New to VR, have a question about HTC Vive Headset?

[Darkonus]

I have a HTC Vive Pro Headset but no controllers or base stations. Will the headset even work without those? I would love to just play games in like a theature mode through the headset and use mouse and keyboard. Though all I see through the headset is just a light blue screen nothing else. Even when I launch a game with Vorpx running just see the light blue screen. Maybe I’m doing something wrong, steam VR is installed to and running, but its just light blue screen in the headset all the time.

[steph12]

you need at least one base station for the headset to work.

[Darkonus]

Ok thanks. I found a program that lets your mouse and keyboard act like the vive controller, so just need a base station.

[steph12]

i forgot to mention.

one base station = seated play only, you cant use room scale.

so ideally for your headset you should buy 2 base stations to enjoy room scale with 6DOF (degrees of freedom).

[RJK_]

Never tested that, but with one base station you will likely have no positional headtracking with vorpx either, even seated. (room = positional i assume)

[Darkonus]

I have tried everything to bring down the pixel density but its just too much for me. I really had no idea it would be so dense. Will this improve with like the higher resolution headsets like the 5k from Primax. Or is Pixel Density just nothing can be done to get rid of on VR headsets?

[steph12]

you’re talking about screen door effect ?

[Darkonus]

Yes sorry I ment screen door effect. Its probably because I’m new to VR its very distracting. Just wondering if I get a higher resolution VR headset if the screen door effect is less? Was looking at the Pirmax 5k today.

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