3d ago

The Lemmy VR Community Talks About Stuff

As much as i love the powerposters keeping this place alive. I also wanna know whats going on a personal level with my fellow lemmings?

What do you play? What hardware do you use? Anything interesting involving software?

This place needs some involvement besides snarky comments on the newest bullshit our tech overlords try to pull.

Like i distro-hopped to cachyOS and i'm amazed how well VR works on Linux compared to half a year ago.

Links:

https://lvra.gitlab.io/
https://db.vronlinux.org/
https://www.protondb.com/ (when searching for VR games)

But this post isnt about linux. Just something i(!) experience right now. Gimme your best Windows VR Games. Who cares. Make this community about ourselves!

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I have a quest 2, I got it during the fiasco this Christmas when Meta pushed a software update that bricked thousands of new and old headsets. They replaced it but I don't really spend money on games so I tried the free stuff like VR Chat and the saber game built for the browser that free too. VRChat makes me so nauseous that I've thrown up but I really want to enjoy VR. My most common use case is watching my Jellyfin server in theater mood
Not much. I don't use VR as much as I'd like to. I bought in with an OG Vive* in 2018 and I'm still waiting for the epic AAA titles to come out. VR porn is good, though. (But I still prefer the GF.)
Quest 2. Would never have bought one on my own, but I got it as a gift, so... Which is another reason why I don't use it as much, because I do not trust the Zuck. I also still have the Vive, but that only comes out during the rare occasion that I have a friend over for 2 player action. As much as I hate Facebook, I have to admit that the Quest 2 is a major upgrade.
Nothing interesting involving software. Just the usual VR stuff.
I have a Quest Pro and I am waiting on my Big Screen Beyond 2 to show up. I spend most of my VR time in VRchat. Small players like Bigsreen and Shiftall seem to be really pushing the PCVR world forward these days. I look forward to the day to be Meta free. That day is coming rapidly for me.
I’m another person who uses VR mostly for VRChat. I hang with friends, co-host a weekly movie night, and run/maintain The Great Pug. I host large parties for Halloween and St. Patrick’s Day. — If any lemmings would like to join the next event, or the Discord server, hit me up on Discord.
There’s a thing common to a lot of VRChat users in how they only play VRChat. It’s what VR is.
I have the original Beyond, and stick to PCVR. It’s where all the cool club spaces are too.
I also have a Vision Pro. And I use that mainly for watching movies and shows, and socializing with a close friend.
Right now, I’m looking forward to the day where VR feels less unfinished and janky. It surprises me just how Janky VR still is. And the jank is still present for a wide variety of reasons.
- I always save your playlists from the Great Pug St. Patrick's Day! Thank you for those
  
  Thanks! I'm embarrassingly late on posting the playlist from 2025. I'll get that posted this weekend!
I have a Quest 2 but I hardly ever use it for gaming (modded Beat Saber once in a blue moon). Instead, it's my personal gigantic HD TV.
I am a night owl but everyone else in my household is not so I use IR light sources and camera passthrough for janky night vision.
I sideloaded Android APKs and watch streaming video in super high definition. With wired earbuds and various settings and mods (such as spatial audio disabled) it makes for a comfy couch experience.
(I really wish the Quest wasn't tainted with Facebook though. Imagine Linux on it!)
- I use the quest for exactly the same reason! Love me a big screen to watch TV at night, usually laying in bed
I have a Quest 3 and really only play 2 things: Beat Saber and VRChat. And most of my time in VRChat is just chilling in my own private room watching movies in a pretty environment instead of my actual bedroom.
Upgraded to a HTC Vive Pro 2 this year, had to upgrade to an RTX5070 to follow on the resolution and framerate, but I don't regret it one bit, I mostly play Elite Dangerous, with some action games here and there.
I've tried to get into VR Chat but I guess it's not for me.
I used to play beat saber quite a bit but now for some reason I get some stutter/lag every other seconds, which makes it unplayable...
I've got a Quest 3, I only got it for The 7th Guest VR lol. I did enjoy other things too, I really need to get back to it again but admittedly it's been in my closet for a while, I haven't been playing many games lately.
quest 3, basically only beat saber steam version using wivrn over usb. I played Asgard's wrath 2 that came with it up to the third hero but the follower animal humanoids kept getting progression glitched and requiring save rollback to the start of their quest and I got fed up.
I've been running two separate Wabbajack modlists for Skyrim VR, The Crew and Nordic Adventures. Both are built on the FUS Wabbajack, and I'm having a ton of fun. I have both running decently with an extra 300-ish personally chosen mods and I'm loving the constant update and ideas they're incorporating with each version update.
Here a bit of a older run before i managed to break my saves and started fresh again.
https://youtu.be/wAeVokmjgFw
I still use a quest pro but will most likely upgrade to samsung's new headset whenever that comes out. Should be around october 13th i think. I have like 360 VR games on steam so i jump between many games all the time but i'm holding on to the big ones like metro and alien to play on the moohan. I will for sure go back and re-play a bunch just to see them in all their glory like never before. Robinson is an old game that looks really good that i can't wait to re-play and of course alyx. Not sure how much skyrim will gain from it but i'm sure it will. I've been playing google earth VR a lot lately and it's so fun to fly like superman anywhere in the world and have either a full 3D city or at least some streetview. I followed a big part of the everest climb through the streetview and it was amazing! Just gotta find the road manually because there are no markers to say there's a streetview path available there.
I have a quest 3 and notice that FPS aiming is off. Even when I have the sights down the middle of my weapon it doesn't actually shoot there. What gives?
- Just a wild guess, but maybe it depends on how high/low the headset is sitting over your eyes? Like even just a tiny bit up or down might throw off the very fine perspective precision of aiming through a gun sight
  
  Huh I will try that thanks!
I only very rarely use my VR, I enjoy it immensely, but find that between all the things I need to set it up (switching to my windows partition, getting the relevant cables connected, opening the linking app on both my pc and headset, then loading steam VR and then whatever game) I rarely have the patience when I'm just looking for something fun to do and only get into it when I'm really interested in the vr stuff in particular. I also find it uncomfortable after an hour or so, mostly the facial interface feeling hot and scratchy, and the weight of the headset slowing my head down.
Admittedly I think a lot of that is down to my setup and I've been contemplating getting a nicer one. I currently have a pico neo 3 link, which I only ever use with the displayport cable for pcvr. Ive been contemplating getting the beyond 2, since face comfort has been my biggest issue in vr in general and I figure a physically smaller headset ought to help in that regard, but the expense of it gives me some pause.
- @CarbonIceDragon @Brett everything sounds like you just using wrong headset.
  If it's pico neo 3, try using it wireless. And booting windows to play games now sounds cringe.
  Install wivrn or alvr. You may try this wrapper if using old firmware:
  https://git.disroot.org/mittorn/openxr-khronos-wrapper/releases (but i did not try using it with neo3)
  Also, i think it is not very hard to make some neo3 link tracking driver for linux, but it's too rare thing, so nobody made this yet :)
  
  I originally got it because of the displayport passthrough, I had heard that one needed a pretty good wifi setup for wireless vr linking and that it tended to have lower quality, though that might be out of date, idk. That's also why I've been using it through windows, as while I know a project that would let one use pico headsets on Linux exists, I don't know of it supporting that feature, and the normal pico link app to use that isn't something that wine seems to work on, at least from when I last tried it.
HTC Vive Pro running with SteamVR on Linux. Works mostly fine except for some audio issue with the built in headphones.
Currently too busy to play much, but I am looking forward to play the new Metro Awakening game soon. Edit: Ah, it is still broken with SteamVR is seems 😒
- Is Vive Pro a good upgrade from the OG Vive? Would?it be worth buying in current year?
  
  If you can get it cheaply somewhere?
  But probably not. The only real advantage it has are the OLED screens, otherwise it is a slighly worse Valve Index.
I have a steam index with the knuckles.
I moved like a month ago and still settling in. Would probably start my workout games again once I set up.
Does anyone have experience with the PS VR2? What are your thoughts on it?
I'm planning on playing No Mans Sky... possibly Fallout 4 VR(againnnn) and definitely any highly recommended indie titles.
- I've got one, mostly just play beat saber on it to try to be more active. They've dropped support for it, which means it's still playable but won't get any more updates. I can still buy new songs but don't intend to give meta any more money (seriously, fuck this capitalist system where shitty companies buy up decent ones). If Linux support gets going for the PC link, I might get more use out of it with games on there.
  Another advantage of psvr2 is that it's all self-contained, so no need to set up sensors and such for motion tracking. Downside is the controllers need to be visible to the headset cameras to be tracked properly, so some movements where they go behind the body or your arms cross can cause it to lose track briefly.
  Also, you can't buy controllers separately (or at least couldn't last I checked). My post history has my account of fixing joystick drift after accidentally throwing one of them, since I preferred that option over sending the whole thing back to Sony for service or buying another full psvr2 kit. Still works well today.
- Way nicer optics than my Quest2. Annoying about the cable. We bought it close to launch so no alternative counterweight headstraps etc, so not as comfortable as my BoboVR battery headstrap on the Q2.
  We've since sold the PS5 and were wondering if we were going to get the PC adapter for the PSVR2 (likely as the PS5 was replaced with a gaming PC).
  
  Nicer optics, get the better headstrap/weight. Check.
  Any ps5 vr games you liked that I might not be aware of?

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