Warcrime

Damn I don't know why I had hoped this would spark a more active discussion or that I might find other quiet and frustrated cosmos users to discuss it with. HTC are such a massive letdown, it must be depressing to have worked on the cosmos and produce such a terrible result. You're right, I suppose we should just face the music and accept that Cosmos is abandoned and the poor state of the tracking now is truly the best their engineers could do. I just wish there were more effective ways to communicate how upsetting this whole ordeal was. There's no way I buy anything that HTC has been involved in in the future and I'll spread that message to anyone who'll listen. This is the most money I've ever wasted, just to think I could have bought 3 Quest 2 units for the same price - a Quest 2 with constant updates and improvements. The guys at HTC have seen the competition right? And they've just shrunk back into their desks and given up I assume. Ugh, I've got to stop being so hopeful about this trash. READ THIS WARNING ANYONE CONSIDERING BUYING A COSMOS - ABSOLUTELY DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON IT.

I've been using my headset again recently after leaving it to gather dust for a while. In my opinion it takes a really conscious effort to work with the tracking. You have to constantly be aware of your hand positioning, rarely being able to rest them by your sides, pretty much working within a cone emanating outwards from your headset. I've learned to try to shrug off the tracking losses as you're swinging your hands around and I try as hard as possible to avoid anything that means I need to put the controllers together like drawing a bow or using a two handed weapon in games. Even worse, I've found sometimes the general tracking is just absolutely terrible. I think it's the ceiling fan in my room because occasionally I find my VR space just has this wobble after it syncs initially. I have to turn off my fan and take a seat to get it to recover, after shutting down SteamVR and Vive Console to begin the whole process again. If I look at the dates in the forum on the last update it looks like it was July last year but it feels so much longer. Is the OG Cosmos essentially abandoned at this point? Is there any hope that anyone is working to improve the tracking? I'm really surprised by the lack of firmware updates since I bought it. There were definite tracking updates and fixes to the low lighting alerts that used to come up early in the process but, man, it feels like there's been no effort in forever. I've left the hardware to rest a couple of times now and each time when I plug it in and start it up I expect some kind of update but there's been nothing in so long. So please, help me set my own expectations accordingly - is there any expectation of future tracking updates? Because the release notes on the latest update look to only be related to Cosmos Elite features. PS: I feel like the pricing on the Cosmos is absolutely atrocious. I paid launch price of $1300 AUD (which was hard to accumulate, please understand). I can see you've dropped the price $300 AUD but have never provided a decent pathway to the Elite faceplate, base stations and wands without another $1200 AUD MINIMUM for 1.0 base stations?? When I imagine damaging my controller and having to shell out $180 AUD to replace it - there's basically no way I don't just get a Quest 2 at that point. I mean, FFS $109 AUD for FACE CUSHIONS? I can't imagine buying anything HTC or trusting you guys ever again in the future. Does anyone in the management structure have any understanding of how offensive those prices are after such sub-par performance paying full launch price? Ahh... who am I kidding, no-one will listen and these forums are about as dead as the HTC consumer VR division will be in the next few years...

Ah sorry I realise now you've mentioned the cosmos elite, I'm afraid I was thinking of the regular cosmos. I've got no experience with the elite unfortunately 😞 Best of luck though

I had this issue after reinstalling windows 10 and the installer grabbed some crappy nvidia drivers for me that wouldn't let me overwrite them with the latest ones I downloaded. I ended up having to get display driver uninstaller, uninstall the driver and stay offline to stop it downloading again, then update to the proper latest nvidia driver. After the next reboot out of safe mode I was able to install the console. Are you able to try that?

Did your controllers ever work before or is this a new system? I know there has been the point made that it can struggle if your light source is white fluro bulb because the controllers use bright white light for tracking. Are you able to try in a yellow tinted light?

I hadn't used mine in a while and went back to it recently. I must admit I'm having a lot of fun and it does seem to have improved a lot but I think it's only because it's my only exposure to VR and I have learned to compensate for the poor performance of the cosmos. It still lets me down quite often but at least the controllers recover tracking a lot quicker now.. Seeing this explains so much and makes me so damn sad. How can the performance be so poor when so many other inside out can do so much better. What an expensive dud, I only hope they keep supporting it long enough that I can get enough hours to justify the cost. Certainly won't be doubling down on the faceplate, lighthouses and controls from HTC now just to bring my cosmos up to minimum performance standards, I'll just go all in on Index when they finally become available here (in Aus too).