Cheapest VR rig to play Alyx on?

I guess britpop wasnt a thing in the u.s
(checkout common people by pulp on youtube ive derailed this thread enough)

 

if you have vision issues drop some money on a set of lenses

https://vroptician.com/
https://vr-lens-lab.com/

I had lasik a decade ago so i dunno which ones are better. However i do know from friends that using a set from one of these companies is much better than wearing glasses in the vr unit.

 

your quite welcome.

Let me know what you go with ultimately and how it works for you ! we can all get a round of frisbee golf in rec room

 

Is there any chance Alyx will come to PSVR? Would save a lot of headaches for me, reading this thread ( and money!)

 

Perhaps it could come out for psvr. At least on pc valve has been good on supporting a good variety of headsets.

http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2020/03/is_half-life_alyx_coming_to_psvr_heres_what_valve_had_to_say

 

With how flat valve work culture is, if enough of their workers gets hyped with Psvr (or Psvr 2?)they probably gonna port it

 

Damon Albarn is also behind Gorillaz (Feel Good Inc. and Clint Eastwood). I've been lucky to hear Damon Albarn at Roskilde Festival a bunch of times and it is always the wildest experience.

 

Alyx makes zero sense to play with monitor and keyboard+mouse. It just doesn't translate that way. Alyx experience is all in being in there in vr. In more detail being able to manipulate things with hands and being able to physically duck behind covers, peek out, look around, use gravity gloves to grab and throw things etc.

 

And don't forget with throwing shit to enemies because no ammo...

And no ammo because the atmosphere and physics is so good (more like... Abundant?), I keep wasting ammo just shooting things

 

One more vote in here for Digital to pick up the Quest. It fits over my glasses (I too am blind AF) but it's just a tad face-heavy. After the Virtual Desktop 1.12.1 release, and so long as you have a high quality AC router and not a ton of 5GHz noise in your area, playing Alyx completely wirelessly has been a fantastic experience. Yes, there is the rare occasion of a hitch in the stream, but it's so much better at room scale wirelessly versus being tethered to a cable, and also ignoring any of the aforementioned USB 3 compatibility issues with ports or cables or whatnot.

The battery drain hasn't been excessive IMO. My quest usually gives me around 2.5 hours of playtime for anything native to the headset, and probably right at 2 hours of playtime with VDesktop. It's probably healthier to stop at least that often anyway, so it doesn't bother me.

 

Digi you should buy the quest because it fits over Albuquerque's glasses

 

If you knew how thick my glasses are, you'd know this is a pretty ringing endorsement.

(hint: I'm -14 diopter in my good eye)

 

It's comedy ( allegedly )

 

As long are you are in control of where you are looking, it's all good for the most part. If the game foolishly takes head tracking control away from you and forces you to look somewhere, get ready for major discomfort and potential face spewing.

This is mostly something that happens when trying to play old games in Vorpx and they have cutscenes or silly forced animations for stuff. Closing one eye helps a ton with these moments.

 

If you are prone to any sort of motion sickness (sea sickness, for example or even slight discomfort when in the passenger seat of a car where the driver likes to hard brake and hard accelerate frequently) then definitely try before you buy. Especially if you want to use it for action games.

While that video was obviously exaggerated for effect, nausea in VR is a very real thing for some people. And different things will trigger it in different people. IE - for some people lateral movement will trigger it but not forward motion. For some people, forward motion triggers it but lateral movement doesn't. And it's possible for any movement to trigger it.

This isn't to scare you off, but just to be aware of the possibility. There are very VERY few games I can comfortably game in with VR. But since I primarily have a VR headset for movies, that's not a big concern for me.

Regards,
SB