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

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Howard_Casto:
The holoview assistant doesn't seem to be working right for me. It says it updated the drivers and steam vr can see the headset. Updating the actual app seems to give me an error during the "downloading" process but I'm trying again.

Anyway, I can get this to show up as a second monitor so I'm keeping it. I'll crack it open and use it as a mini display if nothing else. I also fired up outrun 2006 and threw it up on the left hand side of the goggles and it seemed to play well, so I'm guessing I'm ok for low-end games or games set to low quality. If not I can get a r9 300 series for about 60 bucks and I'd probably need that when I get a new pc anyway.

BadMouth:
I know that when I kept getting "compositor failed to start", is when I decided to update the video card drivers and try to follow the directions. :D
I'm not sure when the other steps were done. It was a blur of many failed attempts, then....it worked after updating the drivers and following the instructions multiple times.

Howard_Casto:
How do they show up in device manager in terms of drivers/ect? Maybe I can install them manually and get things fixed that way.

BadMouth:
Sorry, not convenient to get to that info at the moment. I do recall that after installing drivers and it not working that I did restart the PC before trying again and it finally working. I can't tell you how many attempts it took after the PC was restarted.

Howard_Casto:
I finally got it working. Like you I'm not sure exactly what I did but in case someone else wants to pick one up some of the things I did:

In the drop-down menu on the steamVR popup I went into development and clicked on the "remove all usb" button, unplugged the goggles, quite steam vr and plugged them back in. I also had to enable the goggles as a monitor in windows (which is counter-intuitive as we are trying to get it to work in direct mode) use the extended desktop option and move the goggles to the left side of the virtual desktop. Then I started the holoview app and steam vr sort of crashed. After starting it again everything worked. That's all I know.

First impressions of the goggles are quite good for the price. The resolution is quite good and even though my pc is waaaay below spec, I just played a smooth 60fps game of race the sun, so they WILL work for punier games on old pcs. Not having the individual eye adjustment sucks for me as my bad eye is throwing things off a little. I haven't tried to cram my glasses in yet, but it doesn't look like they would fit easily. That being said, there really isn't a screen door effect or anything like that and the head tracking is decent. FOV is quite tight, but still more than playable.

If you don't mind screwing around for an afternoon to get the things working I would recommend them. I mean they are just 20 bucks. I might pick up wvr3 model to get per-eye adjustment, but other than that, they'll do for casual vr anyway.

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