48hrs till cv1 pre orders start

callezetter

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Vive is confimed april or my guess close to early summer. For them its better to do it right from the start now, and a month or 2 here and there wont make any difference.

But finally we get consumer VR in form of CV1 starting in 48h. I would guess the price lands on 399 or 449USD. In any case Oculus have stated the there wont be many weeks between preorder and deliveries this time. So my guess there is first week/middle of february for delivery start.
 
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xyphic

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Seems that Oculus/Facebook have gotten the jump on HTC here. Without knowing what the marvellous discovery is that held back the Vive, and without knowing the target pricing, a lot of early adopters will jump on the Oculus pre-order. Hopefully we'll get a mad scramble over the next couple of days where both companies release more information.

For me, the decision whether I go for the Oculus will be its release-day pricing. If it's at or below the £300 mark, I'll be sorely tempted. But above that it goes from something I might buy on a whim even though it doesn't get much use to something that would be a more considered purchase. The pre-order carrot of EVE: Valkyrie doesn't do much for me, so the real carrot is going to be the price, especially if the Vive is to be expensive as has been rumoured.
 

Mazhurg

Mazhurg
xyphic said:
For me, the decision whether I go for the Oculus will be its release-day pricing. If it's at or below the £300 mark, I'll be sorely tempted. But above that it goes from something I might buy on a whim even though it doesn't get much use to something that would be a more considered purchase. The pre-order carrot of EVE: Valkyrie doesn't do much for me, so the real carrot is going to be the price, especially if the Vive is to be expensive as has been rumoured.
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They are playing one-upmanship. In the end, as I stated in the closed thread the price difference is probably going to be less than many think. I'd guess about US50$ at most.
 

CMDR Rison

CMDR Rison
My plan: Since Oculus will announce the release (ship) date of the Rift on Wednesday, and Vive is announcing their very, very big breakthrough, I will then make the decision if the difference in release dates are enough to overcome any big advantage the Vive may or may not have. The only thing that might not be revealed at all at the CES is the Vive price.

Second thought: I think the difference between the 2 will be a little bigger than $US50. The main reason I think so is the controllers. My thought is that the motion controllers of both are going to be at least $100 for a set. This means that the Oculus which comes without and the Vive that comes with will have at least that difference. Also, the advantage that the Vive may or not have due to the very, very big breakthrough may affect it too.
 

Lestenio

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CMDR Rison said:
My plan: Since Oculus will announce the release (ship) date of the Rift on Wednesday, and Vive is announcing their very, very big breakthrough, I will then make the decision if the difference in release dates are enough to overcome any big advantage the Vive may or may not have. The only thing that might not be revealed at all at the CES is the Vive price.
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Are Steam announcing on Wednesday?

Hopefully the announcement isn't going to be a dead duck like some controller breakthrough
 

Caspar

Caspar
CMDR Rison said:
My plan: Since Oculus will announce the release (ship) date of the Rift on Wednesday, and Vive is announcing their very, very big breakthrough, I will then make the decision if the difference in release dates are enough to overcome any big advantage the Vive may or may not have. The only thing that might not be revealed at all at the CES is the Vive price.

Second thought: I think the difference between the 2 will be a little bigger than $US50. The main reason I think so is the controllers. My thought is that the motion controllers of both are going to be at least $100 for a set. This means that the Oculus which comes without and the Vive that comes with will have at least that difference. Also, the advantage that the Vive may or not have due to the very, very big breakthrough may affect it too.
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I agree with your wait and see approach. I'm too curious to know what HTC have up their sleeve with Vive to go ahead and order the CV1 now. Besides, I'm also waiting to hear the word from FD about support.

I wonder what the HTC controllers cost to make? They don't need to make margin on everything and the pressure will be on to gain market share.
 

Kayin

Kayin
In case you all didn't know, Valkyrie comes free with preorder of Rift... so I really hope it'll work with E:D too.
 

agentmoo

agentmoo
shadragon said:
I'll wait for the Vive. April isn't far away and if it avoids giving money to Zuckerberg, so much the better.
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From Reddit: "Except that the founder of oculus, Palmer, regularily responds to /r/oculus and seems genuinely enthusiastic about making VR happen and HTC has a reputation of producing less than perfect hardware.No one says no to a billion dollars and the opportunity to achieve your dreams. Oculus are not sellouts and they have Carmack in their corner."

I agree with this Reddit poster's view.
 

h347h

h347h
I am currently happy with my DK2 still. I'll hold out till the new generation of NVIDA cards come out and see where those fall first and then scoop up what ever VR set seems like the better buy.
 
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