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Care to elaborate on what are you using it for? Mine is collecting dust, but the recent cyberpunk vr mod looked fun enough for me to undust it. Is there any va

Care to elaborate on what are you using it for? Mine is collecting dust, but the recent cyberpunk vr mod looked fun enough for me to undust it. Is there any value in the productivity "sector", or it's still mostly entertainment?

wkat4242 3y ago
The productivity is coming along now finally. Microsoft now has MS Teams support in their VR solution "Microsoft Mesh". They are also working on productivity support in VR so you can use Office apps inside mesh. A bit similar to what Apple is doing with their vision pro, where you can use your mac virtually. Until now there were some third party products like Spatial and Arthur that did the same. But they were costly and it was hard to justify it. Now if you are a MS shop you get all this basically for free (with Teams Premium that is) which makes it much easier to roll out. Personally I see a big benefit for the more networky event that are simply not well done over MS Teams videocalls because that is too centralised. For people that can't or won't travel due to monetary, environmental or familial concerns I think it is a great option. It's not as great as meeting face to face but it's way better than online meetings. This is why I promote it within the company I work (and I volunteered to take on the task) The cyberpunk mod is not great actually. In fact most third party mods aren't. It's very quirky especially because it doesn't render both viewpoints for every frame, it uses "alternate eye rendering", so each frame it alternately renders the left or right eye. The other frame is interpolated. This gives some ghosting effects. There's also many control issues as the game is not made for VR controllers. The city is beautiful but not nearly as beautiful as on a screen, everything looks really crumbly in VR. And yes I have the latest mod (the studio breaks the VR mod with every update so you have to). I have a 4090 so performance is not the issue. There's some third party mods that are great, like the Half-Life 2 games. They have full motion controller support. Also some made for VR games like HL:Alyx are amazing of course.

wkat4242 3y ago

The productivity is coming along now finally. Microsoft now has MS Teams support in their VR solution "Microsoft Mesh". They are also working on productivity support in VR so you can use Office apps inside mesh. A bit similar to what Apple is doing with their vision pro, where you can use your mac virtually. Until now there were some third party products like Spatial and Arthur that did the same. But they were costly and it was hard to justify it. Now if you are a MS shop you get all this basically for free (with Teams Premium that is) which makes it much easier to roll out. Personally I see a big benefit for the more networky event that are simply not well done over MS Teams videocalls because that is too centralised. For people that can't or won't travel due to monetary, environmental or familial concerns I think it is a great option. It's not as great as meeting face to face but it's way better than online meetings. This is why I promote it within the company I work (and I volunteered to take on the task) The cyberpunk mod is not great actually. In fact most third party mods aren't. It's very quirky especially because it doesn't render both viewpoints for every frame, it uses "alternate eye rendering", so each frame it alternately renders the left or right eye. The other frame is interpolated. This gives some ghosting effects. There's also many control issues as the game is not made for VR controllers. The city is beautiful but not nearly as beautiful as on a screen, everything looks really crumbly in VR. And yes I have the latest mod (the studio breaks the VR mod with every update so you have to). I have a 4090 so performance is not the issue. There's some third party mods that are great, like the Half-Life 2 games. They have full motion controller support. Also some made for VR games like HL:Alyx are amazing of course.