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

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Howard_Casto:
Yeah I actually found a recent article over at hackaday where a relatively inexpensive motorcycle tacho/speedo combo was controlled via an Arduino and the source was actually included. Might be worth looking into.

I know I'm starting over from scratch with my racing rig.... it turned out pretty ok, but it looks ugly, having the pc in the bottom makes it hard to work on and overall it sits too high for me to use my tv as a monitor. I'll put up a post mortem eventually.... learned a lot and a lot of the ideas I tried actually worked quite well.... I just need to take all of that and put it on a better chassis.

BadMouth:
Elite Dangerous is on sale. Has anyone tried it with one of these cheap VR sets and gamepad?

Bought Thumper on sale and was disappointed. It's another one where the gameplay requires you to stare forward, so the VR effect isn't much.

BadMouth:

--- Quote from: BadMouth on April 18, 2019, 04:26:14 pm ---Elite Dangerous is on sale. Has anyone tried it with one of these cheap VR sets and gamepad?

Bought Thumper on sale and was disappointed. It's another one where the gameplay requires you to stare forward, so the VR effect isn't much.

--- End quote ---

I gave it a shot. It requires you to register with the developer's site, provide more information than I wanted to, and link accounts.
After going through that BS, it launches in desktop mode despite clicking to launch it in VR.
After messing with it for an hour and still being stuck in desktop mode, I requested a refund. :angry:

Howard_Casto:
Sorry, been working on other things lately. Honestly my pc is barely powerful enough to run some of the more basic games, so I haven't messed with it much. Still think it was worth the puny asking price of $20 though. Gonna pickup the basic Vr kit for labo later as well... it's getting surprisingly good reviews for what it is and it appears that Nintendo wants to add VR modes to most of it's first party games.

BadMouth:
For anyone who bought this thing:
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice VR edition works well on it. (using the controller that came with the headset)
The Oculus software launches with it, but I'm not sure if it's being used or not. You may have to install it as well.

I picked it up on sale for $15 a few weeks ago and just got around to playing it yesterday.
Game is enjoyable but aside from the fighting, it is thin on actual gameplay. Character can't wander off the assigned walking paths or interact with anything out of order.
Although VR, it is still third person from a perspective behind the character. Being able to look around by moving your head is pretty cool though.
It supposed to be fairly short, taking around 8 hours to complete.

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