Highly Discounted VR toy... what do you guys make of it?

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RandyT:
For $20, the wvr2 has to be the deal of the century. Yes, no motion controllers, only 3DOF, some smearing when moving your head, some chromatic aberration and I have yet to get a seamless experience starting up SteamVR (still working on figuring out the magic order to do things).

But seriously, this thing is worth much more than that if all you did was play Lucky's Tale and watch VR video. The controller feels good and works well. The headset isn't too heavy or uncomfortable. The image is bright and colorful, and very sharp even beyond the center of the lenses. Almost no "screen door" effect. Steam is reporting this thing as 1440 x 2560 (IIRC) per eye, at 100%. Based on how nice it looks, I can't tell for certain that's an error. The 1070 also seems to handle it fine (just).

My Odyssey is much smoother, has a larger FOV, etc.. but man, for image quality, this one is better.

BadMouth:
I got the WVR2. Steam VR kept starting in Safe mode. Not sure how I finally got through it, but in a dozen attempts at disabling safe mode and enabling direct mode, it finally started working.
It works OK with the one Steam VR compatible game I already had (race the sun).

This is my first VR device other than a cheap cell phone holder.

Does the Steam VR room and tutorial work without the VR controllers?
The gamepad doesn't seem to cover all the functions. I can't seem to do much or even click "next" on the menu.
I'd like to be able to walk around using the gamepad.
Seems like too much is dependent on having other handheld controllers.

I guess the screen is clear, but when watching a video the blur at the edges of the lenses starts too close to the center for me to enjoy it as a real option.

BadMouth:
I'm new to VR, but so far...meh.
Neither steam media player nor Holoview recognize most of my ripped media (mp4).
The media that it did play was lower quality, so not a good test.
Watched a few videos on the youtube steam app.
It seems to be pretty useless outside of Steam.
Any free games worth trying to check out the VR experience?

The screwdriver is probably coming out tomorrow. >:D

shponglefan:

--- Quote from: BadMouth on January 08, 2019, 09:22:56 pm ---Does the Steam VR room and tutorial work without the VR controllers?
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Motion controllers are required. That's the major selling point of current PC VR; the ability to use room scale and motion controllers. Consequently a lot of VR games/experiences you'll find on Steam are designed with those in mind.

The WVR2 seems highly limited if all it has is tilt tracking, but no positional tracking or motion controllers. Probably usable for 180/360 video but I can't imagine too much else it would be useful with. Maybe some seated games that don't rely on motion controllers?

RandyT:

--- Quote from: BadMouth on January 08, 2019, 10:27:08 pm ---Any free games worth trying to check out the VR experience?

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Install ReVive and Oculus. Lucky's Tale is free (or at least it was) and it will show you that platformers in VR can be legit. As long as you are there, check out Aircar. Both work with just a controller.

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