For me it's pretty much 100% VR gaming these days. I still have that "new romance" feel towards thew hole thing.

Especially as being someone who used to play table tennis quite a lot, it's such a wonderful discovery to find a virtual table tennis emulator with really quite good physics, the Eleven: Tagble Tennis VR. Table tennis is just perfect for VR too - considering the limited requirement of space and the light ball. A "click" on the force feedback feels totally like a hit on the ball.

On summer sale I purchased:

BoxVR: Music rhythm game, fairly well executed with a strong focus on workout. Great!

Slinger VR: Totally MAD game where you sling around on various floating objects trying to reach the goal. God damn how this one puts your balance nerve to a stress test, as visually you fling around midair while standing on solid ground in real world. Mad dissonance. If you don't get nauseous in this game you're totally immune to it in VR. I almost fell over a couple of times. But I love the concept.

Until You Fall: A battle game where you fight creatures with your sword. Parry, block, hit in traditional "rpg fashion". It's... Ok. I got a feeling I'll grow tired of it pretty quick though.

Tower Tag: Not tried yet, I have high hopes for this one. Online multiplayer competitive futuristic shooter in VR? Hell yeah, count me in!

Boneworks: Not tried yet, but the great reviews and high placement on the VR chart makes this one something I look forward to.

Republique VR: Yet to play as well, but this is a 3rd person (In VR! Wonder how that works) stealth game with supposedly a great story. Can't wait to try it out!

These are good times for this gamer!

Quoting: PatolaNext, Fallout 4 VR [External Link] which so far I have been liking more than Skyrim VR.

So it works well? Controls and mechanics etc are fine, gameplay works? I read various user reviews on it and they are very inconclusive. If it works well I'll stop playing regular F4 and start over in this version!

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: EagleDeltaI can't speak for Ubuntu's NVidia packages, but at least with Pop!_OS, they only support stable drivers. Beta drivers never get pushed to the Pop!_OS GFX ppa.

Ah damn it's just another beta. Right. I just saw "mainline" and thought it was a new stable. Thanks.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Wow that's some serious spec! Wonder what price we're looking at here.

Also, if there are any Norwegian distributors for it.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I wonder how long it will take for this one to reach Ubuntu 20.04 via their official PPA? As the current newest available driver is the 440.64. Very odd since Ubuntu 19.10 has the .82 for a long time already.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Definitely the most interesting of the three - looks like a must-buy for sure!

View this comment - View article - View full comments

I've started on Half-Life Alyx - god damn what a game. What. A. Game.

So much so that I have actually stopped again - I want to finish the other games I got running and give this one 100% focus. It is... CRAZY. Not just for a VR game, but for games period.

That means some more hours into GTA5 - I'm still not 100% convinced about the three protagonist idea but it's better than I feared it would be. And else it's very classic GTA vibes. And the fantastic radio stations. A reason in itself to play this game.

And I end most evenings with a round of virtual table tennis - on Eleven: Table Tennis VR [External Link]. Very cool game, good virtualisation of the game.

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Quoting: slapinAnd still no GTAV and RDR2 :(

I play gta5 with no issues whatsoever, have done so for a long time now! Everything works including online play. What's your problem with it?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

There's no "free" games here, this is to be considered a rental service? Monthly fee to access a given set of games, like the Playstation Plus membership?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

Isn't this to punch holes in the os layer and open up for instabilities, hardware conflicts and massive security issues?

View this comment - View article - View full comments

If I have understood what a shader is, I can not fathom how this works? Can someone explain in very simple terms, please?

Shaders are what's deciding on how things will look with lights, shades and effects like glares, wetness, fire, all those things that happens on top of textures, right?

Well, in most games that will depend on what you do, when you do it and where you go? Like in GTA, there's time of day and weather, not to mention where on the map I drive?!
And - if there are some generally applicable pre-rendered work, then why not include that as part of the game install to begin with? And why are these pre-caching files handed out in small bits now and then?

I'm like... 100% blank!

View this comment - View article - View full comments