VR Camera

bilbosmeggins

Just a quick heads-up, in case anyone is interested.  In the Amazon Prime deals, the Insta360 EVO is currently on sale.  It takes 360 degree footage, or, more excitingly, it will shoot 180 degree, 3D footage, which can be streamed into VR headsets.  Currently, it works with Samsung Gear, Oculus Go, with Quest in the pipeline.  Although there is a side-load workaround for Quest.  It may work with other headsets too.

They are selling pretty fast.  There was 13 left when I ordered mine.  Now there are just two, so get in quick if it floats your boat.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07PMH3MXQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

thesnowdog

Please feel free to start making some Amateur VR Porn once you get it delivered.

Nivek TT

@thesnowdog my gosh, what a suggestion? That idea hadn't even crossed my mind

bilbosmeggins

Haha   I wouldn’t wish that upon my worst enemy.  I think you’d pay me real good money to keep my clothes on

thesnowdog

VR Porn is better than the real thing for several reasons:

1) VR doesn't take over an hour to get ready to go out.

2) VR Porn doesn't care what time you come home.

3) VR Porn doesn't care if you come home drunk with a traffic cone on your head.

4) VR Porn doesn't turn into a complete psychopath for a few days every month.

5) You don't get a Mother-in-law with VR Porn.

6) You can't get VR Porn pregnant or catch a dose off it.

7) VR Porn has no problems with kinky threesomes. Or foursomes. Or fivesomes. Or- well, you get the idea...

8) VR Porn won't get the raging hump when you forget a birthday.



See. Better than the real thing!!!

bilbosmeggins

It also makes your hearing far more acute

ArmitageShanks

The Index off-ear speakers would be rubbish for watching VR porn I suspect. Did Valve not consider this use case??

How much was the camera selling for?

thesnowdog

Yup, same with the sound tubes on the Rift S

Apparently. So a friend has told me.

bilbosmeggins

The camera was £335 in the Prime sale.  Think it should have been about £400.  Just struggling now to get any footage onto the Quest.  Looked at some tutorials for side-loading, and it seems easier to get a man into space . Thought the Gear VR would come up trumps, but the camera app isn’t even listed in the Oculus Store.  I think it’s not showing because I have an older, Samsung S6.

I tried Skybox, which is supposed to sync up to my Mac, and display any valid files for direct transfer.  It doesn’t show a single file .  So I thought I’d just hook the Quest up to the Mac with a cable and treat it as a storage device.  Lo and behold, the soddin’ cable is a usb-c, which doesn’t work with the Mac, so now I have an adapter on order.  My heart always sinks whenever a manufacture’s blurb includes the word “simply”.  From that moment on, you just know that the whole process is gonna be a sh!t-fest

ArmitageShanks

Knowing Facebook, they probably did that deliberately to dissuade people from viewing smut on their platform....