So i finally took the plunge and got myself an Oculus Rift, i've had it for a couple of months though. It's been quite the journey to get the best experience and to feel comfortable with it because honestly my first few times trying it, I almost wanted to refund the damn thing. Since I have glasses most of the time I was hoping that wasn't an issue, well you can have the Rift with glasses but it's so uncomfortable especially if your moving around, sitting down it can work. Anyway I have to have contact lenses for the best experience as simple as that as my glasses are probably to big to fit. I wonder why they don't the have a focus slider to compensate for nearsightedness, couldn't that be a thing?
I also realised two trackers wasn't enough to get full 360 tracking in some games, 1 more would have probably been enough but I bought two more so now I have one in every corner in my room which works great.
So many cables everywhere.... 4 USB cables for the trackers, the headset uses a usb + hdmi in one cable so you can't seperate. More sockets than I had in my PC with everything else plugged in so I had to buy a USB hub. Luckily the trackers I ordered contained longer cables because otherwise that would had been an issue since the original tracker cables are to short to place at correct distance since they are placed behind you away from the PC. The usb cable extending from the hub to the PC was of course as minimal as the could make it with a type B socket so I couldn't use the million USB type A cables I have laying around, I had to get a longer with a B socket.
When all that was sorted out I was finally able to get a decent experience. One thing that is painfully obvious once you put the headset on atleast it was for me, is the pixilated graphics which as I understand it is because of the resolution. 1080×1200 sounds great but when the lenses are so close to your eyes you will need a much great resolution to not see the pixels but this dosen't mean you can't get a cool experience which leads me to the things that are really awesome with VR.
Titanic VR was the first game I tried and it's pretty awesome, despite the grainy quality the immersion is real. To explore the ship in the dark using a rover in FPV is pretty cool, overall a cool experience that truly shows the potential in VR.
Another cool game that's also underwater is Subnautica now I love this game and have played it alot before I had VR, it's an intense experience exploring the depth of the ocean, with VR everything is turned up too 11 basically. VR aside I highly recommend that game because I feel it's a bit underated.
Project Cars 2 is also cool, I bought a steering wheel a year ago so combined with that it's a fun experience.
I have Lone Echo but haven't tried it yet, that seems cool.
I also haven't tried Fallout 4 VR or Skyrim VR, those are considered one of the only games that are trully complete games and dosen't feel like short tech demos because honestly, even though there are alot of cool gaming experiences to be had with VR most of the games still feel like VR tech demos even if they are complete games.
Besides games there's also small things like virtual desktop that's fun to use. Browsing youtube in VR and watching videos is cool, especially live concerts. Browsing DTF in VR is a divine experience.
Up until now VR has been a cool and neat experience but that's about to change...
Because I just had to try one of all these virtual girlfriend games that popping up from... wait for it...Japan
Who would have thought...
VR Kanojo, it's on steam and even though that game is pretty mellow after I tried it I pretty much instantly understood where the real potential are for VR...
Because whether you like or not VR has found it's perfect match made in heaven and that is PORN and they will have a bright future together!