The VR Thread - We all know what you really use it for.

[Raisincrest]

I've gotten a Quest 3 as well. Half-Life: Alyx has been great.

Also, not gonna lie, I want one of those treadmills. Skyrim VR with a treadmill (and mods) sounds really fun.

 

[Wry]

Is the quest 3 a substantial improvement over the quest 2? My old headset is busted and I need a new one.

It's better by a mile. Makes Quest 2 look like Google Cardboard.
Colour passthrough, almost imperceptible weight (compared to the ol' brick) and better tracking w/ smaller controllers for the win.

 

[Battlefield42]

Played War Dust VR properly. That game has some cool shit but holy fuck that game sucks ass. Game looks like shit, weapons feel like shit + wallhack dual render sights, movement shit and being able to wallclimb everything.
I would not recommend, also people only play on game nights (20-30 people).

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

So is vr porn really that good?

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

So is vr porn really that good?

Yes, the problem is because the man can't really move it limits a lot of what can be done, and most of the experimental stuff happened when everything was shot in much lower quality. So unless you really enjoy pov porn you're not going to have a good time.

It's also not as full of mystery meat chunky women like regular porn, but what women are featured are extremely amateur, also because of the economics you don't really have a lot of new quality content. About 2 new scenes a day that aren't shot on a cell phone camera, in the entire vr porn industry.

But seriously, it's great. Especially on modern headsets. No one even talks about a screen door effect now. I'd say the biggest problem is that it's barely an industry because the type of person willing to invest in VR would also know how to torrent porn, which is a big reason sexlikereal has basically a monopoly on the entire industry and why br porn sites have been offering lifetime subscriptions for the last decade or so and barely seen to be surviving.

It's definitely something to try because of how immersive it is, but you're still being immersed into a very niche porn category.

 

[ArthuriusMartyrius]

I've gotten a Quest 3 as well. Half-Life: Alyx has been great.

Also, not gonna lie, I want one of those treadmills. Skyrim VR with a treadmill (and mods) sounds really fun.

The treadmill is like 4 years outdated, they've come out with ankle sensors now.

 

[ZMOT]

Yes, the problem is because the man can't really move it limits a lot of what can be done, and most of the experimental stuff happened when everything was shot in much lower quality. So unless you really enjoy pov porn you're not going to have a good time.

experimental is only nice for the effect 1-2 times, most people don't really care about it when you want to spank your meat. kinda like "gameplay" in a porngame.

of course the based nips figured out VR porn first, while the west remasters their old stuff for 6k+ and is slowly catching on (some studios still haven't, which is utterly baffling). SLR is somewhat big because they followed the japanese first, but some of their business strategies are utterly mindboggling, like trailers only for already existing subscribers... to sell new subs to?

The treadmill is like 4 years outdated, they've come out with ankle sensors now.

treadmill is for fake walking, not make it look like in vrchat.

 

[Wry]

VR porn is mediocre but it's just a gateway to get you into heavier stuff like interactive porn games and, may Allah forgive me, ASMR POV videos complete with lap pillow, face massage and handholding

It's definitely something to try because of how immersive it is, but you're still being immersed into a very niche porn category.

Too true, I checked out the live section of SpankBang and the number of hambeasts and other unrapeables is off the charts. I don't know if it's because they think they don't have much of a competition or because people who spend $500+ on VR porn are just that degenerate, maybe a bit of both.

 

[SchloppyI.T.Man]

This page of the thread aside, Bestbuy has the PSVR2 for $350 at $250 off and you can get the PC adapter (unless you're a RTX 2080-TI chad and don't need it) for something like 50 to 70 bucks.
Sony and their retailers are desperate to dump these units. Which is a great gain if you just want to sit at your PC and play Wingman in VR.
Mind the main competitor to this unit was the Meta quest 3 which rapes you with the amount of DRM controls as opposed to just this plug and play unit on top of being like 200 bucks more expensive even when they're both on sale.

 

[MongolianMongoose]

Any VR media player recommendations?
DeoVR was a good free media player but it got filled with porn ads, telemetry, and mandatory online check-ins.

I'm fighting back with a DeoVR privacy hack.

Block these domains in your windows host file (C;\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) to stop telemetry. Especially block DeoVR domains or the hack will overwritten.

0.0.0.0 s3.deovr.com
0.0.0.0 deovr.com
0.0.0.0 www.google-analytics.com
0.0.0.0 google-analytics.com
0.0.0.0 cdp.cloud.unity3d.com
0.0.0.0 perf-events.cloud.unity3d.com
0.0.0.0 config.uca.cloud.unity3d.com

Paste the contents of the attached settingsCache.txt into this file"C;\Users\Username\Appdata\LocalLow\DeoVR\settingsCache"
This new settingsCache file takes the default settings.json downloaded by DeoVR on startup and fixes the settings for DisableCloudDiagnostics, OfflineUsage, VersionValidation, and SessionCheck.

Code for encrypted settingsCache generation. (Python with PyCryptoDome package)

from base64 import b64encode
from Crypto.Cipher import AES

key = "b22ac41ec22b42d9ab699d38e2760058".encode()
plain_text = """{"ExpiresAt":9999999999999,"Settings":{"EnablePremiumTrailers":false,"DisableCloudDiagnostics":true,"EnableCloudDiagnostics":false,"ColorSpace":3,"OfflineUsage":{"enabled":true,"offlineTtlDays":9999},"AiPassthroughBlur":{"enabled":true,"defaultMode":0,"qualityDevices":[17],"fastDevices":[12,15,16],"revision":1},"VersionValidation":{"enabled":false,"minVersion":"1.0"},"UserOnboarding":{"enabled":false,"pages":[{"title":"","description":"","videoUrl":"","imageUrl":""},{"title":"","description":"","videoUrl":"","imageUrl":""},{"title":"","description":"","videoUrl":"","imageUrl":""}]},"Autofocus":{"enabled":true,"autoEnable":false,"revision":1},"SessionCheck":{"enabled":false,"period":300.0,"revision":1},"SpatialAudio":{"enabled":true,"allowSwitchToStereo":false,"revision":1},"ScriptRequest":{"enabled":false},"HapticDeviceGuides":{"enabled":true,"supportedDevicesUrl":"","buyersGuideUrl":"","troubleshootingGuideUrl":"","handyGuideUrl":"","autoblowGuideUrl":""},"SlrDriveConfig":{"enabled":false}}}""";

def pkcs7padding(data, block_size=16):
    pl = block_size - (len(data) % block_size)
    return data + bytearray([pl for i in range(pl)])

def encrypt(plain_text, key):
    cipher = AES.new(key, AES.MODE_CBC)
    b = plain_text.encode("UTF-8")
    b = pkcs7padding(b)
    return cipher.iv, cipher.encrypt(b)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    iv, enc_text = encrypt(plain_text, key)
    b64_iv = b64encode(iv).decode("ascii")
    b64_enc_text = b64encode(enc_text).decode("ascii")

    print(b64_iv + b64_enc_text)
    with open("settingsCache", "w") as file:
        file.write(b64_iv + b64_enc_text)

 

[ZMOT]

Any VR media player recommendations?
DeoVR was a good free media player but it got filled with porn ads, telemetry, and mandatory online check-ins.

always sucked imo. but then I'm picky expecting a proper player to do player things.

anyway, I can vouch for https://store.steampowered.com/app/451650/Whirligig_VR_Media_Player/ worth the few bucks.
there's was a free older version (uses steamvr, current one uses openxr, in case 2+ frontends start getting annoying) but it seems it got removed. otoh it's only like 4 bucks you can still refund in the worst case.

 

[TheArtilleryman]

Any Hotdogs, Horseshoes and Handgrenades enjoyers in here? How far have you gotten in Bullshoot?

 

[Advanced Garbage]

Came across a pretty interesting in-dev VR SDK on Youtube. Features things like individual finger physics, procedural gripping, multiplayer bone-breaking and neck-snapping, and a bunch of other shit I can't remember from their dev logs. The point of the project is to release an SDK for modders and developers, but they're supposedly releasing a couple of premade gamemodes alongside it. Fingers crossed we'll actually see a new and innovative VR concept for the first time in forever.

 

[Seminar]

I got Quest 3 and after starting it the picture quality looks bad not VERY bad but still bad enought to hurt eyes i tried couple of "native" games from the store (free) and they all looked like a shit even the gay metaverse thingy with your cringy avatar menu thing also looks bad and now im wondering is that just VR being VR and my eyes are "too good" for it or do i need to replace that shit ? (my pc is shit i did manage to make it little bearable with modifying OculusDebug but still shit)
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 six-core processor 3.40GHz
Ram: 16GB
Display adapter: Radeon RX 580 Series

 

[robobobo]

The native Quest games are running on the headset itself with what's essentially a cellphone chipset, they aren't going to be top-notch graphics. For PCVR stuff you need a very solid video card and either a wifi 6 setup or a good USB 3 cable to tether the headset to your computer; there are lots of things that can go wrong and tank the performance.

 

[Battlefield42]

If you are looking for a good singleplayer vr shooter, i can recommend Z.O.N.A Origin. Only bad thing about it is the hands getting stuck in closet doors. There's also an older Z.O.N.A game that might run better on shittier pcs.

 

[Almighty Space Duck]

@Seminar get yourself over to vrpirates wiki, follow the instructions and grab Asgards Wrath or one of the other high end native quest games and see how that looks. Also have you messed with that wheel thing on the bottom of the display to set your pupil distance correctly? That made a huge difference for me. Can’t comment on PC clarity as it don’t have one powerful enough to run the headset.

 

[Seminar]

For PCVR stuff you need a very solid video card and either a wifi 6 setup or a good USB 3 cable to tether the headset to your computer; there are lots of things that can go wrong and tank the performance.

Im aware of that i have inui cable but shit is just looking very bad.

If you are looking for a good singleplayer vr shooter, i can recommend Z.O.N.A Origin.

Will check it out if/when i fix the shit

Also have you messed with that wheel thing on the bottom of the display to set your pupil distance correctly?

Will it void the replacement thingy if i use that shit or am i safe ? also yea i did set it up but still looks like shit.

 

[Almighty Space Duck]

Will it void the replacement thingy if i use that shit or am i safe ? also yea i did set it up but still looks like shit.

Adding the device to a developer account which is needed to side load applications (the piracy bit) does nothing to your warranty.

 

[ZMOT]

Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 six-core processor 3.40GHz
Ram: 16GB
Display adapter: Radeon RX 580 Series

I've ran alyx on something comparable. heck when VR "came out" people were using a 970 with it's gimped ram.

bad might just be an expectation issue too, it will never be as "clear" as 2d due to lense distortion and screendoor effect, but the full 3d should make up for it.
for quest specifically I don't know if simply using a cable would fix it, I vaguely remember reading some issues, but it might be worth looking into that.