Squiddick17

It's not a lack of software that killed it, it's the lack of ability to use any meaningful library of software due to proprietary restraints, as always. I don't know when everyone made the switch from VR as a peripheral to strictly proprietary, "stand-alone" (and die alone) headsets, but it's literally killing VR as a whole.

Don't get me wrong, the current strict PCVR companies aren't any better. They see what's happening and are doubling down on the massive cost hike despite looking shittier and technically having less features than SA headsets. That being said, they work INFINITELY smoother with PC apps and game and movies, in addition to higher quality tracking systems and third-party hardware support. This alone should put them ahead by a long-shot, but being an unaffordable hobby niche doesn't help when large corpos can churn out headsets full of "stand-alone" bloat at a loss just to devour the majority of the VR market and lock people into hopeless, proprietary hellscapes.

Completely disagree with you here, and you really didn't explain any of it. In what way does the apple face-book-mac whatever the fuck do things "way nicer" than any other headset? I get that the resolution is objectively higher than the mid-to-low end sets, but a complete lack of actual features negates that. Does the UI just have super silky animations? Transparent icons? A really sexy audio cue when you boot it up? All of this is fluff to make people feel like they made a good purchase decision.

I'm almost certain that you've been using this little "polish" phrase for years to justify being an Apple stan without thinking about it. You see literally any other option as the intimidating, lifted-truck meany that doesn't appreciate that mirror shine on the back of your phone.

And yeah, most people are fresh-out of innovation. That's besides the point, and you know it. Apple is included on that lineup, and they're furious that someone else came up with VR and they somehow let the market create a variety of products before they could reliably gimmick the fuck out of it like they always do. Your turtle-neck fruit daddy died a long time ago, no one has any business considering Apple a respectable company anymore.

Which is exactly my point. They cater to people who want the shiniest 'new' thing with a sense of faux class to it, and will strip some pretty fucking bare-bones features in place of "polish". Such a stupid, meaningless word to excuse a complete and utter lack of anything of substance.

90% of the apps and games that got people interested in VR aren't even compatible, and you KNOW they never will be. What the fuck else are you gonna do with this $3500 toy? Read emails and watch full-priced movies on iTunes? BUT MAN IT'S LIKE TOUCH SCREEN, BUT EVERYWHERE AND IN REAL LIFE! There's nothing here. 'Polish' isn't a real thing. It's a cherry-on-top adjective for something that already has inherent value, it isn't something of real value in its self.

Sorry man, I gotta go off on this 'compelling and polished' thing. Apple does maybe one "compelling" thing per decade, but even that seems like a thing of the past now. They've been riding the one-trick-pony that is the touch-screen smartphone for fucking ever now, and as amazing as people think it is to have a powerful computer in the palm of your hand, it's contributed shockingly little beyond making the cell phone A. societally mandatory for everyone, and B. MASSIVELY expensive compared to what could have been.

Now sure, it's slightly more convenient to pay for parking and complete rudimentary "productivity" tasks that you might need your laptop for, but that can be accomplished with much less. About the most "compelling" thing this technology has contributed to the world is the ability to endlessly doomscroll through funny little pictures and videos, with some REALLY sub-par and barely-tolerable games to make your city transit commute feel almost bearable. No, it's not going to get any better, they've had WAY too long. It's not going to happen now.

Apple isn't really a military contract/industrial complex type, they're more the retarded, pretentious rich people and retarded poor-ish people who think they're rich because they saved 15% or more on Geico type.

Wow, you mean jacking the price up fucking 7x that of your competitors for about the same or less capability, just because you made the screen resolution slightly higher, isn't a sound business decision? Why do these people still exist, lol

You're really here talking about swearing with a winky face, I don't even feel bad about being wrong now

The fuck? These are more expensive than some treadmills, why bother?

Great, another game I'll never buy due to console exclusivity. I had no idea just a few years ago that this would actually be a fucking issue with VR.

It's really not a chore if you don't pick super exclusive trackers. RuTracker, if I remember correctly, doesn't really have requirements to join, and they don't even monitor ratios anymore. All files should come with English tracks, and your browser can already auto-translate the site for you. Even the ones that do require seeding give you a grace period to build it up, and all you have to do is set an automatic ratio goal of 100% or so on your torrent client.

I thought it was understood that 1337 is about as fucked as the bay? Private Russian trackers are universally the way to go, but there's still better resources outside of that on the reddit megathread

Interesting idea, I'm running dual monitors and higher than 60 fps on one of them only. That monitor also has g-sync and some other nvidia gimmicks, but as far as I know I don't have any of them enabled. I also keep drivers updated religiously, so we can check that box.

I made sure to download the latest runtime after seeing that error the first time, but no dice. They also have no information on their site whatsoever regarding any dependencies for this software or their links in general.