The official "NEWS FROM THE SOCIAL NETWORKS" thread

Immersion or image quality, pick one.
This is today's reality.
What HMD is worth picking up today?
Significantly overpriced and underdeveloped Vive Pro, that still uses awful first gen fresnel lenses, Odyssey that has the same resolution at half the price but sports terrible tracking, ergonomics, and controllers.
Oculus didn't announce anything at E3. AAA game studios seem like abandoning VR train by stopping developing games for it. Quite worrying trend.
https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/266791-high-end-vr-market-dead

 

Oh god, please stop talking about VR or the forum police will smite us....

 

The problem for next gen vr headsets is the hardware isn't there to support it. Or its horribly expensive, most people with vr at the moment probably spent a lot of money on their current setup and wont be in a rush to spend more upgrading again.

The oculus is probably the cheapest way to get into sim racing because you can avoid the cost of controllers and tracking is top class.

Once you get used to it the immersion is so good you can forgive the poor resolution.

 

Odyssey is the same price with better resolution, is it really that bad in other areas to choose CV1 over it?

 

I havent been following it but I thought it had tracking issues. They could have been patched by now. I would assume the rift would get higher frame on the lower res rift too.

 

VR is much more than resolution, strange thing that your brain can adjust to low resolution, much less to other issues in the overall experience... That being said for some people the resolution of current headsets are still a blocking issue. I'm pretty sure Oculus works behind the scenes though, hopefully they'll come up with an improved version soon enough.

 

I do not miss the sharpness of a monitor at all with my CV1. The advantage of VR beats the lower sharpness ten times.

 

Immersion all the way.

 

I assume that some of you guys watched the Le Mans race over the weekend? What did you think of that Porsche driver weaving from one side of the track to the other in front of the Ford GT driver?

 

I feel asleep, most boring race ever. Was there even a crash or overtake?

 

Illegal blocking, as far as I could tell. And he was penalised for it. Had to let the Ford pass. But then passed him again just after, lol.

 

I remember "No Further Action" for the weaving, I assume it wasn't to block him, but to cut the drag.
Later he pushed him into the dirt, which should have him penalised, but he wasn't.

 

I don't think it was illegal because he didn't block him into the braking zone, so he didn't get a penalty. But everyone on the net interprets rules their own way and the race director is always wrong, so... *shrug*

 

I don't know if the rules for GT racing are different than they are for Formula One, but more than one move is illegal in the latter whether it is to block an overtaking attempt, or to avoid the car behind using the slipstream effect. If this holds true in GT racing (and I suspect that it does), then it is difficult to understand why the Porsche driver was not penalised at Le Mans....

 

Because everyone slept through this event

 

I slept and i was a few hundred metres from the cars Still a bloody awesome week, Le Mans is incredible even if some of the racing this year was a little contrived. Planning for next years endurace race starts tomorrow!

 

he handle the car so nice. Its a fantastic clip!

 

Wrong thread

 

Well, also this type of driving shows quite well why tuners and bike riders are hated by many ppl. despite it's only a fraction that act this way.

 

I dont know if its a german thing but i havent met much ppl that have anything against bikers or ppl that tune their cars.