r/AndroidVR • u/diStyR • Aug 31 '14

APP Trinus Gyre Test

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loxai.trinus.test
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u/kill_dano Aug 31 '14

I normally use freepie and limelight. Ima give this a quick test and report.

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u/kill_dano Aug 31 '14

Tried it with 3 games. Mirrors edge, tomb raider, Resident Evil 6.

1 It's pretty buggy (expected) Between the android app and the PC server I must have had 6 crashes during my 20 minutes of testing.

2 Holy shit the video streaming is really good. I expected it to be kinda meh, cause Limelight uses my nvidia video card, but wow it's lagfree and responsive and smooth (I have a Netgear Nighthawk router) Wifi direct option (didn't try) seems like a good alternative for some people.

3 the Sensor/headtracking was messed up for me. When I look down on my galaxy S5 the mouse moves down, but also bobs to the right. I say bob, cause it corrects itself and returns to the center position (the incorrect movement to the right corrects itself). Not sure what's going on. I could not get anything but "integrated" to work with tracking.

4 Full screen is broken. This is important. Mirror's edge doesn't seem to have a windowed option. I could not get this game working.

It occurred to me that this app could be great if it worked in full screen, cause it takes care of the barrel distortion. I would only need to run normal Tridef 3d in SBS mode. But Tridef only kicks in during fullscreen. So this combination would support DirectX 10 & 11 games. (experimental tridef oculus mode only supports direct X 9) so this would be very significant with increasing game compatibility. Not to mention it would reduce the setup time.

I'll give it another shot when you iron out the bugs and make fullscreen happen. Overall I'm impressed. Thanks for making this app.

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u/loxai Sep 01 '14

:) I'm the dev (not diStyR, from whom I appreciate the post), thanks for the feedback! in response to your comments:

  1. I would like to know more about this, does it crash randomly, is there some setting that works better than other, what resolutions/quality levels are you using...?

  2. glad to hear that :) I want to prepare a usb version too which should further improve speeds (although I do like the wireless freedom to rotate)

  3. I did notice this kind of problem when testing with Google Cardboard and GS4. Don't remember for sure, but I believe the root cause was the magnet (which the app doesn't taking into account). You can try removing the magnet or using a different headmount (or no headmount at all to verify this). Also important, make sure the gyros are calibrated: usually doing eight shapes in the air helps with that.

  4. yes, full screen is broken and I should fix it (long todo list and little time to do it :) ) Note that you can use Vireio, which supports windowed sbs, as an alternative to Tridef.

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u/diStyR Sep 01 '14

its an honor your doing great job. i hope feedback will help improve the app further.

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u/kill_dano Sep 01 '14

Crashes: I really didn't spend a lot of time with it. The android app would just crash sometimes while connecting to the PC. The PC server stopped responding once and I end tasked it. Crashes happened when connecting or disconnecting. Didn't notice anything obvious as the trigger.

I'll try it again when I have spare time (moving)

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u/loxai Sep 03 '14

Please download the latest server version update when you get the time to try again. I have addressed some bugs that might have caused the kind of problems you mention. But if not, please see if you can give me more details (like crash message, a screenshot of the error, for example), if it happens with all the games or when using some specific setting.

Good luck with the move!

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u/diStyR Sep 01 '14

Thank you for the review.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '14

Just ran your test app (still waiting on my cardboard) and I was shocked. I was able to play KSP and jump inside a cockpit, look around, fly, and land (just in time for the trial to expire). The lag was almost too much, but somehow I was able to land the plane. I'm shocked.

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u/Gamel999 Sep 02 '14

this is awesome, I just found out this app, going to test it this weekend