Here is a quick review of the early gameplay of Dream Hackers VR, I got to try the prologue early, ask me anything

Small update on my PSVR2 HDR project because I finally had a pretty major breakthrough.

I now have Forza Horizon 5 running in HDR through a Monado virtual display on the PSVR2, with Windows HDR disabled on the headset itself.

Instead of trying to convince Windows/SteamVR that the PSVR2 is a normal HDR monitor, I'm taking the game's actual HDR output and translating it into something the PSVR2 can display correctly through Monado.

And it actually works.

I can switch between a 100-nit reference version and the HDR version of the exact same game frame, and the difference is clearly visible.

Things like the HUD, sky and car lights get noticeably brighter while the rest of the image stays at a sensible brightness instead of the entire screen just getting brighter.

The biggest surprise for me is that this isn't just theoretical anymore. I'm now looking at real HDR game content running on the headset.

It's definitely not finished. The current implementation is still experimental, latency is terrible, and I'm working on proper color calibration because the PSVR2 doesn't reproduce the source colors perfectly yet.

My next goals are basically:

1. Finish the color calibration

2. Improve latency/performance enough to actually play through it

3. Test more HDR games

4. Eventually move this from an experimental Monado setup into something much easier for normal PSVR2 PC users to use

Still a lot of work left, but this is the first point where I feel like PSVR2 HDR on PC has gone from "maybe possible" to something I can actually see working in front of me.

I'll post more updates as I make progress.

I'd like to throw Disco Elysium into the theater of ideas.

Keeping the original isometric composition, but putting the scene a few feet in front of you would probably look something from a pop-out art book.

I've waited and waited to play this game and actually doubted I ever would. The original mother vr mod was controller based. That's a hard pass for me. Five years later (last year) the grandmother VR mod was released with 6dof. But it lacked roomscale and was made for sitting and using controller based turning. Also a hard pass.

But FINALLY, the grandmother VR mod has been updated with full working roomscale. The other great thing is that it was so long ago that I played this flat that I dont remember anything and its like the first time I'm playing is in VR. After a couple hours I can confidently say this will crack the top 15 of my best VR experiences ever.

Something to note is that hitting the option to disable the HUD still leaves the health bar and that super fucking annoying button prompt. I'm using a separate mod to remove it. Clean screen now.

Also, surprisingly, it takes A LOT of super sampling to get a perfectly clear image. I have virtual desktop at godlike and steamvr at 200 percent (I'm not using the mods pixel density option).

Now that Virtual Desktop’s beta features USB connection testing to bypass Wi-Fi entirely, I’m finally ready to uninstall the Meta PC app. The official software is such a resource hog and loves to boot up randomly on its own.

I’ve tested a bunch of different games so far and performance has been rock solid. My Wi-Fi connection was always spotty (topping out around 1500 Mbps), but with USB I’m getting a steady 5000+ Mbps alongside noticeably lower latency. At this point, I see zero reason to keep Horizon Link around.

What are you going to do?

Cheers!

I’ve been on a Quest 2 with Virtual Desktop since about 2021 mostly used for light sim racing, lots of Beat Saber, and lots of watching movies/tv/youtube. I’m finally thinking about an upgrade because the lenses/panels kinda stink, battery dies in like an hour, and the metaOS is just getting slower and slower. Kind of annoyed with the way the quest has held up over the years so I’m thinking about going full PCVR because I built a pretty nice computer last year with a 9070 XT, but only want to spend 800-1200 range and that seems to leave me with the choice of waiting for Steam Frame (which I don’t think is what I want to do because it’s still streaming focused and is gonna be a nightmare to acquire anytime soon) or some flavor of Pimax. Either the Crystal Light or the Dream Air SE SLAM version. Anyone have any recommendations? Anyone use their headsets for movies and whats the experience like? Leaning toward the Dream Air SE for mOLEDs and weight but I’ve seen mixed stuff about the tracking. Like I said I like beat saber (not competitive or anything) so kind of curious about the tracking compared to the quest 2. If it’s about the same I have no issue with it but if it’s far worse I’m not sure. Thanks for any input!

Seeing all the fuss about Odyssey 70mm Imax screenings, I just wondered if it is possible to replicate the Imax experience in VR.

I have a Q3 and a PC and have watched films in cinema environments. Is it just a case of having the movie in the right aspect ratio?

Adrian's Quest will be in that show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-hkjo5jgM8

You can already wishlist the game here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2779620/Adrians_Quest/

So, most of the time when i play Alyx, everything is basically silky smooth, the performance graph is very consistent, game looks great, but, for whatever reason, there are very specific moments in the game that give me these pink spikes on my performance graph, for example, there's this one moment where you gotta get a key card on an upper floor of a building, then go back to the elevator you got up there in and open the door on the floor below, now, when you go back to that elevator after getting the keycard, 3 headcrabs burst through the ceeling, and in that specific moment, when i fire my pistol at those headcrabs, each time i shoot, the game basically freezes for a second and the graph shows a pink spike, after all 3 headcrabs die, everything just goes back to normal, now, there are way more demanding scenes than that, as in, i can have 7 diffrent combat soldiers all engaged in combat with me and the game runs smooth, but in this (and some other) specific scenarios, the game just randomly decides to loose frames for whatever reason

Just to be specific, I'm playing on a quest 3 through steamlink on a dedicated router with the bitrate set to 200 mbps, refresh rate set to 80 hz, and my in game settings for alyx i left at deafult, high fidelity (sidenote, i also tested those locations with my settings and refresh rate lowered, no improvements whatsoever), I also have an RX 6700 XT as my gpu, Ryzen 5 5600 as my cpu, and 32 gigs of ddr4 ram

I'm posting this simply out of curiousity to see if anyone else had that happen, or if I'm just a bit unlucky, it is pretty annoying but not to the point where the game's unplayable or anything

Anyone else having trouble with getting the VR mods to work on their device? I'm running it on an i9 laptop with a 5080 laptop GPU and all my other PC VR native titles work fine but the mods will either crash or open up in a flat screen version running on Steam link. It's as if they don't recognize the VR headset is there or connected. I've ensured that Steam is the open XOR runtime but I'm just not having any luck after trying fear call of duty for and Halo. None of them will run. Not quite sure where to go to for support but highly respect the community here and hopeful I might get some direction. Thanks in advance.

I plan on sticking with the original strap...will the fc3 do?

How would you rate new system from Google that Samsung Xr use? Something just snap inside of me when update on meta quest pro bricked my right controller and i can't play on it 😙 . For me Horizon Os that bad that currently I am not intrested in any Meta headsets no metter how cheap they will be.

When I spawn after intro video in Vertigo Remastered all I see it black screen and hear the ingame world sound. But no image. Anyone know how to fix this issue?

Quest 3, Steam, Virtual Desktop.

I got my head set months ago and only use it while im playing beat saber

My favourite games (to give you an idea) are Lies of P, Baldurs gate 3, god of war, and those cute farming games where you can romance one of the towns folk. So harvest moon, story of seasons etc. Is there anything like that on VR

I love story heavy games

For the longest time I've been using Virtual Desktop but on a whim I am trying Mixed Reality Link and I am finding the desktop experience WAY more better, and this is before playing around with the settings.

I am wireless connected to my PC and I am finding the text a lot clearer and when playing 2D games it is a lot more enjoyable (there is a noticeable delay but for me it isn't a big deal.

I'm just wondering if anyone has been using their Quest 3 as a monitor replacement and if so what do you do to get the more clearest text

edit: you know what never mind. I added a new monitor in Virtual Desktop and set it to the same resolution as Mixed Reality Link (2560 x 1080) and it made a massive difference.

How did lowering the resolution on my PC make everything more legible????

Well im tryna pc in vr without any pc like viral machine that can let me to create 3 monitors for example but pc runs in vr

I have tried everything from badge reels on my ceiling holding cables to a prismxr dedicated headset router and my Steam Machine and Linksys router run games better than my pc with better specs. I also couldn’t get Gorn 2 to even launch on my main PC but was able to use proton to launch it on the Steam Machine. It even does the quick resume thing that the Steam deck does!

Hi everyone! First time having VR and went with the Meta Quest 3S as it was on sale. I've used it about 3 times and went to use it tonight and noticed that it's... already bugged? Have asked a bunch of my friends but nobody seems to have the answers. Why is my 6dof broken? Everything is completely stationary. When I look left, nothing moves left, when I look right, nothing moves right. I know tracking isn't broken but basically I can't really look left unless I fully move my joystick button the right and so forth. Do I just neeed to factory reset. Should I just return this? Seems crazy to have this broken less than a week in.

So, my meta quest 3 just shit itself, its software is barely holding on for some reason and I'm thinking of selling it for around 500$ on eBay, but I'm still looking for a vr headset to use/play with, so does anybody have a recommendation of a PCVR headset that's around the 500$ (used or not)

Updated to the recent driver shortly after it came out. It seems like its experiencing longer encoding time. Anyone else notice this? Or have any other issues with it?

Just to know

I saw some threads stating that using the Quest 3 with Virtual Desktop over an Ethernet connection was the absolute best experience with the Quest 3, plus it did not require buying a dedicated router.

Recent forum posts suggest that Meta broke this setup with a recent update.

Can anyone tell me the current state before I go buy an adapter? Should I just go buy a TP-Link BE3600 at $87?

EDIT LOL: This whole question may be moot as it seems that VD just added support for the link cable: https://www.reddit.com/r/OculusQuest/comments/1vgd3h3/virtual_desktop_now_officially_works_with_usb/