The difference between the Extended Mode and the Direct-to-Rift mode is very simple, at the extended mode the oculus rift is like a second monitor which extends the main monitor and in direct-to-rift mode the games directly start in the oculus rift and you can also show the game on the mainmonitor at the same time. Juergen explaned the differences before, so if you don't know yet, read his article and hopefully you know then :). So the direct-to-rift is the best way to play VR games but unfortunately not every game supports this mode. If there is a gamename-direct-to-rift.exe file then you can use direct mode, if not you have to switch to extended mode at the oculus rift. The tutorial how to setup windows and the oculus you can find at Juergens post before.
I want to talk about the games we just tested with the extended mode and the gamesettings and which games worked fine and which not.
One really cool tool i have to advice is open broadcaster software (OBS x64 - we tested v 0.64 beta) because this tool makes it possible to stream the monitor of the oculus rift to the mainmonitor just like we are used from the direct-to-rift mode. It's perfect if you play with other friends, so they can't watch the game also, because it's very boring if you see someone playing with the oculus rift and talking about the cool game but you can't see what he is playing so guys just get this tool and watch Juergen's tutorial how to setup for gaming.
So today we tested the following games on extended mode:
Motorbike vr: [Download]
It is a very funny motorbike game, where you have to drive threw courses to reach the finishline of every level. This game is absolutely fantastic and has a huge level of addiction. You have to improve you bike skills and sometime you really have to think about how to succeed, because some levels are very tricky. We loved this game and couldn't stop. But then we had to stop, because the demo ended. But we are lucky, because we can buy a fullversion to get all levels and we are really thinking about it because the game really persuaded. One really interesting point of the game is the view of the player because you see the game from the side with the oculus, which is not the view you would expect but its something new and its cool! :) So i really can recommend this game to every one of you. It's real fun!
Don't let go: [Download]
It's a kind of a horror game, where you have to press both ctrl buttons the whole game long. During the game many different shocking stuff happens and the game plays with the original view, that both arms are on the 2 buttons in front of an notebook. I don't want to ruin the suprise, so i don't tell you what is really happening, but its not the best horror game. I really recommend headphones because the soundeffects are perfect and without headphones the game is really boring. But with the headphones and the soundeffects its kind of shocking :). The graphics are oldfashioned and just ok but if you have some time left just try it yourself. It's not the best game but it's ok and the idea of the game is cool.
This game has a very cool view, because when you look down you'll see a snowboard directly on your feed. Controls are simple but working great. In the game there is a hill and you can decide where on the hill you want to start the game. It's very cool but what we were missing was some enemies or quests, like rails or halfpipes or just big big jumps, because you just board threw the snow. The next thing which is really boring is that no matter what you do you will always have the same speed. So you can't rush down the hill or something. So the game concept is again very cool but overall it's nice to see it one time but it's not the game you really want to play twice or more often. The graphics are also just average.
We also tried to start the game magical rift heroin, because it looks very fascinating but it didn't start on direct-to-rift mode so we had to start it also on extend mode. The problem was that the game always starts on the main monitor and if you put it on the oculus rift the game has some bad border. We didn't check it with other drivers and settings yet but we'll try it this week.
Well that were all games that we tested today. Next time we will start the really cool stuff with the extended mode: Playing older (not VR) classic games with vireio perception driver.
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