After 2 days of using the G2 this is my opinion. First it is the most comfortable head set I have ever had om, you could wear it all day with no problems. The fine detail and vibrant colors are truly amazing, the colors really WOW. Handles raytracing really well. The tracking can be lost with the controls over your head or all the way down to your sides but is really fast at picking it back up. Shooting pistols and rifles no problem, Half Life Alex is truly stunning as is Squadrons. As to long term use I cannot speak to that as yet. The blacks are not perfect but for me they were great. If you are real picky about blacks Go to Best Buy when they have them in stock and try one on and see if it suits you. At 599.00 I would gladly spend it again. Keep in mind this is my opinion and everybody is different but I will try to answer questions to the best of my ability.
VR support 'not at launch' for Odyssey
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I refused to buy it until it was fixed... (Actually I refused to buy it till it had VR. Win win for me as I got a massively improved game AND it cost me less than £20
Thanks for this. I'm still using an old Lenovo wmr so I imagine the difference is huge. No cash for a new headset at the moment though!
They are not in great supply yet I pre ordered this one back in June. The next batch to be released is mid Dec.
Just got confirmation that I'll have mine on the 30th.
Only problem is I'm not sure I'll have the hardware to run it (at least, not in full resolution)... Now is not a good time to need to upgrade CPU/GPU... I have everything for the new set-up except those, and it looks like I may be waiting until the new year...It's just one more month hang in there.so jealous right now..us July pre-orders wont be in till later this month I'm told
I am running it on a AMD 3900X 32megs of memory and a RTX 2070 Founders edition and it's beautiful.Just got confirmation that I'll have mine on the 30th.
Thanks.
Can I ask what cpu/gpu you are using? Maybe I can just about drive that headset with my i7 4790x / gtx 1080 but I have my doubts.
Post above yours provides the answer
(pretty modest specs too!)
No snark in my reply - I dread to think how many times I've done the same
I am running it on a AMD 5900X 32megs of memory and a RTX 2070 Founders edition and it's beautiful. with 2TB SSD
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Good to hear. I'm still on a 980Ti (with i7-6770), which already has issues with the Odyssey+ in some areas for E: D (unsurprisingly, given its age and my resolution requirements!). The new rig is waiting for the 5900X and 6800XT (hence I'm not holding out much hope for this year).
Well, there goes my hopes of playing Elite with VR on PS5 (thought it could be actually cheaper than upgrade my PC to get that good quality of VR, would just need it in Elite, and in no other games)....
As soon as I can get my grubby paws on a 5900X CPU I am going to upgrade. I don't know when on earth the new graphics cards are actually going to be available.
I ran a Oculus S on that same system for a while with no issues
Whoever you tell this to, that it'll be flat-screen when on foot, is either completely astounded by the silliness of it, or, doesn't actually register it, and continues to think it won't be the case, because it sounds so implausible.
It's such a mad decision to not have VR designed in from day one, and I expect VR will never be designed for odyssey, as, it would be pretty mental to add in later to a decent degree, if it's not (as it seem) been considered from the outset.
Massive shame.
It's such a mad decision to not have VR designed in from day one, and I expect VR will never be designed for odyssey, as, it would be pretty mental to add in later to a decent degree, if it's not (as it seem) been considered from the outset.
Massive shame.
NMS waves hello
It's not ideal to add VR gameplay in later, but it is do-able. There are a ton of games that have created very robust VR experiences from games never designed for it. NMS stands out because of the comparable feature set (multiplayer, open world, proc gen planets, vehicles + foot etc). But there's a slew of other titles that flipped over neatly enough. Payday 2, Fallout 4, LA Noire, Skyrim, Borderlands etc.
Ultimately, ED was never going to be a 'VR first' title, or explore VR's possibilities the way a VR-only title could. It was only ever going to be more comparable to a 'port' at best in that sense. It would have been better if they'd designed the VR side in parallel to the flatscreen design, for sure. But for what it's worth they do seem to have side eye on what will need to be done:
No promises, just desires. But we'll see how it pans out.
Personally I think there's still a reasonable chance they'll get some form of workable VR experience in there. (And that the inclusion of a partial VR build in the franchise reboot isn't actually a bad sign. It's a better signal of intent than launching with no VR support at all, which was their initial position.)
It'll hinge on lots of factors: EDO selling well, their internal politics smiling upon it, us VR-heads keeping up the calls for it. But I reckon it's still on the cards
If there ever were meant to be a game, made to show how great VR can be, it is Elite Odyssey:
I could not imagine more sweeter VR experiance than different kind of stations and settlements (with different kind of interiors and surface+planets and stars visible on every different station´s windows) to hang around with npc´s (to shoot at the head, if you so wish), looking out of the window what other CMDR ships are doing,
And then add new beautiful Odyssey planets, even Horizon planets were a "WOW" moment on SRV for me with louysy resolution on Oculus DK2 like 5 years ago...
It could be great, for sure. And hopefully some day it’ll have a stab at being so
But the brass tacks are, that it’s a flatscreen game as well. And regardless of our preferences, that is a much bigger market, and it will get the bulk of the attention. VR will always play second fiddle to that.
Wishing it otherwise won’t make it so ¯\(ツ)/¯