{"id":9626,"date":"2018-09-29T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/?p=9626"},"modified":"2018-09-29T15:29:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-29T19:29:24","slug":"benies-vr-adventures-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2018\/09\/29\/benies-vr-adventures-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Benie’s VR Adventures – Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a few hours from now, it’ll officially\u00a0be one week since I got the Lenovo Explorer. And of today’s VR Adventures, I’m happy to report that… could strangers actually be right<\/em><\/span>, that I’m actually starting to get used to this ‘VR sickness’?!
\nYesterday was actually a good day in VRChat. Instead of hanging out with Kovo and his friends, I decided to stay in private worlds and start doing a list I wrote down (based on how intense the activities would be on my eyes and overall perception) of all the things I wanted to do in VR, just for this moment.
\nBut before I did anything, I tried setting up my play space again (my acquaintance told me to keep the headset pointed at the monitor at all times (while tracing). I assumed you were supposed to keep the headset pointing ahead at all times. But I tried the best I could, and this is the result…
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\nAnd the thing actually shows up in VRChat, and I think I get why it’s needed. It seems to help keep the perception of your space in check at all times (so you don’t feel you’re ‘floating’)… I ‘guess’ at least. It actually helped, though. I didn’t feel anywhere as sick as I did in the past.<\/p>\n

So without any further delays, here’s what I did in VRChat (in VR);
\n–Bowl in VR (Rock ‘n’ Bowl)<\/strong>. ..Moderate Intensity
\nI still remember this being one of the things I did on Day 1 of installing VRChat. Doing it in VR… when people say it’s so much easier in Desktop mode, they were right. And this is the first time I actually did something in VR while standing up. But for some reason, I was crawling on the ground (even after setting my real height).
\nI ‘fixed’ it by setting it to Sitting Mode.. how odd, but it worked. I was able to bowl while standing up. And I bowled like that Angry Beavers episode of Dag trying to teach Norb how to bowl (and him throwing the ball everywhere).. that was me. lol
\nI tried desperately to get the ball to go right in the middle (trying to focus over and over), but either it went in the gutters or actually hit some pins (on the right).
\nEventually I got fed up, and went to the next activity.<\/p>\n

–Go to the Archery world and use the VR bow<\/strong>… Minimal Intensity
\nStill standing up, I grabbed the VR bow. It took quite awhile trying to get the perfect
\nangle (while also dealing with the tracking limitations of the motion controllers). Didn’t do so good, but I at least had fun.
\nOn to the next activity.<\/p>\n

–Practice at Battle Discs<\/strong>… Minimal Intensity
\nRemembering the first time doing Battle Discs in VR, I was messing up all over. But now, I know how to throw them. Though I still need to work on the direction of my throws.
\nThis actually wore my arms out! But it was a good pain. The highest score I got was 8 before I had enough. Eventually I was able to sit back down for the next activity.<\/p>\n

–Go to NieR: Automata Flowers<\/strong>… Minimal Intensity
\nI don’t remember who originally told me this, but this (apparently) is the place once you have VR, where you can relax (as your perception of the world changes). The reason is you can touch the flowers, and they’ll do their little particle effect.
\nIt was alright, but I got pretty bored. On to the next activity.<\/p>\n

–Go to Universe Creation and play around<\/strong>… Minimal Intensity
\nI remember the first time I went here in Desktop mode. It was quite wild. It’s a fictional solar system sandbox, that you can use a black hole to spawn in new planets and moons. You can pick up the planets and look at them (up close in VR). The shadowing is in realtime, so you can create create solar and lunar eclipses. It’s freakin’ wild.
\nYou can even pickup the flaming orange ball of plasma (the star) and destroy planets with it. Love this world. Just wish more could be added to it (like planets with rings, neutron stars, nebula, asteroids… shit like that). Then I would be playing Elite: Dangerous in VR.
\nOn to next (and final) activity. There’s more on the list, but this would be it for the day.<\/p>\n

–Go into VRHat and put hats and shit on you<\/strong>… Moderate Intensity
\nVRHat is an interesting world. It’s like the part of the new Hub (that has a mirror and you can put stuff on you), but without everything else.
\nIn VR, I can put things on my avatar and they’ll act like they’re parented to it. It’s quite awesome. Unfortunately, due to the limitations of WMR, I cannot put a hat on my head.
\nInstead, I put a dog tongue on my mouth, and shades on my eyes. Pulling the personal camera out and trying to get a really badass looking pose, I end up pulling the props off me instead of adjusting the camera.
\nThis took nearly a half an hour of constantly resetting the props back into place (and getting the pose I’m looking for), I finally got something I’m currently using as my Discord profile picture…
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\nI look so stylish with those shades. Ladies, don’t crowd all at once. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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\nAfter that, the rest of the day was quite frustrating. I was -trying- to stay at a stable framerate (while joining friends), but I couldn’t. In certain worlds, I was getting 15-30 FPS (even with avatars blocked). This is why I was unsure if I should sell the VR set.
\nBut… I’m starting to realize these framerate drops are a thing now. And, I think my brain is too (at least, right now). Infact I feel my symptoms not as bad as they were the day before (and I didn’t even use VR as long back then as I did yesterday).
\nThis is a great sign that my body might be starting to build an immune response to the effects. That, or the boundary is actually helping me.
\nAlso, closing out things like Firefox and Discord, have a very<\/span> minimal impact on the FPS. In other words, it’s highly likely that closing them, doesn’t substantially help me.<\/p>\n

And that’s about it. It’s been awhile since I was able to end a VR Adventures blog post without bitching at my computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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