Notices by an actual bear in a hazmat suit (guizzy@pleroma.guizzyordi.info)

Additional thoughts on games and tech…

First off in general, I have barely been using my PSVR before I got this, and it turns out I pretty much lost my “VR legs”. So yes, you can “lose it”.

Got Polybius and Moose Life and Minotaur Arcade Volume 1 to work fine now. They look how they did on PS4, they don’t really benefit from the G2, Polybius might even be slightly less smooth (due to 90hz on G2 vs 120hz on PSVR), but not worth keeping or plugging my PS4 for.

It seems one of the genre of game/experience that’s popular in VR these days is the “just play around with guns” genre, so I got the one that seemed the most recommended nowadays: Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades. Controls are a mess, I can see how someone who really wants to tweak their experience can get games to work juuust right, but this (and many) of the games I’ve tried have failed at having pleasant, sane default controls. But once I got a bit accustomed, then yes. Playing around with guns in VR is very fun. They’re such neat mechanical objects with satisfying slides and pulls and switches, it’s no wonder people enjoy playing with them IRL too.

Then for some of the tactical VR shooters… Tried Onward (offline, I’m not confident enough for online) which seemed to be the more realism focused one. There are some really freaking cool ideas in that game, and it’s really fun how your equipment are placed on your body the way it would be in real life. Had some problems due to inside out tracking on the G2 though; when you place the “back” controller close enough to your face that you can aim down sights, the controller is too close for good tracking. The game has a solution for that, a “virtual stock” that when the back hand is close enough to your face, the gun’s stock kinds of “lock” to your characters shoulder allowing for smooth aim down sights despite tracking, but I’ve also had issues where this triggered just walking with the gun not aimed high. Hopefully this can or will be tweaked, because it’s a good solution to hardware limitations that’s ALMOST right. Another problem is that the game is not for sitting VR, period. You don’t need full roomscale, but you need to play standing and when you want to crouch, you need to crouch. There is no button to do it, on purpose.

Just did the training for Pavlov VR; not impressed with the default controls, but I’m sure this can be somewhat adjusted. Aiming seems to be a bit smoother and easier than Onward. Will have to play a bit more.