i belly laughed at this:
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what kind of serial killer mind has a goofy vr headset on and thinks they need to be better seen and perceived by the people around them
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apparently I am about to be in possession an oculus quest through no act of my own, is there anything particularly worth trying on there?
feeling extremely creeped out by the top review for one of those shared-theatre VR video players on the top of the oculus store being someone talking about using it to hide porn from his wife
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The Under Presents is fantastic
Echo Arena is great
those are the two VR titles that I love that I know started out as Oculus-exclusive, not totally clear on what else is on there
Sprint Vector rules and I’ve evangelized it a while now with little success
Superhot VR is a classic and I think it’s on everything
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i want you to know i’m gonna grab this next time it goes on sale, and hope that i have space to set up my psvr shortly after
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Looks like Sprint Vector isn’t on the Quest, but I’ll check the rest out!
Edit: well, I probably will see if I can coax this into working with the handful of PC VR-capable things I have to hand, so we’ll see
Piracy
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Play that virtual arcade thing.
is that… is that this cyber crime that newspapers write about?
Better call robocop then… :officersonic
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you might need to be more specific 
I can’t tell if this belongs here or in https://selectbutton.net/t/the-most-effed-up-way-you-ever-played-a-game/11886
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my real answer, btw, is:
- using Virtual Desktop to watch movies in VR (dope)
- that google art thing is fun to mess around with
- super hot obv
- moss made me cry at how cute the mouse is and then i never played it again, would recommend it for the low low price of $0
- going fishing while watching your friends play that sega bass game on twitch
- tea for god is interesting if not…good.
- that’s like…everything i’ve really enjoyed
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@ticky not sure what progress has been made in 2 years.
realising that https://www.emuvr.net is potentially a way to do lightgun games without owning a CRT 
I only want to play point blank 2p so sadly I have to hope what’s their name finishes the guncon 2 CRT out driver and retroarch adds a config for it
okay so hands on with the quest 2… uh, I appear to fall in the uncanny valley between the two larger interpupillary distance detents (there are three; its not freely adjustable), so I have the option to choose between chromatic aberration in the centre of my vision, or on the edges 
also man so much of what you do in the thing’s UI is clumsy and makes me wish it was just on a phone, which seems like an extremely strong plus for PC-based VR, given you can just …log in and whatever on the desktop
had a good, hearty laugh at the quest’s Netflix app giving the option of QR code login… in VR, which might have made the whole experience worth it
Facebook’s weird workroom thing is extremely clunky and while I haven’t used it in anger, the extremely specific way it wants your workspace set up is very bad; the shared whiteboard must be behind your desk, no matter the shape of your actual room, you must be working at a desk, you have to use hand tracking (and it’s awful) and it has “keyboard pass through” but for four specific models of keyboard, three of them recent Apple models. It’s really hard to take the concept that “the future of remote work is VR” in any way seriously when the biggest actual bonus is just… positional audio
the quest also has some ability to pass through your outer environment in general, and while it’s probably useful for repositioning yourself, it’s extremely grainy and monochrome, so not really usable for anything more specific than that, which unfortunately means you can’t use it to, say, look up a password without removing the headset - one interesting quirk is that it reveals the infrared light emitted by an iPhone’s Face ID sensor, presumably it uses infrared for the controller positioning too, so it makes sense, it’s just funny to see your phone flashing a bright light at you which you’ve never seen before
definitely falling on team “vr sucks” so far lol
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oh I just use it to play vidcons and the experience that intermediates the vidcons is uniformly bizarre and confusing
yeah I haven’t gotten to games yet mostly because I’m unconvinced it’s properly fitting my head so far
I also realise I have what is probably objectively the worst possible dedicated VR device, given who made it and that like 60% of the BoM is subsidised by the horrible data collection
so much so that workrooms has an enormous disclaimer telling you that while Facebook is an extremely creepy company, don’t worry, what you say in workrooms isn’t going to affect your advertising preferences and we can’t collect footage of your physical environment