Anybody use these goggle sets and earphones?

What do you immerse yourself in?

Any recommendations?

i recently tried a google cardboard device and found i pretty impressive for such a low tech option. Mapping is really cool with it- but it feels like novelty tech at this point in time. I imagine an occulus rift experience being pretty cool if you are a gamer- i am not.

Played a mates PS4 VR.

Got to fly an X-wing .

It was awesome. It was everything that a 6 year old me dreamed it would be.

Also played Doom. It was also awesome. Nearly shat my pants.

I want one.

drove gt sport and nearly thew up after the first go. Its taken a while to get used to driving without feeling nauseous. The matrix feeling of being in a big room with a screen at the end is fantastic. It was much better than the last time I used the occulus rift. I found the psvr quite immersive .
Looking forward at trying out farpoint at some point

I believe there is VR grot on Pr0nhub, too.

PSVR here,

GT sport is good, Dirt Rally is better, especially when combined with a wheel

Misleading title. 😥

Not sure I want to be immersed in Valentino Rossi…

tomhoward – Member

Not sure I want to be immersed in Valentino Rossi…

It’s Vale, Tom! You’d be catching, for sure.

My eldest is an avid gamer and had a go on his cousin’s VR thingy. It’s sounded pretty dull (a cooking game or something) but thought it was excellent and very involving.

I believe there is VR grot on Pr0nhub, too.

“I believe”
😆

There is and- it’s definately what you wanted it to be when you were 13. I will say though, I’m merely an amateur not an authority on the subject. Worth noting though that as an emerging medium, it’s a serious target for malware etc which of course has been an issue for years with that type of dodgy content. It’s apparently quite an issue in the VR scud scene- this has been covered by mainstream tech media, so I’m not advocating looking for a how to on VR filth… Be wary if you’re venturing into that arena surrounding VR Thomas The Tanking is all I’m saying. Oh and lock the door ffs.

prefer keeping your thoughts pure and your trousers on? then there are numerous ‘rollercoaster’ games and ‘solar system’ apps out there that work well in VR if you’re a square.

I use it to immerse myself in go-pro videos of people riding bikes which is something I used to do when I went outside.

Had a few evenings on one of those top of the Range oculus rift things. Bloody brilliant, properly terrified I was when the zombies starting coming.

You need deep pockets and plenty of space. Sadly, I have neither.

Oculus Rift gets a bit if use in our house.

Very very immersive, although I can only manage 10 mins or so(not the porn) and begin to feel a litte sick.

My favourite games beside the standard flying football, robot fighting stuff are:

Onward, in which you team up with few other players and battle another group shoot emm up style. Can get quite sweary and aggresive but good fun.

Table tennis, it only cost a few quid but is very realistic. We are now down one TV due this game.

Google Earth, you instantly become God, great for researching holidays, bike routes.

Overall its quite an experience and if tou get a chance I would give it a go. Its easy to see how this will become all consuming to rhe next generation.

edit: yes it is a bit spending, my pc which runs zwift at 50fps wont run the Oculus at all. My son built the PC that gets used and suspect it will have cost a few quid.

Yeh, the PC my mate built is quite frankly absurd, I’m sure it dims the lights in the neighbours house when it’s on.

Elite dangerous is very cool on a rift. Sitting in the cockpit of your very own spaceship. 8)
Yeah, it’s spendy to get in to, but the headset and controllers have come down a lot ~ 50%?
Pc minimum specs have actually reduced too, due to some smart coding, but even so it’s the equivalent of running two 4k monitors at 90fps.
To put it in perspective though when I was 19 I spent about a grand on a 486 dx50. I reckon you could do a pc to run the rift for that now, fairly easily.

Only used it very briefly at a tech demo myself but intending to buy into it soon, mostly waiting on the next gen wireless stuff to come out.

From what I can see via Twitch the VR games are still mostly pretty clunky and it’s the novelty factor of VR + the immersion that grabs people and allows them to overlook how shite some of the games actually.

There’s also issues with the controllers IMO, e.g. if I’m playing a FPS game I don’t want to be holding hand grips, I want a stock but although they’ve available the decent ones are expensive and unless specific to a game often still end up with a lot of compromises.

I’m totally sold on VR. I’ve been playing GTS/Dirt VR with the PSVR in a sim rig, along with some tactile transducers. It is really immersive. So much easier to place the car and can feel the balance a lot easier.

I’ve had a fair few friends try it, I really should film their reactions when they remove the headset, eyes wide open and gobsmacked! A couple of people have fallen over playing Farpoint as they have tried to rest their arm on a rock and have fallen over!

My favourite games on PSVR: Driving/Flying/FPS

I now want VR for the PC sim racing, but that’s crazy expensive when you look at new GFX card, Headset, Controllers, etc.

I now want VR for the PC sim racing, but that’s crazy expensive when you look at new GFX card, Headset, Controllers, etc

When I priced up and bought a pretty decent starter setup (PSVR, G29, decent mount etc) it came to about half what my cheapest bike cost, and given the number of hours of use each would get (esp in deepest darkest winter..) the cost of a more advanced kit isn’t looking too bad. All relative innit

Tom, that is pretty much how I’m trying justifying it. Track car is currently off the road and VR sim racing could be a nice stop gap to fill the void.

You can pick up one of those plastic headsets that you slip your phone in for about £15.
Not exactly oculus rift but gives you a taste of what is possible with loads of 360 videos on YouTube.

Unfortunately I get motion sick playing first-person games on a normal monitor so VR is not really for me. 😳

AR is probably better. Lego AR Studio on my iPhone is pretty cool. Plonk a virtual Lego model house on your table then create a Lego dragon to burn it down 🙂

Graham, I’ve tried the phone headsets with 360 videos, hated them, felt sick after 2 mins, I think it’s the fact I have no control at all over what happens (prob didn’t help it was a rollercoaster vid…) whereas with the ps ones I have an input, so it’s absolutley fine. Glad I tried that first!

I got a the Samsung VR headset for Xmas and am making use of the old S7 that I don’t use much anymore. Gotta say, the more I use it the more I like it, although I do get a bit of motion sickness when viewing the roller coaster type stuff.

Netflix with headphones is ace when I’m laid in bed, watched Bright on it the other night and was a pretty immersive experience.

Contemplating getting the PS version for use with Dirt 4 – that’d be mega!

Rift owner here and it is amazing.

Originally bought it to play Elite Dangerous & IL2 BOM series as I’m a bit of a space/flight sim enthusiast but have now bought stacks of other games from FPS to Co-op space sims.

Yes these units are 1st gen and yes the resolution is a lot lower than what you get on your monitors but you just don’t notice it as the hordes of zombies rush at you trying to eat your face or you’re looking over the side of the cockpit to pick up your next target.

Had some funny moments as well. Was playing From Other Suns and I didn’t know it was a Co-op until what I thought was a game character started talking to me while gesticulating with his arms and hands (The touch controllers are incredible). He then proceeded to guide me through the game.

You can’t describe how amazing it is unless you try one.

Big + from me. Love it.

From what I can see via Twitch the VR games are still mostly pretty clunky and it’s the novelty factor of VR + the immersion that grabs people and allows them to overlook how shite some of the games actually.

It’s interesting, a lot of VR games look overly simplistic but are way more engaging than you’d expect.

My first recommendation for anyone already a gamer trying VR is Superhot. On the face of it, it’s a simpler, shorter game than the non-VR version. You have less options, until you realise that you don’t need predefined actions in the same way you do with a gamepad.

If you want to shoot blindly round a corner or throw 2 knives at 2 enemies at the same time you just do it. You can also hit your head on furniture while dodging bullets, but it’s all part of the fun.