The parts breakdown on the Rift has it a tad over $200 in parts. Most of those parts are not unique to the rift and so I would not expect a rapid price decline in them.
At which price point would you surrender to VR?
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You need to look at it in a broader scope.
Decide which HMD to buy based on the strengths and weakness of versus what games you will be playing.
I chose the CV1 because I play-
Elite
DCS
Assetto Corsa
Dirt Rally
I'm not attracted to the 'play area' thing with the Vive, although thats not to say I will not buy it. Because I prolly will.
Also look at he games that are compatible for both HMD's. I think the Vive has the edge here due to the Steam component.
There won't be a new generation for a while.
Get in now, the water's lovely. I guarantee you'll love it. Just know the EVERYTHING about the device you want , bot good and bad, before you purchase.
Decide which HMD to buy based on the strengths and weakness of versus what games you will be playing.
I chose the CV1 because I play-
Elite
DCS
Assetto Corsa
Dirt Rally
I'm not attracted to the 'play area' thing with the Vive, although thats not to say I will not buy it. Because I prolly will.
Also look at he games that are compatible for both HMD's. I think the Vive has the edge here due to the Steam component.
There won't be a new generation for a while.
Get in now, the water's lovely. I guarantee you'll love it. Just know the EVERYTHING about the device you want , bot good and bad, before you purchase.
It's not unusual for some people to be lukewarm about VR at first. Stay with it for a few more week then switch back to monitors and be utterly underwhelmed by them.
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I think that's because many people got burned on the whole "3D TV revolution!" and were understandably underwhelmed. GF has one of those large Sony TV's and 3d glasses - they never really worked properly and even when it did it was rubbish.
VR is completely different, just that people don't understand how different it is. It's also at a very early stage, future generations of the tech will hopefully be better and easier for average Joe Sixpack to put together and get an enjoyable experience without having to tweak a million different things.
PS4 VR will probably help things along, but as it's going to be so limited by console hardware I think that it might turn even more people off VR. At best it'll deliver DK2 levels, at worst we'll see a return to the 90's
About 90% of my game time in ED was with a DK2, I've since sold it (haven't used it for months) but I am definitely going to get a VR headset at some point, I'd say $600 with motion controllers is what I'd pay for one.
I've spent around $4000 over that last 3 months on a new PC, speakers and a CV1 just for the sake of enjoying Elite at it's best. I have ZERO buyers remorse and, in fact, smile every time i gear up for a session. I say go for it!..
It's great, isn't it
Got to be careful though - you'll have complaints from unemployable millennials who have never been able to afford anything themselves in their entire lives, and demand you spend your cash on them, for social justice
Buy a Titan X or two - just for good measure
I would say "Buy an Idris!" - but you actually get a good deal with a Titan X
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When the tech is actually good enuff to support it and it comes in a retro wrap around sunglasses form. Wearing a diving mask isn't gonna happen. But ya'll keep on supporting it till it comes of age.
That would be the Microsoft Hololens. DKs are available for $3k at present.
Yup - and they are really a bit poor.
We have a couple at work, and the bluetoothery goes a bit mental at times it really should not.
Koolness. I'll have to look into that.
If you were to buy a Vive or an Oculus (delivery/taxes and what not included), what would you be willing to spend?
After much pondering, my wishes for phantom prices, that would make me go out and splash, drops amounts to:
- 500 GBP for the Vive
[*]350 GBP for the Oculus
Here's hoping.
Fly safe commanders.
Considering I was among the first batches of the DK2 and Vive, it's pretty obvious I don't mind current prices all that much.
It's a question of longevity, the games available and the system needed to run them.
E. g. I've spent more than twice the price of a Vive on my current Keyboard a couple of years ago, but I knew it wont be obsolete for the next 20 years.
With VR, it's a bit more complicated. Nvidia increase their upgrade intervall but dismiss faster and higher Vram until 2017, most vive games are junk, so I'm not inclined to buy atm.
My PC budget sits at 50k € atm and I'm willing to spend on anything not involving anime, console controllers, the lowest commeon denomiator considering hardware or facebook.
I'm one of I think many who want to fly Elite: Dangerous in VR. The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are the two viable options at the moment.
I now have the machine to pull it off, but I simply just can not bring myself to spending the amount requested.
I now find myself waiting more on a price drop than a next generation, knowing full well that gen 2 will be far better and probably no more than a year away at most.
If you were to buy a Vive or an Oculus (delivery/taxes and what not included), what would you be willing to spend?
After much pondering, my wishes for phantom prices, that would make me go out and splash, drops amounts to:
- 500 GBP for the Vive
[*]350 GBP for the Oculus
Here's hoping.
Fly safe commanders.
I think the first thing you should try is if your brain and vestibular system supports VR equipment, is not for everybody, for example, I can play for hours in my 3D 50" TV set, and I could not play even 10 minutes with a VR system, gave me dizziness and other crazy stuff.
My advice is to try with a cheaper thing like Homido VR and a Samsung Galaxy 5" smartphone before go for the majors
At the same time there are many people that uses reading lenses, in this case Homido come with lenses for normal view, Myopia and
Hypermetropia
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This is is good advice....!
Every now and then I try the rift at my local computer shop. And within 5minutes I want to vomit up a chicken sized lump of goo. ..., right there on the show room floor !
Flimley
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Good lord, I hope that's a music keyboard you are referring to?
Done that long ago.
Tried the Vive and loved it, but as my OP suggests it's more of a pricing issue for me. We talked about this Commander. You can't go straight from the pub.
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Sounds like motion sickness. Have you tried roomscale with Vive? It's pretty much designed to get around that issue by eliminating forced movement of the camera.
I'd imagine that the hand controls are a bit unreliable (I know the motion leap ones are) as well.
I'd love to see MS pull off what they have aimed for. It will be absolutely amazing if they do... but I'll believe it when I've read a ton of production-model reviews.
What price you are willing to pay for VR depends on what you want to do with it. For Zuckerberg it was $2billion. That lead to a lot of other companies throwing a lot of money at VR so the value of it will only go up and the price down. It is not a matter of how much you will spend as how soon you will spend.
The problem is that the next generation should have more resolution, which is the main limitation of the current VR headsets. That will probably make them more expensive to manufacture, and require an even more powerful computer... but at the same time, people is waiting for lower prices to buy it. So it's hard to know what's going to happen. The best bet would probably be for HTC to release a Vive Lite with a little less resolution, and maybe without camera, so they can sell it much cheaper and start gaining some market. That'd also lower the computer power requirements. Once there's market they can start slowly improving the specs.