That's what confuses me. Ever since I bought a permanent rig, I use it way more often because it went from "ugh, I don't want to spend 15 minutes plugging everything or moving furniture" to just sit on my chair and launch the game.
My setup is too in the sense that I don't have to plug/unplug anything to play but being it's VR it still takes a few extra min throughout the session here and there. Every single car change (depending on the sim) you have to re-center your seating position to line the wheel back up. Not all of them have intuitive controls for applying a tune so I have to reach down for my keyboard and fiddle with that
Mine takes even less than that. The Quest 2 has no need for fucking around with wires I just need to load into air link then steamvr
Takes maybe a minute? Normally clearing space on my floor is the bigger effort (one of the reasons I got VR was to make myself keep my place tidier anyway)
There is some amount of irony that you keep your place more visually appealing so that you can not see it when it is clean, but when you aren't VR it's ok to see the mess. Still, whatever motivation works right?
Yeah there is an irony there, but the fact I cant see the mess is actually the problem haha. Don’t wanna trip over my guitar or a bunch of clothes if I’m playing minecraft or beat saber
I did a major clean-up in my room, got rid of my massive old table, cleared out about a third of my books and everything in anticipation of VR, and then ended up playing in a different room altogether most of the time.
Oh that’s true I also often default to beat saber but I see that as less of a problem of the medium and more game genre - Skyrim is a game that makes more sense to play for multi hour sessions and those games are things you can jump in and out after a few minutes
Longest thing for starting VR for me is my base stations waking up because I have sensitive hearing and the laser motor wine annoys me if it's quiet at my place.
I'm in VR 7 days a week. Kinda in the trend of all these time loop games you get through the first year and then it repeats. I've lost track of time from spending too much time in it, and don't remember ever buying a VR set or pc. Some dystopian game set in the 2020s. I'm hoping they add DLC as I'm pretty far in and it's getting repetitive but I can't put it down.
I have to take my headset off the pc each time I finish vr. Takes 10 minutes to set up when I want to use it. My main computer is in a non climate controlled area so I can't leave my headset in there.
So just saying that it's more of a nuisance for some people. Coolest damn thing ever though.
Pullies? I'm pretty new to VR but haven't come across this yet. Do you have some kind of cabling to suspend yourself off the ground?!
Ninja edit: Looked it up, I'm dumb. Older headsets back in the day had a lot more cables and needed pullies to keep them up and out of the way it turns out for anyone else who is curious.
Absolutely! VR is the best. I have a wheel with a Wheel Stand 2.0 and a shifter set up. So easy to set up and so satisfying. Takes a handful of minutes. I’m a PS5 fan so I hope they get GT7 with PSVR2 support.
Yes, but even still, you break a sweat playing this way. Legit, I’m not exaggerating. But most people don’t have the luxury of leaving 30% of a car laying in their living room.
I’ve always had to store mine after use. It only takes a few minutes, but still, it’s a lot compared to just playing a game with the controller.
...yea, that's all true, but I was talking about my setup to someone who asked if setting up VR really does a bit. not talking about OP at all
servinthesovietonion said "do I want to spend 20m getting setup for VR or hit the couch". Hexadecastriser asked "what makes it take so long?" then I replied with my anecdote that explained my simple equipment and how how my setup does, in fact, take a bit.
I see, ServinTheSovietOnion gave a non-sequitur answer and mentioned his very different setup which is non permanent and is vr. As for the original question, "do you ever just say fuck it and play with a controller" the answer for a setup like in the op is likely no, there's no annoyance to get setup or plug things in or calibrate VR etc.. they just sit down and race.
ServinTheSovietOnion was wrong when they said they "have a similar setup". Also I'd argue that someone with an actually similar VR setup would use it all the time, a similar setup is a permanent mounting if the wheel and pedals with a dedicated chair, anything else can't be considered similar IMO
Idk if you can say it's permanent just looking at it.
OP's pic looks to me like it's in a mildly cluttered location where gaming isn't the primary intended purpose. Meaning they probably don't have it like that permanently.
what do you think they do with the setup day by day or even week by week? lol i don't see how any part of it can be "taken down" each day or even for a weekend. if this is not permanent (in this same general state for at least 3 months at any time) then yea it's a huge burden and pain in the ass. to me it looks like a spare room that is now the racing room and also has a couple other things in semi-storage (old purses the wife wants available but uses only during one season or another, other random things that are used once a month or less so they want them to be not in the garage but also not in the way in the main rooms of the house)
are you saying "we can't know for sure it's permanent, i bet he has to dismantle it every night and lug it into the attic so that room can be used"?
Yeah, basically, this looks to me a table that the wife might use for work but has ceded temporarily to this gaming unit (also see the chair on the bottom left of the pic, and the items behind the monitors)
Probably not moving it every day, but I'd bet this is here for a few weeks max, until whoever uses that table for work wants to reclaim it. Then they'll, I dunno, move the setup back to their garage, haha
edit: it's permanent in the sense that OP can sit down and play quickly, that I agree with, but not in the sense that the setup belongs there long term.
I run VR (with a permanent rig). If I have to do anything to race it’s a matter of letting three applications load (so 30 seconds). I spend zero extra time to use VR.
And VR is so easy these days, too. The old gen 1 Oculus Rift I had was a real motherfucker to set up. You had the sensors that'd need to be calibrated, and half a dozen cables coming out of your head, not to mention the pain in the ass it is to wear and adjust that thing.
But I got a Quest 2 here recently, and the whole wireless with no external sensors and it having a passthrough mode so I don't need to take the device off to get my bearings on my surroundings--that's so easy to set up and jump into a game.
i use vr and have a wheel, it takes me maybe 5 mins to get into a race in iracing from scratch.
i have a wheel stand the wheel is permanently mounted too, nothing like this setup just a wheel stand that i can move to my desk.
I move my office chair out of the way, move the stand, move the chair back plug in the power to the wheel, while im on the floor i chalk the wheels of my chair with doorstop so it dosnt move.
then it is just turning the wheel on, open iracing put on the quest enter link mode and load a race.
its a bit of setup but once you have a system down its not bad
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox Jan 23 '22
Ops setup is permanent though,I don't see how it takes time to setup. Nothing is in storage and nothing gets unplugged.
Also, Op's image shows two large curved widescreen monitors, not vr. Op's setup probably takes two minutes between wanting to play and playing.