When are you going to do VR?

ratfeast said:

I got my HTC Vive today, and it's awesome. The most impressive VR I've seen are the demos for VR Mark, by 3D Mark, really shows where VR is headed, It should work on the OR too.

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The Lab shows some excellent use of VR as well. I'm hoping for some good multiplayer games soon

Never. I get motion-sick when I shake my head "No". Seriously.

I found this article about how not to gat nausea I use number 12

1. Use Q/E in games when available. Developers of Oculus Rift games and demos know that sickness is a real issue that needs to be addressed somehow. That is why when you play demos you’ll notice that you can turn your character in the blink of an eye when pressing Q or E.
2. When you turn in-game, lock your eyes on one point. This is actually quite interesting. Some people report that they didn’t get any motion sickness until other people started to complain about it in forums. They were naturally immune because they didn’t pay attention to it. And the method our brain automatically uses is looking at one spot while your body (in-game char) moves. Same happens in real life, our eyes are not parallel with our body rotation.
3. Move the character at the slowest speed. It can usually be done if you lower your FOV. But you know how people love their high FOV. To reduce nausea, making your character move more slowly does help a lot. If the game has some character speed options, it would be even better.
4. Take breaks. When we play video games, you don’t even notice how fast time flies by. That is why it is recommended to take frequent breaks, so you don’t get a headache or get sick.
5. Close your eyes when the camera is not controlled by head movements. Sounds silly but it truly might help since motion sickness is eventually tied to misunderstanding between body and brain. Body thinks you are moving, and your brain doesn’t.
6. Don’t play games that make you sick. Obvious one, but since it does depend on how well the game was optimized for VR, blame can be put on developers to some degree. Choosing the right games to play might help.
7. Make sure the Oculus Rift is correctly calibrated for your eyes. When you play games, you might get blurriness and you don’t know how to fix it. That is probably due to your IPD being too narrow or too wide and isn’t calibrated accordingly. That can also be a reason that gives you headaches, and in the end, motion sickness.
8. Turn down the brightness. Some games have brightness adjuster that you can play with for your own preference. Although I am not sure how it helps directly, some people have reported it being helpful.
9. Eat or drink products containing ginger. It has been used as a treatment for motion sickness for centuries. Although it does not work for everyone, people have been using it with high success rate. You can read more about it here.
10. Try not to move your head a lot. Since motion sickness is connected to movement, reducing your head movement left and right and up and down in one place can help you. However, rotating your head should not give any issues.
11. Avoid moving backwards and strafing. If it’s a fast paced game like FPS shooters, it is quite usual for you to want to use strafing to avoid bullets hitting you. With Oculus Rift however, it might induce sickness. Be careful with that.
12. Get drunk. Weird option but some people have reported it doing wonders. Just before putting on the Oculus Rift headset, don’t forget to consume a couple of beers, and you are ready to enter virtual reality.
13. Buy a better computer. Getting a bad frame rate can also make you easily sick, and if you get yourself a beefy computer, nausea can be reduced.

I have a HTC Vive and it's a ton of fun. Not so fun when you smash your hand into a wall, so take it from me be conservative with your red wall boundaries. I was trying to dodge a laser beam and hit the wall first. No physical damage to my hand but lesson learned. I think I was more upset I died in the game then about the dent in my computer room wall.

I have a rift I’ve barely used. The motion sickness kicks my ass every time. So it just sits there waiting, tempting, laughing.

First VR death?

http://www.pcgamer.com/man-dies-in-vr-accident-according-to-russian-news-agency/

If he is anything like me it gets so hot doing room scale VR, they would have found him in just his pants

I will gladly take a VR set off someone's hands if they get sick from it! :grimacing:

I need to get me one sometime, but even on sale they're $400. Not to mention gen2 will probably drop soon and of course I'd have to get one of those...

Tried Oculus... didnt like it. it was kinda like the apple 2. It can do some stuff but it still has a very long way to go.

a year ago I got a cheap molded plastic version of Google's Cardboard headset to use with my Android phone. Even with a screen resolution of 2560 x 1440 I could see individual pixels

my thought was, this is not ready for prime time, I'm not spending real money yet

I will try again when 4k screens (per eye) and the GPUs to drive them are affordable

maynard said:

a year ago I got a cheap molded plastic version of Google's Cardboard headset to use with my Android phone. Even with a screen resolution of 2560 x 1440 I could see individual pixels

my thought was, this is not ready for prime time, I'm not spending real money yet

I will try again when 4k screens (per eye) and the GPUs to drive them are affordable

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I got the cheap(ish) Verizon model that you use with your phone. It was free when I got mine last year or I wouldn't have bothered. It's decently neat, but that's all it is...a novelty.

I'd like to try the Vice, but my computer ain't what she used to be. My 980ti us struggling to keep up and I'm going to wait on the 1180 series before I build a new computer. Might wait for 1280 with how slowly I'm saving money.

VR ALL THE THINGS!

Ok, Just got my Windows MR headset.

Been trying out various VR apps although I am limited right now. I do not have a bluetooth 4 adapter so I cannot use my motion controllers.

I love it so far. :D