Hardware & Technical Rift questions..

[Steve50]

Hi,

I'm toying with the idea of getting (or ordering) an Oculus Rift for xmas. I have several questions to those of you lucky enough to have one.

1: is my hardware good enough to run it? (8gb DDR3, Amd FX6300 3.6ghz six cores, EVGA 770 GTX 2gb)

2: is it REALLY worth buying just for Elite?

3: I sometimes suffer from nausea and dizzyness when games move oddly, would that affect me?

4: I have one lazy eye and 75% of my vision is through my left eye only, could this be a problem?

5: Would it be cheaper/better/whatever to setup 3 monitors instead?

Thanks a lot

 

[saviornt]

1: Yes

2: If you have an extra $350 to spare on a video game. You should know better than us. I'll say this though.. the only thing that could possibly compare would be to build an exact replica of all of the ship cockpits and play E: D like that. Everything else is, well.. subpar in the immersion. But there are issues.

3: I don't know. If you suffer that from a normal monitor, I would think that it would. Does being on a rollercoaster (IRL) affect you?

4: No. What you see IRL is what you see in the Rift (well, almost).

5: Do the math. 3 monitors, $250 each = $750. Add the trackIR for $170: $920. The Rift costs $350.

 

[Space Dandy]

I do not have a OR dk2 but since I plan on buying an OR I have read up quite a bit about it. One thing that comes up often is that some people get dizzy using the dk2 so if your prone to that on a regular monitor you might want to wait for the consumer version to come out as it should have a higher resolution and thus be better when it comes to this problem.

 

[icarium]

Get it

No question about it. Get it.
I can't believe anyone would want to play ED without the oculus.

One draw back. The Oculus is not ready for plug and play. Even with ED, you have to keep fiddling with it every new SDK or update ED does.
So if you don't like futzing around with hardware, then it would be a no go for you.

 

[ButtonDeity]

IT is amazing! the resolution is not as good as monitor, but the other pros are worth it. It is like a dream come true, being inside of cockpit of a spaceship. Sure you get a lil sick... you kinda get used to it tho. one night i really thought i broke my brain i was so dizzy and disoreintated. But by the next day i was in my new reality again with no problems.

 

[saviornt]

It's not the screen's resolution that is the problem. The problem is the pixel density of the screen.

All non-custom screens use evenly spaced pixels. A custom screen could, in theory, use the same amount of pixels, but in the center of each "eye" make the spacing in the sub-nm's, and on the outside edges, make them in the 10's-100's of nm's. You would still have the same "resolution", however, it wouldn't seem like it.

Oh, and nm = nanometers.

 

[Sir.Tj]

If it helps I've got the same processor with 8gb ram and a sapphire 7870oc and it's pretty damn good on the rift, not perfect but still very enjoyable.

 

[Steve50]

Thanks everyone