No worries. Not often I get a full week of doing what I want so if you can squeeze a night that would be great. Still genuinely surprised how good the last one was.
Had a crack on Project Cars in VR again - last time it was just on Oculus and I felt weird and floaty and a bit ill. This time I was in a full hydraulic racing seat rig with a force feedback wheel (that apparently costs about a grand) and pedals and it was fucking brilliant!
Got the hang of it really quickly compared to trying to play with no feedback and a pad. Being able to pull up alongside the other cars, check out the side window by turning my head and then sideswipe them of the road is top lols.
Having even the smallest bit of physical feedback has a HUGE impact in the sense of immersion.
You have an oculus @TheBoyRoberts? Echo Arena is supposed to be the best that's out right now. Haven't played it myself but I've seen people playing it and it looks like fun.
The way they show your arms in that is supposed to be really good, there's a single player to, Lone Echo.
This one is interesting, in that they state that the cheapest line of "Windows Mixed Reality PC" certified PCs will start at $500 and run ther HMD at 60fps: https://uploadvr.com/windows-vrs-price-starts-900/
There's a seperate certification "Windows Mixed Reality Ultra PC" that hit 90fps.
I'd have to presume that Xbone One X is going to be *at least* in one of those tiers and the headsets will be compatible... I'd hope.
Ideally, to avoid fragmentation, Xbone would be certified for the lower tier, and XboneX is the "Ultra" tier - and would fall nicely into the xbox branding tiers.
Google announcing ARCore, which isn't Tango (As that needs the special depth-sensor hardware), it runs on just normal camera data so is their answer to ARKit.
Had a go on Project Cars on Oculus, on a hydraulic seat. Wasn't great, didn't get that much sense of immersion. The seat movement was way over the top as well. Seems a mistake to be able to see hands and feet when they don't mimic what you're actually doing.
It's really hard to do that though, as the system doesn't know your elbow position.
You should give Lone Echo / Echo Arena a try if you have access to it. They used a neural network thing to teach the software the most common elbow positions based on wrist /fingers position. From what I've heard they've done it pretty nicely, people usually need some time to get used to their own arms after playing. Never feels too unnatural /distracting.