The VR thread

[Tain]

Rez will be neat. Rigs looks solid. SuperHyperCube, Robinson, Eagle Flight, and Battlezone all look good (I loved the Battlezone demo) but they're eventually coming to PC.

[Joust Williams]

I did forget about BZ, true.

[bbobb]

Everything I'm reading about the performance of PSVR is making it sound like a hard pass

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

Everything I'm hearing about it makes it an


Stupid Forza has me looking a TVs I don't need and can't afford.

[James]

The weird thing is that, over at the Llamsoft forums, the tech half is completely taken aback by the reviews. Giles has been working with the hardware through multiple iterations and swears Sony did something pure magic to make PS VR so nice, and it he's got a CV-1 Rift they're developing on in parallel for comparison. There's definitely something weird happening somewhere. Maybe Sony did a last-second change of some sort? I wish I could go hands-on with the PS VR to test for myself.

[Joust Williams]

I'll have to see for myself but what I am hearing is that it's much more comfortable to wear, has less of a screen door effect on the pixels but has a much lower resolution (the latter, to me, is probably pretty bad when it comes to racers because fast moving + low res = hard to see anything past your own face)

[Andrew]

I have about a week to cancel my preorder, and I just don't know. I don't have any of the other headsets, so how it racks and stacks compared to the competition doesn't mean a lot. My biggest concern is Sony's habit of abandoning hardware. If I shell out $500 just to play some Kinectimals-league bullshit and Sony drops support after a year, I won't be a happy camper.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

Though I think VR is here to stay, Sony's track record...

[Frogacuda]

Everything I'm reading about the performance of PSVR is making it sound like a hard pass

If you don't have one of the others or aren't a PC gamer, I think it's a great option. The Tested review is dead on that it's really not suited for room-scale. It's for sitting and standing games, mostly 180-degree, but there's a lot of interesting things you can do within that. Room scale is not the be-all-end-all.

I think Sony's industrial design is hard to beat. It's by far the most comfortable, and has the clearest, brightest image, even if it's a little lower resolution. It does a lot right.

I went with Rift and I can't really justify the expense of another system, but had I not had my PC, I'd be pretty happy with PSVR.

The weird thing is that, over at the Llamsoft forums, the tech half is completely taken aback by the reviews. Giles has been working with the hardware through multiple iterations and swears Sony did something pure magic to make PS VR so nice, and it he's got a CV-1 Rift they're developing on in parallel for comparison. There's definitely something weird happening somewhere. Maybe Sony did a last-second change of some sort? I wish I could go hands-on with the PS VR to test for myself.

For the stuff Llamasoft is doing, I'm sure it's great. It's not good for walking around games.

I'll have to see for myself but what I am hearing is that it's much more comfortable to wear, has less of a screen door effect on the pixels but has a much lower resolution (the latter, to me, is probably pretty bad when it comes to racers because fast moving + low res = hard to see anything past your own face)

I actually think the fact that it's a clearer screen with more subpixels makes it easier to see aliasing. The resolution drop is noticeable but not drastic. Like 20%. But for performance reasons we're probably seeing weaker anti-aliasing, and the lack of grain just makes it easier to see.

[Diff-chan]

I would love to have DriveClub VR, but not for $400+.

walking around games.

heh