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Welcome to The Hitchhiker's Guide to VR. Bring a towel.

Right now this mostly catalogues my own experiences, but it's a wiki, so feel free to chip in.

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Newbie Guides

Accessories

Kiwi Designs V2 Pulley System

Useful Tools

XS Overlay - Movable in-game desktop panes, a wristwatch, and more
OVR Toolkit - The shittier alternative to XSOverlay, with poorer performance, UI, and stability.
Stoplight - Shows you how tangled up your cord is (this is available in SteamVR now).
OpenVR Advanced Settings - Provides power-user access to lots of SteamVR settings, and includes the powerful Playspace Mover utility.

Games

Social Games


Name	Price	Notes
VRChat	Free+	Currently the largest social VR game. Not well-designed or well-implemented.
NEOS	Free	Lots of cool features, confusing UI and an absolute lack of documentation. Also furries and shitcoins.
ChilloutVR	Free	Early access, dead community. Tried to be a replacement, but development seems to have stalled.
Lavender	Free	VERY early access, dead community, aimless developer.

Shooters

Multiplayer
Name	Price	Notes
Pavlov	$24.99	Third-party CS:GO built from the ground up for VR. Massively popular.
Contractors	$19.99	Multiplayer team-based shooter. Be an OPERATOR (with quest-grade graphics).
Payday 2 VR	$9.99+DLC	4-play co-op heist simulator. Lots of DLC. VR requires a "mod".
Vox Machinae	$24.99	Multiplayer mecha masher.

Singleplayer
Name	Price	Notes
Half-Life Alyx	$59.99	Full-length game that makes heavy use of finger tracking. Graphically-intensive.
SUPERHOT	$59.99	Abstract shooter with time dickery: Time moves when you do.
BONEWORKS	$29.99	Physics puzzle shooter where you get stuck in a simulation or something.

Rhythm Games


Name	Supports	Price	Notes
Beat Saber		$29.99	Slice up boxes while dodging shit, to music. Most popular.

Spooky


Name	Supports	Price	Notes
Phasmophobia		$13.99	NEXT ON DISCOVERY CHANNEL'S GHOST HUNTERS
Ghost Hunters Corp		$17.99	Ghost hunting, but you also have to purge the ghost. Still catching up to Phasmo.

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+|$13.99
+|NEXT ON DISCOVERY CHANNEL'S GHOST HUNTERS
+|-
+|[[Ghost Hunters Corp]]
+|[[File:Keyboard and mouse icon.svg]][[File:Index logo.svg]][[File:Oculus logo.svg]][[File:Vive logo.svg]][[File:Windows Mixed Reality Logo.svg]]
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+|Ghost hunting, but you also have to purge the ghost.  Still catching up to Phasmo.
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