Tarquinn2049
@Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 16 hours ago:
In practice, it very much is. My monitor is at 80 degrees field of view, so the headset is only directly representing about 1440p worth of pixels, but with the passive temporal upscaling of your heads constant micromovements meaning a completely different set of pixels is seen each frame, I tested and 4k still looks notably clearer than 1440p on it, so I use 4k.
It’s pretty important to use Virtual Desktop, as all other desktop streamers are doing it wrong. It seems no one else listened to john carmack about how important it was to use cylindrical timewarp layers for maximum clarity of flat graphics on the compositor. The difference from every other desktop viewer to Virtual Desktop is night and day because of it.
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 17 hours ago:
It doesn’t have enough pixels to represent 4k 1:1 on every frame. At the field of view I put my screen at, 80 degrees, it can only directly represent about 1440p, but with the micromovements of my head, I see a completely different set of pixels every frame. So I tested, and 4k still looks noticeably sharper than 1440p, so I use it.
Stuff doesn’t have to be perfect to still be worth doing. It just has to be worth doing. I very much enjoy where VR is at currently, but I have enjoyed where it was at the whole time so far, and I’m definitely gonna keep enjoying where it’s at in the future. Even before it started replacing other things, it was always it’s own thing too. And while I still play VR games quite a bit, I also use it for almost everything else now too.
There are a few options for headsets capable of this right now, mine is unfortunately a Meta Quest 3, hard to stomache, but pretty great headset… It’s been the easiest and cheapest headset to mod for 14+ hours of comfort and battery life. For me, a halo style head strap has been the best option in my testing, that can be different for each individual, so a BoboVR S3 pro kit was all it took. The default quest 3 face gasket was comfortable for all day use for me. Infinite battery life by swapping a new one in every 2 hours is barely inconvenient, and luckily I still occasionally forget so the headset battery gets to see a discharge cycle every now and then too without me having to remember to purposefully do it. The batteries can handle charging it back up to full while playing.
The second screen is stored above my normal field of view, I can either glance at it for the normal stuff you would use a second monitor for while gaming or watching TV, generally a browser window that I don’t have to tab out of the game to see. Or I can hit a button and both monitors swap places instantly, and the content of the second monitor becomes my temporary priority. Recent use has been having a spec guide open while playing Diablo 4, and generally my social media and various app friends lists are arrayed on that screen, as well as some rain meter gadgets for performance monitoring and stuff. Second monitor stuff.
I also, of course, leave the headset and Virtual Desktop in passthrough mode all the time. So I can still hang out with and talk to my family. And watch TV with them. The TV at the field of view it’s at is only about a 720p representation, but it’s clear enough to read closed captioning, and if you are old like me, you may remember that DvDs are 540p, and they were good enough for watching epic movies on for years. It’s not as good as it will be on the next headset, or the next one after that, but it’s good enough to be worth doing for me.
Luckily for me, but unlucky for her, my sister has a bit of night blindness, so she can’t watch a TV in a dark room, it would be too bright relative to the rest of yhe room and hurt her eyes. Works out with the Quest 3 passthrough having a relatively narrow dynamic contrast adjustment. With the lights off, the headset would find the TV too bright relatively too, washing it out and showing only a white rectangle. But with the lights on, I see it as clearly as them, just a third of the resolution.
My sister has also started using my old headset to play on her computer, that headset doesn’t have infinite battery life, only about 8 hours, but she has now started plugging it in after and continuing to play. She mainly plays Baldurs Gate 3 on it. The hand controllers serendipitously worked out to be a pretty fun and useful way to play BG3, just mapped “scrollwheel” to camera panning. Since in a windows environment the hand controllers are treated as a mouse input, so the joysticks are scrollwheel input. And yeah, B is right click, so hold B and move your hand to change where the camera is looking, and joystick to move the camera, it’s like flying a drone with one hand being a representative of the drone orientation. And otherwise BG3 is mostly about clicking stuff with a few keyboard shotcuts here and there. So, no real limitations from having to essentially use a floating keyboard. Most other “flat” games are best played with a controller.
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 1 day ago:
I have a high-end gaming computer, but it is headless(doesn’t have a monitor) I use a VR headset and Virtual desktop instead of a monitor. In Virtual desktop I have two 4k 120hz screens. I use my computer from a comfy recliner, or standing, or walking around. Whatever fits the use case. While in my home, or any home with decent wi-fi, I have access to my gaming PC. And I can live the augmented reality life.
Cell internet isn’t quite good enough for the same thing to be possible out and about yet. But it’s honestly not that far off. It’s good enough for a productivity desktop experience, but streaming a 4k game or video is not great on cell. Might be viable if I drop it to one 1080p monitor at 60hz and drop the bandwidth target to 1/8th or so. Haven’t tried. Assuming the consistency of bandwidth will be a concern. Too many sporadically dropped packets for unbuffered video to play smoothly.
But for the most part, the VR headset has replaced my computer monitor, my TV, and my phone while at home. It’s an android based headset, so I can load any phone games I play on it. And play them on a 6 foot wide “phone” using my hands as hyper accurate laser pointers instead of mashing the screen with fingers, covering up the very thing I need to poke.
- Comment on why do transphobes mention pedophiles/compare them to pedophiles when most trans people (as do most people) hate pedophiles? 3 days ago:
Because people they shouldn’t trust but do, lie to them.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 6 days ago:
This is from 15 years ago, so I don’t know how much has changed since then. But this sounds like the sort of thing they mean.
- Comment on Rift of the NecroDancer Official Launch Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Hmm, that sounds like my cousin doing the voice work for the trailer, I’ll have to see if it shows up on her imdb now that it’s live.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 Has Finally Hit Overwhelmingly Positive On Steam 3 weeks ago:
Hmm, maybe on a higher difficulty? I have mostly played normal, but enemies pretty consistently stayed around 3-4 shots from small bullets and 1-2 from big bullets all the way up. Bosses take a little more, but they generally still make sense to take that many and don’t feel wrong. Cyberpsychos of course can take more, but they are practically at a point where they will keep coming no matter how many limbs they lose, so it makes sense that they would take alot of bullets to stop.
I’ll have to try a playthrough on higher difficulties now, the last time I did was when tech snipers did like 100k damage, so I had to play on higher difficulty to not one-shot bosses. They are more reasonable now, like 10k or so at peak.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 Has Finally Hit Overwhelmingly Positive On Steam 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it definitely had some bugs, even on PC, but it wasn’t like a bethesda game or anything. It was playable, but it is so much better now.
- Comment on Why won't you ever forget the word 4 weeks ago:
Does your phone not let you teach it new words and modify corrective behaviours?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, they had the choice between making an effort to be a better person, or simply deluding themselves that they are already better, all their negative traits are in-fact positive traits, everyone else is the problem for suggesting they aren’t already perfect.
- Comment on Favorite retro games? 5 weeks ago:
Hehe yeah, I figured with them having no context, that might make it easier to figure out which zelda it was quicker.
- Comment on Favorite retro games? 5 weeks ago:
Earthbound, gotta play that at least once in your life.
Chrono trigger, still one of the greatest games of all time.
Final Fantasy 6(US 3) there is debate, but widely regarded as the best one overall still. 7 is the other strongest contender, but if you are gonna play that one, don’t play the retro one, as one of the very first polygonal games, it’s hard to look at now.
Zelda (3), a link to the past.
There are certainly more, but those’ll last you a few months.
- Comment on How rare is it for people to live without anger? 5 weeks ago:
I’m Autustic and don’t seem to have anger. “Frustrated” is similar, I got that one just fine, but anger doesn’t seem to come up. I don’t seem to have a bunch of them, though. So, I have definitely noticed the same thing. The internet is so full of anger, and it mostly just seems to serve to temporarily compromise the intellect of the person feeling it, so it makes them sound dumber at a time when they probably wish they were coming across as clever.
Dumber, but also more sure of themselves. There is a reason people usually come back half an hour later and apologize for what they did when they were angry. It does have its uses, but open communication can also preclude it. For people who don’t tend to communicate freely, anger can help them finally say something they haven’t been saying. And quite a few people seem to work that way. Finally saying the thing they haven’t been saying can lead to solutions for their problem.
But anger can also lead to some pretty dumb things, and that seems to be the more common result.
- Comment on Anon comes up with filenames 1 month ago:
I can see an argument for how it can still be possible to work with that… filing system, but I still don’t get what the upside is, just that it doesn’t have as many downsides as it seems like it should.
- Comment on Anon comes up with filenames 1 month ago:
So, I have seen people do this, and I gotta ask… what is the plan?
Like you are saving the file, implying that you plan on using it again… why make it so hard to figure out which one it was? Especially in this case, where he has done it to enough files all in the same place that he eventually hit the same combo again… like, are there hundreds or thousands of randomly named files in that same folder? Why save them if they will be impossible to find again anyway?
- Comment on I got into the wrong career lol 1 month ago:
Yeah, can always go back to school when you age out at 25…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
But, it all started with his dad having a mistress… it was already ruined…
- Comment on GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” 1 month ago:
Whatever words you want to use, when steam decides you don’t own a game anymore, they can take it away. I’ve had 2 steam games taken away from me.
- Comment on GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam” 1 month ago:
When you buy a game on a CD or Cartidge, it’s up to you to make sure you continue to own it from then on. That is the same model as GoGs digital downloads. You own it, you make sure you still have it on hand for as long as you want to still have it on hand for.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 2 months ago:
I mean the kinds of gambling that might trigger someone with a gambling addiction. Isn’t that where you were coming from?
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 2 months ago:
You can’t gamble with dice?
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 2 months ago:
Ok… but his thing can actually happen… your version of the bad things that can happen for still also posting news to twitter is all imaginary stuff that doesn’t happen in real life.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 2 months ago:
The whole point of the post is real gambling is rated as totally safe for kids. As long as it doesn’t use card or poker chips as imagery. Why is getting kids to actually gamble ok? Why is imagery associated with gambling so much worse than actual gambling for kids?
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 2 months ago:
So then explain why games with actual real money gambling aren’t rated 18+, is gambling “imagery” really that much worse than having actual gambling?
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 2 months ago:
If your stated downside to still using Twitter is that it’s a waste of time, is that invalidated if your posting tool posts to all of your socials with one click? Like most professional social media users that have to maintain a bunch of channels with the same content?
Also, who is being dramatic about how important it is to be on or off twitter?
- Comment on A little Russian invasion comparison to put it all in perspective 2 months ago:
Now, imagine the reason was to prove you aren’t just powerful on paper but can really back it up…
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 2 months ago:
In the same vein
“Wha-wha wha-wha what do you want? Wha-wha wha-wha what do you want? Why do you keep poking me?
Daah buu daah buu”
The song from warcraft 1 or 2 or something.
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 2 months ago:
Do you want axe? Except as "dyouwan taxe?
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 2 months ago:
A lot of it is the difference between learning practically and learning theoretically. You don’t have to understand the underlying mechanics in practice to know how to keep getting the same result. Your brain doesn’t have to be doing any math, it just has to have shaken a bottle enough times to have a good comparative basis formed.
Learning to calculate the current remaining volume in a container when observing someone else shake it… that would use all that theoretical knowledge and math.
It’s like knowing how hard you have to throw an egg at a wall for it to break instead of bounce off. You do it 100 times, you just get a good feel for it. Doing all the math, and then trying to learn it practically is barely gonna affect how quickly you learn it in practice. But if you wanted to make a robot that throws it exactly hard enough without wasting any energy, practical knowledge will have almost no value, and theory and math will be incredibly valuable.
- Comment on Understandable, copy that. 3 months ago:
Yeah, it sucks to be on the side where people will pick apart your words to see if they can intentionally misconstrue anything. So you have to very carefully craft all sentences to reduce the chance that any of them can be misinterpreted. Instead of the side where you can just say whatever you want and if it doesn’t play well, you were retroactively actually joking.