Oculus has
Lone Echo (Oculus Rift / Rift S VR Game) on sale for
$9.99.
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hoobajoob for finding this deal.
About this title:
In Lone Echo's single player story, you'll be transported to an advanced mining facility within the rings of Saturn, complete with a detailed space station, expansive outer-space environments, and interactive space equipment. Taking on the role of Jack—an advanced artificial intelligence with a state-of-the-art synthetic body—you'll help Captain Olivia Rhodes solve an increasingly threatening mystery as you use futuristic tools, clever problem solving, and interactive dialogue to engage with the world around you. Taking advantage of the Oculus Touch controllers and full 360° gameplay, Lone Echo lets you take a hands-on approach to exploring space unlike anything you've ever played before.
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That could be part of it.
I have also considered running the gaming PC headless and accessing games via AirLink/Virtual Desktop for VR and via SteamLink for controller based games. Haven't tried that route out yet though.
I have a new Dell G15 gaming laptop with a full power 3060. Alyx will be playable for maybe 5 minutes before becoming a glitchy mess (nausea inducing 1 fps, out of sync audio, turning your head gives you a field of black before getting filled in).
Other SteamVR games have been better, but with frequent drops in framerate. Nothing close to a buttery smooth 72hz. Hellblade. Obduction.
I purchased Lone Echo to see if the issue is SteamVR or Oculus Link, but Lone Echo too has become glitchy and out of sync. I might get 10 minutes of play before it's all messed up (like I'm getting every other frame and they're out of sync) and I have to reboot.
UPDATE: I have since setup Virtual Desktop ($20) and it a far superior experience compared to the Link cable or AirLink. The only tweak I need to make was to increase the bandwidth settings in VD on Quest.
It's not perfect. I did experience a "crash" where the game stopped updating. Had to disconnect and reconnect to VD to get it working again. Alyx was much improved compared to Link, which would go wonky after 5 minutes (no exaggeration) and require a reboot to fix, but I did still see some dropped frames and slow hand tracking at times. It also seems that haptic feedback in the controls is much stronger and staying on a lot longer (full vibration rather than subtle pulses) when connected to VD compared to Link. I haven't looked into this issue yet.
Overall, Virtual Desktop gets a huge thumbs up and finally makes desktop VR gaming possible for me.
AirLink (laptop wired to router, Quest 2 over 1200mbps AC) disconnects after 10 seconds every time.
I'm really at a loss.
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After I got a second Wifi 6 router my Airlink/Virtual Desktop experience has been wonderful, 30-40ms total lag as reported by VD. Very playable for everything that isn't competitive. Gaming PC is wired to it as a cascaded router and Quest 2 is the only wireless client.
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I also have used both airlink and virtual desktop without issues. My setup is computer hardwired to router, and then wifi ( 5ghz) 2 rooms away from the router, with only the very rare occasional hiccup in streaming. Also running on a gtx1080. I think you might have something wrong with your setup or settings?
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