{"id":6271,"date":"2018-09-20T15:55:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T19:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/?p=6271"},"modified":"2018-09-21T15:52:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T19:52:33","slug":"im-vr-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2018\/09\/20\/im-vr-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m (officially) VR ready, says WMR test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty busy morning I had. Had to get to my local Spectrum office, because they fucked up by not giving us enough return boxes (and had to go up there anyway). On the bright side, I&#8217;ve started the process of getting my money back for one of the two DP to HDMI adapters I bought yesterday. I&#8217;ll be getting it in 2-3 days.<\/p>\n<p>And after getting my first graphics card driver update (since I got the RX580), I decided it was time to actually check if I was VR ready. &#8230;This is the result.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/DwWFhPk.png\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;!!!! :O<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/gKERTkj.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OMG OMG OMG!!! \ud83d\ude00 \ud83d\ude00 YUS!! It. is. a. <strong>miracle<\/strong>!! I feel like going on and buying the thing now, but this month wouldn&#8217;t be a good time to do it (without hurting of course).<br \/>\nPlus, even with this fantastic news.. I&#8217;m still not 100% convinced I&#8217;m going to get a decent VR experience (at the required framerate). I have to approach this in a very cautiously optimistic manner (emphasis on the &#8216;cautiously&#8217; part). It even warns me that &#8220;performance may vary depending on your exact setup.&#8221;<br \/>\nGetting the VR set, will definitely answer if an upgrade of the core PC hardware (CPU\/Motherboard\/RAM) is necessary. This also includes the PSU, and this 3-way switch.<\/p>\n<p>Possibly by next month, I&#8217;ll buy the WMR headset. I also asked my acquaintance a few more questions (about the headset in general). If it has built-in headphones, and a built-in mic. And if not, if I can use what I currently use.<br \/>\nMy thoughts, are &#8220;yes&#8221;. But I have to confirm them. I hope to find out either later tonight or early tomorrow.<br \/>\nEDIT: It seems I was right, in a sense. He told me that the headset has a headphone jack. To me, that&#8217;s not going to help much (since sounds come through my computer.. less with the HDMI cable, it&#8217;ll act like another audio source).<br \/>\nAs for the mic, I&#8217;m good with my clip-on.<\/p>\n<p>I was also told (not by him, but by someone who has the Vive), that &#8220;you will get vertigo in your first week of using VR&#8221; (basing this off of himself and people he&#8217;s spoken to). My acquaintance told me that he hasn&#8217;t had vertigo (but felt nauseous and had eye problems within the first few days). He said simply: &#8216;your mileage may vary&#8217;.<br \/>\nAs long as I don&#8217;t have the urge to run for the toilet and throw up (which I feel is a 50\/50 chance, as my tolerance for motion sickness (especially in a prolonged state) is fairly low).<br \/>\nSo maybe the first few days, to use it for like maybe.. 30 minutes (and take a break for my eyes to focus back on reality).<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll have to very, very slowly get my body used to this new experience. Hopefully it&#8217;s nothing like looking down while riding in the family car (which has made me sick before).<br \/>\nEasy movements with my head, would help as well (to hopefully mitigate motion sickness).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty busy morning I had. Had to get to my local Spectrum office, because they fucked up by not giving us enough return boxes (and had to go up there anyway). On the bright side, I&#8217;ve started the process of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2018\/09\/20\/im-vr-ready\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6271"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6287,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions\/6287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}