Rift + Touch $399 for a Limited Time

Darcanis

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Technically in Canada you get free shipping or in store stock at BestBuy as well for $549.99. I need shipping as live in the butt end of nowhere, but I have a Bestbuy in town. In the Oculus store it's $549. For the extra buck it'd be easier to return to the local Bestbuy if I have issues. Plus unless they changed it I had to pay duties which included my HST anyway when it arrived back with the DK1 and DK2. Didn't buy CV1 as dollar dropped like a rock.. :(

Taxes are about $82 for me, but convenience of not having to ship back to USA is kinda worth it if something went wrong as shipping would cost about that much. lol
 
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mp4x

mp4x
They didn't charge me any delivery to Australia, the price on the Oculus site [when you visit from Australia] shows as $449USD not $399 - they've added our GST (tax) - but nothing on delivery.

Worked out to $614AUD. Down here a Rift still sells, second hand, for $700+ and I've been keeping an eye out for a cheaper one so this was happy news :)
 

vanfanel

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Mad Mike said:
this is getting silly now (in a good way)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071L1G57S/?th=1

i dont think uk amazon has such a deal but if it does..........

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for those who can make use.. if you do not see the deal @ $399 keep trying. it seems they are doing something their end as it keeps coming and going

but just to prove i am not making it up

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8wcrtr-7bUcYXNUeUlhbDZCVlk/view?usp=sharing
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Yeah, effectively $300 for a rift+touch is an absolute steal. If you were going to sit around and wait these 6 weeks about deciding on a rift you effectively have less than 24 hours now for the best deal assuming they can keep it in stock. That price is insane for high-end vr!
 

WindWpn

WindWpn
i ordered the vive a few days ago (arriving today), but heck, should I simply order the rift on this 399 deal, and ship the vive back to Amazon without even opening the box? Given Rift comes with headset, controllers, xbox game pad, and sensor compared to vive, decisions decisions....?! Also, I look forward to true VR, though i mostly play sims such as ED, DCS, IL2, and plan to pick up something likely Fallout4VR when released and Arizona Sunshine. I have an nice sized office for room scale VR, but given noted playtype, do you all think I should ship back the Vive and pull trigger on the Rift?? New to VR, never seen it or experienced it, so....?!
 

dogbite

dogbite
WindWpn said:
i ordered the vive a few days ago (arriving today), but heck, should I simply order the rift on this 399 deal, and ship the vive back to Amazon without even opening the box? Given Rift comes with headset, controllers, xbox game pad, and sensor compared to vive, decisions decisions....?! Also, I look forward to true VR, though i mostly play sims such as ED, DCS, IL2, and plan to pick up something likely Fallout4VR when released and Arizona Sunshine. I have an nice sized office for room scale VR, but given noted playtype, do you all think I should ship back the Vive and pull trigger on the Rift?? New to VR, never seen it or experienced it, so....?!
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The amount of room you need depends more on how and what you play. However the Rift area (I use 8x10 2 sensors) seems more than sufficient for almost everything. At least for now. Could also go to 3 or 4 sensors. here's a guide. https://www.roadtovr.com/oculus-tou...ale-dimensions-compared-versus-vs-visualized/
 

vanfanel

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WindWpn said:
i ordered the vive a few days ago (arriving today), but heck, should I simply order the rift on this 399 deal, and ship the vive back to Amazon without even opening the box? Given Rift comes with headset, controllers, xbox game pad, and sensor compared to vive, decisions decisions....?! Also, I look forward to true VR, though i mostly play sims such as ED, DCS, IL2, and plan to pick up something likely Fallout4VR when released and Arizona Sunshine. I have an nice sized office for room scale VR, but given noted playtype, do you all think I should ship back the Vive and pull trigger on the Rift?? New to VR, never seen it or experienced it, so....?!
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If sims are your thing then the rift is the better option as the screen clarity on the rift will be better for those games and at half the price! That's not to say the rift can't do roomscale games as well because it can. Pick up another sensor if you want better roomscale coverage.
 

CmdrKafka

CmdrKafka
TorTorden said:
They work in the way you can map to the buttons and stick, no motion support of any kind.
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So for example you can't map the roll axis or anything to twisting your hand? Pity... my x.45 is starting to develop issues and was thinking this might be a viable replacement
 

Cmdr Bracher

Cmdr Bracher
Just ordered mine. Once it arrives, where's the best place to get info on setting it up and getting it going with elite. As there's way too much info here in the forums and most of it looks pretty old. Any help?
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
setting up you are walked through it it is nice and simple

only thing to be prepared for is, if you already use the hdmi out on your graphics card, for example to a TV, you will need a dvi - hdmi adapter (or a div - hdmi cable if you want to run your tv off dvi)

once you have got through the set up process - which the software forces you to do! - make sure it all works using an oculus title that you get free.

once that all works, load up elite and in the display settings, under "3D" iirc select oculus rift with headphones sound.

depending on your pc you can select your detail settings... for me with a gtx 980 and an i7 i just choose VR high (VR ultra pushes my machine far too much)... but if you are in any doubt at all just pick VR low whilst you find your feet - you do not want to be getting used to VR whilst having a less than ideal vr solution

for starters i would stay off planet surfaces once you find your feet. at the very least select comfort mode settings for the srv if you really must try it out.

imo dont start faffing with super sampling etc untill you are happy with your setup and know what you are doing.
 

Jakester13

Jakester13
Mine arrives Thursday. I am "quite" excited.

I know I'm on the lower end with 2 x 970 gpus on an i7-2600K cpu: Does anyone know offhand if I can use SLI or both cards to improve the standard single 970 experience?

I've been reading the VR threads, and simply dreaming... cannot believe it'll be real soon!

(And not even soon(TM))

o7
:O
 

Cmdr Andrew Johnson

Cmdr Andrew Johnson
Perfect timing this offer - new pc with i7-7000 and gtx 1080 fitted. Have just ordered the Rift at this great price. Only question is should I run ED at VR High or VR Ultra?

just heard from amazon - should be here Saturday!
 
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TorTorden_VR

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AndrewJohnson said:
Perfect timing this offer - new pc with i7-7000 and gtx 1080 fitted. Have just ordered the Rift at this great price. Only question is should I run ED at VR High or VR Ultra?

just heard from amazon - should be here Saturday!
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Vr ultra is pretty much just the same as high, but with amped up SS and HMD Q settings.
From what I remember SS at 1.25 and HMD q to 1.5.
This is a double whammy of supersampling, not even the 1080ti can handle this but if you drop the ss and HMD q you can up the, rest like shadows at ultra.

I recommend instead just playing around, I personally prefer higher shadows and surface detail to supersampling what others prefer is often different.
 

Orvidius

Orvidius
Jakester13 said:
I know I'm on the lower end with 2 x 970 gpus on an i7-2600K cpu: Does anyone know offhand if I can use SLI or both cards to improve the standard single 970 experience?
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I haven't tried SLI with it, but I think it will help. I ran mine for a while with a single 970, and it worked pretty well. Since the HMD functions almost like an additional monitor, I would think that it would benefit from SLI, just like any other display, since the bottleneck is really in the GPUs.
 

Jakester13

Jakester13
Mine arrived. Looks gorgeous.

But awaiting a USB 3 card which gets here tomorrow.

So all I can do is admire the admittedly impressive packaging, and feel guilty I've given money to both Amazon AND Facebook, even though I normally buy from Scan, but when I first checked their offer wasn't obvious so I missed it. :-(

SO ' EXCITED!!! :D

o7
 

TorTorden_VR

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ZenBones said:
I haven't tried SLI with it, but I think it will help. I ran mine for a while with a single 970, and it worked pretty well. Since the HMD functions almost like an additional monitor, I would think that it would benefit from SLI, just like any other display, since the bottleneck is really in the GPUs.
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Elite does not support vr and SLI at all, in order to implement that api from last year they would have had to pretty much rewrite the 3d engine, and this isn't about to happen anytime soon.

At best you might be able to use the second card as a dedicated physx unit.
Used to be having SLI enabled gave huge detrimental performance but from what I gather Elite now just deactivates SLI softly when starting vr.
 

Orvidius

Orvidius
TorTorden said:
Elite does not support vr and SLI at all, in order to implement that api from last year they would have had to pretty much rewrite the 3d engine, and this isn't about to happen anytime soon.

At best you might be able to use the second card as a dedicated physx unit.
Used to be having SLI enabled gave huge detrimental performance but from what I gather Elite now just deactivates SLI softly when starting vr.
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Oh wow, did not know that. Too bad.
 
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