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Sounds like it will arrive just in time for my next business trip so I’m SOL on using it, if so. It’s okay. I still need to go through some Steam games and pick a few to add prior to it arriving.

4480

Lone Echo and Echo VR are actually superior to Alyx as far as body presence. Taking VR into zero G and making your legs not a thing are a perfect implementation. Lone Echo is a much, much inferior game as games go, but the body mechanics are perfect. Echo Combat, when it hopefully comes to Quest, is suddenly the VR game you always dreamed about, except again a bit sparse on the options.

And by inferior I just mean it’s essentially an adventure story and not an FPS, it’s still a great game, just hampered by not having Valve money behind it.

4481

Yeah, I was interested in both those games but I don’t want to put any money into the Facebook ecosystem.

4482

I did not pre-order in July, alas.

4483

https://www.oculus.com/blog/the-first-gift-of-the-season-oculus-quest-update-adds-native-90hz-support-a-new-fitness-tracker-and-more/

But 2020 isn’t over yet, and we have a few more surprises left before the holidays. At Connect we teased various improvements to the Quest Platform, including a new system-level fitness tracker and support for 90Hz gaming on Quest 2—both natively and through Oculus Link. We’re excited to start rolling out those features with today’s v23 software update, which also coincides with Oculus Link exiting beta!

If that’s not enough, we’re also enabling app gifting later this month. Surprise!

4484

OK, in the Ain’t That Some Shit department, getting my Q2 going with my PC is proving to be… endless amusing.

I started off using this decent USB 2 cable I had for link. It wasn’t great. Lots of reprojection on games like Star Wars Squadrons. Alyx was unplayable.

So, I said, let’s go the wireless route. Bought a new router because my old one, while 5G, only had 10/100 LAN connections.

So, geared up, 833 Mhz from VD, clear channel at 163 for 5G and… well. Once again anything I wanted to play in VR on the PC was not up to speed. (Note for anyone else using the sideloaded VD - what GPU usage are you getting JUST when having VD going? Mine is 75%. Not sure if that’s normal.)

So I pretty much consigned myself to using the Q2 as a headtracker for non-VR games, which it does admirably.

Then today, just for giggles, I went back to that USB 2 cable I have and used it with link. No other changes other than this time, I’m not launching the Steam VD. Instead, I added SWS as a “non-steam game”. I launch Rift link, launch Steam VR, and use it to launch SWS… and SWS is now suddenly fine. No reprojection (black squares) when I turn my head. I have to lower SWS to low-medium settings to get a smooth framerate, but otherwise it’s fine.

So I’ll probably repurchase Alyx and see what I get now. Native Quest 2 TWD has gotten me trained for smooth movement, so that’s nice.

Man, this feels like endlessly tweaking config.sys files in DOS to get that last 5K of low memory. I’m gonna wait and see if Oculus’ USB 3 cable comes down in price, otherwise I’ll live with my neato USB 2 cable and sound over my PC speakers for now.

4485

Ohohohoho War Thunder works flawlessly in Link VR.

Now I can just kick the tires and light the fires without worrying about all that toe brakes crap

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Are you sure it’s a USB2 cable? Shouldn’t work with that. You need USB3.0 (which usually has blue connectors on both the cable and the PC receptacle.)

Wireless and wired should use exactly the same amount of your GPU. There’s nothing extra going on there.

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I am a happy cat. Alyx and everything else works now for some mysterious reason, even with my not-Oculus cable. I can retire my CV1. Anyone want a somewhat-used CV1 for cheap? :)

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Full changelog

I’d say with v23 we will have the real Quest 2, previously it was just a beta.

4489

Wow, who’da thunk that you’d turn out to be such a VR enthusiast that you’re retiring yours even before I do!

4490

Oooo web casting! Very cool!

4491

I just finally spent some quality time with EchoVR on the Quest2. Wow. I don’t usually go for the competitive MP eSport think, but that was really slick and fun. Even though I was playing with randos everyone was pretty chill.

Although there’s a lot of movement I didn’t feel motion sick as all.

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Yeah echo vr is amazing. I need to pick it back up again.

4493

I like my Quest 2 - I really do. But ultimately, I want to sit down and play games in my comfortable chair I’ve found. I am quite happy I got the cheaper Quest 2, than the rather expensive HP Reverb G2 instead to find out it spends most of its time on the shelf.
It simply feels like too much work to clear a space in the living room, and standing there with a huge helmet on for more than 30 minutes at a time. And thats a shame!

I am still happy with the purchase though - It was a blast to see what VR can do - but even the Quest 2 has some serious issues for casual gamers - especially if you try out the Link thing, which admittedly I haven’t tried since the last update, but it was flakey at best before.

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Have you tried many sit-down games that focus on head movement and gamepad? If you need to clear space then i can see why it doesn’t get much use. Games are usually for the lazy part of the day!

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If I sit down in my chair, I hav to move the chair away from the coffee table its set up against. Again, on its own its not a big deal at all, and it sounds silly, but its what detracts me from doing it.

In my leisure time, I tend to take the path of least resistance, I have to admit :-)

4496

Try flying or driving in VR.

4497

Try the Link again when you get the v23 update that enables 90hz. The also improved the visual quality. If you can crank it up to 300+ bandwidth it looks really good!