Oculus Quest + Virtual Desktop= WOOOW

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SammyWI:
Another app to try for this is Bigscreen Beta. It's free on Steam and works well. Plenty of customization and runs stable. Also on Vive the pointers are angled down a bit more so it points closer to a gun. In game controller models are hands so it looks like you are shooting a finger gun.

So far in any program I've tried none of the virtual keyboards will work in MAME. I've had to use a wireless keyboard for admin functions.

DudeRegular:
Trying to get this to run with my Samsung Odyssey+ Windows Mixed reality setup. I have tried both the steam vr desktop and the bigscreen beta. I have mame setup to aim with the mouse and fire with left click. I am not having any luck getting the controllers to do anything though. The triggers don't appear in the mame tab menu to setup controls at all.

Any thoughts?

2huwman:
I've been playing around with this some more and have to say it's well worth trying if you've got a VR headset. As the OP said, Virtual Desktop (which is in the Steam store and the Oculus store) works really well. It's been the best of the options I've tried - easiest to setup and reassign mouse buttons etc.

I've been focusing mainly on the HotD series, and have all 5 games working well. Advantages are:

-a screen as big as you want, and as near or as far as you want.
-pinpoint accuracy
-very responsive/low lag (as far as I can tell)
-no flashing screen when you shoot

You can also add stereoscopic 3d using Depth3d (which works really well), and obviously any widescreen hacks that the emulator or PC version might have!

Zebra:
Please can you post some pics of the set-up? I'm curious about VRs use for old light gun games.

The arcade I went to a few months ago had a large area roped off for some kind of VR light gun / FPS game. It looked interesting (but not $15/game interesting...). I guess I'm more excited about VRs potential for actual VR games. Perhaps I just have the wrong impression of how it works and feels to play Virtua Cop with an Oculus. I'd like to see for myself.

In my head, you're stood there wearing a plastic hat with mini LCD screens staring at a fake large screen holding a banana. Is there a specific advantage over using the cash you'd spend on Oculus kit to instead buy a projector and an arcade recoil gun?

Are there any decent newer VR light gun style games yet? I am assuming the virtual Virtua Cop thing was a happy accident and that actual VR games was why you bought it?

2huwman:
Sure, I'll take some video of what you see in the headset, but it's basically the Oculus Touch controller with a 'laser pointer' and circle where it's hitting the virtual screen (both of these can be turned off), and then the game screen hanging in a giant void! One of the benefits of Virtual Desktop is that it handles fullscreen modes well (borderless as well as normal fullscreen), whereas the other apps I've tried have tended to struggle. Would be great if the controller you see could be replaced with a model of a Sega AM blaster!

The benefits over an Aimtrack for example seem to be mainly accuracy, but also that you don't have to be in the exact position you calibrated it. Also that you can turn off the annoying white screen flashes you have to have with CRTs for games like HotD1.

PC VR lightgun games that I've tried that have been pretty good are Operation Warcade as well as the Dick Wilde series on PSVR. But yeah, I got the Rift for 'normal' VR games, of which there are many excellent examples (Wipeout on PSVR, and Lone Echo on Rift are my current favourites).

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