Anybody have any experience with these new VR devices?

[Average Joe]

My wife and I play every new map on Walkabout Golf.

Wife and I are playing that now.

 

[Average Joe]

Another few sessions with Asgard's Wrath 2 and the Batman game (both of which are awesome) and my brain and body finally got used to it so there's no more weird dissociation feelings.

 

[StevenK]

Hey Joe, you still playing? I'm starting to get the itch over one of these, couple of months in, do you still think it's worth it?

 

[Average Joe]

Hey Joe, you still playing? I'm starting to get the itch over one of these, couple of months in, do you still think it's worth it?

I've had a blast with it and I'm still using it weekly.

I've gravitated towards the Rhythm game stuff like Synth Riders (probably my favorite game) and Beat Saber, but I've tested out a ton of games and found many to be worthwhile (Sushi Ben being a standout). The wife and I play Walkabout Mini Golf every weekend and I honestly think it was worth the purchase alone as we love IRL mini golf. Apparently there is some new Alien game that people are raving about, but these games go on sale a lot and I'm not biting on a new release price.

But yeah... big fan of this tech/games.

 

[StevenK]

Well, I took the plunge and picked a meta quest 3s up under the guise of it being 'for the kids'. It's taken me a few days to get round to playing, and I started out this evening with walkabout golf.

It really is impressive - mind blowing even. So immersive. I was just stood there looking round the course with a big grin on my daft goggled face. The game itself I really like, the physics seem spot on.

Fifteen minutes in and I can feel a sweat building on my forehead and my heart drops, I pull off the headset and sure enough, feel very strange, queasy. So frustrating. I wonder whether childhood motion sickness that I didn't really moved past until my teenage years makes me more prone to it, but there it was.

I've been reading about getting your 'vr legs'. I'll play a round of walkabout every evening for a couple of weeks, just quarter of an hour or so, and people are convinced my brain will make sense of it all and I'll be ok. I'm at a stage in life where I can't be bothered to 'learn to appreciate' things I don't like and all that shite, although I do get the sentiment, however on this I'm going to really try and push through - I can just see it being so much fun.

 

[Average Joe]

It took my brain some getting used to for sure.

I was playing the Batman game and Asgard's Wrath and you'd climb up ladders in those and I'd have to pull the headset off since my brain felt like it was in a tumble cycle. The Batman game was the first one I played and I couldn't even get by the opening segment without wanting to vomit. Even in Walkabout Mini Golf I couldn't peak over the ledges as it would legit give me a bout of vertigo and that game looks like a cartoon.

It went away totally for me, but I put some real time (few hours?) into the very immersive games and sort of forced my head to get used to it by just playing them as intended but just in small bursts at a time.

 

[tomwaits]

I've spent a lot of time playing PSVR, even though I'm prone to motion sickness. There are enough quality games that the novelty hasn't worn off years later.

Games where your character is stationary are the best choices to start out. There are a lot of puzzle games, point & click storytelling games, and rhythm games available that don't bother me at all. Work your way up to games with limited movement and just close your eyes during on-rails motion sequences like ladders. I still get incredibly sick with free roam/fps VR games but those bother me on the tv too. A lot of vr games have free demo versions so you can give it a motion sickness test before buying anything.

Ginger helps with the motion sickness too.

 

[pixeljunkie]

I've spent a lot of time playing PSVR, even though I'm prone to motion sickness. There are enough quality games that the novelty hasn't worn off years later.

Games where your character is stationary are the best choices to start out. There are a lot of puzzle games, point & click storytelling games, and rhythm games available that don't bother me at all. Work your way up to games with limited movement and just close your eyes during on-rails motion sequences like ladders. I still get incredibly sick with free roam/fps VR games but those bother me on the tv too. A lot of vr games have free demo versions so you can give it a motion sickness test before buying anything.

Ginger helps with the motion sickness too.

I had PSVR when it came out. I remember Valkryie being one that gave me that roller coaster feel...but it quickly wore off and nothing else bothered me. I kinda missed the sensation of speed and vertigo once it quit happening, honestly.

 

[Bill Kilgore]

Wish i saw this thread before. I love vr games! I have the Quest 3. The games are not all tech demo's. There's a good multiplayer shooter that has complete mods for Star Wars Battlefront, Halo, Team Fortress,... and these mods feel just like the real game but in vr complete with a full body and arms. There's some good tactical shooters out there. I'm very much in to Iron Rebellion lately, a mech game where you use buttons and switches in the cockpit for ultra immersion.

There's also an amazing modding scene for the Quest system. Team Beef makes ports of all kind of retro shooters making them playable in vr:
Star Wars Jedi knight 1,2
Doom 1,2,3
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Duke Nukem 3D
Redneck Rampage
Quake 1,2,3 (Quake 3 is able to play multiplayer against mouse 'n keyboard)
Tomb Raider 1 (yes in first person or 3'd person if you wish)
Heretic
Hexen
Half Life 1
I'm probably forgetting some

Just look up Sidequest and Team Beef.

 

[StevenK]

Vomit update - I'm getting steadily better, I played 2 rounds of walkabout golf with no issues today, half an hour or so of play, that's easily the best I've done so far.

Pro tip - this isn't going to be a surprise to anyone, but I can confirm that playing whilst boozing makes the nausea worse.

 

[Hattori Hanzo]

Watch porn?

 

[Average Joe]

Vomit update - I'm getting steadily better, I played 2 rounds of walkabout golf with no issues today, half an hour or so of play, that's easily the best I've done so far.

Pro tip - this isn't going to be a surprise to anyone, but I can confirm that playing whilst boozing makes the nausea worse.

It's weird how it works.

My wife can't even look at an FPS on a screen without feeling sick, but she had zero issue with any of the VR stuff.

 

[Bill Kilgore]

Vomit update - I'm getting steadily better, I played 2 rounds of walkabout golf with no issues today, half an hour or so of play, that's easily the best I've done so far.

Pro tip - this isn't going to be a surprise to anyone, but I can confirm that playing whilst boozing makes the nausea worse.

Ginger is supposed to help a lot against nausea. Like those ginger sweets or simply ginger tea before gaming. Also: don’t push through when you fee nausea coming up, just quit. Hopefully you’ll grow your vr-legs in some time.

 

[SML]

I may get a Quest pretty soon. I haven't really touched VR since 2016 (had a couple of GearVR headsets that barely got used). Last month I bought one of the Vive Focus Pro headsets that B&H seems to be trying to dump (it was $78 at the time) and I'm enjoying it more than I expected. I'm using VRidge for PCVR and the only real problem with it is most games assume I'm using standard Vive controllers. I'll keep messing with it and if my vertigo doesn't create too many problems I'll make the investment.

 

[SML]

Wish i saw this thread before. I love vr games! I have the Quest 3. The games are not all tech demo's. There's a good multiplayer shooter that has complete mods for Star Wars Battlefront, Halo, Team Fortress,... and these mods feel just like the real game but in vr complete with a full body and arms. There's some good tactical shooters out there. I'm very much in to Iron Rebellion lately, a mech game where you use buttons and switches in the cockpit for ultra immersion.

There's also an amazing modding scene for the Quest system. Team Beef makes ports of all kind of retro shooters making them playable in vr:
Star Wars Jedi knight 1,2
Doom 1,2,3
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Duke Nukem 3D
Redneck Rampage
Quake 1,2,3 (Quake 3 is able to play multiplayer against mouse 'n keyboard)
Tomb Raider 1 (yes in first person or 3'd person if you wish)
Heretic
Hexen
Half Life 1
I'm probably forgetting some

Just look up Sidequest and Team Beef.

UEVR is supposed to work well for most Unreal Engine 4 and 5 games.

 

[NeoSneth]

Also: don’t push through when you fee nausea coming up, just quit.

This is very true. I almost lost my lunch because I was playing a tech demo in the early days of VR. Oculus DK2. It was a sand speeder on Tatooine, and I managed to flip it. I kept driving, and moments later I was hugging my waste basket ready to let it go.

I haven't felt any VR sickness since the early days. I think most developers know how to avoid inducing VR sickness.

 

[StevenK]

VR sickness seems to be a thing of the past, fingers crossed, and I'm off and running.

Walkabout golf really is great, I'm playing a fair bit. I'm even watching the tournaments on youtube - fully down the rabbit hole at this point.

 

[NeoSneth]

VR sickness seems to be a thing of the past, fingers crossed, and I'm off and running.

Walkabout golf really is great, I'm playing a fair bit. I'm even watching the tournaments on youtube - fully down the rabbit hole at this point.

It's significantly improved my IRL miniature golf. Not that I'm an avid golfer, but I've done PuttShack a few times. I think most of that is because I play the safe shot and not try to sink it immediately, which is usually how I win in Walkabout. Par or Birdie is better than wasting shots trying to get the quick win.

 

[StevenK]

It's significantly improved my IRL miniature golf. Not that I'm an avid golfer, but I've done PuttShack a few times. I think most of that is because I play the safe shot and not try to sink it immediately, which is usually how I win in Walkabout. Par or Birdie is better than wasting shots trying to get the quick win.

I've been itching to try out some irl techniques off the back of this

 

[Average Joe]

The wife and I play a lot of Mini Golf in the nicer months in MA so Walkabout has been perfect during the shittier weather times.

 

[SNKNostalgia]

Stop jacking!