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Lying in bed watching Cinema on the PlayStation VR
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Complicated
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Even setting aside the image quality for the "cinema" mode I wouldn't lie in bed or on the couch with all those cords and a heavy headset on for more than a half hour sitcom. I like to be comfortable and read things on my phone when watching HBO/Netflix or a movie.
I'm fully expecting a "so I whipped it out and didn't realize that x was in the room" post to happen by someone sooner or later.
Breakfast at Noon
Member
Would you not be paranoid someone has come in your room while your feverishly beating off?
"Yeah guys, you can watch your por~~er user generated 360 videos." Wink Wink.
When watching "cinema" while the wife is asleep I lower the volume just enough that I can hear the door open if she gets up to pee.
If you don't do a double safety check it's your own fault lol. That's why VR "media" is best consumed on something like a GearVR. In a bathroom. After you've double checked the door lock.
Nah, I can't "immerse" myself in my "cinema" when not at least reclined.
WordAssassin
Member
So many people are saying "All the wires" isn't there just one? The wire that connects the PSVR unit to the PS4?
In one of the other PSVR threads there was a setup diagram and it looked like a mess by the TV but there's only the one wire going from the mess to the headset, so providing it's long enough I don't really get the "but all the wires" comments unless there's something I've misunderstood?
In one of the other PSVR threads there was a setup diagram and it looked like a mess by the TV but there's only the one wire going from the mess to the headset, so providing it's long enough I don't really get the "but all the wires" comments unless there's something I've misunderstood?
Chronospherics
Member
Isn't it going to be super low resolution? Shouldn't you have just bought one of those HD visors that Sony were selling a long time ago?
One plus your headphones.(headphones cable merges so just one for the most part.)
At least up to the box that's it.
WordAssassin
Member
Oh right I could see that. I have BlueTooth headphones and I'm a self centered prick so I didn't think about how it'd affect people with wired headphones. ):
Different strokes for different folks. Sonofabitch, you baited me into that one.
VindicatorZ
Member
I've been watching movies in Gear VR Oculus cinema for the past year. It's a great experience. The resolution is a tad lower but who cares you are watching on a giant theater screen. It's fantastic. I recently took a road trip where I didn't have to drive and I was in the back watching movies the whole time.
I wish people commenting on "low" resolution is would try the damn thing before commenting.
Now I'm hoping the PSVR cinema mode works well. Hope they eventually release an actual movie theater app, hopefully social so we can watch and play things with friends.
My main gripe with the Gear VR is the comfort. After a while, it starts to hurt your face. If the PSVR is substantially more comfortable for long sessions, I hope to play FFXV, Last Guardian and Uncharted 4 on the big screen.
I wish people commenting on "low" resolution is would try the damn thing before commenting.
Now I'm hoping the PSVR cinema mode works well. Hope they eventually release an actual movie theater app, hopefully social so we can watch and play things with friends.
My main gripe with the Gear VR is the comfort. After a while, it starts to hurt your face. If the PSVR is substantially more comfortable for long sessions, I hope to play FFXV, Last Guardian and Uncharted 4 on the big screen.
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Wow good timing.
I've heard from some reviewers that the resolution is a bit of an issue when using cinema mode.
Still, I'd be interested in checking it out.
DownGrader
Member
It's like how we thought four years ago that Wii U GamePad will open tons of new gameplay possibilities, and it turns out most of us just use it to play games on the shitter.
Also, "Cinema"
Also, "Cinema"
Patrick Young
Member
I watch videos far more than I play games on my Oculus. I watched Unprofessional Fridays last week on a big fake display hovering in the sky. It was great.
If I were planning to buy PS VR, I'd be concerned over the amount of control users have over setting virtual displays in the air and getting it just the way you want it.
Has it been confirmed that you can set your main view in the sky? Without Virtual Desktop I couldn't do it on PC. I can only imagine PS VR has more limitations.
If I were planning to buy PS VR, I'd be concerned over the amount of control users have over setting virtual displays in the air and getting it just the way you want it.
Has it been confirmed that you can set your main view in the sky? Without Virtual Desktop I couldn't do it on PC. I can only imagine PS VR has more limitations.
paperspace
Member
It's great for multitasking, but I'm not sure if Sony will allow something like that.
You see guys? It's not as bad as y'all think. Bunch of negative Nancy's. It's your VR headset OP, enjoy it the way you want.
maquiladora
Member
Green lines are Cinema.
Aztechnology
Member
You'll get better quality by mounting a TV to your ceiling if that's what you want. I think you're going to be disappointed in the Visual clarity of the HMD for theatre mode.
I have demoed the PSVR twice btw
You really enjoy dithered color 720p then huh? I have a Gear VR with my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and things like Netflix (especially) and movies because of content encryption and limitations make it look awful. The colors mix and Meld awkwardly, the resolution isn't great either.
People should read this to understand better some of the limitations of the hardware and things that are being held back. John Carmack on streaming video in VR and limitations of the headset.
http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/john-carmack-on-developing-netflix-app.html?m=1
Why would he sacrifice his intelligence for this? You sound like my mother who told me that I would become stupid because I was sitting too close to the TV as a kid. /smh
Aztechnology
Member
It did for me on the Gear/ Vive. Used it a lot in the beginning, but I'd rather watch a clear hi-res image any day.
Aztechnology
Member
Ditto. When I got my Gear VR I used it for like a Week straight to watch videos at night when I was tired and didn't want to sit in a chair. I eventually just started watching on my Tablet or even phone again after a short period. The loss in quality is pretty big.
Lister
Banned
Those things are never accurate enough. You get drift, and continues recentering is required.
YEah, OP is likely not going to have a great experience without sitting in front of the camera... or hanging the camera from the ceiling!
Air Zombie Meat
Member
I'm sure your wife will be happy that you're spending time with her in an isolation tank.
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
Isn't the resolution really crap though
Lister
Banned
Not quite. Your phone's content will still be pretty sharp, and the vidoe will use all the pixels on the phone's panel.
That's not the case in VR. Not all the pixels on the panel are used to render the image, and the image will be a representation of the video at a much lower resolution since it's a projected canvas in 3D virtual space.
It will be more like watching a real video player stream (remember those?) or a low quality youtube stream than watching your HD phone.
If you've ever used one of those $100 ultra portable subHD projectors, you might have an idea of what ti woudl be like. IT looks cool for like 5 minutes, having that HD movie up on a big wall... and then you realize how low quality it is and you go back to watching it on your TV.
For Oculus you can have 2.5x downsampling with its viewer, so it doesn't look bad. Though PSVR is like half the native res of a rift.
Aztechnology
Member
The question really isn't "is it cool?". The question that remains, is it novel because watching on a standard device provides better quality?
The answer is objectively yes. Until VR can provide equivalent quality to that of a TV it's simply a novel usage.
If the mast majority of people didn't have TV's in their home this would be a different story, but most do at at least 720p if not 1080.
KojiKnight
Member
Some people are quite happy with novel uses though. Not me personally, but already a few in this thread... To tell them they are doing it wrong because you wouldn't is pretty tone-deaf.
Resolution isn't the selling point. The selling point is scale.
Aztechnology
Member
Which is literally the equivalent of holding a device closer to your face or moving closer to a TV/Monitor.
If you look at my post history you'll see I'm firmly in support of VR. But there are uses where it just doesn't do what it needs to/should as the tech or iteration just isn't there yet. Or where issues are caused by outside sources like encryption or otherwise reduce quality. The point is though people can be excited as they want, but should temper their expectations when comparing to existing hardware and methods. I just don't want people getting the wrong idea about what it offers and then our having something based on hype.
Aztechnology
Member
I don't think tracking will matter if they're looking straight on. However yea, wires would be annoying.
Kilau
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You or the phone?
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I was planning to do this with my Vive, but the quality was too bad to be enjoyable.
Not even the good kind of bad like VHS, just bad.
Not even the good kind of bad like VHS, just bad.
That makes a lot of people sick and in my opinion is a really shitty way to view video. There is a reason in VR games video is in the world and not stuck to your face. Anyways I've done with the my Vive and it's not great. Even in a virtual cinema (with positional tracking) the quality isn't nearly what you get with a television and it's just not a comfortable way to watch movies. I'm sure PSVR is physically more comfortable, but for 2 hours, laying down etc? No way. Yes the idea of a huge screen is cool, but the tech isn't quite there yet. It probably will be sooner rather than later though.
EDIT: Also if it is an actual virtual cinema with positional tracking then you need to constantly reset your center if you are moving the camera or positioning yourself on a bed. This is hard to describe but if you try to do this it will become very apparent.
Gravy Boat
Member
If all you want VR for is to play PS4 or watch stuff when the TV is in use then a laptop solved that problem a long time ago.