Oculus Rift - Who has one on order?

[Turranius]

Any wife or partner that comes home to find their other half in a closet, naked (you did say you were naked didn't you Turranius?) wearing only a VR headset is going to ask some serious relationship questions.

 

Yes, of course I was naked =)

 

I came out of the closet though. Eh wait.

[Styphelus]

I won't be ordering this. I'm not one to jump the gun whenever something new comes out. I would rather wait to see if this is going anywhere and see what improvement they can make in future versions. 

 

I would rather save that money and put it towards my mortgage.

[ninja2bceen]

Whoa how much are those things?

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[ninja2bceen]

Wow just scrolled up for the price

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[Tribe Fan]

I want to get a VR headset so I can sit alone in a movie theater and play HyperSpin.

 

Seriously, VR is going to be a game changer. I'm going to wait for the technology to mature a little and see which one emerges as the best of the bunch before taking the plunge.

[Yeuxkes]

I really doubt it will be a game changer, it will be more of a novelty than anything else. VR has been around since the late nineties. If it really was a game changer you would think that after +20 years the tech would be more present in everyday life. The only real life applications where it can see a benefit instead of a 2D screen would be race & flight sims. The price tag of $600 (excluding shipping) is also a real shame which will further delay the tech, and the ridiculous system requirements doesn't help either. I don't know of many current gaming rigs who can output 1080p @ 90FPS or more.

 

Augmented reality however like the hololens from Microsoft will be the next thing. You wouldn't need a bulky headset to enjoy that experience.

 

VR is a cool tech but I doubt it will make a BIG impact on the gaming scene. It will be something along the lines of the PS2 Eyetoy of Microsoft Kinect. Pretty cool on paper but hardly any benefit for games.

[Styphelus]

" I don't know of many current gaming rigs who can output 1080p @ 90FPS or more."

 

Errr....mine can...in Ultra Settings!

 

VR will go the way of 3D TVs.

[Yeuxkes]

What I meant by that is that you at least need a $300 or even more expensive graphics card to achieve such frame rates. That's about 1% of the current pc market. It's not mainstream by any means even for us enthusiast gamers.

 

Most people I know game on their $600-800 laptops. Those things throttle down once they get a little hot, let alone the fact that they can achieve a constant 60FPS @1080p. And you really need 90FPS or more for VR or you risk the fact that you'll start vomiting cause you get motion sickness due to the lack of smoothness of the images projected in front of your eyes.

[Metalzoic]

I really doubt it will be a game changer, it will be more of a novelty than anything else. VR has been around since the late nineties. If it really was a game changer you would think that after +20 years the tech would be more present in everyday life. The only real life applications where it can see a benefit instead of a 2D screen would be race & flight sims. The price tag of $600 (excluding shipping) is also a real shame which will further delay the tech, and the ridiculous system requirements doesn't help either. I don't know of many current gaming rigs who can output 1080p @ 90FPS or more.

 

Augmented reality however like the hololens from Microsoft will be the next thing. You wouldn't need a bulky headset to enjoy that experience.

 

VR is a cool tech but I doubt it will make a BIG impact on the gaming scene. It will be something along the lines of the PS2 Eyetoy of Microsoft Kinect. Pretty cool on paper but hardly any benefit for games.

I mostly agree with you. I think VR will do good enough to have some great games and stick around, but it's the improvements in Augmented Reality that are going to make the impact.

AR has the potential to change our world like PCs and Smartphones have, or like drones and 3D printing are now.

[dark13]

Good idea, bad technology...

 

[Tribe Fan]

Good idea, bad technology...

 

 

LOL! Dude's awesome. What're you talking about?

[dark13]

Google-law: you can't sell something making people look like idiots

By a more technical point of views those things need to be smaller, lighter and cheaper...

[Metalzoic]

After watching some more Occulus vs. Vive reviews and vids from people that have tried both I have to say I'm pretty interested in the Vive. However after watching actual upcoming game trailers I think I might be sold on the PS4 setup the most... we'll see. I will probably grab one of them, but not both.

Plus I also preordered my Galaxy S7 Edge and so long as you pre-order before it's released they give you the GearVR headset free too. Pretty simple, but is also well reviewed for what it is. Should have it in a few weeks.

[Monyet]

Me too, except the standard S7, not the edge, should get it tomorrow hopefully, with the GearVR to tide me over till the rift arrives in April.

 

I'm going to evangelise the hell out of everyone I know. I saw someone post a scene the other day on the oculus reddit from 40 Year old Virgin where he refers to a womans' breasts as bags of sand because he hasn't felt them. This is similar to everyone that is saying VR is a fad.... until they try it.

[Metalzoic]

Me too, except the standard S7, not the edge, should get it tomorrow hopefully, with the GearVR to tide me over till the rift arrives in April.

 

I'm going to evangelise the hell out of everyone I know. I saw someone post a scene the other day on the oculus reddit from 40 Year old Virgin where he refers to a womans' breasts as bags of sand because he hasn't felt them. This is similar to everyone that is saying VR is a fad.... until they try it.

Mine was delivered today at lunch time and just spent the last few hours messing with the phone and playing with the gear VR.

So far, other than how cool it looks, not digging the phone so much, but I figure it will grow on me.

The VR is pretty damn cool though. Not as sharp or clear as I thought it would be, but still very cool.

[Monyet]

aw man, the phone just arrived, No GearVR yet though! My carrier said it would arrive next week. Lame...

[Metalzoic]

Getting more used to the phone and slowly getting it dialed in with apps, settings etc...

Me, my wife and daughter just blew a couple hours taking turns in VR. Spent an hour in the Star Map where you can fly between planets, view constellations etc... very cool and if you like astronomy worth the $5.

The VR movie theater is also badass. a lot of the standard just 360 video is really poor res quality though. Still very cool. Haven't played to many games yet.

[Monyet]

Hey Metalzoic, you get your rift yet? As much as I still want it, it's now very bittersweet. This launch has been atrocious, I preordered exactly 6 min and 17 secs after the page went live and now over two weeks later from the launch date I still haven't been charged for the damn thing. At least they took off shipping to try and make amends, as it was not an insignificant amount over here in Oz, $132 USD! But now my patience is wearing thin again, I just want it already and I'm so looking forward to playing Project Cars.

[Metalzoic]

No. I think I've decided on grabbing the PS4 VR later this year and keep it to that.

[Aorin]

It's an interesting topic, I remember lots of different ways they put to make gamers feel more inside the games than just pressing buttons to control what's going on in the monitor. There's vibration in controls, wheels for racing games, guns, dancing pads, guitars, 3D TVs for movies and games, Kinect, Wii motion controls and so on, and next VR. I think that among these, I can bear the vibration for some games, surely the wheels and other specific controls, but I rarely would find these as vital for playing any game.

I'm certain the most of these features interest few people in the end, I'm not saying I'm not curious of what's next, I am, but in the end, Dark13 is right, there's a great probability that people will feel weird, no to say other words, be that dancing in a dancing pad, or holding two suggestive joysticks with a white ball and wearing a kind of clumsy glass, in the end, handing a gamepad alone will be the more stable version of the VR glasses, I mean, for me, but I will test it when I have the chance and I do hope I'm totally wrong.

[THK]

I already have a pc that's up for it (4770K, 32GB DDR, 2x R9 290), but I don't have them money. Also the problem with being an early adopter is that you get the version where the most bugs need to be worked out. Like weight, tech, resolution, price, game library, compatibility & other little annoyances.

 

Would also be nice if their tracking of anything could be disabled, software that only starts when you connect the headset, wall mounted laser receivers wouldn't make noise, the receivers had an on/off switch or remote, resolution would be a tad bit higher, text would be less blurry, no bloody timed exclusives, etc.

 

I'd prefer the Vive as it has more capabilities and even though it's marketed more as the room experience, you can use is as a sit-down VR like the Rift as well, which I would be doing most of the time anyway.

 

Dunno about PS VR, that only becomes interesting if you can use it on the pc and not a crappy console (upgraded to rumored PS 4.5 or not)

[Monyet]

Got my rift, Can't get the effing XBONE controller to work wirelessly, Goddamn it MS you can't even make a controller that works flawlessly with your own OS?? To be fair though, it's kinda my fault. I went manually searching and accidentally installed the wrong driver and for some reason even if you tell the system to uninstall and delete the driver, it doesn't actually delete it and then when you reinstall it picks up the same one again. So I shall upgrade to Windows 10 tonight.

 

So far, all I can play is the demos and Luckys Tale which are fine but the jerkoffs at Oculus haven't given me my redemption code for EVE Valkyrie, sent 4 support tickets in now and they haven't got back to me with anything more than "we're looking in to it". They really are pricks, I absolutely will not buy from them again. As far as using the damn thing, yeah it's cool, the tracking is so good you can really tell the difference between it and the GearVR. I'm going to get Project Cars tonight and see how that goes, right now it's a novelty, I want to play it with some meaty games. I had a smoke and tried it last night, made it way cooler, but then it makes most things way cooler anyway. I'll let you know how it goes. 

[relic]

for who ever does have one this would be a brilliant feature to try for it https://www.facebook.com/telegraphsciencetech/videos/1207265222619082/ using paintshop pro in virtual reality mode

[Monyet]

I've updated to Windows 10 and everything's running peachy now. Eve Valkyrie is pretty amazing and the demos and Luckys Tale are quite fun and a good introduction to the medium. What I am actually really loving the most is Dolphin VR, Mario Kart Double Dash and F-Zero on the Gamecube blew me away. F-Zero is super fast, Mario has some pretty crazy whipping camera moves before and after a race and looking at that for too long made me feel a bit sick but actually racing was super sweet, being able to look around at everything. Project Cars also kicks some serious arse.

[THK]

I got no Moneyt to buy one