The Official Virtual Reality Thread (PCVR / QUEST / PSVR2)

Plus the PC modding scene is great with RE8, RE7 and RE2/3 remakes and Alien Isolation, Half Life 2 and lots more and with the VR injector mod coming any unreal engine game like Jedi Fallen Order will be playable in VR and can be played with a gamepad but any modders can use the injector mod to add motion controls as well.

Great times ahead for pc VR games

Just back from Zero Latency VR in Nottingham.

30 minute game felt like 5 mins to be honest. My first real VR experience so perhaps will spoil me if I go for a PSVR2.

6 players in a large open room environment shootin zombies. Was a great time, worked up quite a sweat but would have preferred a longer game.

Think they were HP branded but yeah, backpacks and comms between the 6 of us. Was a bit frantic in places. At one point had to make my way up a ramp (think a couple of planks wide) on the outside of a skyscraper. That was an interesting first taste of verticality!

Sure, the game was pretty simplistic but very enjoyable.

There are proximity warnings when any player gets too close to the walls and players - to the point where the game pauses for all players until safe distance is resumed.

Strictly no running as you'd likely beat the warning reaction time and knock yourself out!

Still, there was enough action that you didn't need to run to find it. Plenty of walking and spinning around and checking the entry points.

Seems they have an UBI tie-in as there is a Far Cry VR game - so I'm not sure how that open world look will be handled. Looked like an Assasin Creed Oddysey was being touted soon too.

£30 for 30 mins was quite steep, so likely be a while before I try it again, but I'd definitely go again.

I finally got my new video card yesterday. Played HL Alyx for the first time on the Quest 2 over Air link.

Incredible so far. A head crab had me shrieking.

The only issue is that the Quest 2 is so uncomfortable for sessions over 40 mins. Also not sure if my aim is a bit crap or the guns are slightly more realistic in Alyx.

I still have my Dell WMR, I can borrow a Quest 2 but similar thing where it just doesnt fit my head well.

I'm hanging back and praying for PSVR 2 pc drivers, by the time that dream is dead hopefully someone puts out a comfy one for me.

I’ve had the Index since launch, still gets used every week, mainly for flight sim, although I just finished The Room VR, which I can recommend. But you absolutely need to get hl:Alyx eventually. Don’t start out with it though, it’s still the best thing in VR imo. The Lab is a good free starting point.

I picked up an Index at the start of the year, and use it pretty much every week. Can second that Alyx is awesome, and still probably the high watermark of a good VR game, though I've also spent way more time than I should in Skyrim VR (albeit with a *lot* of mods that add the stuff that should have been in the base game, so standard Skyrim really).

Only thing I find frustrating is seeing a cool looking VR game on the horizon, and then finding out that it's Quest exclusive. There is, fortunately, a good modding community that is adding VR capabilities to other games. The Outer Wilds VR mod in particular is truly excellent.

This mod is being made because of the sex scene, isn't it?



It is looking likely that Valve will do a successor to the Index at some point, but I wouldn't worry about it being any time soon. They have filed a few relevant patents, so something is definitely being worked on, but with no official word I expect it will be quite a wait, if they ever do actually release something. Even if it is fairly soon, I expect your Index will retain a good amount of its value for some time, so upgrading wouldn't be that expensive.

Maybe I should think about upgrading my Vive to an Index. Anyone done that move and felt it was a worthwhile upgrade? On paper, it always felt like not much of one, but does seem that the Index is still the best you can get. Already have the Index controllers and the base stations from my Vive, so I would only need to buy the headset, which is surprisingly not that expensive, when compared to the price of the full kit.

I had it working pretty well on Quest with Link, but I discovered it was because I was in DX12 mode. Back to DX11, now it’s like butter.

I have a ps5, and obviously the new PS VR appeals, but for some reason I'm more interested in picking up a quest 2.

I have young kids with limited game time, and my wife has started playing Hogwarts Legacy on the ps5 which limits access to that.

So the Quest seems to me like the best option, as it's standalone and can be used when the PS5 is occupied. I've also read that you can stream more demanding games to the Quest2 with a subscription service, if you don't have a PC capable of playing them. Has anyone tried this, as I've heard so much about HL Alyx that I'd love to try it.

I hear there's a new Quest coming this autumn probably so would be waiting for that one rather than the quest 2

Bunch of new games announced for Meta

www.eurogamer.net/powerwash-simulator-vr-and-more-get-meta-quest-gaming-showcase-reveals

There are quite a few nice sounding games there. Now I just need to hear confirmation these are going to be available on something that doesn't have Zuckerberg's grubby hands all over it. Valve undercutting the Quest 3 announcement with an Index 2 announcement would be nice too.

/ watches YouTube video of said Swarm game and I feel sick.

Think I’ll stick to iB cricket