Totally.. Both have stong points.. God what a nightmare!
(get the vive) (HEAVY HEART SINCE I LOVED TH DK2)
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So... do I jump for a Vive or wait for a Rift (in the UK)
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Totally.. Both have stong points.. God what a nightmare!
(get the vive) (HEAVY HEART SINCE I LOVED TH DK2)
Sure, I wouldn't disagree, the only things missing are some compelling experiences with more depth than a puddle in the desert to go along side those amazing, revolutionary full motion controls. All we have are mere tech demos with forced teleportation locomotion.... HLVR is still hands down my favored VR experience, it used full motion control and used them very well, on the DK1 and DK2. I'm yet to see any content which is anywhere near as compelling for the Vive....
You needed to experience HLVR to appreciate how amazing and revolutionary it really was.
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Cheers guys...
I decided to go with the Vive because, hopefully, they should be in stock in UK shops by the end of the month. Who knows when the Rift will be generally available let alone via a UK stockist.
Saying that, I take on board the current situation with the 'better' visuals in ED on the Rift. The way I see it is that this *should* purely be down to software. After all, the OLED panels in both are of the same resolution, type and should generate the same visuals. The lenses are slightly different but they shouldn't make much difference, only affecting 'after' effects like reducing SDE at the expense of slight blurring, light effects etc.
Performance wise, both should have the exact same resource draw as each other, since they are pushing the same pixels at the same fps. Everything else is software.
Oculus has had their SDE around longer and is benefiting from it, in ED at least, together with the current implementation.
I can see no logical reason why the Vive shouldn't be able to catch up with and equal the visuals of the Rift in ED. Other games don't have the same disparity between the two headset so it's purely a software thing. Same thing with the driver level SS in the Rift debug tool - there is no reason why the Vive shouldn't be able to offer and benefit the same functionality.
As said, the main reason for choosing the Vive is availability and I'll undoubtedly give room scale a go.
Neither is better/inferior given their specifications - there should be no reason that they don't give pretty much identical visuals and performance levels and I'm sure they will as both SDEs develop and mature.
Consumer VR has finally arrived - god knows I've been waiting long enough - good times for both sides...
...and both sides can look forward to being outdated in a year or two anyway...!
I decided to go with the Vive because, hopefully, they should be in stock in UK shops by the end of the month. Who knows when the Rift will be generally available let alone via a UK stockist.
Saying that, I take on board the current situation with the 'better' visuals in ED on the Rift. The way I see it is that this *should* purely be down to software. After all, the OLED panels in both are of the same resolution, type and should generate the same visuals. The lenses are slightly different but they shouldn't make much difference, only affecting 'after' effects like reducing SDE at the expense of slight blurring, light effects etc.
Performance wise, both should have the exact same resource draw as each other, since they are pushing the same pixels at the same fps. Everything else is software.
Oculus has had their SDE around longer and is benefiting from it, in ED at least, together with the current implementation.
I can see no logical reason why the Vive shouldn't be able to catch up with and equal the visuals of the Rift in ED. Other games don't have the same disparity between the two headset so it's purely a software thing. Same thing with the driver level SS in the Rift debug tool - there is no reason why the Vive shouldn't be able to offer and benefit the same functionality.
As said, the main reason for choosing the Vive is availability and I'll undoubtedly give room scale a go.
Neither is better/inferior given their specifications - there should be no reason that they don't give pretty much identical visuals and performance levels and I'm sure they will as both SDEs develop and mature.
Consumer VR has finally arrived - god knows I've been waiting long enough - good times for both sides...
...and both sides can look forward to being outdated in a year or two anyway...!
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I've over 1000hrs logged with my DK2 rift in ED and its ALL been a standing-up experience (sometimes 8+ hr sessions). I also walk around my cockpit. I plan to do the same when my CV1 arrives. ED does not have to be a seated experience imho
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Exactly.
Consumer VR has finally arrived - god knows I've been waiting long enough - good times for both sides...
...and both sides can look forward to being outdated in a year or two anyway...!
I'd been waiting twenty+ years. And I wasn't willing to wait another six months.