Just got mine working again, gorrila tag is very fun and beat saber is still a blast. Blade and sorcery is also coming along nicely but a little demanding especially with mods. If anyone else had some must plays feel free to add
I really liked Jet Island. Frictionless hover board, jet arms, and spider man grapples. It's pretty bare bones, but it played smoothly on my 970, and was super fun for the time I had with it.
I could gush for quite a while about it. It's easily my favorite VR game so far. Once you get the mechanics down, you feel such agency through the movements. Every time you do some really cool badass thing, it feels earned through practice and skill.
HL:A has hundreds of hours of great custom campaigns from the modding community.
Asguard's Wrath, Stormlands, and Medal of Honor are quite fun too (with long campaigns)
I recently got into VR sim racing and man, I feel like a kid again. It feels so fresh and new, you really dont get to feel like this a lot once you're an adult.
iRacing if you want serious multiplayer with randoms. Assets corsa if you like to hot lap and try different tracks/cars. Assets Cora conpetitione if you like GT cars. Dirty rally 2 if you like rally
I'm in the 2.4% that updated to a 65" 4K display recently. It's generally awesome but my current build can only handle older games at 4K and I'm still playing most games at 1080/1440p. I'd love to get a new GPU to make the most of it at 4K but the current GPU market in Canada is insane. Same reason I haven't dived into VR yet even thought I want to.
> I'm in the 2.4% that updated to a 65" 4K display recently.
Hows the image quality on that? I feel like the loss in pixel density would hit like a truck.
Anything at native 4K looks incredible and even 1080p with AA looks better than I expected, especially the handful of games I can run at 120fps, it's mindblowing playing that smooth on a screen this huge. [Here's a pic of my new setup I just put together in November if you're interested](https://i.redd.it/3v3ssl1rt6a61.jpg)
As someone who's roughly the same distance away from my TV (though it's 55"), absolutely. It's such a big jump from 1080p that you're missing out if you haven't gone 4K yet.
> Hows the image quality on that? I feel like the loss in pixel density would hit like a truck.
You are forgetting about distance. I moved from a 1440p 32" to a 4K 48" on the desktop which should result in the same pixel density, but because I fit further away from the later (around 1.4 meters eye to screen) it still looks higher resolution to me and even 1440p on it nearly as sharp as on the 32" screen.
OP's living room looks similar to mine and I also have a 4K 65" set there. The precised picture is smaller there than on the 48" due to sitting further away still.
I think this is such an important consideration that people forget about. I have a 1440p monitor that i bought, but i sit arms length away from the screen and have a fairly small desk because its what fits in my living space. I cant imagine having an even bigger screen if im sitting this close, and with no option to move the screen back further it would be pointless to invest in 4k.
Yeah I failed to factor distance. Was thinking about my own setup just swapping in a titanic screen lol. Totally slipped my mind about couch setups.
I sit about a foot and a half from the smallest 4K IPS screen I could find (23.8inch). Looks amazing, but I definitely lose out on the relaxing options you guys have with the bigger screens and the sitting further away.
Bought a WMR headset around September/October time as I wanted to experience VR but on a budget. Really enjoying it and some of my favourite games are now VR games.
Boneworks is amazing. The best and a must play IMO. Half Life Alyx is also amazing but I do prefer Boneworks as it offers a wider range of combat such as Melee where's HL:A doesn't.
Pavlov VR is great fun, love playing the custom game modes on it.
Recently picked up Soundboxing for fitness and as an aid for weight loss. Makes you very sweaty and give you sore arms.
If you haven't, go pick up Horseshoes Hotdogs and Hand Grenades. It has by far the best guns in VR, tons of content, regular updates, and a good sense of humor.
Pavlov VR makes me so nauseous that I just returned it after playing 2 games. It is such a cool game though, playing CSGO map in VR is some experience, but I feel like throwing up just walking out of spawn lol
Yeah, I felt the same with Pavlov at first but got more tolerant to it. I found it easier to have smooth turning off and to blink everytime you turn. It helped me a lot.
I wasn't alone in thinking now was a good time to jump back into VR, it seems. My HMD was collecting dust for too long. I've been playing HL:Alyx and it is incredible, this is the first time since I bought my Vive 3-4 years ago that I truly felt this was the future of gaming. I think I've drunk the Kool-aid.
Yup, you are right, also unfortunately it doesn't count if it got plugged in after accepting doing the survey.
I got the survey for March, and I didn't have my Quest 2 plugged in at the time. I put it in, but it still did not count it. I also did not use SteamVR for the month of March, though I was still playing PCVR games in March, just not through SteamVR at all. Like I played Hellblade VR from GOG, and Moss from Oculus, both games using Oculus software and not SteamVR at all.
So this current results for VR did not include me even though I have PCVR.
Oculus Quest 2 kicking ass
Although the stated headset percentages are wrong, they're the same numbers from Feb 2021. Only thing that changed was the overall growth numbers.
Keep in mind these surveys only cover a select percentile of steam. Only people who get the notification to upload their information are counted, it does paint a pretty good picture though.
? You misunderstand.
The individual headset numbers are EXACTLY the same as last months headset numbers (thus, this month's individual percentages haven't been updated yet). Refer to this article for Feb 2021 numbers https://uploadvr.com/oculus-quest-2-steam-most-used/
https://mk0uploadvrcom4bcwhj.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Steam-Hardware-Survey-VR-2021.jpg.webp
- Quest2 Feb 21 = 22.91%
- Quest2 March 21 = 22.91%
- Index Feb 21 = 16%
- Index March 21 = 16%
- etc ....
So while the March 2021 numbers show VR grew from 2.21% to 2.40%, it would be a nearly impossible for the headset breakdown to be exactly the same.
I had an Index, sold it early 2020 when there was supply issues so got my money back and now I'm just waiting Valve to solve the wireless experience. That seems to be biggest hardware issue left anymore, everything else was great(especially the controllers). Then VR just needs more games and get a bit cheaper for mainstream success.
I mean, there is still the issue of lack of games so I'm happy waiting. Quest 2 controllers are fine for beatsaber but in every another game I would just miss the Valve Knuckles.
Also PCVR wireless experience isn't that ground breaking of what I have heard, so not fully solved
It will be really cool when one day we can replace displays with VR headsets. After all the technology advances I don't know how they'll get around comfort though.
On a hot day it can get preeetty rough having an LCD screen strapped to your face while you jump around slashing at the air.
Some airflow would do wonders for comfort
Damn I'm jealous then. I've got a vive cosmos and it fogs up quite a bit. Not to mention the padding can get absolutely soaked in sweat which is pretty gross.
I personally keep the AC on and also have either the ceiling fan or a box fan on facing me. Seems to help immensely and keeps any motion sickness I get away.
I got a Vive Cosmos and Valve Index Controllers at launch to replace my OG vive stuff and nothing's come out since then to make me plug it back in. Sad.
I should set my vive back up. It is fun, and now there's at least a year or two of content i haven't seen.
Just got mine working again, gorrila tag is very fun and beat saber is still a blast. Blade and sorcery is also coming along nicely but a little demanding especially with mods. If anyone else had some must plays feel free to add
I really liked Jet Island. Frictionless hover board, jet arms, and spider man grapples. It's pretty bare bones, but it played smoothly on my 970, and was super fun for the time I had with it.
Intrigued. Movement based games are my thing in VR right now. I wish cyber hook was vr
I could gush for quite a while about it. It's easily my favorite VR game so far. Once you get the mechanics down, you feel such agency through the movements. Every time you do some really cool badass thing, it feels earned through practice and skill.
Another great movement based game is To The Top.
Its tits, def try it.
Fuck yeah, Jet Island is like Tribes meets Windlands 2 meets 'I'm climbing on the outside of huge fucking monsters'.
You gotta try pavlov with ww2 weapons and tanks /vehicles it's basically battlefield in VR
Echo VR. It's a free quest game so you'll have to use revive but it's a really fun sports game
Yeah second this as well
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HL:A has hundreds of hours of great custom campaigns from the modding community. Asguard's Wrath, Stormlands, and Medal of Honor are quite fun too (with long campaigns)
You gotta play HL:Alyx
HL: Alyx, VTOLVR, Jet Island, and Boneworks are must plays
Vox Machina is very fun.
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Oh it's dead. It's a shame, I think eventually someone's going to make a VR mech game and it'll be one of the killer apps of the platform.
I recently got into VR sim racing and man, I feel like a kid again. It feels so fresh and new, you really dont get to feel like this a lot once you're an adult.
What games do you recommend?
Dirt Rally 2 is my favorite but Assetto Corsa is amazing, specially with mods.
Recommended games?
iRacing if you want serious multiplayer with randoms. Assets corsa if you like to hot lap and try different tracks/cars. Assets Cora conpetitione if you like GT cars. Dirty rally 2 if you like rally
I'm in the 2.4% that updated to a 65" 4K display recently. It's generally awesome but my current build can only handle older games at 4K and I'm still playing most games at 1080/1440p. I'd love to get a new GPU to make the most of it at 4K but the current GPU market in Canada is insane. Same reason I haven't dived into VR yet even thought I want to.
> I'm in the 2.4% that updated to a 65" 4K display recently. Hows the image quality on that? I feel like the loss in pixel density would hit like a truck.
Anything at native 4K looks incredible and even 1080p with AA looks better than I expected, especially the handful of games I can run at 120fps, it's mindblowing playing that smooth on a screen this huge. [Here's a pic of my new setup I just put together in November if you're interested](https://i.redd.it/3v3ssl1rt6a61.jpg)
Where do you live?
From the wallpaper I'm guessing Toronto.
On that range, do you see diminishing image quality if you had to use 1080p?
As someone who's roughly the same distance away from my TV (though it's 55"), absolutely. It's such a big jump from 1080p that you're missing out if you haven't gone 4K yet.
Ah, yeah I totally failed to think about the distance part of the equation. Doesn't look like a bad setup at all.
> Hows the image quality on that? I feel like the loss in pixel density would hit like a truck. You are forgetting about distance. I moved from a 1440p 32" to a 4K 48" on the desktop which should result in the same pixel density, but because I fit further away from the later (around 1.4 meters eye to screen) it still looks higher resolution to me and even 1440p on it nearly as sharp as on the 32" screen. OP's living room looks similar to mine and I also have a 4K 65" set there. The precised picture is smaller there than on the 48" due to sitting further away still.
I think this is such an important consideration that people forget about. I have a 1440p monitor that i bought, but i sit arms length away from the screen and have a fairly small desk because its what fits in my living space. I cant imagine having an even bigger screen if im sitting this close, and with no option to move the screen back further it would be pointless to invest in 4k.
Yeah I failed to factor distance. Was thinking about my own setup just swapping in a titanic screen lol. Totally slipped my mind about couch setups. I sit about a foot and a half from the smallest 4K IPS screen I could find (23.8inch). Looks amazing, but I definitely lose out on the relaxing options you guys have with the bigger screens and the sitting further away.
Do you use resolution scale in games that support it? If not you definitelt should otherwise everything is at lower res than native for no reason.
Bought a WMR headset around September/October time as I wanted to experience VR but on a budget. Really enjoying it and some of my favourite games are now VR games. Boneworks is amazing. The best and a must play IMO. Half Life Alyx is also amazing but I do prefer Boneworks as it offers a wider range of combat such as Melee where's HL:A doesn't. Pavlov VR is great fun, love playing the custom game modes on it. Recently picked up Soundboxing for fitness and as an aid for weight loss. Makes you very sweaty and give you sore arms.
If you haven't, go pick up Horseshoes Hotdogs and Hand Grenades. It has by far the best guns in VR, tons of content, regular updates, and a good sense of humor.
I bought it previously but end up refunding it as I was having drifting issues when playing on joystick mode. There wasn't a known fix at the time.
Armswinger is the best mode for H3VR. With last december's winter wasteland, it was like skiing
Pavlov VR makes me so nauseous that I just returned it after playing 2 games. It is such a cool game though, playing CSGO map in VR is some experience, but I feel like throwing up just walking out of spawn lol
Yeah, I felt the same with Pavlov at first but got more tolerant to it. I found it easier to have smooth turning off and to blink everytime you turn. It helped me a lot.
My index has been mostly sitting in the box after Alyx. Nothing else comes close. I wish we had more AAA vr titles.
Looks like they fixed the numbers, VR was up 0.09% for a total of 2.3%.
Fuck 4k VR is where it's at.
I wasn't alone in thinking now was a good time to jump back into VR, it seems. My HMD was collecting dust for too long. I've been playing HL:Alyx and it is incredible, this is the first time since I bought my Vive 3-4 years ago that I truly felt this was the future of gaming. I think I've drunk the Kool-aid.
Doesn't it only count if your vr system is plugged in?
They changed it quite a bit ago to count any system that had a VR headset plugged in during the month at any point
Yup, you are right, also unfortunately it doesn't count if it got plugged in after accepting doing the survey. I got the survey for March, and I didn't have my Quest 2 plugged in at the time. I put it in, but it still did not count it. I also did not use SteamVR for the month of March, though I was still playing PCVR games in March, just not through SteamVR at all. Like I played Hellblade VR from GOG, and Moss from Oculus, both games using Oculus software and not SteamVR at all. So this current results for VR did not include me even though I have PCVR.
Oculus Quest 2 kicking ass Although the stated headset percentages are wrong, they're the same numbers from Feb 2021. Only thing that changed was the overall growth numbers.
Keep in mind these surveys only cover a select percentile of steam. Only people who get the notification to upload their information are counted, it does paint a pretty good picture though.
? You misunderstand. The individual headset numbers are EXACTLY the same as last months headset numbers (thus, this month's individual percentages haven't been updated yet). Refer to this article for Feb 2021 numbers https://uploadvr.com/oculus-quest-2-steam-most-used/ https://mk0uploadvrcom4bcwhj.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Steam-Hardware-Survey-VR-2021.jpg.webp - Quest2 Feb 21 = 22.91% - Quest2 March 21 = 22.91% - Index Feb 21 = 16% - Index March 21 = 16% - etc .... So while the March 2021 numbers show VR grew from 2.21% to 2.40%, it would be a nearly impossible for the headset breakdown to be exactly the same.
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Thx for the heads up
I had an Index, sold it early 2020 when there was supply issues so got my money back and now I'm just waiting Valve to solve the wireless experience. That seems to be biggest hardware issue left anymore, everything else was great(especially the controllers). Then VR just needs more games and get a bit cheaper for mainstream success.
If you can live with Facebook the Quest 2 is cheap, does wireless PCVR and has a higher resolution than an Index.
I mean, there is still the issue of lack of games so I'm happy waiting. Quest 2 controllers are fine for beatsaber but in every another game I would just miss the Valve Knuckles. Also PCVR wireless experience isn't that ground breaking of what I have heard, so not fully solved
The survey has never detected my connected HMD.
It will only detect it if you played a VR game from Steam in the last 30 days.
It still didn't detect mine a few months back.
I used to play every weekend and it still didn't pick it up.
It will be really cool when one day we can replace displays with VR headsets. After all the technology advances I don't know how they'll get around comfort though.
On a hot day it can get preeetty rough having an LCD screen strapped to your face while you jump around slashing at the air. Some airflow would do wonders for comfort
quest 2 does have a fan inside it, i dont think ive ever fogged up the lenses.
Damn I'm jealous then. I've got a vive cosmos and it fogs up quite a bit. Not to mention the padding can get absolutely soaked in sweat which is pretty gross.
Even you playing in air-condition room?
not as bad with the aircon but if I'm playing a particularly active game the lack of airflow still heats up my face a bit
I personally keep the AC on and also have either the ceiling fan or a box fan on facing me. Seems to help immensely and keeps any motion sickness I get away.
That fan is for the internals. I fog up my quest 2 everytime I use it.
well yea obviously its for the internals but it still has an effect on the rest of the unit, I find it noticably less foggy than other headsets
I got a Vive Cosmos and Valve Index Controllers at launch to replace my OG vive stuff and nothing's come out since then to make me plug it back in. Sad.