(Part 2) Best products from r/beatsaber

retractable ceiling cable management. under $20. works great. been using with my vive for over a year.

I put some zipties on my cable to make it catch in a specific spot, otherwise, works great out of the box.

On the OG Vive deluxe headstrap, it only take a few minutes to carefully remove the speakers and wires. I use Sennheiser HD555 with a shortened cord, and I absolutely love the quality.

When a mapper takes the time to align the notes with finer details of the music, you can actually hear them! I promise you its not hearing loss, there just is so much depth to modern music that most people never hear.

I was hooked on soda a long time ago. If I had any suggestion for you at all it would be to get a water bottle like this

It keeps water cold for 24 hours - like ICE cold. It goes with me everywhere and chugging water, especially when playing beat saber feels and tastes so good.

Breaking the soda habit is NOT easy but I’ve never been happier with the switch. You’ll end up being able to tell the difference between crap water and awesome water too. Get a Brita filter :)

You shan’t regret it, promise.

Usb 3 is actually very sensitive about cable lengths, so you need something called an active cable

Plugable 5 Meter (16 Foot) USB 3.0 Active Extension Cable with AC Power Adapter and Back-Voltage Protection https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076C91NNB/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Vz1YDb082RN42

And yes, the usb cable carries tracking data

Going straight to SSD is a lot smoother. When your OS is installed on an SSD, your computer feels much faster. It's the upgrade that everybody should be focusing on instead of other not as great thinks like excessive RAM memory. It makes your computer have a really short boot time so it turns on and initializes quickly.

You could go hard disk first but only if that's the only way to stay in budget. With hard disks being cheap, get a good 1TB drive and then later, get a reasonably priced 250GB SSD This Crucial is good and clone your OS onto it. It'll feel like a major upgrade when you see the difference.

If you're looking for an alternative to the Rift S, I personally have and recommend the Samsung Odyssey+ WMR headset, as it's been on sale regularly (and for a while now) at 300 USD. It has a higher refresh rate than the Rift S (90Hz as opposed to 80Hz on the Rift S and 72Hz on the Quest), has a better panel and less SDE, as well as the famous Samsung AMOLED display panels, giving deeper blacks and more accurate colours. It also has hardware IPD adjustment, whereas the Rift S can only do software adjustment.

The only drawbacks that come to mind is that since the O+ has 2 cameras on the front to track the controllers (as opposed to four on the Quest and five on the Rift S), it tracks the controllers less accurately and tends to lose focus if the controllers are not in view of the cameras, as well as being tethered to your PC and being pushed further into the Windows ecosystem.

I use the thin memory foam vive gaskets. They sop up sweat pretty damn well. I also will wear a sweat band on my forehead/eyebrows since I have thick ass eyebrows that collect a bunch of sweat. As for the gaskets, I have many of them...maybe 8-10? I just swap them out periodically (once they get sorta nasty). Then once I have no more clean ones left, I just wash them by hand in some lightly soapy water and rinse them with clean water. Then I just let them dry maybe over night and repeat!

Edit: These are the ones I get but it seems like there are cheaper ones available if ya look about.

I agree. I already ordered new grips which look much lighter, although It doesn't look so cool like Camvate ones. https://www.amazon.com/Neewer-Handheld-Stabilizer-Panasonic-Samsung/dp/B01IMRRVKO
It's hard with current heavy grips to swing like a madman as fast as before. But anyway, I don't want to go back for normal controllers. lol

I found these a pretty good investment: ($15 rubber skins for Vive Controllers)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LEZO0OQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00

If only for the more common "oops I just smacked something I couldn't see".

Thanks! If you decide to give it a try I used shelf liner like this. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002AS9NAI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_iDCUCbWDHVSKD

I cut a rectangle so that it was almost as long as the battery and wide enough that it goes about three-quarters of the way around.... I insert the shelf liner into the battery compartment making sure to slide it underneath the spring, then insert the battery and try to force it up away from the spring as much as possible.

I am keeping my fingers crossed that the new touch controller is coming out they learn from their mistake and have the battery face the opposite direction so that the centrifical force works WITH the spring rather than against it.

For me it ended up being the onboard Usb controller (Usb 3). I ended up buying a pci-e Usb 3.1 (gen 2) card that has 4 ports. It has 2 separate USB 3.1 controllers on the board dedicated to 2 ports each. It pretty much eliminated lockups and lag. I run all 3 USB cables to the card. Most motherboards have only 1 controller for all the USB ports, and it just can't handle the bandwidth of the sensors and rift. I bought the card for approx $130 canadian on Amazon.
Here is the link for the one I bought.

https://www.amazon.ca/StarTech-com-PEXUSB314A2V-PCI-Card-USB/dp/B071DFQ6TW/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?keywords=Usb+3.1+pcie+card&qid=1571503357&sr=8-4

I finally figured out an effective solution last night. Requires a sweatband and a fan. But you need to wear it in a specific way.


The sweat band needs to be slightly thick, and you need to wear it just above your brow, such that the top of the rift is resting on the sweatband not directly on your face. This releases the pressure on the lower part of the rift and allows a decent amount of airflow I to the mask from the bottom. Worked so much better than anything else I tried, so many people suggest a sweat band but leave this detail out.

I used something like this folded on itself across my forehead: https://www.amazon.ca/KALILY-6PCS-Headband-Bandana-Multifunctional/dp/B01LBG7AEU/ref=mp_s_a_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1539785899&sr=8-8&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=tube+scarf&dpPl=1&dpID=61bfKGp67RL&ref=plSrch

Get a pair of these! They work great and keep the sweat out of your eyes

I have those Duracell 2450mAh ones, they're pretty old now so they might not hold their charge as well as before. You can probably get 4 of those and a charger for less than 20 of your local currency.

Jaws JAW1795 Quick Spit Antifog Gel, 1-Ounce https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B000GGCLIC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_kY2TCb27R91WY

I use this stuff man works like a charm .

>Would I need to build it myself?

If you buy all parts from one store then you can ask most of them to build the PC before hand.

> Also I can go for a $750 machine or up to $900. $1,000 is just as far as I'm willing to go.

You'd need at least 500USD for a Vive, which is the easiest to set up for Steam.

1060 is the minimum "VR ready" card and a build barely hits that 500USD mark to allow a Vive purchase.

If you really want a better PC then you could build a 1070 and possibly get the Mixed Reality Headsets like these. They're cheaper and much easier to set up but worse tracking and feel.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07DD69HKJ?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title
Not a glove but I use that on my Samsung Odyssey+, I don't lose grip on Overkill (Nuketime). At first they feel a little rough, but after using them for a few days they feel natural to me now.

Well garbage is pretty subjective, but they give a very playable experience. I edited my post because that's closer to what I'm seeing at this exact moment on amazon. From a quick 10 second search...

Acer for $200 on Newegg

Lenovo Explorer for $210 on Amazon

They go on sale very frequently though. Check buildapcsales. WMR headsets that aren't the Samsung Odyssey are all substantially similar except for styling so dont worry too much about which one ends up on sale.

I had that problem when using a usb pci-e card with only 1 controller, fixed it by getting a card with 2 controllers but it costs a pretty penny. It's this one.

I used a led strip like

https://www.amazon.com/CHINLY-Individually-Addressable-Waterproof-waterproof/dp/B01LSF4Q0A/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?keywords=ws2812b&qid=1562179299&s=gateway&sprefix=Ws&sr=8-4

Paired with a esp32 (basicly a faster arduino since a normal arduino was a little slow)

https://www.amazon.com/VKLSVAN-ESP-WROOM-32-Development-Dual-Mode-Microcontroller/dp/B07T6J3PXZ/ref=mp_s_a_1_1_sspa?keywords=Esp32&qid=1562179449&s=gateway&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1

To my defense I did do a quick search and landed in the windows store - which I wrongly assumed would have all the Windows Mixed Reality headsets - and the cheapest in there was on sale for 250

Also even accounting for the usual exchange rate to CAD (35-50% more), the Acer one is almost double and the explorer is 1.5x more what they should be, at the same sources you cited. So that you can understand my confusion/excitement at the 'sub-200$' claim.

After a year+ of foggy lenses I finally bought this diving mask “Spit” stuff from Amazon, put a BB sized drop on one lens and used a lens cleaning cloth to divide it between both lenses and haven’t had any fog now in two weeks playing 2 hour sessions of Beat Saber.

Just Add Water JAW1795 Jaws Spit Antifog Gel, 1-Ounce

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000GGCLIC/

If your computer is capable, then any of the lower range WMR headsets would be fine. eg Lenovo Explorer, Acer, Dell.

You can find them on sale for 200 or less, just make sure the controllers are included, in fact, ACER is on sale on amazon right now for $178USD

Some would say the controller tracking on WMR headsets is problematic, but I recently got an S on Angel Voices expert with a Lenovo Explorer.