2016 : A Pivotal Year For AMD, Nvidia, PC Gaming And VR

LambChop said:
I'm unsure myself of how Oculus would or could get round it. My only thought is why have the Vive as a selling point for Valve and SteamVR if other headsets have the same compatibility
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you shouldn't read too much into that, just marketing, the same way they say it's steam controller ready, although it works with any 360 controller.
am no Dev, but i think getting the witcher 3 to work with VR wouldn't be hard, link the mouse movement to the headset, and calibrate the sensitivity, it would take like couple hours to do, throw the patch...break the game with new bugs, take few days to fix the bug, that's how i see it :p
 
that's more than what i expected, 600$ for oculus rift, Vive should be 100 to 200$ more.
well adoption will be slower than expected then :p
 
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Placed my pre-order, bit more than I was hoping for but I have the DK2 and Gear VR and knew I would get this as well. Had to go out for a bitso order not placed till 16:25 so shipping April.
Knowing me will probably get Vive as well ;-)
 
yes, the one issue with GAMING is the gameplay and not the graphics but seeing as how little has been done to improve gameplay (Artificial Intelligence) all of the effort goes into improving the graphics capabilities and hence the experience via realistic immersion.

Personally the graphics have gone as far as they need to, time for better and more realistic gameplay. Afterall making needing more hits to destroy and foe and then having to slay more of em is not a means of better gaming. Its just frustrating
 
Physics is my biggest problem with gaming at the moment, the graphics can be as real as they like but if I fire a rocket and all I get is an explosion and a kill with nothing happening to the environment it leaves me feeling a bit meh.
 
OK the vive for its movement but what about if you just want to enjoy sitting there i guess it won't force you to move around? It's a nice feature but has Greg pointed out nor do I have the room for that.

The camera is a big one for me, just has I pointed out other day before knowing this having to take headset off for a drink of beer or eat etc taken you out the game isn't something I could put up with.

Headphones built in not a problem I much like to use my own philips Fidelio x1 amd sound card.

Am going to sit on my choice way into reviews but so far HTC vive seems to tick more boxes for me.
 
one of the mistakes of oculus is adding a headphone to the headset, ppl tend to have their own headphones, probably better quality, then they wouldn't have needed that remote, that in most cases have to remove the headset to find it, the cbox controller gives negative experience in VR, nobody i know tried it and liked the controller with VR.
they could have also droped the free games, and the price would have been way lower than 500 maybe 400, then let ppl buy the games, the headphone and the controllers seperate, and everyone would have benefited even them.
 
That is a lot of money.

How will that price entice new users who have not tried it and really are not that bothered about it, as its a niche product i supose oculus really hope that people buy them on faith.

If you dont try it first you wont want it/ miss it > is my motto.
 
I can't believe it, but I'm out. I had told myself I would pay whatever, but I can't do it at that price after they announced the kickstarters were getting it for free.

The way I see it, Palmer Lucky et al just told the world that we are all garbage because we didn't kickstart them, and we should pay through the nose for our insult to them.

That's not a subsidised price. That's a rip off (that I could've swallowed if not for the giveaway). I'm glad their site was a failure at 4 o'clock because the drive home has given me a chance to think it through.

Cmon the vive.
 
At that price i won't be jumping any time soon. I was planning to wait any how to see how this whole VR thing shakes out.

At that price i don't see how VR will catch on in any significant number. Hopefully like all things the price will drop as demand lessens and there's always the second hand market.
 
I don't want the headphones or gamepad included. I don't like headphones, i NEED to be able to hear my surroundings, I hate being cut off.

Also the gamepad, I have plenty of my own.

Take them out of the package and that's prob £150 saved.
 
It is pricey but the way it has made my gaming so much more enjoyable, I can justify it. I can understand why people hold off though and I was hoping it would be cheaper for higher adoption rates.
 
Gregster said:
It is pricey but the way it has made my gaming so much more enjoyable, I can justify it. I can understand why people hold off though and I was hoping it would be cheaper for higher adoption rates.
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Yea having tried the DK2 i will definitely get one of the sets at some point. I don't game enough these days to justify spending that much money. If this was circa 2005 i would have pre-ordered no problem as i was hooked on games. My pub was online with mates playing and drinking back then.
 
I've ordered, but if the vive is the same price or less including the motion controllers (or even available without them) then I'll go with that instead

as other people have mentioned, I don't need another set of headphones or an xbox controller
 
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