OK So I got my Vive Wednesday and I was gobsmacked by the tutorial. The blowing up balloons and all that jazz, Of course I'd seen it all on YouTube but nothing can really prepare you for the size of the thing or how good the graphics are.
Yeah I know some of you will have tried DK1 and DK2 and the leap might not be as big as you hoped for, well I hadn't. I'd "experimented" with 3D before sure but I could put it down and walk away. Way back with Jaws 3D in cinemas, well frankly it was more entertaining taking the glasses off and watching the audience try and grab the half eaten fish in front of their face.
Then those magic eye books, fun but took effort and more recently 3D TV (a bit of a let down) and Google Cardboard. Now cardboard is fun and cheap but it's what I was expecting from the Vive.
How wrong, how utterly, hopelessly, mind blowingly wrong. With cardboard you see layers but not real 3D, it's more like an old side scroller game with parallax denoting layers of depth.
Now my Graphics card is 4 years old, I didn't think it'd run VR let alone ED in VR but the tutorial was just amazeballs good. I've only got 1 HDMI out so I had to swap cables from TV to Vive. Not easy and made setting up ED almost impossible. Anyway at lunch today my mini display port to HDMI cable arrived. So I tried ED for a few seconds. Just the menu area with the SRV and Eagle looked amazing even though I have to run it in Low VR (4 year old card).
Tonight I tried it properly and what the hell are people expecting from VR! Yes there's a marked difference in Text between 2 and 2.1 but even 2 doesn't look that bad to me, at least the vastness of my Cutters bridge looks pretty good!
But in 2.1 the text is sharp enough to read easily. I've not really noticed god rays, a bit of bluring but nothing to write home about.
What I have noticed is just how huge everything is, the SRV huge, the ship huger! The station really feels vast, planets are crane your neck colossal Asteroid rings are, words fail me, I just flew round them, between them. I didn't even mine any of them. There is genuine fear if I'm going too fast toward one!
On the plus side I look down and my legs and body are significantly thinner! So there's another bonus
Even on a four year old graphics card with the settings on low ED is a feast that my eyes will dine on for ages.
tl;dr Forget laughing at VR people with "gimp" masks on going oh wow , oh man, oh god - just try it - really just try it.
Yeah I know some of you will have tried DK1 and DK2 and the leap might not be as big as you hoped for, well I hadn't. I'd "experimented" with 3D before sure but I could put it down and walk away. Way back with Jaws 3D in cinemas, well frankly it was more entertaining taking the glasses off and watching the audience try and grab the half eaten fish in front of their face.
Then those magic eye books, fun but took effort and more recently 3D TV (a bit of a let down) and Google Cardboard. Now cardboard is fun and cheap but it's what I was expecting from the Vive.
How wrong, how utterly, hopelessly, mind blowingly wrong. With cardboard you see layers but not real 3D, it's more like an old side scroller game with parallax denoting layers of depth.
Now my Graphics card is 4 years old, I didn't think it'd run VR let alone ED in VR but the tutorial was just amazeballs good. I've only got 1 HDMI out so I had to swap cables from TV to Vive. Not easy and made setting up ED almost impossible. Anyway at lunch today my mini display port to HDMI cable arrived. So I tried ED for a few seconds. Just the menu area with the SRV and Eagle looked amazing even though I have to run it in Low VR (4 year old card).
Tonight I tried it properly and what the hell are people expecting from VR! Yes there's a marked difference in Text between 2 and 2.1 but even 2 doesn't look that bad to me, at least the vastness of my Cutters bridge looks pretty good!
But in 2.1 the text is sharp enough to read easily. I've not really noticed god rays, a bit of bluring but nothing to write home about.
What I have noticed is just how huge everything is, the SRV huge, the ship huger! The station really feels vast, planets are crane your neck colossal Asteroid rings are, words fail me, I just flew round them, between them. I didn't even mine any of them. There is genuine fear if I'm going too fast toward one!
On the plus side I look down and my legs and body are significantly thinner! So there's another bonus
Even on a four year old graphics card with the settings on low ED is a feast that my eyes will dine on for ages.
tl;dr Forget laughing at VR people with "gimp" masks on going oh wow , oh man, oh god - just try it - really just try it.
