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Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by bouncyhat »

mulderc wrote: post #301
bouncyhat wrote: post #232

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I've found BigScreen ( https://www.bigscreenvr.com/software ) to be a fairly compelling killer app case for VR. Besides being able to trick your eyes into thinking they're in a movie theater, the social elements are great. On a weekly cadence I jump into a shared room with 6+ of my friends and we pick a bad movie to watch together as we MST3k it. There's something about positional audio when talking with someone that…

Big screen has the most toxic online community I have ever interacted with. I know there is worse out there but the amount of anti-LGBTQ chat I hear was disturbing for a place that is about watching movies.

Yeah, I wouldn't wade into anything public there - stick to private rooms with your friends. The moment you go into any sort of "I want to meet strangers" in VR setting you're really rolling the dice. I briefly hopped into the "shared lobby" for Big Screen at one point and encountered probably 3 or 4 negative internet stereotypes immediate (14 year old yelling obscenities, someone trying to hump my face, and someone just blasting noise so loud through their mic it was painful). Very much something you would only want to experience with trusted parties.

Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by bottlepalm »

braislan wrote: post #288
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A lot of kids are spending most of their waking hours in VRChat right now. It's pretty addicting once you have a group of friends in there...

Yea and everyone is getting in shape from VR too... These are bogus marketing lines that people puppet back to each other. I know 20 some kids and not a single one has even the slightest interest in VR. It is really shocking to me how these kids that can play games all the time have absolutely no interest in VR. It is not uncool or passe, it is just absolutely nothing to them. It is a niche product that enthusiast ov…

Not marketing. In reality, tens of thousands of kids are spending ridiculous amounts of time in VR. They will grow up, normalize it, and the next wave will be much much bigger. Sounds like you haven't seen or experienced what I'm talking about, so you have no idea, just your anecdotes.

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Post by Auracle »

vinc wrote: post #326
Auracle wrote: post #250

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Gaming is a huge market, and if you go in to any free to play game it's absolutely inundated with kids/preteens. You can also roam using apps that let you do Google street view stuff in VR, create art, watch movies in a theater like experience alone or by yourself, and of course a lot of people use it for porn. Even usual non-gamers love stuff like Walkabout Mini Golf or Star Wars Pinball.

I miss the Google Cardboard I used to revisit places I traveled to, is there an app that really give access to Google Street View on the Quest 2?

Yep, there are. Wander is one, though I think there are others. You can even do it multiplayer, which is how my wife and I use it.

Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by vinc »

Auracle wrote: post #333
vinc wrote: post #326

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I miss the Google Cardboard I used to revisit places I traveled to, is there an app that really give access to Google Street View on the Quest 2?

Yep, there are. Wander is one, though I think there are others. You can even do it multiplayer, which is how my wife and I use it.

Ah, I heard about Wander before but when I looked into it I wasn't sure you could really see all the pictures from anywhere on Google Street View. Thanks!

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Post by itsyaboi »

nightski wrote: post #325
lawlessone wrote: post #226

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>and give end users root. I like the idea but the vast majority of people buying smartphones don't have root and it rarely bothers them.

Hackers can build an ecosystem. So it doesn’t really matter what the vast majority do imho.

The year of the linux desktop!

Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by Mouthfeel »

mulderc wrote: post #301
bouncyhat wrote: post #232

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I've found BigScreen ( https://www.bigscreenvr.com/software ) to be a fairly compelling killer app case for VR. Besides being able to trick your eyes into thinking they're in a movie theater, the social elements are great. On a weekly cadence I jump into a shared room with 6+ of my friends and we pick a bad movie to watch together as we MST3k it. There's something about positional audio when talking with someone that…

Big screen has the most toxic online community I have ever interacted with. I know there is worse out there but the amount of anti-LGBTQ chat I hear was disturbing for a place that is about watching movies.

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Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by Mouthfeel »

riskable wrote: post #223
felistoria wrote: post #206

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You can do this with the Quest 2 right now via AirLink. I do it all the time.

You're talking about streaming/remote control of a PC which can involve significant latency and lag spikes (unless you're tethered with a good USB cable). That is by definition not a stand-alone headset . You're just using it as a fancy VR dongle. This necessitates two things: * Your PC is powerful enough to run VR games * Your PC is in an area that's convenient to play (with plenty of room) Nearly all Quest 2 users…

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Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by JieJie »

MBCook wrote: post #86

So what’s the killer app? Beatsaber and some other games can be a lot of fun, but they’re not new. What new experience are ready for this? I get the quality is better, and that’s not nothing. But other than that this largely seems like more of the same. VR still doesn’t seem to have advanced much in software to me. And Meta keeps pushing virtual meetings and such but that’s not my cup of tea. I owned a Quest 2 and ha…

Walkabout Mini Golf VR

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1408230/Walkabout_Mini_Go...

Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by yboris »

Waterluvian wrote: post #71

Counter-intuitively, I think I'd be able to manage a headset better if it wasn't this box strapped to the front of my face, but rather an evenly balanced hockey helmet with a flip-up mask. I can do hours wearing a hockey helmet, but these things are uncomfortable after a little while, and I think it's because it's just a more balanced thing that my neck muscles aren't constantly counteracting. Not to suggest that tha…

Have you heard of the 127 gram headset "Bigscreen Beyond"? Might be what you need to address neck concerns.

https://www.bigscreenvr.com/

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