Stop coping already, it’s embarrassing. VR isn’t “changing” anything. VR porn isn’t “changing sex”, and FPV displays for drones aren’t “changing war”.

Listen, it’s okay that we bought into an over-hyped and ultimately useless tech gimmick that was genuinely fun and exciting for a time. But it does no one any good to constantly try to validate it with this level of inflated importance.

No, it wasn’t. I just bought one and still needed a Meta account. Where are you getting this bullshit, stop it

Great, more prohibitively expensive, feature-stripped, mobile phone based VR slop with proprietary app stores.

Isn’t that more of a flatscreen thing?

So the “turn off disks after” setting was already set, and USB selective suspend already disabled, BUT those are apparently overridden for USB connected drives if the “Allow the computer to turn off this device” box is checked for that USB hub in Windows Device Manager (Power Management tab).

All of those had defaulted to ‘on’ since I upgraded my mobo, so I think I’ve got it now.

I found a solution myself, if anyone else is wondering.

There’s an easier way to get the same effect: Shift-Click your cell(s) and drag where you want it/them, then hold Alt before releasing to drop it in place and auto re-order the column.

Oh no, we’re on it for the same reasons. I honestly would be willing to shill the doubled price point of a PCVR headset, but ALL of them (excluding the massively overpriced) have shit-tier displays compared to the Quest 3, which is why I can’t quite justify it yet. Of course, if Meta wasn’t selling at a loss it wouldn’t even be a question, just fuck them.

REALLY wish Valve would just upgrade their display. Would help if peripheral headset companies weren’t price gouging out the ass for worthless gimmicks.

South Africa W

I can’t even begin to explain why that is such a stupid fucking statement

Gross, “cinematic FPS” and “VR” should NEVER be used in the same fucking sentence. Whoever thought this was a good idea, you need to start listening to people and seek a different career path like you’ve definitely been told a million times before.

Of course. It looked like shit and streamed like hot garbo even on normal computers and smart TVs, I can only imagine how fucking miserable VR Netflix was. And it’s Netflix, no one should be paying for that slop any more anyway. lol, as if VR would ever maintain any kind of meaningful suite of services.

I genuinely hate what VR has become. They’re signing this tech’s death warranty and they should know that. After over a decade we’ve just about plateaued in terms of developing objectively better headsets, and fucked any chance of having a PCVR/peripheral headset that actually looks good, has good tracking, and works universally with whatever the fuck you want too hook up to it without being $1500 or more.

Not to mention locomotion hasn’t made any real progress and we’ve actually scrapped a lot of promising looking haptics tech that could have been a standard feature of VR controllers. We’ve also lost any hope of 3rd party controller support.

We’re cooked, and I don’t see this going anywhere good. Keep what you have for novelty’s sake and future ‘collector’s’ value, but don’t bother looking forward to a future of VR or AR beyond gimmicky shit like google glasses and whatever the fuck Cuckerberg is doing.

They go down frequently and are notorious for being riddled with trap files and malware. No one should be using the bay anymore. 1337x has the same problem now but slightly less than the bay, and a lot of domains are now honeypots. This guy probably read one post about piracy close to a decade ago and NEVER learned anything new after that.

lol, talk about a lack of standards

Oh yeah, that worked perfectly. That solves my Steam problem, so I think that combined with X-Mouse is about as good as Win10 users are going to do for this problem.

This does pretty much exactly what it should, and I like that it’s just a set-and-forget, one-time-run thing. I don’t know if this is just Steam, but Steam specifically is still pretty pervasive about yanking all focus away from whatever I’m doing multiple times in a row.

I tested by slowly dragging a window around on my second screen while Steam opened up on my first. Sure enough, three times my cursor just slipped off as the window came to a grinding halt and forced me to start the click-and-drag again, just to kick me off again until Steam was satisfied its presence was thoroughly announced.

I know this whole thing sounds like such a petty gripe, but words can’t describe how absolutely aggravating this is when it happens regularly. If I ever worked with someone who behaved like this, I’d be going hands-on in no time and making sure they never come within eye-sight of me again.

That’s not a bad idea for most at-work stations, but I frequently switch around throughout the day. That does give me the idea to have some specific apps open with a minimized argument (via batch file or shortcut arguments), but that only solves a fraction of my problem.

What?

It’s not a lack of software that killed it, it’s the lack of ability to use any meaningful library of software due to proprietary restraints, as always. I don’t know when everyone made the switch from VR as a peripheral to strictly proprietary, “stand-alone” (and die alone) headsets, but it’s literally killing VR as a whole.

Don’t get me wrong, the current strict PCVR companies aren’t any better. They see what’s happening and are doubling down on the massive cost hike despite looking shittier and technically having less features than SA headsets. That being said, they work INFINITELY smoother with PC apps and game and movies, in addition to higher quality tracking systems and third-party hardware support. This alone should put them ahead by a long-shot, but being an unaffordable hobby niche doesn’t help when large corpos can churn out headsets full of “stand-alone” bloat at a loss just to devour the majority of the VR market and lock people into hopeless, proprietary hellscapes.