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  • MadaMada Posts: 2,025

    If you like those kinds of experiences you'll also love Titanic and Apollo - I was sitting in the lifeboat with my mouth open watching her go down... no amount of knowing the history can prepare you for actually experiencing it for yourself. And being a space nut going down in the moon lander and watching the process involved in it and seeing the ground coming closer through that tiny window was amazing :)
    https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/5442/Titanic_VR__Apollo_11_VR_HD_Bundle/

     

  • MadaMada Posts: 2,025

    ....and of course No Man's Sky got a new update today laugh whoohoo!

  • MadaMada Posts: 2,025

    First conference completely in VR was a great success :)
    https://skarredghost.com/2020/03/20/v2ec-vec-vive-event-2020-vr/

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,175
    edited October 2021

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  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,783
    edited March 2020
    daveso said:

    i bet they go up in price now that everyone is working from home

     

    I doubt it since they are already fairly expensive especially the business versions (5k-10k). Not to mention the virus has really put a halt to production as well, so it's fairly hard to get your hands on one now since there is limited amount of product. Besides, it takes more than just a headset for a sucessful VR experience, you need the right software as well.

     

    Mada said:

    First conference completely in VR was a great success :)
    https://skarredghost.com/2020/03/20/v2ec-vec-vive-event-2020-vr/

    That is great to hehar, I was hoping it would go well. Hopefully it opens doors for more events like this.

    My sister lives 6 hrs away and I rarely get to see her due to work. I talked her into getting a Quest for Xmas even thought she is not really a gamer and we finally watched a movie together on bigscreen, sitting next to each other chatting away, it was really cool.

    Can't wait for Mon, HLA drops, woohoo!

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  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,049

    I've been watching Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video in VR all week. California now has a stay at home mandate so I'm going to have to escape into VR a lot! 

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,783

    So anyone else playing Half Life Alyx??? This game is so immersive and there are so many small things you can interact with, it;s crazy. I truly feel bad for new VR users that start with HLA as everything else will be less of an experience after this.

    There are quite a few gameplay videos on YT already to give you an idea on how good the game is

  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,191

    So anyone else playing Half Life Alyx??? This game is so immersive and there are so many small things you can interact with, it;s crazy. I truly feel bad for new VR users that start with HLA as everything else will be less of an experience after this.

    There are quite a few gameplay videos on YT already to give you an idea on how good the game is

    Honestly, it’s one of the few things that might get me into VR in the first place. 

  • MadaMada Posts: 2,025
    edited March 2020

    It is absolutely amazing - I play with a friend on discord so at least we can scream at the same time lol

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  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,783
    Mada said:

    It is absolutely amazing - I play with a friend on discord so at least we can scream at the same time lol
     

     

    yeah, there are been more than one time when I jumped out of my skin. Didn't realize there would be as many horror moments, which I love. I can do without the puzzles though. Surprised at how well performance is, very fluid for me.

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,783

    As much as I hate facebook, they just made it much easier and cheaper to get into VR for new and existing users with the announcement of the new Quest 2. Check out the video for info from their Connect presentation for the low down. Pretty impressive features and specs for $299

    Even though DAZ has created some new bridges to game engines and apps that support VR, I still would love a native DS option and it seems there is money to be made in this area

  • MadaMada Posts: 2,025

    Yes :D and it doubles as a PC VR headset too so you can run all the steam VR games

  • MadaMada Posts: 2,025
    edited September 2020

    Myst

    Warhammer

    Tales from the Galaxy's Edge Star Wars

    And Assassin's Creed but no video yet

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  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,049

    Yeah I saw the presentation in VR in Oculus venues. I have the Go and Rift and glad I waited a year for the Quest. I’m really bummed that they removed the Hulu app from the Go. I loved my cool huge Hulu living room with wall size TV! 

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,783

    Yeah I saw the presentation in VR in Oculus venues. I have the Go and Rift and glad I waited a year for the Quest. I’m really bummed that they removed the Hulu app from the Go. I loved my cool huge Hulu living room with wall size TV! 

    I think that was a HULU decision and not oculus/FB. I was shocked also since I watch all my HULU TV shows in VR also and then one day last week I opened the VR HULU app it was unsupported and after contacting HULU found they don't support the Rift S any more. I was about to pre order the Reverb G2, but now I am thinking of the new Quest 2 since the resolution is pretty close to 4K and it has a lot of media apps that normal PCVR doesn't have like netlfix and amazon prime. I watch all my media in VR on virtual desktop, but would prefer native apps if possible.

  • KA1KA1 Posts: 1,012
    edited September 2020
    I decided to try "Space Engine" on steam as it has VR support, thought I had a 2hr refund window if it wasn't implemented very well or anything but the chance to explore the universe (some based on NASA data and the rest procedurally generated guesstimates) - I was under prepared for the sheer scale of the experience. After getting a handle on the controls (Rift S) I was navigating the universe in no time, exploring far off places, standing on random plateaus on random planets, everything felt impressive but a little static...then I found the time controls..oh my suddenly the universe was alive, epic sunrises, comets, asteroids all dancing through space, stumbling to the Andromeda galaxy, being terrified by a black hole it was all insanely breath taking..I took the headset off and had lost FIVE HOURS!!! Lucky I wasn't considering a refund!!
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  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024
    edited September 2020
    daveso said:

    i could see virtual shopping ..where you walk into a store in VR ... handle the goods, look at lables, etc ... even try them out. 

    How long before you;re not even in the real world anymore? Just sit in a vitrual world thaqt then becomes your reality.  Plug in the feeding tubes and choose steak with a fully loaded baked potatoe and actually tastee and smell it, plus actually get noursihment from sone liquified paste high nutrient stuff pumped directly in. 

    It would be really cool to be able wto interact with the DAZ characters you produce in DS ...  DAZ World or something

    What makes you think the world you see around you, is the real thing?

    I've been told our senses (sensors) transfer the information they observe to our brains (CPU) by electric signals - Can't they be manipulated, forged or even fabricated out of nothing?
    When you sleep, you have dreams which you take for real - How do you know you are not dreaming at this very moment?

    Beyond "I think, therefore I am", what is real and how can you tell?

    In conclusion, there is only one thing that is "real", that an entity exists somewhere that can have a (the) Thought, and apparently has a very vivid imagination combined with lots of free time to come up with all of THIS...

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  • daveso said:

    What do you have and is it great, or what? I just tried my 1st VR headset tonight, and Occulus Rift S /// I was blown away. 
    What experience have you all had with VR? How farther can it go? 

    I bought an Oculus DK 2 when they first came out, just to mess around with it in Unity.  I exported a simple Daz scene into it and ran the program.  It's pretty incredible to look around your scene in this way, though there's a lot of work to do to get them looking good (mostly material tweaking).  I tried some anims too.  I can honestly say it was brilliant to use.  I played Elite Dangerous with it too and the combat was really immersive.

    When it comes to other aspects of VR, like motion, I'm pretty sensitive to that and get very nauseated very fast.  It was OK in Elite Dangerous because in space most of the pixels in peripheral vision are black.  You take the hit when docking in a rotating space station though (I feel sick just thinking about it).  As for FPS, wow, I cannot imagine a more vomit-inducing experience.

    Anyway it would be pretty amazing if you could just pop the headset on, press a button in Daz and sit at the camera position, looking around the scene.  We'll add that as an enhancement request shall we? :p

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,049

    Yeah I saw the presentation in VR in Oculus venues. I have the Go and Rift and glad I waited a year for the Quest. I’m really bummed that they removed the Hulu app from the Go. I loved my cool huge Hulu living room with wall size TV! 

    I think that was a HULU decision and not oculus/FB. I was shocked also since I watch all my HULU TV shows in VR also and then one day last week I opened the VR HULU app it was unsupported and after contacting HULU found they don't support the Rift S any more. I was about to pre order the Reverb G2, but now I am thinking of the new Quest 2 since the resolution is pretty close to 4K and it has a lot of media apps that normal PCVR doesn't have like netlfix and amazon prime. I watch all my media in VR on virtual desktop, but would prefer native apps if possible.

    Yeah, it was Hulu’s decision and I complained to them on Twitter to no response. I watched all Hulu TV in it too and really miss it! I had the Zen BG for the living room and loved relaxing in there before sleep with TV. I haven’t tried Virtual Desktop yet because you have to buy it twice if you have a Rift and a Go and I prefer to watch TV on the Go because it has less screen door effect and is much lighter than the original Rift. If I get the Quest2, I might get it for that. I’ve tried watching Hulu in BigScreen Beta but it’s very glitchy and I don’t get that beautiful Zen Hulu living room sad

    There are cool meeting areas though in BigScreen like the balconies of your “apartment” and I wish I had friends in VR to invite. None of my friends are into VR which is sad. BTW, I’m Alicia_Wonderland or AliciaWonderland (I forgot which) if anyone wants to friend me in Oculus or Steam and Alicia Hollinger (the Caucasian brunette one with a black & pink logo) on FB. 

  • Bigscreen VR works great on my rift. It's like being in a huge movie theater. 

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,783
    KA1 said:
    I decided to try "Space Engine" on steam as it has VR support, thought I had a 2hr refund window if it wasn't implemented very well or anything but the chance to explore the universe (some based on NASA data and the rest procedurally generated guesstimates) - I was under prepared for the sheer scale of the experience. After getting a handle on the controls (Rift S) I was navigating the universe in no time, exploring far off places, standing on random plateaus on random planets, everything felt impressive but a little static...then I found the time controls..oh my suddenly the universe was alive, epic sunrises, comets, asteroids all dancing through space, stumbling to the Andromeda galaxy, being terrified by a black hole it was all insanely breath taking..I took the headset off and had lost FIVE HOURS!!! Lucky I wasn't considering a refund!!

    I really need to finally pick that up. It's been in my wishlist for ages. Is there a cockpit of sorts or just open locomotion? I'd love to explore a realistic space environment from within a ship, similar to Lone Echo environment and graphics, but with the gameplay of No Man's Sky.

    Robinson said:
     

    Anyway it would be pretty amazing if you could just pop the headset on, press a button in Daz and sit at the camera position, looking around the scene.  We'll add that as an enhancement request shall we? :p

    This is an early access game on steam called Mirage which is basically a Unity VR veiwer for DAZ figures. It's fairly basic at the moment with 3 female figures, all the basic DAZ morphs and a ton of preloaded mixamo animations, but the developer just quite his day job to work on it full time and hopes to have an importer in one of the next versions for DAZ content along with lots of other features. Animation in VR and in real time is just amazing.

  • Just wondering, have any of you guys tried using Glycon3D in combination with Daz Studio? I'm contemplating buying a headset to create mocap body and hand animations but I'm not too sure if it's possible to get the mocap inside DAz.

  • This is an early access game on steam called Mirage which is basically a Unity VR veiwer for DAZ figures. It's fairly basic at the moment with 3 female figures, all the basic DAZ morphs and a ton of preloaded mixamo animations, but the developer just quite his day job to work on it full time and hopes to have an importer in one of the next versions for DAZ content along with lots of other features. Animation in VR and in real time is just amazing.

    I bet you any money it's not going to be very good, mostly because if he uses the Daz rigging via FBX it'll be the mesh cage with no subdiv.  That's a hobby horse of mine btw!  I will open my wallet for the first person to nail that in Unreal Engine too.

  • KA1KA1 Posts: 1,012
    @FSMCDesigns I was floating around in space. I know they are adding ships to fly around in, not sure if you can pilot from a cockpit or not, it all looked 3rd person back then, there have been a LOT of updated since I last when on a universe exploration though so I need to check where it's at now, maybe exploring in a ship is now a thing, it had been requested.
  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,175
    edited October 2021

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  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,049

    My Quest 2 is arriving TODAY! laugh laughlaugh

    I have heard that with Virtual Desktop you can access Rift apps on the Quest! I was going to get a cable but people think that works even better. I guess they are discontinuing the Rift completely. 

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,676
    edited October 2020

    It's my birthday time of year again and I've been considering VR this year.  Some sort of Occulus.  But I'm not really interested in games or travelogues, I'd like to create my own VR environments & scenes.  What else would I need?  I know spherical photography and have some of my own HDRIs.  But what else is necessary to use DAZ as a generator of scenes?  I'm looking at the bottom line to see how scary it is. indecision

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  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,783

    My Quest 2 is arriving TODAY! laugh laughlaugh

    I have heard that with Virtual Desktop you can access Rift apps on the Quest! I was going to get a cable but people think that works even better. I guess they are discontinuing the Rift completely. 

    I literally just got my Quest 2 from Amazon 10 minutes ago. I still plan to get a Reverb G2 next year when I upgrade my PC, but I figure this will work to replace my Rift S (It has higher resolution) and since it has native apps for netflix and Amazon prime, it'll work for my media also.

    I haven't installed the DAZ Unity bridge yet, BUT when you open Unity and create a new project, there is an option to view it, interact with it in VR, so I plan on checking out the bridge this weekend.

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,049

    My Quest 2 is arriving TODAY! laugh laughlaugh

    I have heard that with Virtual Desktop you can access Rift apps on the Quest! I was going to get a cable but people think that works even better. I guess they are discontinuing the Rift completely. 

    I literally just got my Quest 2 from Amazon 10 minutes ago. I still plan to get a Reverb G2 next year when I upgrade my PC, but I figure this will work to replace my Rift S (It has higher resolution) and since it has native apps for netflix and Amazon prime, it'll work for my media also.

    I haven't installed the DAZ Unity bridge yet, BUT when you open Unity and create a new project, there is an option to view it, interact with it in VR, so I plan on checking out the bridge this weekend.

    Just got mine from Amazon too! It’s downloading software now. So excited! 

    Now if we could natively view Daz Studio in VR...

  • davesodaveso Posts: 7,175
    edited October 2021

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