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Exclusive Oculus games now running on the Vive

Discussion in 'VR Headsets and Sim Gaming - Virtual Reality' started by noorbeast, Apr 14, 2016.

  1. noorbeast

    noorbeast VR Tassie Devil Staff Member Moderator Race Director

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    Well it did not take long, an unofficial compatibility layer has already been created to run the Oculus exclusives Lucky's Tale and Dreamdeck on the Vive: http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2016/04/14/theres-now-unofficial-way-play-oculus-vr-games-htc-vive/
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    Nice!! I might keep that extra vive order after all
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    The Vive may have other potential for motion simming. One thing I am interested to try is mounting the Vive controllers to the rig so Lighthouse can track it, then see how easy or hard it is to generically offset the HMD view from the sim movement as a way to do motion cancellation.
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