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Anonymous10/20/26, 12:51No.65600437
Will playing VR shooting games help me develop good aim, or are they more likely to fuck me over due to how different the handling of real firearms is? Anyone here with experience in both willing to share your thoughts?
Never had a real firearm in my hands before, but playing some of these gun range games/simulators got me interested in picking up shooting as a hobby for real.
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Anon10/20/26, 12:59No.65600449
my experience was that vr gun games are not even 1% like holding a real firearm
it might help if you have the HEC of a child in some general sense
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Anon10/20/26, 13:14No.65600472
You can afford vr why not guns
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Anon10/20/26, 13:41No.65600508
You won't develop the same muscle memory because you are not holding an actual gun. I did find it helpful for improving speed on target for pistol shooting, but worthless for rifle
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Anon10/20/26, 13:57No.65600527
They dont. Though some of them might educate you on how they work, where the controls are etc
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Anon10/20/26, 14:04No.65600542
it's a cool visual simulation but it's completely different in just about every way. It's the same as swinging swords in a VR game; it's completely different than in real life because there is zero weight.
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Anon10/20/26, 14:41No.65600585
there is no weight to the weapon or realistic trigger feel. That alone messes it up. With two handed weapons the unrealism extends further, as in real life there are four points of contact (you) use to stabilize the weapons for accurate aim
>the hands
>the chin
>the shoulder
in VR only the hands exist on a standard motion control. Only thing I can even think the VR experience teaches you is how to use mechanical sights and you could realistically simulate adjusting optical sights for distanceBest use I have found for VR in general has been to ignore the motion control completely (no hands), use traditional controls like mouse+keyboard with seated position and play regular first or third person games forced into full 3d. The magic of VR comes mainly from the goggles, of being inside the game world. As opposed to peeking into it through a tiny little window that is the standard flat screen monitor
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Anon10/22/26, 01:29No.65602107
not in the slightest. there is a lot of technique that goes into holding a handgun, maintaining an even and consistent grip, and smoothly pulling the trigger.
you'd be better off training fundamentals with an airsoft pistol.
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Anon10/22/26, 01:34No.65602120
actual shooting, no
it helps with making you aware of your surroundings and body movements if that makes any sense
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Anon10/22/26, 01:38No.65602125
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Anon10/22/26, 22:44No.65604279
Will jerking off to porno make me good at sex?
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Anon10/23/26, 01:11No.65604569
the aim reflex with normal sights actually yes VR helpsthe weight and amount of force you need to actually operate the gun, pull and release the slide etc VR helps not at all
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Anon10/23/26, 07:51No.65605255
VR gun stuff is fun as fuck but no substitute to the real thing. No real trigger pull, no weight, no recoil, no concussion, no hot brass down the back of your shirt, reloads are far from reality. And most importantly no real sight picture since no depth of field, so your eye sees notch, bead and the target all in focus at the same time.
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Anon10/23/26, 23:12No.65606565
I don't know about other VR controllers but on the Valve Index they actually intentionally make the angle of your virtual hands slightly different than your real hands.Take off your VR headset and compare the position of your virtual hands in 3D space to your real ones.I think they do this so people whose only experience with guns is VR games will end up learning incorrect muscle memory and miss when they fire a real gun.
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Anon10/24/26, 23:08No.65609337
No they're just a simulator. But they're really fun, don't get me wrong. I love playing the CS:GO maps in VR. And it's good as a game too, it's just not training.