I'm pretty sure last time I played E:D in VR was back when I had the Oculus Dev Kit 2, which has a worse resolution (960x1080) compared with the Oculus Rift proper (1080x1200). Text wasn't what I would describe as readable, but you could make it out with a little extra effort. Hopefully those extra pixels make it easier, even though there's not as many as I expected.
I bought the DK2 second-hand, so my entry into VR was relatively cheap. When they dropped the price and included the hand controllers I grabbed to the proper thing, which was a huge upgrade simply for the hand-tracking for Superhot and Robo Recall.
All this VR chatter is making me want to re-do RR and/or Superhot, but there's less room now since having a kid. I'm aiming to save up enough to get a small building at the end of the garden as a work-from-home and gaming office. A man can dream…
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It was something to do with how it rendered to the Vive, not sure if they fixed it. It was like it was rendering at 75% and then blown up. You could see it in comparison photos people took through the vr lenses.Snowy wrote: ↑Thu Nov 15, 2018 8:06 amSo while it is definitely true that the text is not so crisp via VR as when viewed on a monitor (unsurprisingly), using the Rift I have absolutely no problem reading any of it. I find glancing across and having the navigation, chat and ship status screens pop up such a natural way to interface with it all too, not to say soooo much faster. I can make navigation changes, docking requests etc in the blink of an eye and never really notice the text.
I still might pick up a WMR, they’re £200 second hand, higher rez (supposedly best looking for Elite before the Vive Pro) and no base stations to set up.
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Pokerstars VR - absolutely awesome fun. The Touch controllers work perfectly as your hands, and sitting chatting and joking with others while playing poker in graphically beautiful environments is just the best. Loving poker helps of course, and it is nice that it is all for fake money.
They also apparently have a set of brutal admins who perma-ban idiots left and right, which is a nice plus. I generally have to table-hop once or twice when I start but soon find a nice bunch and just start playing.
They also apparently have a set of brutal admins who perma-ban idiots left and right, which is a nice plus. I generally have to table-hop once or twice when I start but soon find a nice bunch and just start playing.
08/10/2003 - 17/08/2018RCHD wrote:Snowy is my favourite. He's a metal God.
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It plays just like poker - you reach out and turn up your cards at the corners, although you can wave them in other players faces and they can't see what you have got. You have to reach out and add chips to bet, or chuck your chips into the table to see (bets automatically populate a call into a pile for you).
There are loads of silly props you can buy too, pipes, cigars, trophies, all sorts of silliness, that weirdly are quite fun to fool about with between bets.
Reading opponents can be fun too - as the game uses your Rift earphones and mic you can see and hear exactly what your opponents are saying and doing. I did win at another guy's expense the other night, when I heard whoever was sat with him say "You have two pair of picture cards, no way does he have better, keep raising him" - ignoring the lowly 3 on the table that matched the pocket pair I had been dealt. In the words of Monty Python, I took him to the facking cleaners mate
While there are some tables full of all-in-on-every-hand bell-ends and shouty kids, these tend to be the 'high stakes' tables. Given that the money is free and the stakes dictated by the table you are sat at, I have found the best way to find almost constantly nice players is to hop onto a low-stakes table. The chips are only a number that way, and you get people wanting to play poker. If you do luck out and land a shitty table, you can always leave it and join another within a few seconds so it is no big deal.
Hopefully they will add in tournaments, either pre-set or player-curated, in the near future.
There are loads of silly props you can buy too, pipes, cigars, trophies, all sorts of silliness, that weirdly are quite fun to fool about with between bets.
Reading opponents can be fun too - as the game uses your Rift earphones and mic you can see and hear exactly what your opponents are saying and doing. I did win at another guy's expense the other night, when I heard whoever was sat with him say "You have two pair of picture cards, no way does he have better, keep raising him" - ignoring the lowly 3 on the table that matched the pocket pair I had been dealt. In the words of Monty Python, I took him to the facking cleaners mate
While there are some tables full of all-in-on-every-hand bell-ends and shouty kids, these tend to be the 'high stakes' tables. Given that the money is free and the stakes dictated by the table you are sat at, I have found the best way to find almost constantly nice players is to hop onto a low-stakes table. The chips are only a number that way, and you get people wanting to play poker. If you do luck out and land a shitty table, you can always leave it and join another within a few seconds so it is no big deal.
Hopefully they will add in tournaments, either pre-set or player-curated, in the near future.
08/10/2003 - 17/08/2018RCHD wrote:Snowy is my favourite. He's a metal God.
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I'm strongly considering delving into VR soon, but the lack of full fledged games is still a bit of a worry even now, I certainly wouldn't be getting it to play virtual poker (as much as I enjoy Texas holdem).
I'll probably compromise on the big investment by going for a PSVR.
I'll probably compromise on the big investment by going for a PSVR.
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Unless you were a die-hard poker player PVR is not the killer app, but given how much fun it is and that it is completely free, it is a nice bonus for anyone owning a VR headset.
08/10/2003 - 17/08/2018RCHD wrote:Snowy is my favourite. He's a metal God.
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That sounds absolutely brilliant, I'm well up for giving VR poker a go now.
I had a play on Beat Saber at a mate's house this weekend, and expected to suck horribly at it like I do at guitar hero. I think I did ok for a first timer, managed to complete a couple songs on easy and normal, and got pretty far into a hard one. Nice gentle exercise is lacking in my life generally, so I'll probably pick up a copy of this to scratch that itch.
I had a play on Beat Saber at a mate's house this weekend, and expected to suck horribly at it like I do at guitar hero. I think I did ok for a first timer, managed to complete a couple songs on easy and normal, and got pretty far into a hard one. Nice gentle exercise is lacking in my life generally, so I'll probably pick up a copy of this to scratch that itch.
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DCS World has been the killer app for me. It would definitely benefit from increased resolution than the Rift provides, it's quite difficult to read certain cockpit instruments without judicious use of the game's view zoom control, and it's badly optimised, but it's an experience that pretty much fulfilled a lifelong dream of mine. Nothing else has really beaten the immersion of being able to operate an aircraft with HOTAS and clicking cockpit buttons by looking at them. It's certainly not going to be to everyone's taste though.
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Can confirm, this is brilliant! I will say that the controls are a bit weird, picking up your cards is really fiddly and I always use the wrong grip button initially. Had a great laugh with some very nice strangers, and they even told me how to control various things (such as peeking your cards instead of picking them up, how to turn them around if you do pick up, etc).
