The perfect matching of the hand movements and objects in the trailer. I have to see it to believe it :) I imagine it to be more on the level of Job simulator in reality. My had movements aren't that steady anymore in real life!

I have not played the lab though, pc exclusive I guess? It's just that motion controls always feel awkward to me so I remain skeptical until proven wrong.

No I have not. But even when PSVR tracking works well there's still that feeling of disconnect and awkwardness. The move controllers are probably to blame for that. What I miss is when you manipulate objects in real life with both hands at the same time. Turning something over in VR becomes an exercise in trying to bend your wrist in ways that don't work. Simply having your other hand assist is very difficult in VR. Perhaps the index controllers solve that by providing finger tracking (if they do that). The human hand is such a complex tool that a simple grab / let go state is not getting anywhere near intuitive handling of objects.

Anyway I'm very curious to see how it turns out. For now I've gone back to preferring a controller over motion controls, except for beat saber. I finally got the setup good enough to get the platinum trophy! Placing the camera a foot higher suddenly increased my scores enough to get SS ranking. So finicky!

Seeing that recent clip of behind the scenes for Alyx, those Index controllers look like the best on the market right now. The amount of dexterity you get and see from them on-screen just looks all kinds of fantastic (slow-mo scene of reloading the rifle is also kickass too).

https://youtu.be/w8a1BAolFIk?t=205

VR just offers gameplay mechanics that are simply not possible on flatscreen games. 

This was exactly the video I was on about in my above comment.

I'm not sure why people are begging for this to be made M+K compatible, because even the devs have stated that this game was made entirely for and only for VR input, not anything else. This sort of game just wouldn't work right with anything else but the headsets/VR controllers it's made for. 

That looks more like what I expect. Very cool yet also pretty clumsy and messy. I'm still on the fence on how this will go in a serious game environment. It's good for a laugh anyway. His wrists bending so uncomfortably all the time (in game) makes me feel kinda nauseous lol.

Video games have also been about feeling like a super hero that can do everything well. This is more like playing Inspector Gadget or Clouseau. Amazing tech but do the masses actually want this?

I also wonder what Valve will do to support room scale, standing and sitting all at the same time. The conversion of Fantastic contraption to be played sitting on psvr hampered it a lot. Then with the various movement schemes and different controllers they would basically have to make 18 different combinations work in the game. The Solus Project simply let you skip certain puzzles that weren't compatible with the current movement scheme plus I still needed to switch back to teleportation now and then to be able to reach certain places.

I really hope it doesn't become a jack of all trades, master of none type situation. I just don't want to get all hyped and then be disappointed. Doom VFR was really disappointing and didn't work well with any of the 3 control schemes. I tried them all and ended up switching between them all to get through the game. So far RE7 is still my fondest memory of playing a 'realistic' full game in VR and that used the controller. I did 5 play throughs of that and survive the night mini game was so good in VR :) I'm hoping HL Alyx can finally dethrone RE7.

What about it? That's the follow up to the London Heist right? I have it sitting on the shelf, perhaps I should get off my ass and play it.

Ok, installing and patching. 6.2 GB patch, always nice to get the better version when you totally forget about buying something lol.

First impressions: Bad control scheme, gun getting stuck in scenery, can't holster, can't move. It looks great, but it's more of a point and click adventure. Biggest problem, I'm playing it standing which doesn't work at all when the game expects you to be sitting. Got to get a chair now lol.

It looks great and I'll play more of it but it has all the immersion breaking problems. My bad, I was going at it super hot style but you're supposed to stay seated in the same spot. I switched to the DS4 to see if you get to move around with that but no, your hands are simply tied together. Get chair, back to move controls.

I'm personally not a fan of having everything physics based like they did in this game. Same is being done in Blade & Sorcery. The body in VR ends up in weird position because of that and it looks arkward when holding a gun. Thus I prefer the flying hands option.

I personally don't follow that "super hero that can do everything well" statement. Everything that I got from PSVR is that it's a neat introduction to VR, but you reach your limits very fast on what VR can actually do. Therefor PSVR and PC VR is a night and day difference. PSVR just lack the gameplay mechanics that are possible on PC due to the limitation of controller inputs. One thing on PC VR FPS is the possibility to reload your gun on your own by doing each single step. And this alone is very satisfying to have the feeling of being in control. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl-857Fl7po

As I am aware of, the PC VR controllers have all the same amount of buttons and inputs. The only exception are the Index controllers, which got finger track and pressure detection as well as a few more buttons, how that is being actually implemented into the game, I don't know. Room scale and standing are pretty much identical, since you usually stand in both, but standing is limited by the circle beneath your feet, yet you can still ignore it and walk around with the risk of running into you own furniture or wall. Room scale is just a bigger space you can freely walk around. Only a tiny fraction of PC VR games actually do use this feature for playing their games. I personally use standing with locomotion my preferred way of playing all VR games. Meaning, walking with the controller by using the trackpad for up, down and strafe, and turning myself in real. Teleportation is good for people getting motion sick, but I don't have that issue and it takes me out of the immersion. I just want to walk around and enjoy the environment like that. 

I guess that PSVR is the only way you've experienced VR as of now? Sadly there is no RE7 for PC VR :( But checking some videos on Youtube, there is no real motion controls for RE7, right?

Nevertheless, the reloading animation on HL:A is a bit too smooth from my experience with reloading guns on your own in other games. 

If you ever go into PC VR. Get Pavlov VR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5zy5Cex0DU (Viewer discretion is advised) I imagine that the gunplay in HL:A will be very similar to this game. 

This. Cutting out people who don't have a gaming PC and/or play exclusively on console, and people want to praise them after all their transgressions?