When somethingās 76% off on Woot! and itās over $100 there has to be some sort of gamble on the product and its reviews.
woot pointless price is truly pointless
What are you talking about? The MSRP really is $629 for this on the company website. Itās on sale for $449 thereā¦ which is a lot more than here. I donāt see the problem. Itās a good deal, why complain?
Dang, that is a good dealā¦ but the gas to drive to Denver would cost more for me than buying it from woot!
If you live in Denver, Tustin or Duluth though, and want one of theseā¦ canāt beat it. Good find.
So, after last time and someone mentioned difficulty with PC gaming, I found this headset odd. So this will only play SteamVR games via wireless? It canāt actually connect to the PC it seems, which means you need a hefty home wireless network for your PC to stream into. Not sure I appreciate that.
I guess it makes sense though, it looks like this was possibly made for business/meeting use? Was it made during Covid and remote meetings? This particular version, the Vive Focus Plus was made in 2020 it seems but just replaced an original but I canāt imagine that was the full intentā¦ maybe just the hoping for the MetaVerse to take off?
Iāve never looked into these beforeā¦ are they self-contained, or are they an add-on for a base-station or something?
I ask as the manufacturerās site lists āCompatibility: HTC Vive; HTC Cosmos; HTC Vive Base Station 2.0ā.
Seems to need a sensor box and ideally two for 360 orientation? Or severely limited?
How to Use HTC Vive Without Sensors.
Also this from Vive support site:
āUnfortunately, there are no āout-of-boxā cases in which a Vive or Vive Pro HMD could be used without base stations. It simply isnāt designed to be used without them, even for such purposes as viewing āflatā games or videos, the headset is tracked to allow the user to move their head (and body) around without creating a feeling of nausea from the conflicting stimulii. Having a screen strapped to your face that doesnāt change no matter how you turn your head, sit or stand is extremely disorienting and uncomfortable for almost everyone. It would be pretty much unusuable for 99% of the population.ā
Was hoping otherwiseā¦
Apparently HTC has a bunch of variants of VR headsets and it can get confusing - all I know are quest headsets - but I have read somewhere that you must pay a subscription in order to access some features. I think itās a standalone headset - but you can also connect it to a VR ready PC and access PCVR. You might need to pay a sub to wirelessly stream PCVR to the headset.
Itās called VIVEPORT - and Iām not sure if it allows for a hardwired connection for PCVR. An alternative is āRiftCatā which is a one time payment to stream the games. My info coming from Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/wj4pbp/htc_vive_focus_plus_as_a_first_vr_headset_worth/
Really I suggest a used Quest 2 , ive seen them for around $180 and oculus is solid and has free PCVR via USB C and it works really well (as well as free AirLink wireless streaming for PCVR, but it can be choppy)
For 180 degree sensors function, reports are you need one external box. Two for 360 degrees
The tech is evolving fast. This is one of the better ones. Prefer lighter weight.
Yea I was just reading somewhere also about a āVive Consoleā
I wonder if this also applies to this model.
I only just learned from this discussion that this is an Enterprise targeted headset for meetings. Gaming isnāt mentioned a single time on Viveās webpage for this product, so itās entirely possible that itās unsuitable (lag/latency/refresh-rate?).
It makes me wonder if it can even be used for gaming at all.
Complicating factor: My entire family runs Linuxā¦ I was thinking of picking these up to play with Steamās VR beta development for Linux, and itās (also) unclear if this device would be compatible with their work.
Linux-haters: Save it, thereās no way Iām converting to windows after using Linux as my primary OS since '92.
Question please: Linux on some Chromebooks is possible. Do you know if it runs slowly in such mode? OR Best to run on a PC?
Processor in my Chromebook is a Ryzen 5 3500c. Has 8 gb ram 256 gb SSD.
ChromeOS actually is Linux, itās just a highly secured distribution.
There are a few ways to run Linux (as most people would refer to it) on ChromeOS.
One I used a while back on a dramatically lower end ChromeBook than yours was via Crouton, which worked amazingly well. I was able to run Minecraft (on a 2955U CPU no less), so Iād say it had zero performance impact. It runs natively, just in a chrooted environment (hard to explain if youāre not Unix-savvy, windows has no equivalent). I also was able to run Cura (3D printer slicer software) on it, which actually surprised me quite a bit.
I think newer implementations of ChromeOS have something like that built-in, but I canāt remember what itās called.
An alternative is to enable developer mode:
Lastly, and I would not recommend this for an actively supported ChromeBook (i only did it with mine because they dropped support, no more security updates for me) is to flash the device with SeaBIOS, an open source BIOS for ChromeBooks that essentially turns them into a normal PC (you can even install windows if youāre masochistic). I run Ubuntu MATE on my antique ChromeBooks this way.
Thanks for the informed reply and taking time to explain. Am a little surprised that page rendering speed in surfing is slower than expected. It is slightly slower than my i5 work noteboo. Neither had a discrete GPU. Is there such a thing as bloatware in Chromebooks that might be responsible? If there are two accounts does it slow things down? Thanks again.
Iād look into Mint Linux. Linux has a bunch of ādistributionsā or ādistrosā which are all different, some of them are very minimal in terms of features and in turn require less resources to operate.
Apparently there is one called āGalliumOSā that is designed for Chromebooks.
Since Iām a gamer Ive always just used windows, so Iām not too familiar with Linux stuff.
I fell for this one last time. Donāt do it, itās very much not worth the price. Thereās only a wireless LAN connection option, hardwired doesnāt exist. It only works with a PC if you pay money for their subscription, and I havenāt been able to get mine to connect at all.
