HTC Vive Top 10 SETUP Tips (4K) 

Don't leave you vive like you do at 2:03. The sunlight going through the lenses will burn up the screen inside.

He forgot to mention how you shouldnt place your vive facing the lens to the window as in 3:30 in the background . Direct sunlight will fry those screens

Would you ever buy a VR headset? If so, which one? :)

I'm legally blind in one eye (massive screen door effect) and thought the Vive wouldn't work with me because I have zero depth perception due to my vision. Got my Vive two days ago. I've had no problems at all. So if you're on the fence because of an issue like that the only time I've gotten uncomfortable at all is when an NPC/character is right in my face. Edit: I had no idea the Vive had a mic, omg.

Hi Tom you might want to add as. no 11: make sure you have parents willing to give up their lounge 😊.

great video, been looking into getting one of these didn't think about tripods good idea!

I got a htc vive. Had a day off work, set it up and played it 10 hours.

Had mine since day 1 best thing I ever bought for gaming. Truly jaw dropping.

Thanks for this video, helped me a lot : )

Great video. This will def be helping me when I finally purchase one!! Keep up the great work!

thank you it was realy helpful :D !

Mine arrives tomorrow and I just can’t wait! Just need to find a good spot for the sensors, but it’ll work out.

I’m buying one of these so this was very helpful

unfortunately I don't have an exact time when i will be able to get a vive so i have to plan waaaaaay in advance, when I do get it should I wash the face mask thing once a week?

Hi...Do the base cameras have to be placed diagonally apart or can they be put anywhere as long as they face each other? Thanks

The vibration of the sensors isn't a problem on this tripods? I have my on tripods, I feel like it is shaking too much, not sure if it is affecting my experience

wow thats nice never try before but u seem to like it

Thanks for this video. I'm looking forward to the review now. I'm really curious about the games for it. Can you talk in a little more detail about some of the vr games, and how you play them.

got it as soon as I was able to when it first came out (vive). havnt had a bit of regret!

The multiplayer aspect of this seems like its going to be amazing when it really takes off. Can't wait

Hi, I am trying to install 4 base stations its just showing 2 only in steam vr

I have a regular Vive (not Vive Pro). I bought a third lighthouse sensor but it wont connect. Any feedback would be most helpful and thank you for your time.

Nice vid

I love my Vive. Can't wait for a Vive 2 with new controllers.

but what should i do when i have a slanting roof, how should i setup my sensors??

Was that Sports Bar VR footage from Nerdcubed?

Good presentation, you should be on the telly despite your parents curtains. I got my Vive yesterday but the steam store seems to have crashed.

Quality video, thumbs up! Just got my Vive at the weekend and in awe how amazing it is. Just hope they get around the 'blink' movement from many games. Kind of kills some of the immersion.

from what i understand high refresh rate and really really good tracking (6dof at least) are the key to not feeling sick. and a good comfortable headband taht the vive sadly lacks. i foudn out that if i put the main part of the support on my head rather than cheekbones i get far less nausea

can it.work with a laptop

Also since this video is a few months, I HIGHLY recommend using the Steam VR beta. It has support for Asynchronous Reprojection which allows the headset to update frames completely in-sync with your GPU which decreases judder significantly. To opt in-to the Steam VR beta Right Click Properties>Betas>Drop down box opt-in.

Btw guys the base stations don't need to be above head height, they can even be on the floor, I haven't personally done this but multiple HAVE have confirmed this.

very new vive user (7hours) here is my beginner feedback 1- space, I had 1.8x2.6 meters, 2.6 worked well but 1.8 is not enough, don't think "it'll do" it won't and will seriously downgrade your experience, I decided to clear the room to have a 2.6+ square area because I quickly found games where I had to pickup items outside of the boundaries :/ 2 - don't try super cool games some are complex to understand, do this steam vr tutorial->download environments and explore them a little->nvidia funhouse->the lab 3 - check this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FBRwSx125Z8.html and do like he says asap especially the bluetooth (easier firmware updates and the base will shut down, if you don't enable it you'll have to manually unplug them all the time) 4 - components that need an update have a small i on the icon btw thx for the micro tip I didn't know there was one !

does this work with index?

Thanks to this video, i ordered myself one :3 My room is about 2m by 2m so i might be fine.

2:58 Oh god I remember playing this rec room like game and I got motion sickness with that. I still have the headset aswell. Luckily I love VIVE

When I first played arisona sunshine vr, I almost threw up from motion sickeness. This was because of the way movement in the game was set up. After I changed the way I moved around, I never got motionsickness again.

hi Tom, do you think it is safe for our eyes in long term of usage? thanks.

I have set up my vive today. It is fantastic, however, on a rollercoaster simulation, I did chuck up my lunch ... very realistic indeed lol

Do you still need the light house sensors if your doing sitting down sims?

One note for setting area. If you have ceiling lamps that have metal then there can be reflections. I had one area where tracking was going mad. Rootcause was metal in ceiling lamp.

I need lap top and tv screen?

omw to pick one up in a couple of hours :)

I'm worried about my graphics card. I've been meaning to upgrade, but with prices being the way they are now...I have a GTX970 and an I7-6700. Would that be good enough? They say the 970 is minimum...but I never go with just minimum specs because it always ends in disappointment.

Do you think it's worth buying? And how well would it handle with a gtx 970 and a fx 8350

For those new to the Vive, if you have all sort of troubles getting it to recognize all controllers and you're running Windows 7 -> switch to Windows 10! I had tried ever-y-thing, spent countless hours on reddit reading and asking questions, tinkered with every possible BIOS and Windows 7 setting, even installed a secondary USB card... nothing worked. After installing Windows 10 everything worked on the first try.

Waiting for mine to come in

What would be a good pc to run the vive on?

is vr gonna come down in price? you gotta invest close to $2k for a pc and vive. also there doesnt seem to be any compelling games either. cant wait for the review!!

What happens if you move? Do you just run the room setup again?

SHIT I never thought to download my games prior to getting the Vive. I mean I've been playing ED for some time now but I'm certain I want to play Onward too... Better get on that lol

Who else saw the Nerdcubed footage for the PoolNation scene? XD

I want pool nation now. How does it feel compared to real pool?

Tension rods for me with lighthouses clamped to them. Alot more secure than Tripods imho.

i own the vive and 40 games or experiences, the only motion sickens iv ever got was in my racing sim, i have been on a real track in a real race car. so it took my brain a few tries to except the lack of g force it expected lol. now i drift entire mountain roads at over 100 mph with nothing but sweat from slamming gears and wheel work. but elite dangerous is in space so it seemed to my mind it was normal not to fell anything and the view out my pit was truly cosmic . especially the encounters with neutron stars and landing on moons. the warp jumps are cool too. onward has an amazing method of movement that your mind understands. you really feel like your doing it. some not so much moving at quake speeds takes loads of practice lol i still stumble when i stop in serious sam , it moves hella fast. but if your susceptible to motion sickness just play til you sweat and take a break , keep at it and in a few tries you'll be a veteran. its worth the effort.

The worst problem I had was getting it to see my controllers and it was finicky as hell. Use a 2.0 USB and steamvr beta

Update drivers might not be great advice,I had to roll back my gpu driver to get any games to work gtx 780

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I think one of the major reasons for motion sickness in mobile vr compared to the vive is a mobile phone more than likely has a 60hz screen(the razer phone has 120hz) while the vive is 90hz so it makes it so much smoother. Also the sensor tracking means you don't get disorientated while a single gyroscope gets easily disorientated.

anybody elts catch the nerdcubed footage?

i would buy one, but i dont have a gaming setup

my mum got me a vive!!

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Why do people keep saying it's a pain in the ass to setup? I watched a video before buying mine and didn't see the problem... However when I got mine I was expecting it to well really be a pain in the ass... with a drill/drill bit and a screw driver it was setup installed and good to go in about 15 minutes... What makes it hard to setup? I just don't get it.

im gonna buy a gtx 1070 and vive for xmas :D ,

Just use regular tripod though

Great tips but you made a mistake in your video. You have your headset sitting with lenses facing a window. Sunlight can destroy your headset like a magnifying glass.

Sucks, I just don’t have the room for it.

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i like talking to people in real life its more fun

Hache t c vive? Lol

They need to reduce the price buy at least £200

Stolen pool nation footage from Nerdcubed.

Hard to setup? Not at all.

This technology will fail the same as 3d glasses failed in living rooms . 3d glasses still used in cinema but vr has no such scope in cinemas .so it will disappear quickly

My top tip is to not buy one.

I've tried out my friends Vive and I will never buy one, I loved playing Gorn but I kept hitting the walls (which made me feel really guilty and kind of ruined VR for me), I feel like for a game like that "Room Mode" or whatever it is, is a bad idea. But as far as we could tell you cannot set specific games in "Stationary Mode" while every other game is "Room Mode" which really sucks. That is the only reason I dislike the Vive, everything else was great.

mine was a proper fucking bitch to setup wow. only hdmi from vive into gpu card, dvi from motherboard to a monitor. literally no other setup worked...... besides that, cable is a piece of shit, resolution is bad, viewing things at a distance is bad and general software is bad. wait until vive 2