So what is the state of alvr now? What are the limitations and problems? I don't seem to see many people talking about using it, but I hear a lot of talk about it existing.
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Oculus Quest |OT| There Are No Strings On Me!
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Someone here previously said this. They assumed it was because they need the record of your playtime or somesuch. Never verified this myself.
Mine lights up green for a moment, but doesn't actually turn on - the light goes to amber after a few seconds.
I don't think I have ever experienced this. When I power down and plug it in, I get the battery symbol for a second and that's it. The next day, I get the usual 30 second or whatever start up.
Hoping this means the VR cover will arrive today or tomorrow, showing this off tomorrow night to family and would like the covers installed if possible.
New Quest Firmware released:
New Quest Firmware released:
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Did you uninstall them before refunding? Cause the official refund policy (that you get when you click on refund policy on store pages) is the following:
Who knows what "clearing your data means". Maybe they're talking about a hard reset that sets everything back to default (and loses played time that way)?
Speaking of quirks, the other night the Quest room was lit up. For some reason it turned back on and was stuck at the "Lost tracking" prompt (with the camera pass-through turned on). I've turned off the head sensor and leave it sitting on one of those VR heads. So, of course, once it robo turned on, it was never going to turn off. I guess when not in use, I'm just not going to be able to use stand-by (or else risk it running the battery dead if it turns on by itself).
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Yes, deleted before requesting a refund. Again why would a refund hinge on the availability of game data on your local device? A device you can keep offline if you so choose for days on end which would prohibit any remote "checking" of any sort.
That policy page also doesn't correctly correlate from a Quest perspective, as you do not request refunds from the device itself, you do it from the mobile app.
Really good to hear! Hoping mine updates soon, have heard this helps stop tearing and some of the visual artifacts as well.
I wish there was a way to force the update as I normally leave mine powered down but am just leaving it on standby for now hoping it gets pushed to the quest.
Asking for a new page, does anyone have some hands-on impressions of ALVR? I'm curious what to realistically expect. I have a modest Steam VR library and some of them I haven't played yet, but I'm trying to decide between Quest and Rift S. Thank you!
Wait, are you saying that games are not being removed when uninstalled? (After the refund has been processed?)
That was the case for me, yes.
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To be clear, it disappeared from my library as soon as I requested the refund. Because I had dev mode enabled, I could see it under Unknown Sources. There was no way I could find to uninstall. Clicking on it just attempted to launch, and there was no menu on it.
Even after the refund was processed, it was still there and I had to use ADB to get rid of it.
That's good to know. It did seem like an insane policy, so it's good that it doesn't seem to be enforced.
I feel like it's tantalizingly close, but I wouldn't completely recommend it at this point. Things improved quite a bit when I switched to having my computer's wifi act as a 5Ghz hotspot (with ethernet handling the other half). It completely eliminitated all packet losses and gave me a terrific picture @ 70Mbits and 150% resolution, but I'm getting inexplicable stutters with this method (frequent enough that it made truly judging latency impossible). This wasn't happening when I went through the router's wifi. I think it's because my wifi on my mobo sucks (reddit threads reported this mobo as giving lots of Watchdog BSoD before some firmware updates. The new Ryzen 3xxx firmware updates should be dropping for my mobo any day now. So I'm going to retry when I can update to the very latest firmware.
I feel like there's potential for this to be a viable alternative, but in its current form, I can't truly recommend it right now. The software needs more maturation too.
RUSH is kinda both? It's like a racing game with wingsuits. I actually enjoy it quite a bit, but the playerbase isn't there. I can't really find others to play with online, but if you have friends that would play with you I'd recommend it. There's also VR Karts but I haven't heard any good things about it.
So, the last Virtual Desktop update allows SteamVR streaming from your PC. Basically an "official" ALVR alternative. It also allows the Touch controllers to work as a Xbox One gamepad, and even remote connectivity (from an external network) to your PC.
Any improvement over the video quality compared to ALVR?
Nice. I haven't tried the other ways of streaming it because it seemed like a lot of work but I'll give this one a try.
Testing it in a few minutes.
Not required but trust me, you wouldn't want to stream via a 2.4 anyway.
PS.: my Quest just updated and the horizontal visual artifacts that happened quite frequently are gone. Nice work Oculus.
how do you check for update ?
Anyone ?
There is an Apollo 11 app that allows you to fly to the moon alongside the Apollo 11 crew. It's more of an educational app than a game. I experienced it on PSVR and it was quite nice. Can't vouch for the Quest version
1. Seems comparable. It's been a long time since I've used DK2, but I think I felt the Vive was a slight improvement over the DK2. And honestly, this seems just as good (and maybe even slightly better for my face) than the Vive. The DK2 always felt smaller, though, because of how small the sweet spot was. The optics on this >>>>>>>>>>> DK2.
2. No. And I remember that, too. There's not a lot officially on the Quest at the moment.
3. I forget exactly how high you can go, but there's a chart out there and it's rather robust. I've loaded HEVC onto it and it plays fine. Even HEVC @ 4K @ 60fps is within specs.
4. Only thing I've streamed is Youtube, but I can't imagine why latency would be any issue here.
5. Haven't tried, but I'm pretty sure people are doing this. Might want to google to be certain, though.
6. Right now the USB-C port can't be used for storage (and there's no micro-sd card slot). They claim to be working on supporting this, but they claimed that about the Go a year ago too and it never came. I'm pretty sure Boss Zuck said no. If Apple doesn't let you do it, we're not allowing it either.
I'd love to use something like this but my computer is also on WiFi. :/ wonder if I could wire up one of my mesh nodes...
There's no way to check for it, just make sure that the Quest is in standby mode and charging, give it 10 minutes or so in this way and then restart it. You should have it installed after that.
By the way, SteamVR only works with Virtual Desktop when ALVR is also installed on the PC side.
It's a problem on Oculus' end, they are getting lots of complaints about it, and are trying to figure out the problem. I myself have the problem for one app (and no, the recent Quest software update doesn't fix it).
Go to Settings, About, and if you have the update your software version should be 256550.6170.0
Really curious to see how this compares to the other apps (ALVR/Riftcat/etc)
It's the Android debugger. You use it to do stuff to android devices when connected to a PC - in this case installing / uninstalling apps.
Android `debugger bridge or something like that. Command line tool to connect/install/uninstall via usb
I suggest giving it a restart and then leave it on standby and on charge. Mine eventually updated doing that.
I have read around that performance is currently in between the two (with the added benefit of not having to sideload the app).
Have also seen there are some button mapping issues and it sounds like haptics for games are not working.
I'd say it's completely functional at this time but you will experience some glitches. I'd say 5ghz AC & wired from PC > WiFi node is a requirement for it to work well. Been able to play through most of Rez Infinite without a problem though it does hitch infrequently.
Wander = Google Street View. It's cool to show people because they can look at their homes, places they've visited, etc, but the data is all 360 spheres from Google Street View. Good for a VR n00b. Not quite as awesome as Google Earth VR, but the best we have on Quest!
National Geographic is more of an adventure game - I've only played the first scene, but you use a kayak to boat around icebergs and take photos of 3d rendered animals you see. The kayak mechanic is pretty awesome. Get this if your parents are more active and would like something with more interactivity.
Haven't tried Nature Treks.
If you want something more "That Game Company" exploration like, try Fujii - it's a beautiful world and gameplay involves exploring and finding things and very light puzzle solving mixed with gardening. Highly recommend.
Ah thanks. I'll keep this in mind.
This is incorrect. It does not require ALVR, it uses its own driver. You need nothing apart from the Virtual Desktop VR streamer pc client.
Indeed. Somehow it didn't work for me though, and only installing ALVR did the trick. I believe this is somehow related to installing SteamVR after installing the Virtual Desktop's streamer app, not before.
I used SideQuest earlier this week and it was pretty easy yes.
