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Oculus Quest 2 - despite the whole Facebook thing, coupling it with awesome games and experiences, it saved me from going mental during the autumn-winter-spring
by ChuckNorris89 5y ago
Oculus Quest 2 - despite the whole Facebook thing, coupling it with awesome games and experiences, it saved me from going mental during the autumn-winter-spring lockdown in Europe combined with the depressing weather of that time. Worth its weight in gold for that.
Roborock Robovac - also worth its weight in gold since the whole lockdown WFH turned my apartment into a permanent office, kitchen, cinema and gym, the floors would get gross fast, full of dust, lint, hair, dead skin flakes, food crumbs and felt nasty rolling on it to do exercises in the morning.
Would have loved to get a new laptop/PC to replace my aging banger, but not in this market.
- johnboiles 5y ago+1 to the Quest 2. Despite Facebook, it's an incredible piece of hardware. We bought them for everyone in my distributed startup and the 8 of us hang out in VR together every week. Virtual Desktop + Shadow PC on the Quest 2 is incredible. I played through Half-Life Alyx rendered on my cloud Shadow PC entirely wirelessly. It was a super smooth and responsive experience -- I didn't expect it to work at all when I first set it up.
- maayank 5y agoWow, interesting suggestion with Shadow PC. How does it work exactly? Do you install Virtual Desktop on the shadow pc instance? Do I need any "interim" physical computer on my home network to proxy?
- johnboiles 5y agoYeah you install Virtual Desktop on the Shadow PC and then your Quest can connect directly to it. You do need something other than the Quest to start up the Shadow PC and keep it running (it will shut down automatically if an official Shadow client is not connected for too long). I use my laptop or AppleTV for this -- both connected over ethernet so I save all my WiFi bandwidth for the Quest.
- interestica 5y agoWhere/How do you hang out?
- scrollaway 5y agoProbably Rec Room (https://recroom.com/ https://recroom.com/) or VR Chat (https://hello.vrchat.com/ https://hello.vrchat.com/). Both are popular ways to hang out in VR.
- johnboiles 5y agoWe've tried a handful of things: Rec Room, Population One, Spatial, Echo VR, Beat Saber, Bigscreen, and Immersed. The last few weeks we've been playing Population One together since they have a very simple 6-digit-room-code way of creating private lobbies that can support > 8 people. They also have great team/voice configuration settings where you can set up who can talk to who. I worry a little about gun games and inclusivity, but it's the only app that's consistently allowed the 8 of us to get together without spending 30 minutes troubleshooting. Probably this is in part because they just avoid the quirks of the Quest party system altogether and use their own private lobby system. Echo VR's private lobby system never worked for us (we were only able to get 2-3 people in the same private lobby at the same time). Rec Room is nice and easy for new VR people, but when we've gone into the minigames it seems to split us up into different teams, with different team chats, and we can't talk to eachother anymore. We also couldn't figure out if it's possible to make private games. But this is one I'd like to investigate more. Beat Saber works pretty well but maxes out at 5 people. Spatial works well for meetings, but if you're just looking to hang out it gets kinda boring. Immersed is super cool for coworking, but I think it costs monthly money if you want to cowork IIRC.
- interestica 5y agoThanks for these recommendations/descriptions/reviews. >I worry a little about gun games and inclusivity, but it's the only app that's consistently allowed the 8 of us to get together without spending 30 minutes troubleshooting. Interesting pivot/fork for them - spin out a vr-group-chat service. 'Population 8'? ha
- baby 5y agoGot the first quest and it was amazing. Now I’m wondering if I should hold out and wait for the quest 3 haha.
- lprubin 5y agoGetting an Oculus Quest 2 jumpstarted my workout regime after my gym closed during lockdown. I look forward to my workout time so much now. I got a $15 off brand silicon face cover to replace the cloth one to help with the sweat.
- wccrawford 5y agoI've been considering a Quest 2 for exercise, but thought the sweat would be too much. Any tips on the face cover and games/exercise apps?
- scrollaway 5y agoYou see how everyone's talking about Beat Saber? That's not a coincidence :) Seriously. What a fun game. And it scales really well -- I play most maps on Expert+ 120%, breaking into 150% speed. Here's a recent example (this one is just Expert though): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFCxrNS9GgY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFCxrNS9GgY -- And one on Expert+: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdLZ6B2AB1Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdLZ6B2AB1Q The only criticism I have of Beat Saber fitness-wise is that it doesn't train many muscles. It's mostly the shoulders, arms and a bit the wrists. Some songs train your core but you can't rely on that. It's awesome for rythm and reaction speed, however, so it's a good mental training too. The sweat is a problem. The silicone masks are great (I use the VRCover ones -- https://vrcover.com/ https://vrcover.com/ -- Oculus sent me a pair because I had skin problems with the foam one), but they do not let my head breathe at all so I sweat even more. They're definitely less gross, though.
- baby 5y agoFor exercise I recommend ring fit
- wccrawford 5y agoI had it and didn't care for it, and sold it to a friend who couldn't find it in the stores. Thanks, though!
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- k__ 5y agoAny Quest game recommendations? I have one, but I barely use it right now.
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoIn Death: Unchained is my favorite Quest game so far. https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/2334376869949242/?locale=en_US https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/2334376869949242/?l...
- nameless912 5y agoPopulation: One is pretty great if you like online multiplayer. Superhot is an obvious classic, lots of replayability and one of the first things I put people new to VR into. I've heard great things about the Walking Dead game but haven't played it yet.
- knacky 5y agoDemeo is a turn based D&D clone that is pretty fun.
- csmiller 5y agoI enjoyed Pistol Whip a lot, although I have stopped using my Oculus over time
- mherrmann 5y agoSuperhot Red Matter The Room Half Life Alyx if your PC is powerful enough Star Wars Tales from the Galaxy's Edge I expect you to die
- Rebelgecko 5y agoPistol Whip and Crisis Vrigade are fun shooters that get you moving. Crisis VRigade in particular will have you do LOTS of squats, it's also hard as hell (I've played for hours and still haven't beaten the first 6 minute level on easy difficulty). For a less physical game, I'm really enjoying Control Tower VR. If you remember when early touch screen games started coming out, there was a whole genre where you used the touch screen to fly planes around and safely land them at an airport without crashing into each other. Control Tower VR is like that, but in 3D. It isn't super polished, but the gameplay loop is fun enough that I don't mind. If you're tethering to a computer or using something like Virtual Desktop, Half Life: Alyx and American Truck Simulator are both fun a lot of fun. ATS is great if you just want to put on a podcast and zone out, without having to worry about crashing your real car when you zone out too much. Also seconding the recommendations here for Superhot. That's the game that convinced me that VR was the real deal.
- ryneandal 5y agoOculus provides replacement foam inserts for qualifying SKUs -- https://support.oculus.com/1504463656600795/?intern_source=blog&intern_content=customer-support-update-for-quest-2-foam-interface https://support.oculus.com/1504463656600795/?intern_source=b...
- wyldfire 5y agoI feel like I'd love the Quest 2 for a month or two and then I wouldn't use it after the novelty wore off. Are there any AR/XR applications for Quest? It'd be pretty interesting if I got multiple for the fam and we could all be in the same environment somehow. Even if I needed room reference / locator devices it would probably be worth it.
- baby 5y agoI personally feel like a lot of the fun in VR will come from multiplayer.
- TenJack 5y agoQuest 2 has been great. I’ve legit been getting daily exercise from playing ping pong (Eleven ping pong) during quarantine. It’s amazing.