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Cyran on 22 October 2022
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SvennoJ said:
Cyran said:

Bought the original VIVE in 2016, Upgraded my controllers to the Index Controllers in 2019 and upgraded my headset to Vive Pro 2 in 2021. I have tried probably 50+ games on Steam VR. Half Life: alyx is still my best experience in VR and really high up there in gaming experiences period.

I still use VR almost every day for cardio exercise, Beat Saber probably the game I have the most hours logged in because of that. Recently been playing Holo Ball for my work out but despite my fairly large play area finding that game a little on dangerous side. A couple time am on left hit ball come flying back too me on far right and I lunge to catch up and end up slamming into wall. Normally the grid warning is plenty of warning for me but when I try to pivot opposite direction at full speed it easy to blow by it.

Gaming 2022 been a slow year for me in VR not really anything new other then games I buy to switch up my cardio workout to keep it fun. Generally cardio I play a new game for a month but then end up going back to Beat Saber.

On the gaming side Bonework labs through might get more play time from me once we get more community mods since at least that game fully embracing the mod community.

I tried Holoball in PSVR and actually put a dent in my ceiling lol. Ripped the plastic ball off the move as well, taped back on with scotch tape, still works!

I played Beat Saber a lot, great workout but it gets hot in the headset after 10 minutes. Beat Saber without having to wear a headset would be true next gen. Hopefully I live long enough to see holo projectors in action :)

Back when I used the VIVE controller I hit my ceiling once or twice.  With the design of index controllers that not a problem since it would be my fingers not the controller to make first contact and I don't quite jump that high.  I did make one sacrifice in my computer room to prevent this.  Every room in my house just about I installed a ceiling fan except my computer room specifically because I did not want to risk hitting the fan when am in VR.

The worse I ever hurt my self was before I moved into my house I was living in an apartment so the VR space was just in a open space in the apartment.  The wall I facing was 3/4 of a wall and then a hallway.  I swung and if I had just hit the wall forward it would of hurt but not so bad but instead I swung into the open hallway and then hit the side wall of the hallway.  I pretty sure who ever lived below and above me heard the cuss words that came out of my mouth.

When it come to controllers it would be hard now for me to use anything other then the Index controllers without mods that let you open your hand without dropping the controller because am so use to being able to open my hands when I make throwing motions.  Unless you make mods to any other controller out there to keep the controller connected to you it would result in me throwing the controller.

I usually target doing 10 song when I work out in beat saber so ~30 min or a little longer depending on which songs I choose that day.  I usually do it on expert.  The problem with expert+ is ideally you stay fairly still and just flic with your wrist which not idea workout.  With Expert mode I can let my self move around enough to get a good overall work out and at same time not get frustrated missing to many cubes.  Find it best mix of a good workout but still having fun.  Not going to break any score records with my style but can still constantly get S rank and sometime SS on expert.