So I might be looking at another $135 plus whatever the freight company wants? Greedy s!
Probably still cheaper than whatever Harvey Norman would charge if they stock them in the future.
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So I might be looking at another $135 plus whatever the freight company wants? Greedy s!
Probably still cheaper than whatever Harvey Norman would charge if they stock them in the future.
Well stated. There are more commonalities than differences in all VR tech. It's going to be a brave new world.Ultimately, VR should be affordable, ubiquitous, and amazing, and is best served if we don't turn into Oculus vs Vive camps - it really is pointless. Different strokes for different folks - as long as we're all pulling together in the same general direction, hopefully VR will become more mainstream which can only be a "Good Thing" tm
My receipt was emailed to me at 10:05am EST so I got in pretty darn early.
I was going to buy both the Rift and the Vive but the sticker shock made me choose one and I like Valve more than Facebook. One is a game company and the other is not however, I hope Oculus does well also. Competition is a good thing and should keep innovation high and prices low.
I also think if someone wants a "cheaper" solution, the DK2 is still absolutely amazing imo. I kinda wish Oculus would release a $300 version based on the DK2 for people that can't afford the commercial versions but I guess they can just pick up a used DK2.
I was going to buy both the Rift and the Vive but the sticker shock made me choose one and I like Valve more than Facebook. One is a game company and the other is not however, I hope Oculus does well also. Competition is a good thing and should keep innovation high and prices low.
I also think if someone wants a "cheaper" solution, the DK2 is still absolutely amazing imo. I kinda wish Oculus would release a $300 version based on the DK2 for people that can't afford the commercial versions but I guess they can just pick up a used DK2.
Well it does come with the motion controllers. We don't know how much the Oculus Touch controllers will be.
And for those of us not in USA and have to pay high shipping costs, bear in mind with the HTC you only had to pay high shipping costs once and you got everything.
With oculus there will be a second slug for shipping the controllers later. It totally depends on the price of the oculus controllers but I do think that in the end, they are very closely priced.
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And we will look back at the "crap, we paid so much for" and giggle.
I used to look at the 21" CRT monitor I bought that cost me more than a vive and and my desk developed a dip in the centre due to the weight.
Now I game on a 65" 6k tv on the wall hehe.
Ooh that brings up another problem, when I have friends over to try vr, I better make some sort of Impact shield for my big screen. Its like the Wii days again.
I'll be waiting for these to show up in local brick stores. Will be saving shipping and customs that way (I hope).
We need a 'which one do i cancel thread' for people like me
Cant afford both, like the sound of comfort CV1 but like the sound of Vive working out of the box with ED.
Choices - still got a month+ to decide which one gets canned.
Cant afford both, like the sound of comfort CV1 but like the sound of Vive working out of the box with ED.
Choices - still got a month+ to decide which one gets canned.
That's a definite. I still have the flattened box from the TV. I will use that to make a protector for it. If there is something an observer needs to see while the other person is in the rift, they can watch it on the crappy 1080p 55 inch second monitor in the corner
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We need a 'which one do i cancel thread' for people like me
Cant afford both, like the sound of comfort CV1 but like the sound of Vive working out of the box with ED.
Choices - still got a month+ to decide which one gets canned.
On this didnt Vive just announce that SteamVR will be going direct to device? Isnt that what broke the interface to ED for the oculus?
Already done.....works fine. What "broke" the rift is lack of SDK 1.0 and/or whatever deal FD is holding out for....
Not true at all. It's true that E: D is able to run in direct mode in a fashion via SteamVR, but E: D is not natively working in direct mode, hence the performance cost of using SteamVR over Oculus Runtime 0.5 & extended mode.
ED is not working natively in anything unless you use old SDK's but, the point is that SteamVR's recent switch to direct mode DID NOT "break" ED in SteamVR at all. It still works in SteamVR as good or better than it did before they went direct.
So, no SteamVR's direct mode won't break ED, it's working just fine at the moment. As the quoted and responded post was wondering "On this didnt Vive just announce that SteamVR will be going direct to device? Isnt that what broke the interface to ED for the oculus?" The answer is no, its already implemented and it works.
ED works well in the current SteamVR mode and it did not break anything, like the developers claimed Oculus SDK .8 did. So, don't know what you're on about. Install SDK .8, install ED in Steam and play in SteamVR mode, what "fashion" are you talking about? Sure, this may not be the commercial release version, or it may be, who knows but, again, to answer the poster's question see red text above and relax.
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