Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality focused content.
I have been involved in covering the VR industry via podcasts and written articles since 2016, starting with 'VR Roundtable', one of the first weekly VR podcasts. Now, along with long-time VR community members, Flukerogi (Rog) & Dazednetic (Lee), I co-host a twice-monthly VR/AR-focused podcast called 'RECENTERED', available on the dedicated RECENTERED channel (www.youtube.com/@RecenteredPodcast) and audio podcast platforms!
I am extremely enthusiastic about VR and AR technology, and while I think it's impressive today, I'm especially excited about the future potential that will be revealed in the coming decades.
I am also an author of five novels, the latest of which is called 'The Memory Engine' and is focused on VR/AR technology in a light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek kind of way.
I make videos on VR-related topics I'm interested in on a semi-regular basis. There will be periods of many videos and periods of few videos.
A small correction. Reverb G2 is not locked to 90hz you are able to choose between 90, 60 and 45 tho the 45hz would be motion reprojection so not exactly the same thing.
does anyone know how much the refresh rate and scaling affect the battery? (im running it wireless). I have a 7800 xt and I'm currently playing the game at ultra with just 72 hz @ 1.0 scaling on quest 2 (solid 72 fps). How much better would the game be with higher settings?
Being TRYING to get games running well in VR for a couple of months now. Wish id have seen this six weeks ago it very well explanied and on topic. Thank you.
Those stutters are from amd cpu, switch to intel and you won't have them! This is from actual personal experience, not something i read! Incoming 3.2.1 amd fanbois 😂
I'm watching this as part of an XR course I'm taking and I can't believe I had never heard of these guys before. Seems to me like they are not given enough credit and that sucks. They were exploring XR years before we had the proper technology to make it happen for real. They were visionaries.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this video. I felt like I was taking crazy pills after getting my quest 3 and trying out NMS VR. I can get 90+ fps with ultra settings on NMS, and godlike on SteamVR, but the stuttering is atrocious. I switched both NMS and SteamVR settings to lowest and get same amount of stuttering and visual issues. SO FRUSTRATING. I tried a whole bunch of solutions on forums and some seem to help, but stuttering and consistency issues are still present. Glad I'm not the only one. Any new things to try for a smoother experience, or is this just how it is?
How can I disable the reprojection ratio in SteamVR,It causes my frame rate in VRC to remain extremely low, whereas the frame rate was still acceptable before this feature was triggered. Ocu's ASW can be turned off, but I can't find a way to disable SteamVR's reprojection ratio
I like the idea oy DFR ,however i dont see many compatible games.. i have had the Pimax Crystal for over a year now..i mean you shouldn't have to use a 3rd party software just to get it working....i think the reason you don't get Eye track in open XR toolkit is because Elite Dangerous is a more compatible Game made for DFR already
Here is a question why is my 100% not matching my native resolution at all.. as in its not the right numbers. one of them is, but the other will not... I have a HP Reverb and it is 2160sq per eye but Steam VR just wont set it to 2160x2160 have to either go 100 or 96 and pick or choose which isnt that its scaled like you refer to its just wrong? and I cant find nothing on this or if its even wrong or intended. Any ideas?
I'd need to re-watch it myself to be sure, but I don't think anything covered in this video is necessarily out of date. The fundamentals of frame timings, framerate and reprojection are all still true to this day as far as I'm aware. There might be some changes in how some of those things work in Virtual Desktop for example, but even then it's all pretty much the same.
@@ImmersedRobot Thanks. I have asked some questions over at the Steam forum to see how this app has developed with not just the use of SteamVR but also with a Oculus headset, the Quest 3 in my case.
Great video mate! I'm having issues with adjusting the resolutions though. I have edited the height and width of low, med, and high settings, to 1200 x 1200, but when i get into the game it stays at 1080 x 1080. I even tried to adjust the settings XML file and changing the height and width there, but it just seems to stay the same. Even with it at 1080 x 1080, it is so damn fun to travel around los santos in VR! It would have been cool with controller motion aiming, but the head tracked aiming is actually pretty awesome!
It's been so long since I've used this mod that I'm not sure what to suggest regarding the resolution issues you're having. I struggle to get it working properly now due to the fact I own the Rockstar Launcher version of GTA V and the, now unsupported mod, seems to have major issues working with that version - even when rolling back updates etc (I wish it did). Sorry I can't be more help, but thanks for the comment!
@@ImmersedRobot It's all good man! I'll keep looking around and see if anyone else is having this issue, but honestly it's still fun to cruise around at 1080 lol. Ah man, that sucks that there's issues with the rockstar client version. i have it on steam and just checked another video on here where the guy had create a ZIP folder containing all the files, that i literally just pasted into the game's folder. i can give you the link to that video if you want to try those files? and it's all good man, i appreciate the response!
@@EubyGamingRES I'm pretty sure I might have already seen the same video a while ago, but I just can't get it to work on the non-Steam version. I'm sure there's a way, and maybe I'll look into it deeper at some point in the future. But thanks for the offer.
@@ImmersedRobot ok cool, no worries man. At least the game usually goes on sale for cheap, if you ever did want to grab it on steam and jump back into it lol
After using it, I'm pretty sure the PSVR2 uses a default resolution scaling of 1.7 in SteamVR to correct for barrel distortion rather than the standard 1.4 (this is an old video where things have changed now). This means that 100% SteamVR resolution scaling when using a PSVR2 effectively means it's rendering at 170% rather than the standard 140%.
@@BartCunningham it’s difficult to know for certain what the PS SteamVR app is doing behind the scenes, but I would assume that the distortion algorithm they are using requires 1.7x supersampling in order to bring it back to native resolution. That’s the only explanation why 100% shows as 3400x3400 per eye. But I can’t be certain of that, and regardless, that is a very demanding resolution for most PCs.
@@ImmersedRobot Thanks for the response. I will probably leave it set at 100% but may turn off motion smoothing. Alyx seems to be doing okay with it so far. I am running a MSI Katana I9/RTX 4070/64GB laptop.
Although this vid is 3 years old, going into PCVR just the other day with the now available PSVR2 for PC, i always wondered why 100% was around 4k*4k pixels while the psvr2 only has 2000*2040. this explains it.
You can go through OpenComposite, although how well that integrates with the direct OpenXR DFR integration with Elite I’m not sure. I tend to stick to OpenVR for Elite as it turns out.
Primary reason why this game was met with negative reception, apart from the extremely buggy release (of the flatscreen version that is), is that you were locked to flying only one ship. It wasn't unprecedented in the X series, but all the recent titles gave you the freedom to fly just about any ship, fighter sized to capital class. They backpedaled hard with X4 and followed the X3 formula again, with a little inspiration from Rebirth like some of the ship designs, the ability to walk around stations and the game engine itself. And became quite the success, still releasing huge patches and expansions 6 years after release. If VR was more mainstream, this might have become quite popular, because there's just so little to choose from in VR. There's Elite, and that's about it for sandbox space sims that I've heard of at least (I don't count NMS as a space sim, because the focus on space combat and flying is just so low).
I thought you could only have one ship in X4. That's the only thing I strongly remember of the game and the reason I uninstalled it when it came out. Has that been changed?
There's actually an indie game called dungeon knight which is very similar to legend quest. More sophisticated obviously, And tellingly made by just 1, maybe 2 people. Says a lot about how far this tech is gone since it re-emerged.
Hi and Thank you for the vid! Problem is that I first just recently started playing NMS and wanted to set up my T.Flight HOTAS OnE for NMS, and since you made the guide, Stream have changed their layout for controller setup! Was wondering if You could perhaps update this vid to a newer edition on how to setup the Hotas, using the new steam settings? ThanX in advance! Cheers!
Finally.. I've spent 3 days looking for guide on Crystal. Thank you very very much! Few questions if you dont mind! How shall I launch Sabnautica? I saw it ia workikg natively with DFR. Do i juat start it through Pimax app? I tried with steam vr , good quality but some stutters , and controller issues there. Thanks in advance!
I'm not hugely familiar with Subnautica (although I've played a few hours of it in VR) but here's the Pimax Crystal DFR spreadsheet regarding game compatibility: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16GNwXAVCjUF9vCW6ubiUPQT00hZ7hRT5K_sbO6P9nYc/edit?gid=0#gid=0 You should be able to load it directly from SteamVR and the DFR should be present via the Pimax client in that way since it seems to utilise the in-built OpenVR DFR implementation.
If you have dynamic foveated rendering from eye tracking enabled and the game supports OpenVR DFR the you still want to select one of the foveated settings (I use aggressive). Although it says ‘Fixed’ this was just an oversight in the software I believe. This used to be the case at least, but I’d need to go in and check if this is still the case.
This looks epic. Can't believe I didn't pay attention to this software. Ordered my first flight Sim hardware, got a VR and PC and can't wait to try this.
3:20 Yeah, I think that's the part that most modern VR naysayers don't quite grasp. They often use the failure of VR in the '90s as a way to prove how VR is just a fad, gimmick, and flop, but the reality (no pun intended) is that it really is a major part of the future [and current] of gaming, interactive entertainment, and beyond. It's just a matter of when it will become mainstream enough for everyone to get that very clear at this point. And then there will be no going back.
Sorry, I’m not sure you’re being serious or not. But assuming you are, then what I’m showing here is Elite being played on a PC and streamed to the Quest 3 over wireless connection. Elite does not have a native Quest version.
@@ImmersedRobot Do Frontier still support VR in its game or is it just odyssey without vr ? It is a shame their is no quest native as I would jump into vr no question if it did. It was a a shame they never took advantage of ps vr , even as a stripped down version, May have got me to jump to pc vr if I had been able to try it. How to the quests native controllers fair in ED ? I have x52 pro hotas but i imagine it can be a bit of a pain not being able to see the physical controllers let alone trying to fix them somewhere stable and comfy. When plugged into pc are you working on the quests battery or does the pc power it too ? If its battery how long does one get before having to recharge the Quest ? Many thansk
100% is effectively rendered at 140% behind the scenes anyway. The line has nothing to do with it, and simply indicates SteamVR’s recommended resolution scaling for your system.
I've just started ED in VR and after trying both legacy and horizons live, I think i'm going to play Legacy going forward. It just looks better! 4090/7800x3d
I agree that price would be perfect. It just doesn’t seem possible for them to reach that while making any viable profit unfortunately - at least that’s what I can only assume due to their standard pricing.
My jaw dropped when I first played this back in 2016 on my CV1. And when I super sampled it, I melted in my chair and said to myself, "This is just the first generation of HMDs....." Edit: I regret selling my CV1 everytime I think back on the headset. It was nearly perfect in all aspects. The blacks were truly black, it was light weight, and those controllers were phenomenal! All Oculus needed to do was bump up the resolution and possibly create a model that used laser for tracking vs the cameras that loaded up the USB bus when running three for better tracking/reduced occlusion.
Yes, with those features (which most people are probably advised in getting anyway) then the price does jump up to make the overall deal a slightly higher tier. It's still probably the best dedicated VR system for the specific types of simulation games I'd only ever recommend the Crystal for regardless. And in that recommendation, the controllers might not be necessary for all - especially, as I say, sim gamers. Although I love my Pimax Crystal, I would never recommend it as an 'all-rounder', and I stand by that for my own use-cases.
Sorry, I'm not certain what you're asking. Are you saying 45fps is too low? It's running in reprojection in order to give consistent performance with that framerate, which is less than ideal, but sort of necessary.
Without being an expert on the network-related bottlenecks of delivering frames to a headset, my guess would be, no (at least not in showing dropped frames on monitoring software). Wifi issues will certainly manifest in perceived stuttering for sure, but when monitoring via fpsVR, I believe that relies on information from the frame processing of the PC itself. So if fpsVR is displaying a dropped frame, then that is a result of the PC itself dropping the frame, and that has nothing to do with network issues (as far as I'm aware). Virtual Desktop's monitoring tools seem to combine this in various ways to provide more information from network-related issues, so that might provide extra information.
