Time Crisis VR / New Quest Standalone VR Mod - 6DOF Motion Controls / Meta Quest 3
youtu.beu/Zweetprot — 11 days ago
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Vision improvement with VR
Recently my eye prescription number dropped from -5.5 to -4.25 after extensive use of VR. There’s nothing else that can explain it, my doctor says it’s not possible for Myopia to improve that much. He says that may be I was prescribed incorrectly earlier. But I had been using the old prescription for over 10 years without issues and suddenly they turned blurry. I think there needs to be research on VR as a possible vision correction tool for kids.
u/r0s3s4moses — 11 days ago
Metroid Prime VR Performance / New Meta Quest Standalone VR Mod / Meta Quest 3
youtu.beu/Zweetprot — 11 days ago
Cant fix the quest 3 charging issue where it wont go past 72%. Wait for next gen quest 4 or just buy a new one?
I made a previous post how my quest 3 wont charge past 72%. I did factory reset, hold power button for 20 to 45 seconds, updated software etc. Nothing works and meta is offering me to buy a refurbished one for 359.
Should i pay a 100 deductible to asurion since I have home protect?
Just buy a new quest 3 from best buy and it will be covered by my total membership?
Wait for quest 4?
Or deal with my other vr headsets like steam frame?
u/Krometheous — 11 days ago
I didn't want Pearl - the Oscar-nominated VR short - to fade away someday, so I made it run natively on Quest 3
Some of you will remember Pearl (2016): a girl and her dad on the road in their old hatchback, years of their lives told entirely from the passenger seat, carried by a song they share. Patrick Osborne directed it for Google Spotlight Stories. It was the first VR film ever nominated for an Oscar and won an Emmy for Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Storytelling.
I watched it again recently and it got me just like the first time. Then it hit me: its VR version only runs on a Windows PC with SteamVR, on a 2016 engine nobody maintains anymore. Most people today own a standalone headset. One day this film simply won't start anymore.
So I started Project Oyster: a preservation port, not a remake. Pearl's own story scripts, animation, shaders, lighting and music run unchanged in a new engine, natively on Quest 3 (OpenXR, 72 Hz, sharper than the original). Story transitions were checked frame by frame against captures of the original.
It's not a pirated copy. No part of Pearl is included. You bring your own copy from Steam (it's free). A Windows installer finds it, verifies it and copies it to your Quest over USB (developer mode needed).
Two optional extras, both easy to turn off:
- smoothly interpolated animation (A/X on the controller; the default is the original stepped keys)
- eye height +30 cm: in the original you sit low in the seat, this puts you at eye level with Dad (thumbstick)
GitHub (MIT, installer in the release): https://github.com/SputnikKaputtnik/pearl-oyster
Heads-up: the Steam page is region-locked in some countries (e.g. Germany). With a US VPN it shows up and the download is still free.
Full disclosure: I built this with a lot of help from an AI coding assistant (Claude). Every result was checked against the original, and I watched the whole film in the headset, start to credits.
If Pearl ever meant something to you: it's waiting in the passenger seat again. 🚗 And if you never experienced it: time to hit the road with Sara and her dad!
u/SputnikKaputnik — 11 days ago
Help!!
I have two meta quests and a Mac mini - I run a charity Halloween event and I want to be able to do lay a short 2 min YouTube vr video simultaneously to each headset for kids to sit down abd enjoy a little jump scare - us thus doable? HIW hard would it be??
u/Trash_Comic — 13 days ago