Help and Support Forums => All things VR => Topic started by: Dichotomy on September 18, 2022, 12:18:13 PM
Title: setting up later today
Post by: Dichotomy on September 18, 2022, 12:18:13 PM
HOTAS should be here next week so I watched this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs6b1HM_Y_k something I'm a little fuzzy on. Do I need to set up AH on the pc or download it to the headset?
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: oboe on September 18, 2022, 12:50:40 PM
You set it up on the PC.
The PC runs the game, the Oculus is used as a display (even though the Oculus is capable of storing and running apps - in this case it's just used as a display.) Do you have a Link cable?
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Dichotomy on September 18, 2022, 12:56:31 PM
Getting set up to play again isn't something I've scrimped on.
So once I use the link cable and get into AH it's fairly basic after that? Just do some muddling around and get set up?
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Drano on September 18, 2022, 01:16:59 PM
Pretty much. Install the Oculus software and get the headset set up initially. Get that straightened out first. Once you get AH installed, when you want to run it in VR you have to use the DX11 exe--the DX9 version won't run VR. Put a shortcut for that on your desktop. Have the Oculus software running and minimized first. Run AH. AH is aware you have a headset plugged in. You'll see a dialog box on the desktop asking if you want to use your Oculus headset, click yes to run it in VR, no to run it on the desktop. AH well start in the headset. You're off to setting up the rest in the game. First thing I did was to disable the Oculus touch controllers.
One thing. When you start AH your gonna have to answer that dialog box to use the Oculus headset or not on the desktop. You'll be sitting there in the headset and nothing will happen til you do that.
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Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Dichotomy on September 18, 2022, 01:25:18 PM
ya I've got the mirroring software set up so I'll do as much as I can on the PC. Okay I think I'm ready to go.
Thanks Gents.
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: oboe on September 18, 2022, 01:46:19 PM
Real happy to see getting back in the air, Dichotomy. Enjoy yourself!
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Dichotomy on September 18, 2022, 02:02:22 PM
I am stoked. Downloading the oculus sw now. Had to straighten out my gmail account. LOL
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Dichotomy on September 18, 2022, 03:02:30 PM
Pretty much. Install the Oculus software and get the headset set up initially. Get that straightened out first. Once you get AH installed, when you want to run it in VR you have to use the DX11 exe--the DX9 version won't run VR. Put a shortcut for that on your desktop. Have the Oculus software running and minimized first. Run AH. AH is aware you have a headset plugged in. You'll see a dialog box on the desktop asking if you want to use your Oculus headset, click yes to run it in VR, no to run it on the desktop. AH well start in the headset. You're off to setting up the rest in the game. First thing I did was to disable the Oculus touch controllers.
One thing. When you start AH your gonna have to answer that dialog box to use the Oculus headset or not on the desktop. You'll be sitting there in the headset and nothing will happen til you do that.
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dx11?
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Dichotomy on September 18, 2022, 03:37:47 PM
disregard.. it is DX11.
I got on the runway and my mouse suddenly wouldn't work and I couldn't use my handsets to click the checkboxes but I have a week to fool with that. Probably some kind of silly conflict. That's enough of that for the day
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Puma44 on September 18, 2022, 04:17:05 PM
Welcome back! VR is going to water your eyes.
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Dichotomy on September 18, 2022, 04:47:26 PM
ya I can already tell I'm going to have to pony up for some prescription lenses but that's fine.
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Drano on September 18, 2022, 07:59:58 PM
Look into Reloptix lenses. I just got them for my G2. They're perfect even with my extreme scrip and they were half the price of the ones I had for the RiftS. Blue block and anti-reflective coatings included.
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Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Oldman731 on September 19, 2022, 08:52:09 AM
Look into Reloptix lenses. I just got them for my G2. They're perfect even with my extreme scrip and they were half the price of the ones I had for the RiftS. Blue block and anti-reflective coatings included.
Do you use the prescription for long distance, or for reading?
- oldman
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Drano on September 19, 2022, 09:13:05 AM
Do you use the prescription for long distance, or for reading?
- oldman
The prescription lenses you use for VR are NOT reading glasses. They're your actual prescription. In fact, if you wear progressives or regular bifocals they'll tell you to leave that part of the scrip off the order. My scrip is pretty extreme. IIRC one eye is like a -10. Don't let these contacts fool you--I'm blind as a bat! And at nearly 60--readers have been a neccessity for quite a while! I have them all around the house and in my desk at work. Heck I even have safety glasses with cheaters in them!
I found that there were only a couple of these companies that will make the extreme scrips, Reloptix was one. They were a special order and took longer to get but were no more expensive than their regular lenses and those were roughly half what I'd have paid using the company I used for my RiftS lenses, VROpticians. Cool thing about the Reloptix system is you get an adapter for your specific headset. Pops on the headset lense. Your prescription lense attaches to it magnetically. So they're really easy to swap in and out if you share the headset with someone else. They can just get another pair of the lenses without the adapter. Thought that was a pretty cool feature. I'm really happy with mine.
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Dichotomy on September 19, 2022, 09:13:55 AM
Atm I'm only using reading glasses but I can tell my long vision is going
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Drano on September 19, 2022, 02:39:12 PM
Seems like you'd need the readers since the screens are literally an inch or so from your eyeballs. Truth is you don't use the readers for VR. It's either fit your glasses in the facepad (and risk scratching either the glasses, the headset lenses or both!) or get the prescription lenses. That's if you need them which you don't.
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Eagler on September 19, 2022, 02:44:06 PM
I use my computer glasses in my vive pro headset
Readers are too close and distance is too far for me
Eagler
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Dichotomy on September 19, 2022, 03:00:43 PM
ya I'm going to give that a bit just to see how things go.
That said all of my HOTAS should be here by Thursday :joystick: Already got my Sat and Sun cleared to get fully set up and get in the air again :) :banana:
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Dichotomy on September 20, 2022, 03:07:08 PM
welp pedals came in, throttle came in, and the stick is due today later. Almost done guys. Hopefully earlier than later today so I can spend some time with all of that.
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Dichotomy on September 20, 2022, 03:41:58 PM
okay it's all here. Thought you guys would get a kick out of this. I had a friend of mine build me this table top. it sits down in the cupholders on the chair and I put some velcro on the back side of the arm rest. The table top is the cloth side of velcro and I put the hook side on the controllers. Keeps the controllers in place just fine (just tested it). Getting there guys.
https://imgur.com/a/lNek6R4
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Dichotomy on September 21, 2022, 06:50:10 PM
got my controllers mostly set up tonight just to get me off the ground. Still dealing with some technical issues but I'm getting there :)
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Oldman731 on September 21, 2022, 08:48:48 PM
ya I can already tell I'm going to have to pony up for some prescription lenses but that's fine.
I just ordered Reloptix lens inserts after watching this video review:
There is also a 5% coupon code below the video, so my total was only about $76. That's about $30 cheaper than VROptician, which I have for my old Reverb G1. Was satisfied with them, but I wanted to give Reloptix (a Colorado company) my business this time.
They are also able to build a little bit of the ADD power of your prescription into the lens. Mine is +2.5 each eye, so I thought I'd try that option.
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Dichotomy on September 23, 2022, 10:14:36 AM
thanks dude... I'll look into it. Going to shut down work at noon to give myself the whole weekend + to get dialed in with what I have.
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Eagler on October 09, 2022, 11:35:46 AM
How is new setup going?
Eagler
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Dichotomy on October 10, 2022, 07:14:28 AM
everything is put together then life happened. Had to take dad to the ER and be on top of him for a few days, work has been overwhelming, etc.
I'm still trying to figure out how to make the game work. I've got it DL'd on my headset and the PC just not exactly sure what the next step is and no research has been particularly helpful . Just got a couple of meetings and paperwork to do today so I'm hoping to carve out the afternoon to get finished.
If yall have any tips at this stage it would be greatly appreciated. Someone said I have to set up my controllers in the VR game. That's cool and all just being prudent and trying to make sure I don't mess something up in the process.
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Eagler on October 15, 2022, 01:27:40 PM
Get it up and going yet?
Eagler
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Dichotomy on October 15, 2022, 06:50:18 PM
been swamped
For those of you that don't know I moved in with my 83 year old dad and my 77 year old mom 5 years ago so they didn't have to worry about assisted living.
So anyway the other day I had some time and said 'okay I'm setting this squeak up'. Get started and it asks me for a 4 digit passcode. Umm what? So anyway I go looking for Meta support. How fun they don't have a number you can call. So I send an email. 3 days later they reply. I couldn't understand their bs and asked to get a number for a live operator. Nope can't have that. So the suggestion was to factory reset and start over. That's on tomorrows agenda after I cook lunch for mom and dad. Quesadillas by the way.
I AM trying without squeaking on the board LOL
Has anybody looked at the new meta? I AM intruiged.
Title: Re: setting up later today
Post by: Dichotomy on October 25, 2022, 06:20:54 AM
Okay gang life got very complicated for me for a bit. Started a new job that's probably going to be temporary while I look for something better, dad took a bad fall and was in the hospital for a few days, mom just got off of chemo and I've been taking care of everything for her (cooking, cleaning, etc) while she recuperates and taking her to the hospital to see dad daily.
ANYWAY
Just haven't had the time to mess with my Quest. Every time I start to the intercom goes off and it's 'okay I'll be right down' UGH.
Can someone write up an ELI5 for how to set this puppy up? Normally I wouldn't ask but I really want to get going I just don't have the time to do all the research and do a step by step for myself.