so of course I have questions
How can you play with more than one person? Do you need two computers and two spaces? I'm trying to figure out how to set it up to play some of the multi-player stuff with my daughter.
Have you played Star Trek: Bridge Crew?
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sg3lEIGQyo
How was that? On the trailer, they showed 4 people, two each in two different locations. Does that mean 4 computers, 4 accounts, 4 copies of Bridge Crew? The trailer on youtube shows different headsets than the one on steam, but otherwise is the same.
Also in the trailer they are sitting beside each other. For my vive, I had to set up a whole room. How did they set that up? Are there room tracking base stations for each player that just aren't shown?
I'm really curious to see how much better the VivePro makes the experience. Better resolution and dumping the cables sounds great.
1) Star Trek Bridge Crew is awesome.
2) As far as multiplayer in the same room, same PC; it gets trickier..
So, the trailer you're talking about uses 4 PCs, 4 accounts.. which, is straight-forward.
If you're asking could you do this with just 1 PC, the answer is yes. However, you'd still need a separate account for each person.
To do this with just 1 PC, you've got 2 options:
1) A sandboxing program to encapsulate Steam/Oculus. If you're running in MacOS or Linux, this shouldn't be tough -- but in Windows, it may prove difficult.
2) Virtualization using either the OpenGL version of the game in Linux for the guest with OGL Acceleration (not likely to work well), or, preferably, using PCI passthrough which, does work quite well indeed.
In Linux/Unix, you can pretty much figure out a way to make this work on your own terms using sandboxing.
In Windows, I know for a fact the virtualization route works, but, depending upon your graphics card, you'll likely need 2 GPUs to get this to work (they don't need to be the same card); unless you have a Quadro or a FirePro, or a GTX that can be flashed to a Quadro.
As far as I know, that's the only way to make this work --
and it's almost entirely due to Steam DRM. There's nothing stopping these programs from sharing 1 PC and 1 GPU, and in some cases that might work -- but in a general case, on Steam, you'll need some sort of sandbox.