Valve Index Base Station (1 Pack)

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To start with I will only be playing seated games, but might try Half Life Alyx or something similar at a later date. When I was using my Oculus Rift CV1 with Oculus Home environment I really enjoyed using the hand controllers to aim the Ray-gun and bow and arrow! I have found the online manual and will answer my own questions in green... for those in the same boat!

Each base station needs to be positioned securely and mounted on a stable surface or a compatible mounting accessory. I just found Valve's own guide for setting up the Index. For anyone else who is new to the Index, here is the link... https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9140-EYIL-0086 The base stations will have to be angled down quite a lot to be pointed at my headset, almost 45 degrees, is this ok? I'm limited by my front base station having to be mounted above my window.I won't be using my Hifi system whilst flying, so there won't be vibration whilst I'm in VR but it's a good point that I hadn't thought of. The vibration whilst blasting out Led Zep on my Hifi might move the base stations. Ok so got everything set up yesterday evening, however spent a lot of time with it - one controller was giving me grief updating the firmware but finally got it to take."

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I did a solo spawn on the Kuban map at Adler in the South East region of the map where the mountains are, I had 80 fps except when I was skimming the ground at treetop height where I was getting mid 70's fps. Like I said I run IL-2 graphics settings on Ultra, I took the shadows quality down a notch from Ultra to High and disabled the MSAA x 2. I tried the flight again and it stayed at 80 fps even at very low level over trees and towns.

dburne's work fine for him, but note that he said that has them above his head and uses "seated playspace". I got 2 cats, a wife, a kid, and thus pods were impossible. Might as well drill proper holes.) The other base station / sensor will be behind me about 150 cm from headset and about 40 cm - 50 cm from the centre to the right... I was giving to buy a valve index in August but after seeing so many people having problems, I decided to go for the oculus quest 2 which is wireless and trip free. It has done me good for nearly 3 monthsbro, I've seen a lot of people act like their VR headset is objectively the best, but this is on another level. It's enough for them, they're happy with it, so let them enjoy it. Thanks for taking the time to read this, I hope to be up and running when my mounting plates arrive tomorrow (fingers crossed)

Thank you all for taking the time to read through all of this, please post any hints or tips below, it is much appreciated! If you move the pods slightly (the cat or dog touching them is enough), you must re-setup your playspace a-new as it will be off, and you might end up smashing the wall and the cat or dog. A hassle. But still a choice. Aaaargh! I'm having a nightmare of a time trying to get Steam VR to recognise all of the devices. First it said that the VR headset display cable wasn't connected, when it was, after a while this message went away, then it said : Each of the Vive Base Stations came with their own power supply, do the Base Stations need to be plugged into the mains at all times? YesI would like 100% SS, no motion smoothing / ASW / frame doubling. 80 Hz / 80 fps. I have an i5 9600k @ 4.9 GHz and a RTX 2080 ti 11 Gb graphics card. My rig is in my signature below. I hear what you're saying regarding the adhesive maybe not being strong enough, those Vive base stations are quite heavy! It says in the Valve guide that you need to plug the Headset into a power supply as well, but I only have 2 power supply adapters for 2 x Base Stations plus the Headset?? Do I need to buy a 3rd power supply adapter? There was a UK and US power adapter for the headset in the box, underneath. I have placed my Base Stations each the same distance from where my head will be in VR, with Base Stations about 1.8 metres / 6 feet apart and about 1 metre / 3 feet 4 inches in front of my chair. is this the optimum position? I have read that some people use 1 Base station in front of the VR area (for me, a chair) and 1 behind, which setup is better? Both Base Stations have a green light in the upper half of the front, 9 red lights in a square on the front and the letter A on the left one and the letter B on the right one. When they are powered down they just have a muted green light. I don't know if this is relevant, I'm just trying to provide as much info as possible to try to get to the bottom of this!