Vive room setup question

[t3l3c0n]

So I'm currently passing the excruciating wait for my Vive to arrive by trying to figure out the best way to setup my living room. I have figured out how to get enough space for room scale but I suddenly thought, how am I going to play ED? I currently play from an armchair that WILL NOT be inside the room scale play area (although it should still be picked up by the lighthouses. My question is does your seated position have to be within the defined play area? The last thing I want to do is have to go through the room setup every time I swap from a room scale to seated experience.


Can anyone who has already got one advise on this as I've done some searching around and can't seem to find any info.


Thanks

 

[megadonkeyx]

i dont have a vive (yet!) but think the vive does not have a magnetometer as it has lighthouse instead. this means it cant fuse that "true north" data with its gyroscope and if your outside of the lighthouse beacons i would expect it to drift much more than the rift.

only theory from here:
http://vrguy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/what-you-should-know-about-head-trackers.html

this vrguy works on OSVR apparently.

 

[t3l3c0n]

Thanks for the reply although it's not quite what I meant. The chair will be within the lighthouses field of view but it will not be within the defined roomscale rectangle if that makes sense? What I basically want to know is if you are using a sit down game does the chair need to be located within the roomscale rectangle?

 

[vic]

Yes!
Trust me you won't be doing much "full roomscale" VR anyways.

 

[t3l3c0n]

Thanks that puts my mind at rest. I wasn't looking forward to either dragging my armchair into the middle of the room or having to redo the roomscale setup each time.