Tried a Vive from a friend, immediately sold my Oculus and bought one. It's everything I expected from VR 
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What have you purchased recently?
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Quote from Minos
8 minutes ago, Minos said: Tried a Vive from a friend, immediately sold my Oculus and bought one. It's everything I expected from VR
But how's the porn?
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Quote from Minos
1 hour ago, Minos said: Tried a Vive from a friend, immediately sold my Oculus and bought one. It's everything I expected from VR
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What is so much better? Tracking, video quality…?
Right now the controllers that are coming out for the Oculus seem to be the best controller for this kind of device
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Quote from blackdog
1 hour ago, blackdog said: What is so much better? Tracking, video quality…?
Right now the controllers that are coming out for the Oculus seem to be the best controller for this kind of device
You still wont get room scale with the Oculus tho
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Being able to walk around added a whole new layer of immersion that I find completely lacking on the Oculus.
In a Vive, not only your head and hands react as you would expect, so does your body too to some extent. I tried to stand up using the the oculus several times but it just didnt feel right, I could never put my finger on why, but now it all makes sense: even though you can stand up on the oculus, moving your body around only accomplishes screwing up the camera alignment and other nasty effects. Perfect recipe to motion sickness.
I think it's pretty obvious that Oculus will add some sort of room scale detection at some point, but its pretty unlikely it will be as good as the Vive one, as cumbersome as it is to setup.
Sprony: porn should work just as fine. im sure room scale detection opens up even more possibilities for masturbation
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@MinosDid you try CV1 or only DK2 though? I found standing up in CV1 just as good as VIVE with the exception of limited space. I like my vive more but ergonomics of CV1 are nicer (lighter, better straps).
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Thanks to clearing it up Minos.
Was pretty hyped and considering the VR before we started to know prices, know real computer req. and… see what you can play (which is very poor atm).
Anyway, even if I only tried one game on dev kit, oculus always gave me the idea that it was just adding motion tracking to the camera*, that games would be the same experience (sitting down), on the other hand looks more ergonomic.
Surely things will improve quickly, right now I wouldn't invest on this gadgets unless I was developing something for it.
*A lot of this I always thought could have been implemented already just by leveraging webcams, which are widespread. Adding peek behind a corner that way I think would go a long way without really costing much
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Quote from Buddy
11 hours ago, Buddy said: @MinosDid you try CV1 or only DK2 though? I found standing up in CV1 just as good as VIVE with the exception of limited space. I like my vive more but ergonomics of CV1 are nicer (lighter, better straps).
Yeah, the sensors might be better on the CV1 but you still can't "walk" back and forth can you? If you do that, the sensors interpret your movement as leaning forward or backward, instead of actually moving in an space like it does on the Vive. I might be talking out of my ass here but at least that's the impression that I got.
I didn't try the CV1 but from what I know it's only an improvement over the DK2 right? Doesn't add anything new.
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Quote from Minos
13 hours ago, Minos said: Yeah, the sensors might be better on the CV1 but you still can't "walk" back and forth can you? If you do that, the sensors interpret your movement as leaning forward or backward, instead of actually moving in an space like it does on the Vive. I might be talking out of my ass here but at least that's the impression that I got.
I didn't try the CV1 but from what I know it's only an improvement over the DK2 right? Doesn't add anything new.
No, you're fully positionally tracked, so you can walk around within the tracking camera's FOV. Same as Vive but at smaller scale
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Quote from Buddy
2 hours ago, Buddy said: No, you're fully positionally tracked, so you can walk around within the tracking camera's FOV. Same as Vive but at smaller scale
That's what i heard as well, but it's very difficult to find more info on this, or if it's any good or doesnt it even compare to vives?
Personally I don't care anymore, I'm not going to give facebook any more money. If vive turns out to be shit (which aparently isn't) i'd pick up Sony's PS VR instead. I'm still on the fence.
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38 minutes ago, (HP) said: That's what i heard as well, but it's very difficult to find more info on this, or if it's any good or doesnt it even compare to vives?
Personally I don't care anymore, I'm not going to give facebook any more money. If vive turns out to be shit (which aparently isn't) i'd pick up Sony's PS VR instead. I'm still on the fence.
I've had CV1 (sold), kept Vive. So i'm speaking out of experience not my gaping arsehole.
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Got a new watch, and it feels like it is straight out of a James Bond movie. The compass and tide clock are the two coolest features I have seen on a watch.
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Nice
I'm setting my eyes on one...soon
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congrats man
Bimmer owner and fan myself
I see you got the stick version! fan of manual gearbox or overall cost issue? don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of manual gearbox, just curious to see why you went with this choice
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On 7/4/2016 at 9:20 AM, ChA1NsAw said: [Blocked Image: http://www.cyberfit.com.au/images/GymRingWoodenPt2.jpg]
To do this stuff. I can't even do it on my knees yet.
External Content www.youtube.comContent embedded from external sources will not be displayed without your consent.Through the activation of external content, you agree that personal data may be transferred to third party platforms. We have provided more information on this in our privacy policy.One mistake and your wrist goes bam. I wouldn't recommend it if you've never done fitness.
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Quote from will2k
11 hours ago, will2k said: congrats man
Bimmer owner and fan myself
I see you got the stick version! fan of manual gearbox or overall cost issue? don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of manual gearbox, just curious to see why you went with this choice
Thanks. Had my prior car, Volvo S40 T5 6speed, for 11 years so I was due.
I have driven manual all my life. No cost difference for manual vs. basic auto in all 3 series (no, didn't get the M3 sadly.)
Thing about manual transmission in California is that there is very little inventory. I had to custom order mine...oddly I got a better deal on that vs. any manual 3-series I could find in my region that weren't quite right anyway.
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Recently bought myself my first rig, buying hardware feels damn good, lucky you
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