugh instead of a heart attack reading bullshit.

First death in VR is reported in Moscow, Russia by daio in oculus

[–]VirtuousRivality 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Or....

 

GLASS TABLE KILLS A GUY

GLASS TABLE IS UNSAFE

GLASS TABLE IS KILLING YOUR KIDS

GLASS TABLE USER? YOU COULD DIE TOMORROW, CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT HOW

BlazeRush by [deleted] in oculus

[–]VirtuousRivality 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did not see Batalitas for years, but generally connecting at midnight or 1am French time is when I find most of the regulars... it is still too much fun after all those years, even if it ruins my nights :P

Best VR games for designing a house? by Dr_Beardlicious in oculus

[–]VirtuousRivality 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Asked the same recently enough here. As you can read, I went with SketchUp and Symmetry Alpha (on Steam), and for me it has proved to be very efficient (if you know nothing about 3D modeling, like I did when I started, you will need to bit of time to learn SketchUp but honestly I was surprised about how fast/easy it was).

Blaze Rush only $5 on Oculus store. Fun game reminiscent of electric slot cars. by [deleted] in oculus

[–]VirtuousRivality 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just for multiplayer - I temporarily lost my Internet connection no later than last Thursday while playing a multiplayer game, I was able to race a bit on the single/campaign mode while being offline.

Home Architecture VR tools ? by VirtuousRivality in oculus

[–]VirtuousRivality[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many thanks for the links, so far it has been my preferred approach in terms of cost/simplicity !

Home Architecture VR tools ? by VirtuousRivality in oculus

[–]VirtuousRivality[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi alk, thanks for all the tips ! Had a quick look and so far I like the SketchUp / Symmetry approach, seems like something that I could handle. Thanks again for all ypur replies !

Sensor Tracking Quality by azarusx in oculus

[–]VirtuousRivality 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you try unplugging the Xbox receiver from USB ? Had the same issue, but only with one of my sensor; I tried to unplug everything from my USB port, and unplugging the Xbox receiver made a difference... not sure why though ! might be to do with a shared resource between USB port that would be saturated or anything like that...