01-10-2016 10:21 AM
01-10-2016 10:33 AM
01-10-2016 01:18 PM
01-10-2016 04:00 PM
"Zoomie" wrote:
I'd like to avoid Vive/Rift fanboyism on this thread if possible.
There are dozens of threads in which to argue the merits of both systems.
I'm looking at a problem that might be common to both:
Both Vive and the Rift will support room-scale VR with wands or touch controllers. Neither is wireless.
I plan on trying room-scale VR with my Oculus but I'm wondering how to manage the cable.
How do you guys (either system) plan to manage cables so you don't trip over them while using VR? Even if the HTC chaperone system is able to see the cable when you double-tap the home button, I don't think you want it visible at all times while you're playing since this will break immersion. So how do you avoid tripping on the cable or wrapping yourself up in it? Ceiling maybe? Some sort of tensioned spool?
What controllers you plan to use with the system?
I have a GT wheel and playseat I plan to use for driving games.
I have an old X45 that I will use for flight-sims.
I will use the bundled XBOne controller for casual games like Lucky's tale.
For games like "The Climb", I'll use the touch controllers.
Do any of you think the touch controllers or wands will be suitable for flight, driving, or console games?
01-10-2016 04:10 PM
01-10-2016 06:07 PM
"Cyril" wrote:
For a seated experience I'm thinking of attaching some kind of TV swing arm to the wall (not to the ceiling).
Setting pricing aside, the trick for room sized tracking would be to keep the distance from the headset to the wall attachment at a mostly fixed length, to reduce the amount of cable that's weighting down on your headset.
So let's say the cable can slide along a long bar you attached to the ceiling, and that bar can rotate in it's center like an helicopter blade, then the cable is always hanging down from directly above your head, and the cable management can be made to happen somewhere else along the cable instead of happening directly above your head.
With perhaps enough extra cable hanging over your head to allow you to bend down, but not too much so it doesn't get in the way of your arms : One alternative idea for that is to have a fixed spring between the center of the wall and the center of the blade, that has just enough strength to pull up the whole blade when you've stopped pulling it down by bending over.
With the idea (compared to using a simple fixed point attachment), being to reduce the weight of the part of the cable that is dangling over your head (while making it stay out of the way of arm movements), and also that it's better to have the cable slightly pull up on the headset, then have a lot of cable weight pulling down on your headset.
I'm not going into that (room sized tracking), and if I was I'd look into the best available lag increasing, video quality reducing (compressing and upscalling) WiGig solution I can come up with instead, even if that meant running the headset at half it's maximum refresh rate.
However at this time I have no idea what that best available Wigig solution would look like, so maybe a wearable laptop with the most beefy GPU I could come up with would work out better. This kind of laptop : http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/22/93727 ... aptops-gpu
01-10-2016 06:27 PM
01-10-2016 08:31 PM
01-10-2016 09:03 PM
"onefang" wrote:
If you are wearing the laptop, why does it have to be a laptop? That's extra screen and keyboard you have strapped to you that is unused, you don't need that extra weight. Some other small form factor PC would be better.
01-11-2016 12:56 AM
"Cyril" wrote:"onefang" wrote:
If you are wearing the laptop, why does it have to be a laptop? That's extra screen and keyboard you have strapped to you that is unused, you don't need that extra weight. Some other small form factor PC would be better.
You're right it doesn't have to be a ~2000$ laptop, and the keyboard/mouse (and even screen if the CV1 won't work out as a one) could be wireless instead of worn.
It's just that I never looked into it, and just assumed the laptop would be both lighter and more convenient (although more expensive). I wonder what's the price and battery life is for that, could you link me to a noteworthy ones ?