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2-12-2019 05:36:01 Mobile | Show all posts
Will do, chap.  I got it for development but mostly it got used to Elite.  It's such a night and day difference that going back (for a few months) to 2D will be really tough.
At the moment they seem to be going for £300-£400, which will possibly be driven by them being out of stock with Oculus and harder to come by.
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Voice capture's always been tricky, even for services like Google that use servers.  It seems to work for certain commands, but for things like the map screen in Elite I don't mind using the keyboard - you sorta get used to it, especially if you can anchor it in such a way where your hands have a reference to where they are - even a piece of tape at the front-middle where your wrist hits, or the raised bumps on F J
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Accurate voice capture relies on knowing the words you're trying to say. Elite has a gazillion of unpronounceable system names, some with punctuation, and isn't capable of searching based on a close guess. Phonetic alphabet and spelling the name to VoiceAttack is the only way.
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I can just picture my Scottish co-worker having a conversation with the maps...
"JUPITAH!"
Please spell it.
"JAI. EWE. PEE."
Unrecognised
"JAI"
Unrecognised
AH FANNYBAWS /smash
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 Author| 2-12-2019 05:36:01 Mobile | Show all posts
I can see that this is going to let down the whole VR thing experience for me.  Tried the rift and its was great, but using a game where there is a need to type quickly is going to detract so much from the experience for me, that I may not bother.
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The challenge is on the developers to find a solution. I bet that Valve have a Vive controller driven pop-up keyboard already embedded in SteamVR, available to developers. The Steam controller's keyboard works very well, and the VR controllers have the two touchpads onboard.
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2-12-2019 05:36:02 Mobile | Show all posts
The steam keyboards would probably just have a virtual keyboard... but after a while you do get pretty good at typing blind.
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Currently on a job with a friend who owns a VR production company. He said its nailed on that Half Life 3 is coming to Vive and he thought it was going to be announced on Friday. Take it with a massive pinch of salt I guess. Had a quick search this evening and can see no scheduled events on google. I'd pay a grand for it though
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2-12-2019 05:36:02 Mobile | Show all posts
Oh dear... Suppose it was only a matter of time
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So where is it..? Me wants, me wants, me wants!
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