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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lio" data-source="post: 241621" data-attributes="member: 3222">I really like the app on Gear VR - turned out better than I thought it would <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I just wish they would add a few more different player heights (at least 5 instead of 3) and allow you to walk up closer or further away with the stick instead of just offering two positions to cycle through (or at least offer a third in-between position between the current two positions as to me one feels too close while the other one is already too far away) .Also I feel the table looks larger than a real life table would, so maybe some FOV adjustment would be nice.The sudden launch of the app in the Oculus store without any real announcement surprised me... almost thought it slipped out before it was meant to be launched.A bit disappointing to see three tables return, that we already know from TPA without any real improvements (on Frankenstein the non-aligning playfield art with the slingshot pegs on the right slingshot still annoys me every time (even though the resolution in VR is almost too low to really notice it)I don't know why but ever since I moved away from Android 4.x on the Galaxy S3 (first to 5.x on the S5 then to 6.x on the S7 edge) TPA never felt as smooth again as it did on 4.x on the S3 - sure, the resolution of the displays always increased but the GPU should easily have been able to handle that on each of the phone upgrades - it's not real stuttering either it's just that TPA seems to suffer from odd ball-skipping from time to time (possibly some sort of Android energy saving kicking in at unwanted times) - the same is present to a somewhat lesser extent in Stern Pinball Arcade on Gear VR (switching the phone to flight mode does not make a difference for me).I'm really looking forward to updates on this app and somehow (against all hope) hope that we will not have to buy all the tables twice - having the tables in VR is really cool but you can't always play them in VR when you feel like playing a little mobile pinball on the go so it would be great if buying a table in the Oculus store would somehow also give you access to the 2D version later on once the Stern Pinball Arcade is available for regular Android.</blockquote>

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