Just tried AC in VR

90% of the time when I do this it looses sight with only one USB sensor. Or gets confused and upon returning to center the view is slightly reset. Sometimes it's more than slightly and I am sitting 5-8" down in my seat than where I was 2 seconds ago.. The vive with sensors literally 7-8' away do not have this issue. Partially due to the fact that there are two and thus it doesn't have to interpolate (guess) what the headset is doing. I've seen this dozens of times on the oculus including at work where we literally have a empty 20X20 room just for VR.

Nathan

 

You might want to reposion you Rift sensor, I have no problem looking back with my DK2 with none of the issue you are describing

 

Did not like it at all. Bad resolution and a sickening feeling when changin directions from one side to another. Went back to my 65 samsung single monitor. Maybe next generation I trye again.

 

Sounds like it was setup wrong and likely under the 90fps that is really needed. I know people who run with post efx on and reflections that prefer the eye candy - rather than working physics and seamless interaction/visibility.

NathanW

 

Sorry but I e tried it on 3 setups. 2 being at work where the room is dedicated. Quick 160 degree turn time and time again fails. I'm glad you have it working but I've never seen it working properly with one sensor.

 

I couldn't agree more Chris. I recently got the CV1 and i'm blown away at the level of immersion. Sitting there in the cockpit, its just another level. Having said all that, there is the element of picture quality but for me if I had to choose one over the other its easily VR. I'm running a gtx 970 so I will need to upgrade my GPU fairly soon, not too mention the CPU although at the moment I'm just doing hotlaps but soon as I start to race I suspect my CPU will be a bottleneck as well.

Also, just to throw it in there AC is one of the (if not the) best VR game at the moment. Thanks Kunos, keep up the good work.

 

PD goes a long way to helping with resolution. If anyone is using post effect i recommend using http://www.racedepartment.com/downloads/pp-filter-for-oculus-rift-cv1.13651/reviews

 

Thanks for sharing your views, always exciting to read people first impressions and continued impressions.
I too will be another joining amongst the VR Rifters in a couple of weeks.

Here is a query I have, can someone add their experiences.
With VR if also having a decent audio system with stereo or surround is this fine or does the immersion improve with decent headphones and the new latest patch?

 

I find VR driving more immersive with headphones.

 

Had the same problem in the beginning. Resolution was not really bothering me, I knew it wasn't going to be great, but I was getting nauseous as soon as I started moving, and it was especially bad in the corners. RHM and the right settings helped a lot, but I was still not completely comfortable. Then, after a few days, everything just "clicked", and suddenly I was able to drive for hours (and hours, and hours...) with no side-effects whatsoever.
It's just a matter of letting your brain adjust to it gradually, and then there's no turning back.

 

^ This. The first few times I tried AC (and Project Cars) in VR it made me feel really quite sick, especially on hilly tracks like Nords, but it passed after a few sessions. I would still get a sudden wave of nausea when the car came to a halt, I presume because my body was expecting that jolt back into the seat from a hard stop and not getting it, but after a few weeks that passed too. Now I have no problems at all.


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Agreed - just went back to headphones since the AC update improved positional audio and it's wonderful. But I've put in many hours with just 2.1 bookshelf-type speakers - it's fine if you don't want to or can't be "closed off" from the world.

 

I drive with the standard Vive in-ear headphones, they're not bad but I do wish for a bit more bass sometimes. I like using in-ears as you can wear both and get fully immersed in the game and then easily pop one out if you want hear what's happening around you IRL.

I like listening to podcasts, sometimes I'll do both and go for a hill climb up Trento Bondone with one Vive earbud in one ear and another from my iPhone in the other ear. Often my girlfriend will find me chuckling away to Radio 4's News Quiz as I try and thread an F1 GTR up the mountain. I'm sure she'll be sighing and shaking her head at me, but being lost in VR I guess I'll never know.


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Will do. I actually got to try out the Playstation VR the other day. I only got to try one of the 360 videos on youtube as they were having trouble with internet connection and the demo disk required a hefty update patch before it would run.

But it gave an idea of what the full experience would be like. The video I watched was some action sequence where I was sitting in the back seat of a car. One of my concerns watching others play VR on youtube was how you could see the guys feet, and the ceiling but the windscreen area looked like a small letterbox and I was worried about how much detail I would be able to see out the windscreen. I'm not as worried anymore, while the screens in the VR headset have your feet and the ceiling you don't' actually see those things unless you look up or down at them, the windscreen takes up the majority of what you can see if your eyes are looking forward.

Imagine a screen moving right up to your face and when it get's to a few cm away from your nose it just sort of wraps around you. When you're face is a few cm from the screen if you want to see what's at the top of the screen you have to look up at it.

I did feel a bit light headed, I'd put that down to the videos being shot from a fixed point at this stage.

I was pretty impressed with the Playstation VR headset. The crappy quality of the videos was more apparent than anything. I didn't notice any kind of screen door, it was as smooth as melted butter.

 

Welcome Chris,

It's incredible ain't it

 

Finally I tried AC with Oculus CV1. What a disappointment!

While it is very immersive to have the feeling to really sit in the car the resolution is so bad and blurry I will never try it again. I run at 2.0PD and even increased to 8xAA but sorry, it's not playable for me (maybe in 10 years with 8K per eye). I went back to my 3D-TV with TriDef 3D which is crystal clear even in the distance.

 

I had the same issue then turned everything down and it made a huge difference. Seem like the more you try to "enhance" the images by turning AA up, the worse they become (blurry). Try everything at lowest graphics settings then start adding a bit more each time. Leave AA x2 and increase the setting above it (cant recall the name of it), to x4 or x8, makes for better resolution without hurting FPS. I always got blurry images, now it looks great! I'm running the Vive, but I imagine the same principles apply. AA really taxes the system. I'm now running with higher resolution in mirrors, smoke in mirrors etc with no problem. Also, lower the PD, too high a PD will hurt the FPS. Give it another shot. Trust me, I was very disappointed, but now its truly is amazing! I'm running a GTX 1080 too, so you should be fine after messing with the settings a bit. Also, run with Post Processing off, I tried messing with it and can't get it to run without dropping my FPS.

 

Anisotropic filtering is the setting you mean. You can put that to x16, from my experience it matters almost zero to the performance.

 

Thanks! It might just be me, but I found that Anisotropic Filtering helped with distant objects, made overall image a bit clearer. If nothing else, it made me "feel" better about the image quality

 

Thats exactly what that setting is supposed to do afaik so just use it maxed out