ACE XR - VR Shooting - Anyone use it?

[LateBraking]

I’ve used ACE VR for a while on the recommendation of a friend. Another person I know commented that my transitions and acquisition got noticeably better, after I committed to it for a bit. There’s also a YouTube video of someone who did only ACE and nothing else, then went to his first ever USPSA.

Things it does well:
- Give enough of a trigger break feeling that you will get your dry fire training in.
- Helps you with acquiring targets.
- Helps you transitioning between targets.
- Do it long enough and it’ll exhaust you - you can only hold your hands up and pull that trigger and move left/right so long before you feel SOMETHING, after all.
- Instantaneous feedback - Shot breaks in game, you see where shot would land in a hypothetical world with perfect recoil control/no anticipation.
- Be closer to how one would often use guns than point at wall dry-fire rack reset. Most y’all using Glocks, they aren’t bolt action guns.

Things it doesn’t do well:
- Recoil. There isn’t any.
- Reload. The simulated reload in game kind of sucks. Just turn on “infinite ammo” mode and focus on different fundamentals. Put your real life belt on and practice reloads separately in your home.

Neutral:
- Movement beyond stationary feet. This depends on your environment. For movement in confined apartments and buildings, you’ll be using the “teleport control stick” system that is so common in nearly all VR games. Not everyone is blessed with huge empty spaces indoors to run around in, or giant backyards. Thus, non-stationary movement will be limited by your home.

General commentary:
This currently functions on Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3, and Meta Quest 3S. The Meta Quest 3S is mostly a repackaged Meta Quest 2. While the processor is better, the limitation of the lenses/display from the Meta Quest 2 that the Meta Quest 3S uses makes this nearly moot. So:

Save a ton of money, get a Meta Quest 2 used on eBay (they can be had for as cheap as $100-150 working complete)
Pony up for a Meta Quest 3, the full monty big boy.
Don’t waste your money on a Meta Quest 3S, unless you plan to use this system for other things unrelated to ACE VR.

Let me see if I can attach a short clip.

 

[LateBraking]

Edit: Screw it, I’ll just link someone else, but a decent video that gives you an idea. His optic isn’t broken, it’s occluded optic option.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/798147815690724/permalink/1578576244314540/?

My subscription has lapsed (I took a break) and there has been more updates and stages since I last played. The “never shot a match before and used ACE to train” video looks like it got taken down. Typical YouTube, I guess. Something about the value of training daily, though.

More comments: I had a third party “rifle” controller (71 create). They’re all built like crap on 3D printers (71 and Custom Tactical Peter). ACE has now released one of their own, which is very welcome. It felt funny to some people using a “rifle” and it showing a “pistol” on the screen, but to be honest I was able to put it out of mind as really it came down to where the dot landed relative to the target, and I just used a big’ole red dot. Now that ACE is releasing their own, they should have a generic AR model that is going to be dropping along with it in-game.

There is no Glock in-game - all accounts are that Glock has told them to bugger off. Shadow Systems is in game, which is what people use. People do buy 3D printed aftermarket Glock controllers, and I guess the consensus is Glock can’t shut down all those Etsy stores (although a few have in fact been shut down, though who knows if it was because Etsy got pissy or Glock did).

Chase improvement, and I feel improvement does come. Chase scores to end up on the top of the “leaderboard”, and you can cheat the system’s detection with stuff like holding your draw in low ready right up to the game’s detection spot or doing some funky things to be out of position and have shots count, but it won’t make you a better shooter IRL.

Treat it like a training tool and it will be one more tool in your toolbox you can train with. For what it’s worth, I have my controller (a P320 Legion controller, yes yes lose your minds collectively) in my real life P320 holster and draw from the holster at the start of every drill, even if im losing some time to the people who game their leaderboard times by holding their controllers right at the cusp of the game’s draw detection window.

 

[Jeffro_510]

I play for about 45min a day.
Its a fun way to do some reps.