Hi all. I want to share my experience how I bought and used the VR helmet in order, from the motives of the purchase to impressions and difficulties. Perhaps someone will be interested, and someone else is useful. Well, or someone will advise me something.

I will probably apologize immediately for typos 🙂

And so let’s start, perhaps, with the motives of the purchase and toad to it interfere

And I will say a rhinestone, no main motivator was not Half-Life: Alyx. Actually, I wanted a helmet at the moment when I tested it at the 2017 gamemyr 2017. However, due to the fact that the helmets are very expensive, even the one that I eventually bought for 400 bucks + delivery is my salary for 2 months. And this is a significant restraining factor with uncertainty that the helmet will come in.

Therefore, at first, a helmet under the mobile has been written out with AliExpress, but I can’t say anything positive, because without VR controllers not VR, and the sound did not work in it, but the head tracking worked with a bang. So for games that work in VR mode, but with the usual control will come in. But recently, having digging money, having seen a VR jokes from one famous YouTuber, I decided to buy it.

But the toad did not let go of everything, the last argument FOR, the idea was to play only in standing mode. To bring his Hikkovo body at least in some semblance of humanoid.

For even stupidly stand for a couple of hours for a row for me was still a pleasure. Also, as a life hack, I bought heavily weighing in hand in order to increase the load. Having decided that it is not necessary to save on health, and it is unbearably boring for me to do ordinary sports, and therefore the attempts in this direction do not live for a long time, I finally decided to buy.

The second question was the choice of helmet

Although the choice was not particularly great, I knew in essence about helmets from Valve and Oculus and the choice between them was obvious simply because Valve Index stupidly too expensive. But the okulus of 2 relevant Queist and Rift S helmet, both cost $ 399, while in the parameters of the Okulus quest, it seemed to me a more suitable choice due to the larger resolution of the screen 1440×1600 at the Quest VS 1440×1280 at Rift S, when the renewal frequency is lost, which can be considered almost a complete inconsistent loss.

Moreover, for the quest, they https://foxygold-casino.uk/bonus/ just brought the official function of connecting to a computer for a cable. Although unofficial programs can also be on Wi-Fi, the response speed is said to suffer greatly due to the fact that the quest has a bad Wi-Fi module, and the programs have a very bad network code yet.

Purchase

The purchase process was also a little cushive. Firstly, because there were almost no helmet on the Amazon of the helmet, no of course, they had $ 600 resellers, but for me not an option. Periodically, they also fell on sale at a normal price from the manufacturer, so I had to sit and monitor the Amazon, it was possible to snatch far from the first attempt, because it often made an order that the goods had already ended. And finally, the helmet was written out to wait.

But it wasn’t there, the Amazon blocks the account and deals with the order yet I will not confirm that I am the owner of the card with which the payment was received, the benefit for this was enough for a saved image with a list of transactions from the mobile application of Sberbank. But again, this is a delay in sending the goods. Когда товар пришел на таможню у меня запросили данные сначала перевозчик со стороны сша, а потом более подробные данные уже UPS с российской стороны.

In the letter they wrote that there will be an exhibited receipt, which if not paid within 10 days the parcel will go back, but 9 days have passed, but there is still no receipt. Of course, I understand that a 10 -day logic report should begin from the moment I receive a receipt, but knowing how the bureaucrats can still work for technical support. There I found out that yes the report has come from the moment I received a receipt. By the way, the next day she just came and I paid 2,000 rubles of taxes. Paying them, I thought that the parcel was pushed, but it was not there. After 3 days on Friday night, they send me another receipt for the services of the fact that they gave my documents for customs for another 1,000, which must be paid within 3 days, having paid all the same through the deputy Sberbra, he began to wait for the status (expects payment) will also change to the fact that the parcel is coming. But the status did not change up to the call of the courier that the parcel, in fact, has already arrived and he will soon approach O_O.

The first shutters

Well, my helmet came. But having unpacked him, a small unpleasant surpray was waiting for me, since I had a cable that I had a short time, I decided to see what for games there are directly for the game without a computer, and the prices were unpleasantly surprised. If the notorious Beat Saber costs 500 rubles in a stiminum, then his simplified analogue for the helmet is already 2,000. I understand that the matter is most likely in regional prices, but this is not easier. And for the first time I had to flash up all, although it was frankly terribly friendly by a friend to burst out a helmet.

Therefore, he connected his own, though short, but tolerantly long cable, or rather a USB extension cable, which was included with my phone. The next weekend he rushed to a neighboring city for buying a cable longer. Having bought it, I arrived home and realized that he sat in a prusak. A two-meter type-C cable that I wanted to use with an extension cable turned out to be the standard 2.0. This introduced me into a small cultural shock, it suddenly turned out that Type-C Cables were not always 3.0, although I was sure that the cable of such a relatively new standard should be at least 3.0.

Having broken up, I decided to check whether it will work 2 extension cables and a half meters + cable. But such a scheme turned out to be ineffective, then already discharged an active USB extension cord 5 meters in Russia. Everything works fine with him.

The process of connecting to the helmet computer to the impossibility is simple, download the program with the off site, we start, stick cable 3.0 In a helmet, click OK in a helmet, and Voel we see the VR space of the PC version of the helmet, then we just launch Steam VR and see the virtual space of Steam from under which we launch all the games. There is also inconvenience. The fact that Steam has been loading for quite some time, although the problem is the problem of the helmet for a long time, and the problem is that the helmet is not fully removed for the time of the boot, because he will understand that he was removed and turned off.
It became even a little inconvenience that the joystick straps dangling on the arm on time of the game, which was slightly annoyed, it was solved by the problem of buying a pair of rampsleys and sewing straps to them.
Another minus of the quest turned out to be that even connected to the computer is discharged during the game, and even if to the extension cord through the special port to submit additional power supply 3a from the native charging of the fenger. Yes, the charging is enough for for a long time with this use, but I’m not sure if such use is harmful to the battery, and if it is harmful, it means that when the battery is dying, he will die and the whole helmet.

Small life hacks

Actually, after the helmet, the first that I bought was a simple clamp from a fixed and a plastic box from the same. The first is nailed to the closet and controllers are very conveniently hung on it. And the second is great for storing the helmet itself, and protects against dust. I also recommend buying finger batteries, they cost about 1,000 about 1,000, but allow you not to buy batteries constantly. Also, if dangling straps interfere, you can buy wireshrows and sew them to them. And if you use weighting agents like me, you can also sew Velcro to them for adding weights.

(sewn for the dough for the special and so far everything is holding)

What else? Well, personally, I attached a linen clothespin to cling to the extension cord to cling to the pants and, as a result, not load the helmet and the cable weight. Although his weight does not bother me at all.

The main inconvenience and disadvantage is for me now

No here there will be not a small number of games, there are just a car and a small cart. The problem is in the community. For games with localization standards, reviews in Russian and information in games are strongly small. And given that there are a lot of games (more than 1,200 pages in the store) to find something sensible as difficult as in the nooks of the Steam turkey.

I would really like the “Refand” to the SG program to be considered another game for VR, or there would be a separate such section for VR as for me, and all the owners of the helmets in the RU segment will be happy to look and it will be interesting.

Final impressions

By buying, despite the described difficulties, I was satisfied. Health has become a little better, the body shape is more humanoid. The pleasure of games is really different than from flat on the monitor. The helmet itself is convenient, the neck does not get tired (it is worth noting that I am used to sitting at a computer in rather massive headphones)

Soon a friend will also buy a friend to himself, and together it will be even more interesting 🙂