Valve Index Base Station (1 Pack)

Product Information

If you need to re-synchronize the base stations or add new base stations, consult the Valve Index documentation for the specific steps required.

Choose suitable locations for mounting the base stations in your play area. It's important to place them securely on stable surfaces or use compatible mounting accessories. Ok so got everything set up yesterday evening, however spent a lot of time with it - one controller was giving me grief updating the firmware but finally got it to take."

To start with I will only be playing seated games, but might try Half Life Alyx or something similar at a later date. When I was using my Oculus Rift CV1 with Oculus Home environment I really enjoyed using the hand controllers to aim the Ray-gun and bow and arrow! I have placed my Base Stations each the same distance from where my head will be in VR, with Base Stations about 1.8 metres / 6 feet apart and about 1 metre / 3 feet 4 inches in front of my chair. is this the optimum position? I have read that some people use 1 Base station in front of the VR area (for me, a chair) and 1 behind, which setup is better? Thanks for your lengthy and well articulated reply Fenris_Wolf. I will write of my experiences this evening before replying to your post... I set up my Base Stations on a diagonal with both pointing directly at each other, problem is, when I am sat in between the two my head gets in the way of the line of sight. So, tomorrow I try setting up the position of my base stations so that they can see each other.

I have found the online manual and will answer my own questions in green... for those in the same boat! It says in the Valve guide that you need to plug the Headset into a power supply as well, but I only have 2 power supply adapters for 2 x Base Stations plus the Headset?? Do I need to buy a 3rd power supply adapter? There was a UK and US power adapter for the headset in the box, underneath. Both Base Stations have a green light in the upper half of the front, 9 red lights in a square on the front and the letter A on the left one and the letter B on the right one. When they are powered down they just have a muted green light. I don't know if this is relevant, I'm just trying to provide as much info as possible to try to get to the bottom of this! During the setup process, ensure that the base stations are within the recommended play area and their positions are accurately registered in the VR system.

Ergonomics

When setting up the Valve Index VR system for the first time, the synchronization process is usually done automatically. I did a solo spawn on the Kuban map at Adler in the South East region of the map where the mountains are, I had 80 fps except when I was skimming the ground at treetop height where I was getting mid 70's fps. Like I said I run IL-2 graphics settings on Ultra, I took the shadows quality down a notch from Ultra to High and disabled the MSAA x 2. I tried the flight again and it stayed at 80 fps even at very low level over trees and towns. The other base station / sensor will be behind me about 150 cm from headset and about 40 cm - 50 cm from the centre to the right...

I would like 100% SS, no motion smoothing / ASW / frame doubling. 80 Hz / 80 fps. I have an i5 9600k @ 4.9 GHz and a RTX 2080 ti 11 Gb graphics card. My rig is in my signature below. dburne's work fine for him, but note that he said that has them above his head and uses "seated playspace". I got 2 cats, a wife, a kid, and thus pods were impossible. Might as well drill proper holes.) The base stations will have to be angled down quite a lot to be pointed at my headset, almost 45 degrees, is this ok? I'm limited by my front base station having to be mounted above my window. If you move the pods slightly (the cat or dog touching them is enough), you must re-setup your playspace a-new as it will be off, and you might end up smashing the wall and the cat or dog. A hassle. But still a choice. If your base stations aren't working correctly, make sure they are properly set up for optical sync.I was giving to buy a valve index in August but after seeing so many people having problems, I decided to go for the oculus quest 2 which is wireless and trip free. It has done me good for nearly 3 months Ensure that the base stations have an unobstructed line of sight with the VR headset and controllers. Take into account that the basestation has moving internal parts and your adeshive could be not enough to keep the base station fixed. Thank you all for taking the time to read through all of this, please post any hints or tips below, it is much appreciated!

I am thinking of mounting one of them in front of me to the wall above a window and it will be 150 cm from my headset when flight simming, is this enough distance? The Valve Index Base Stations require a power source to operate. They come with power adapters that need to be connected to a power outlet.

Inputs

Thanks for taking the time to read this, I hope to be up and running when my mounting plates arrive tomorrow (fingers crossed) I won't be using my Hifi system whilst flying, so there won't be vibration whilst I'm in VR but it's a good point that I hadn't thought of. The vibration whilst blasting out Led Zep on my Hifi might move the base stations. Unlike the Oculus Rift CV1 (my previous headset) it would seem that the only software I need is Steam VR, is this correct?