VR - Is it really going to be a success? Or, thanks Time for starting a discussion!

[Matt_W]

@Clay

any real reason to prefer the 128 Gb over the 64?

I’ve had my 64GB for over a year, have tons of games for it, and storage has never been an issue. The 128 GB is an unnecessary extravagance.

@Clay

All other things being equal, and my laptop being the possible limiting reagent, what’s the best VR rig to pick up these days? I should mention that I’d like my kids to use it in a limited capacity and that my wife also might use it for some rhythm games or something. Ease of use would matter with my wife, but I’d supervise my kids regardless of what we got.

Definitely get the Quest. If your laptop has the chops to handle VR you can still play tethered games on it, but it being wireless and standalone means you can take it when you travel, move it from room to room and it’s just put-on-and-go.

[Mellified]

Counterpoint - I have only games on my 128GB Quest and it is completely full. Between my wife, kids, and myself we like different games, so there’s a lot of sprawl.

You cannot upgrade or use external storage so choose wisely.

[schurem]

@Mellified

Counterpoint - I have only some games and a metric fuckton of pr0n on my 128GB Quest and it is completely full. Between my wife, kids, and myself we like different games, so there’s a lot of sprawl.

FTFY…

[Mellified]

No, I stream the pr0n to save room for games!

[GatInDaHat]

I’ve got visions of that scene in Maniac where that guy is scolding his soldier in vr…

[Matt_W]

@Mellified

Counterpoint - I have only games on my 128GB Quest and it is completely full. Between my wife, kids, and myself we like different games, so there’s a lot of sprawl.

Do you have lots of custom Beat Saber songs? I’m just curious how you fill up 128GB. I have installed right now:

• Tetris Effect
• Beat Saber and all official packs
• The Room VR
• The Climb
• Thrill of the Fight
• Audica
• Pistol Whip
• Gadgeteer
• Space Pirate Trainer
• Real VR Fishing
• Vader Immortal: Ep 1
• Superhot VR
• Dreadhalls
• I Expect You to Die
• Star Trek Bridge Crew
• Red Matter
• Raccoon Lagoon
• Job Simulator
• Tilt Brush
• National Geographic Explores
  and a few other random VR experiences like Notes on Blindness and Mission: ISS

I still have almost 17GB of my 64GB free.

[Mellified]

I want to have several games installed at the same time to account for different tastes.

[arrendek]

You do know you can uninstall games and install them again later, right?

Clay, as you can see, 64 is fine

[Matt_W]

OK, you’re right… that’s how you fill up 128 GB :)

[rowe33]

Holy crap, is that basically every Quest game? That’s intense!

[TurinTur]

This is cool

Oculus Quest Now Warns About Furniture In Guardian Setup

[TurinTur]

https://www.oculus.com/blog/celebrating-the-one-year-anniversary-of-oculus-quest-and-rift-s/

Today we’re announcing that just a few days shy of Quest’s first anniversary, people have spent more than $100M on Quest content. During last month’s Facebook: Game Developers Showcase, we announced that more than 20 titles have surpassed the $1M revenue mark on Quest alone. Now, we’re thrilled to share that more than 10 titles have generated over $2M in revenue on Quest since we started shipping last year

Next update hand tracking will get out of the ‘experimental apps’ ghetto, these apps will be updated at the end of the month to implement it:

Elixir: Explore an unstable alchemy lab to obtain new and powerful hands, cast spells, mix potions, and poke a nauseated dragon. All of which will have an—unexpected—effect on the anatomy of your fingers, and it’s nobody’s fault but your own.
The Curious Tale of the Stolen Pets: Help your grandfather solve the mystery of the stolen pets by exploring wonderful miniature worlds crafted from the ground up for VR. Every world is unique, full of interactions and colorful life.
Waltz of the Wizard: An experience that lets you feel what it’s like to have magical powers! Combine arcane ingredients into a cauldron, unleashing creative or destructive wizardry upon a fully interactive world designed to feel believable.
Two award-winning immersive experiences are launching as the Cinematic Narratives Set, both with hand tracking enabled on Quest. Featuring the voice of Colin Farrell, Gloomy Eyes tells the story of a zombie kid and a mortal girl who fall in love, forging a deep connection that not even the most powerful man in town can destroy. The Line portrays a world of miniatures where routine is paramount and everything is always the same—until it’s not. Get your hands on these interactive films May 28.

Also
https://www.oculus.com/blog/keep-groovin-20-new-maps-coming-soon-to-beat-saber-in-free-update/
https://www.oculus.com/blog/introducing-the-ability-to-post-to-select-facebook-groups-with-your-oculus-username/

And remote work apps

Immersed helps optimize your focus and productivity, whether solo or collaborating with your team, by immersing you in a distraction-free VR workspace. People can connect Immersed wirelessly to their Oculus Go or Quest to their computer to access up to five additional virtual screens, which can be multi-screen-shared with peers. Colleagues can teleport into the same space to collaborate and even whiteboard together. Planned updates include the ability to connect your computers to your headset simultaneously, workspace customization, presentation mode, team/user-access management, workflow-integration, and more. Immersed is coming to the Oculus Store on Quest this summer.
Spatial is a VR/AR collaboration platform that allows people to work across distance as if they were in the same room, without the need for video conferencing or work travel. “We’ve seen a massive uptick in customer demand from prosumers and companies of all shapes and sizes who are having to rethink business models as they navigate a new and unknown territory,” says Spatial CEO and Co-Founder Anand Agarawala. “Connectedness has never been more needed than it is today—on both a practical, productivity level but also helping us feel closer to our coworkers, colleagues, or friends. With Spatial we can feel like we’re in the same room again working side by side, instantly changing the dynamic of any meeting.” Look for Spatial to hit the Oculus Store in the coming months.

[Matt_W]

Aw man, those new Beat Saber maps are just new 360° and single saber maps.

[Mellified]

You can uninstall Quest games. But most games do not use Ocukus’ cloud save system so uninstalling means you lose all your progress. I have backed up and restored my saves via SideQuest, but there isn’t a one-click “backup just my saves” option. Makes it tedious.

[Clay]

@arrendek

Clay, as you can see, 64 is fine

👀 I think 64 will work fo me.

Now, I need to find one.

[TurinTur]

They have added the ability to load up the next scene in the Quill theater app,cool

[Mellified]

Also:

On May 21 we’ll kick off an anniversary sale, “A Year of Quest,” to commemorate one full year of all-in-one VR gaming and entertainment. That same day, we’ll open up a sale on the Rift Platform to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Rift S!

[Don_Quixote]

I picked up Megaton Rainfall this morning for PSVR. It’d been sitting in my shopping cart on the playstation store, waiting for a sale that never came, and when I went to pick up Sinking City this morning, I just decided ‘screw it, $15 isn’t too much’.

It downloaded quickly, so I decided to mess around with it while SC was still downloading. It’s a superhero simulator, with the aesthetics and budget of an Earth Defense Force game. Also, a really weird quasi-religious thing going on, but lets just skip over that. Also, also, apparently built pretty much by one dude, and it’s pretty impressive for that.

After a few missions in, I’d say it was certainly worth the $15. Some of the controls and gestures are a bit wonky and don’t always trigger when you want them to, but on some level, that’s kind of the point. You’re invulnerable, and can fly. The only way you ‘lose’ is by too much of the city and its people getting killed. So causing collateral damage is bad, but the aiming/triggering is bad, so you kind of can’t help it. That said, there are leaderboards for a ‘Score Attack’ mode on each of the missions, and people get through them with an A rating, so obviously it’s possible to get better. In between each mission you get new powers, so always something new happening. Oh, yeah, and the game is a crazy kind of open world- I’m pretty sure he imported real satellite data of some sort, you can (and do) fly up into orbit (or farther…), and come down anywhere you want- there’s landmarks and cities and whatnot (pyramids in egypt, and the Taj Mahal, for example). Sure, it’s all pretty janky and low-res, but the scope is neat.

[Mellified]

If anyone besides @Clay is looking…
https://www.amazon.com/Oculus-Quest-All-Gaming-System-PC/dp/B07HNW68ZC/

EDIT: Nevermind, sold out at $399 already.

EDIT EDIT: Looks to be available from Oculus again!

Oculus Quest: All-in-One VR Headset | Oculus

[Quaro]

The Quest pops up a few times a week at BestBuy, Amazon, and a few others. Also the official Oculus Store but it takes a few weeks to get delivered from there. You pretty have have to use an alert website to snag one but they are some that come out every week in a trickle.