For , we've by short, controlled demos of the virtual reality tech in the SteamVR-powered HTC Vive. But enjoying a slick demo in a curated show floor booth is one thing. Having a Vive in your house to play with at your leisure is another. Ahead of its upcoming consumer launch, Valve has sent us loaner units of its near-final HTC Vive Pre to test in the Ars Orbiting HQ. I've spent a large portion of the past few days immersed in Valve's room-scale vision of virtual reality, whiling away hours blind to the real world around me and trying not to kill myself walking around my office (which has never been cleaner, to make sure there are no tripping hazards about). We'll have fuller reviews of the hardware and the most interesting VR experiences as we get closer to the Vive's early April 9 release. For now, here are some scattered impressions of what it's like having room-scale virtual reality in your very own room. Getting the Vive unboxed and connected to the PC was a pretty painless plug-and play process.

It only took about five minutes to get the headset hooked up to power, HDMI, and USB through a handy junction box (this doesn't include the brief troubleshooting time needed to get a firmware update). The hardest part of actually setting up the Vive is putting up two small, laser-powered Lighthouse tracking boxes in opposite corners of the room. The trackers must be placed at a height above your head so they can easily see each other even if you get in the way, and they each include a five-foot power cord. The package HTC sent us came with a third-party wall mounting solution originally built for speakers, but that would have required drilling into a wall stud or using some strong adhesive on the paint. In the end, I ended up using a couple of tall camera tripods to get the boxes to a sufficient height. After that, the SteamVR room setup program asked me to trace out the boundaries of my space by waving one of the system's tracked wireless controllers around the edge of the room.

I had to go through this process a few times to get a fully accurate read on which corners were partially occluded by the random furniture now pushed up against my office walls. Eventually, I traced out a comfortable 2.3m x 3m VR playspace in my home office. SteamVR also has a very smooth (if bare bones) interface for launching and switching between games without ever taking off the headset. When you first put on the helmet, you're standing in a featureless white room, but you can replace that with some breathtaking panoramas provided by Valve (or one of your own). Valve should really sell virtual items and furniture to let players dress up this space even further or to allow developers to distribute their own such items through SteamWorks. Tapping the menu button on either controller brings up a floating flat screen with the familiar interface of Steam's Big Picture mode. You then use the controller as a laser pointer to click and drag through menus, squeezing the trigger to select large, easy-to-read options.

It's kind of like using the Wii Remote as a pointer on your TV screen, but it's much more accurate and easy to aim thanks to the laser sight visible in the precisely-tracked 3D world.are uv light air purifiers safe You can also toggle an option to bring up the headset's external webcam image as a a small, cell phone size view next to you hand in the VR environment. carb cleaner air intakeThis can be very useful for untangling cables, picking up real-world objects, or just peeking at any messages that might pop up on your Windows desktop.where to buy air purifier in adelaide Last week, Minecraft creator Markus Persson tweeted that moving up from the Rift to the Vive is similar to jumping from rudimentary '90s VR installation Dactyl Nightmare to the Rift.

I'm not sure that's true of the final consumer version of the Rift, but it's definitely true when comparing Vive and Rift development kits you might already be used to. There's still a very slight "screen door effect" to the displayed image on the Vive, but it's a far cry from the easily noticeable black lines and countable pixels on the Rift dev kits. It's much easier to make out details and read text on sign through the Vive. However, it's easy to pick out some slight jagged edges and blurring as you get close to in-game objects. Things also get noticeably fuzzier if you shift your eyes to look at objects near the edge of the viewable area. It's a bit like looking at the world ever-so-slightly frosted glass. The room-scale positional tracking was rock-solid roughly 99 percent of the time, giving an accurate and immediate view of my apparent surroundings as I moved. The other one percent of the time, though, the VR view would sometimes tilt dramatically to the side, and the world would fade to grey until tracking could be re-established, usually a second or two later.

This mostly (but not always) happened near the edge of my "safe" tracking space, when a bit of furniture might cut off the view to one of the Lighthouse units, or when I got down close to the floor. Occasionally, a game would also lose track of a controller completely, or one controller would go out of sync and make it feel like my hand was floating a few feet in front of its real position. It's hard to say if these rare issues were caused by the hardware or the software. Nonetheless, I hope they'll be completely ironed out by the time the final Vive units ship. Shipping Showing options for 97818 $5.97 per order $7.97 per order $6.47 per item $10.96 per item Learn more about shipping costs & FREE pickup You searched: Find $8.28 When will it arrive ? $8.75 When will it arrive ? $9.87 When will it arrive ? $11.25 When will it arrive ? $10.03 When will it arrive ? $13.26 When will it arrive ? $17.49 When will it arrive ? $29.71 When will it arrive ?

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