Who's tried a Rift and didn't like it?

[Dr Roly]

I have a somewhat nonstandard prescription - long sighted with astigmatism.

I was hugely disappointed with the DK2 at first. Pixelation, screen door, unreadable, no sense of 3d, RGB splitting and chromatic aberrations... you name it. Tried it without specs on... slightly better.

However after hours spent fiddling with the calibration, IPD, specs back on, switching A/B lenses on DK2 I finally had something of an epiphany: Everything sharp, colours good, screen door gone (yes gone), everything suddenly had a sense of scale and 3d.

The resolution is still not great but using the DK2 is a real treat.

tl;dr don't be quick to write of the DK2. You may need to spend a lot of time playing with all the settings. Worked for me, anyway.

 

[gregoreuo]

The guy who I bought my rift from allowed me to test his, he had Elite dangerous and a roller coaster demo, I was hugely disappointed! Everything looked blury and the wrong size. I thought screw it, I'm here and the money is in my pocket.

Took mine home, did a lot of research, setup my IPD correctly and followed some guides to setting up the Nvidia control panel. Loaded up ED and then said the F word constantly for the next few hours, the difference was mind blowing, night and day compared to the quick demo I had at his house.

Moral of the story, definitely don't judge it on using someone's else's. I could have easily gone home with my cash and proceeded to tell everything how rubbish it was.

+1 Agree I - CANT - GO - BACK

 

[Arithon]

I have my rift for about a week now, but only used it for maybe 2-3 hours in game so far. I absolutely love the experience, but in combination with my glasses the visual is horrible (massive chromatic abberation - not a while line with coloured edges, but red, green and blue lines with black inbetween them). I suspect/understand this has to do with the material of my glasses and the specific correction they do. When I use my contact lenses (which I shouldn't due to an eye infection, but have done a few times anyway), everything is much better though. Can't wait til i can wear my contacts fulltime again

Switch to the "B" lenses for short sight.

 

[sfajardo]

Mixed feeling, good for very few games. I'm still use my 3 monitors for other games.

 

[CMDR Orson]

I wouldnt say I did not like it per se - its just its limitations did not occur to me until I tried one. Stopping playing a game just take a slurp of a cup of tea and have a smoke or make some notes has put me off. For now.

I actually started vaping due to the hassle of smoking a cig with the Rift.