Looking to get set up in VR - new to computer-based pinball

[N9YTY]

Lifelong IT guy, not huge gamer, but picked up an Arcade2TV-XR on sale and fell in love when I saw pinball in VR.

 

I've tried to jump in, but probably have taken some wrong turns and run into many issues, so thought I would take a step back...

 

Is there a guide anywhere on how to set things up to play (and locate!) good working tables for use in VR with the Arcade2TV controller?

I tried the Baller Installer and it had issues, found a blog post setting up just VisualPinball latest beta w/VPinMAME, and it worked fairly well but many tables I tried to use don't have backglass/scoring in VR, etc...  Starting to get overwhelmed because I really don't need another full time project - I just want to play some pinball. LOL

I'm going to keep looking and learning, this seems to be an awesome community so thanks for letting me in.

[WCC]

I'm in pretty much the same situation as you!  I'm going to write down what I think I've learned, and I hope any veterans will correct me where I'm wrong.

I've seen a few posts saying "baller installer is for cabs" and not to use it for a VR cab.  Just install the stuff directly yourself.  (I use Baller anyhow, but I probably have stuff I don't need.)

 

The latest release of VPX (which you'll have to update to, if you use the baller installer, IIRC) has the VR launcher built into it.  It's  VPinballX_GL64_Launcher.exe .

If you want to play in VR manually, you have to launch VPinballX_GL64.exe instead of the other exes.  It seems to be the only one with VR support.

There's a whole category for VR ROOM tables.  They're your best bet for getting starting quickly on testing a VR table.  Other tables may or may not work, from what I gather.

I never got sound working properly.  I ended up using my PC speakers as I couldn't get it through my headset, no matter what I chose.

5 on the numpad will reset the view, and 8 and 2 will move the table up and down.  You can get pretty close to your controller's position with this, but I haven't tried to perfect it yet.

To make the DMD work in VR, I read that you have to enable "external DMD".  

I'm trying to make it work with either my existing vpin cab (which a computer that may not be able to handle vr) or my new Arcade2TV-XR controller.  The new controller is *absolutely amazing* with Pinball FX VR on the Quest 3, and if I can get the PC VR cabs working that well, I'm going to be *absolutely ecstatic*.  And by that, I mean my wife will (the pinball fanatic in the family) and I'll live vicariously through her.  lol