Humans playing VR game Beat Saber move faster than what Steam thought was ‘humanly possible’

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Some people move so fast when they play the VR game Beat Saber, a rhythm game that’s basically Dance Dance Revolution with lightsabers, that Valve developers have had to issue a fix. People were moving so fast that Steam VR couldn’t track their movements, as spotted by Kotaku.

After collecting the data on Beat Saber experts, Valve developers had to issue a fix to the trackers in Valve’s Lighthouse technology that tracks movement. On the latest changelog for Steam VR today, developers noted that they had to “Increase limits of what we thought was humanly possible for controller motion.”


A developer elaborated further in the comments that “a properly motivated human using a light enough controller could go faster (3600...

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