HTC Vive Review

[Meta_KnightX]

What's been going on?

For the past couple of days, I've been playing with the HTC Vive my step dad got for the house! Everything is AWESOME!

Games I've played: AudioSheild, Catteral Damage, Job Simulator (If you don't know any of these games, search it up on Steam)

Quick Game Reviews
AudioSheild: Wow! Any music from your PC or on Soundcloud! Riiiight on the beat! Epic!

Catteral Damage: Meow! Teleport as a cat. Okay. Rawr! Knocking everything over! And this is a bad hazard for viewers and animals, I keep hitting them!

Job Simulator: Blasting! This is better than adults call "work"! Great!

Other Info

Picking games are pretty easy and settings you can adjust via monitor are good.

Problems encountered: Callibration may go wonky and you will fly to who knows where in game, all of a sudden freezing (on a GTX 1080) very overwhelming, and makes you nauseous, some crashing on some games at some points, no big deal. Although The Lab keeps crashing a lot, Steam VR may just break totally, we sweat a lot in-game and get marks after taking off HTC Vive

What we learned in setup: Mirrors mess with the sensors BIG time

Side effects (that I encountered, and are actually cool): Taking of the headset, it felt weird right away that I was back in the real world, Later, after finishing the Vive for the night, I closed my eyes and saw the menu for Steam VR, and at other points some games that I've played on it, and I had an illusion that a border appeared

Overall: HTC Vive is very amazing! Watching it in videos won't amaze you as much as actually using it!

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[PurpleMetro]

the only thing i'll probably be able to afford is an oculus in my lifetime

[KickFlow]

the only thing i'll probably be able to afford is an oculus in my lifetime

if you can't get a job that gives you a spare $800 to blow whats the point in living?

[Drydess]

if you can't get a job that gives you a spare $800 to blow whats the point in living?

wow way to make fun of the poor kid

[Masterlegodude]

wow way to make fun of the poor kid

He's just a poor boy from a poor family

[McZealot]

I bought one 2 weeks ago with some spare cash, and I've been pretty estactic with it. It's great and somehow better than I expected, but it does feel as though there is a lack of substance with it. Almost nothing on the Vive is addictive or deep like Skyrim or Blockland.

I'd try out Holopoint. It's less than $10 and is by far the most excercise intensive game I've played. If you play for an hour or two, you've probably gotten a pretty good workout. It's extremely tiring but also a bit methodic because it kinda follows a pattern, in that you have to dodge a projectile after each shot. So it's Shoot-Dodge-Shoot-Dodge-Spin-Shoot-Dodge ect.

AltSpaceVR is like a virtual chatroom for the Vive. I'd recommend you try it out--everyone is extremely friendly, and they have some really fun games. You can play Card Against Humanity, Dungeons and Dragons, or attend trivia competitions with other players in real-time. I got paired with a Mexican guy on an art-trivia competition with 30 or so people, and we had a lot of fun.

I thought about Audioshield but I like to listen to more slow-paced music so I don't think it would really work for me. Space Pirate Trainer I'm not very good at, so I'm not really sure what to say. I guess it's fun for a bit, but I wish there was more to do. I suppose that would disrupt the wholly competitive atmosphere they have going.

[Legoboss]

He's just a poor boy from a poor family

spare him his life from this monstrosity

[Meta_KnightX]

Bump, I enhanced the OP a bit

[hillkill]

how real does it feel say if you were standing on the ledge of a tall building

[Meta_KnightX]

how real does it feel say if you were standing on the ledge of a tall building

Very real.
Just being in Catteral Damage, teleporting on a ledge and just right at the edge, I feel my heart skip a beat, and I CAN'T walk off to the open air because I still feel like I will fall of the edge.
Anyone I've seen in the headset exposed to an unsafe high place will scream.