Yeah, but not if anyone intends to use any other shop. So it is open in different areas. Or maybe we can realise that "open" is not a very descriptive word to describe the different shops.
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Yeah, but not if anyone intends to use any other shop. So it is open in different areas. Or maybe we can realise that "open" is not a very descriptive word to describe the different shops.
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Steam being more open means Steam sells games that are compatible with headsets other than Steam's own model. Oculus' store only sells for the Oculus model.
How someone can look at these facts and somehow twist them around suggesting Steam is less open is just mind boggling. Or silly, as suggested in a previous post.
How someone can look at these facts and somehow twist them around suggesting Steam is less open is just mind boggling. Or silly, as suggested in a previous post.
cheapchips
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Valve's recent VR based interview was interesting. The reporting of it I saw glossed over a few points I thought.
The three games they have in development are big games, not smaller experiments. The new games are being built around the new controllers.
They expect 2018/19 VR displays to exceed desktop in refresh and resolution. Apparently several display manufacturers have started looking at proper VR displays rather than trimmed phone screens.
Plus, other stuff about how they see the market developing.
Full interview:
The three games they have in development are big games, not smaller experiments. The new games are being built around the new controllers.
They expect 2018/19 VR displays to exceed desktop in refresh and resolution. Apparently several display manufacturers have started looking at proper VR displays rather than trimmed phone screens.
Plus, other stuff about how they see the market developing.
Full interview:
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SteamVR lighthouse is getting better and cheaper. It's also compatible with old version so no harm done to existing customers.
http://www.roadtovr.com/closeup-next-generation-steamvr-tracking-base-station-better-every-way/
http://www.roadtovr.com/closeup-next-generation-steamvr-tracking-base-station-better-every-way/
Ike Turner
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Valve has just released Steam Audio:
https://valvesoftware.github.io/steam-audio/
Audio is finally coming back to the forefront this year. Real-time HRTF-based Binaural audio will also be natively supported & integrated in the Windows 10 Creators update on PC and the Xbox One
https://valvesoftware.github.io/steam-audio/
Audio is finally coming back to the forefront this year. Real-time HRTF-based Binaural audio will also be natively supported & integrated in the Windows 10 Creators update on PC and the Xbox One
Ike Turner
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Here's AMD's update to TrueAudio Next which they will talk more about at GDC next week
http://gpuopen.com/trueaudio-next-research-gamesoundcon/
White Paper: http://www.gamesoundcon.com/2016-game-audio-research
http://gpuopen.com/trueaudio-next-research-gamesoundcon/
White Paper: http://www.gamesoundcon.com/2016-game-audio-research
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ProspectorPete
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Is this comparable to existing libraries?
Ike Turner
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AMD LiquidVR MultiView Rendering (similar to Nvidia)
http://pro.radeon.com/en-us/exceptional-vr-performance-with-amd-liquidvr-multiview-rendering/
AMD LiquidVR: MultiRes Rendering (Yup! AMD going all out trying to 'catch-up" with NVIDIA which is great for everybody)
http://pro.radeon.com/en-us/exceptional-vr-performance-with-amd-liquidvr-multiview-rendering/
AMD LiquidVR: MultiRes Rendering (Yup! AMD going all out trying to 'catch-up" with NVIDIA which is great for everybody)
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Ike Turner
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LG is going to be the second OEM coming out with a "SteamVR" HMD. Demo of the prototype at Valve's Booth during GDC this week https://uploadvr.com/gc-2017-valve-showing-lg-headset-week/
Foveated rendering with AMD Multires Rendering could improve the performance 30-100%.
https://uploadvr.com/gdc-2017-fove-amd-take-aim-improving-vr-rendering/
https://uploadvr.com/gdc-2017-fove-amd-take-aim-improving-vr-rendering/
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Oculus dramatically reduces prices for headset and peripherals:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davide...slashes-prices-on-rift-hardware/#783f7799a53a
Remember when Luckey last year said Oculus was being sold at production cost? Well...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davide...slashes-prices-on-rift-hardware/#783f7799a53a
Remember when Luckey last year said Oculus was being sold at production cost? Well...
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It's a great start for PCVR to have a cheap point of entry.
599 for Rift plus touch controllers, this almost equals
399 PSVR, 59 PS camera, 79 PS move controller bundle.
With PC fans claiming PC VR had over a 100 million devices more powerful than PS4, PCVR now has no more excuses for selling less than PSVR.
599 for Rift plus touch controllers, this almost equals
399 PSVR, 59 PS camera, 79 PS move controller bundle.
With PC fans claiming PC VR had over a 100 million devices more powerful than PS4, PCVR now has no more excuses for selling less than PSVR.
Ike Turner
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Another Review:
https://uploadvr.com/robo-recall-review/
As most VR content this look like nothing more than an experience/tech-demo..but it's free so no complain from me. Will hopefully try it out soon once I get my hands back on my Rift which Is at work. Based on the users comment it seems like the teleporting mechanism is not great and also broken when used in room-scale mode (with 3 cameras).
Anyway the most interesting par is the use of the new Forward Rendering path in UE4....and....from what I briefly tested yesterday in another game/XP called ROM Extraction (which was ironically on stage at AMD's event...) it's still total horse-shit in terms of performances on AMD GPUs so something must be wrong somewhere (cause Unity/source 2 content works perfectly fine as usual). I was averaging at 50% (!) frames re-projection with everything set to minimum on my home's Radeon Fury X which is totally ridiculous as I can run most of the non UE4 VR content with 1.3 SuperSampling with at most 7% re-projection...Maybe Rom's implementation is totally borked ?
Edit: ROM Extraction is indeed totally broken http://steamcommunity.com/app/530960/discussions/0/133258593381248472/ but the devs seems to think that it only affects users who upgraded from the previous version (with the deferred renderer) to the new version and that the settings are broken. Well, I never had that version (and many users either) before so something else is definitely going on as Nvidia users are also having the same perf issues ...will try it out again once the patch is out.
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Ike Turner
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Can you tell me more about your PC config/specs and how well it ran on it compared to other UE4 VR content?
I have nvidia 780GHz edition and intel i5-4670k. Game settings defaulted to low, 2xmsaa, 0.7 pixel density.
The game seemed smooth and I didn't notice anything annoying in regards to performance
Ike Turner
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Get yourself a 1070 already! Running VR below native resolution (0.7 ) should be a outlawed! 
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Gaming dangerously is my middle name. Though gpu upgrade is long overdue and I should get something. Maybe I'm waiting for vega to come out before seriously contemplating gpu upgrade. I'll probably want to get something quite high end and then stick with that for the next 3-4years.
The price cut news was a bummer, I preordered and got an Oculus Touch at the end of the last year, but I've been busy and it's on the floor of my room without unwrapped... they say those who activated it in 30 days before the price cut get a $50 coupon but I hadn't even activated it.
If HTC Vive follows the price cut it's cool though, with LG entering SteamVR.
