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

Howling said:
Might have paid it without the prior lies, but it'd just leave a bitter aftertaste if I paid that now.
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I feel exactly the same. I can afford a family's worth of these headsets but I can't help but feel they have lied to us.

I'm interested to see what they say in response to the hazing they're gonna get in the live chat tonight
 
What was the timeframe between the DK1, DK2 and CV1. Is this going to be a yearly thing, here is the new CV2 just another £500, the CV3 for only £499 and so on. It could be COD/Fifa/F1 (insert year here) all over again.
 
this reminds me of E3 2013, the launch of the new gen consoles, microsoft screwed up so much that PS4 became more and more the evident choice.
i think the same will happen here, with Vive and oculus, i strongly think Vive will be way cheaper, because when you look at the mats used on both headsets, Vive is the practical one, quality materials used for the vital part, and saved money on the rest, focused on features for better gaming experience, and i get why because Valve wins on all sides, they can even sell it at a loss and still get out winning, because it benefits their Steam platform, get laverage to push a New API, help spread SteamOS, and they still get a cut from software sales, and tighten their grip on PC gaming even more.
oculus, went all in with super expensive material, for ergonomy and comfort, going more like home cinema accessory, or social media novelty, focused on entertainement experience, they have very little to win following gaming, and bigger profit from other applications.
will be interesting to see which one will pay off more, and i would bet that Valve will announce their price couple weeks before the shipping starts for oculus, and the price will be lower and under 500.
 
90hz

apparently the "day one" stock ran out in 14 minutes, people are now being told April or even May for delivery

I'm going to keep my pre-order on now regardless and keep an eye on what resale prices are doing, even if I also end up ordering a Vive to keep
 
Gregster said:
Elite Dangerous is amazing on the DK2 and Alien Isolation is creepy as ****. PCars works incredibly well, as does all the HL games and Portal/2.
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Elite Dangerous: currently does not support CV1! (guy on ed forums with CV1 confirmed)
Alien Isolation: bad nausea, schewed viewpoint, font not optimised for VR
Project Cars: not sure about this as I haven't played it
Half-life 2: : looks great but monster levels of nausea due to frantic pacing and control input but perhaps was just me.


Soo currently hrmmm nothing AAA Vr optimised. Eve Valkyrie is the only game that interests me but 1 game to keep the VR industry afloat?

All hopes rest with the VIVE for me.....
 
I am sure they will have ED working by the time I get mine (or they bloody well better had or else) and Only played Alien for a few mins but stopped it purely because I was a big girl scared.

I also accept there will be some teething issues with the CV1 but my experiences with the DK2 have me sold. I hope for a lot of people's sake the Vive will be cheaper but I am not holding out much hope.
 
Alien has the potential to be excellent truly astounding......they have an official deal with the VIVE
Elite Dangerous also have a deal with the VIVE

I don't doubt that yes the CV1 will get working with the Oculus but my spidey senses on the whole FD and Oculus/Facebook relationship doesn't feel good.

I have got a fair bit of space to move around in my Living room so if the VIVE is quite near the Oculus in price then I'm sold on getting that.


I do appreciate my dk2 a whole lot more tho :D

I really hope that come CV1 launch....FD will still support the dk2 and older runtimes.
 
If the Vive looks the better prospect, I have no issues getting one of those either but I would rather have one that does all so to speak and don't fancy one for one game and another for another game.

I am also massively limited in space and only a small box room for my man cave :(
 
It is 90fps in each eye right? I wonder how it works for movies i know the software is out there (google it) for blurays in 3D on one, But i think 90hz is just a tad too low for me for extended periods which makes gaming on it a gimmick.

Singleplayer games and horror like Alien will rock. But they need to nail that fps and sickness.
 
AlamoX said:
both have 2160x1200 @120hz
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I see the common misconception that these things have 2160x1200 res but they most certainly do not. They have 1080x1200 per eye and that is not the same as simply doubling up the res as the images displayed are only marginally different.

I already read some reports of people who have tested them saying the low res, SDE, colour bleed, chromatic aberration etc are still major problems. Not as bad as DK2 versions but still not a big enough improvement for the price they are asking IMHO.

IMHO I can see this being another 3D TV pooh with lots of early adopters paying extortionate prices for what they perceive hope to be the next big thing. A few years later it becomes a forgotten tech because the vast majority of people just are not interested in sitting in their living room or bedroom with a big plastic thing sitting on their heads making them look like morons.

While I have only tried DK1 I found it an horrendous experience overall. Not because I get motion or car sickness or because it makes me look like a moron when I wear it but because the low res poor quality images were severely detrimental to the overall experience.

I haven't seen anything that says the consumer version has sufficiently addressed those image quality issues.
 
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Weren't NV doing some Trump-esque bragging that they had a better headset in the works that solved motion sickness and all these ails?

Apparently there is a pretty clear upgrade path for the tech to take as the years roll on, if they keep upping the rez/hz and tweaking the IQ and dropping the price adoption + support will snowball. But fact is most people can't afford £500. They can afford iPhones though somehow...
 
Orangey said:
Weren't NV doing some Trump-esque bragging that they had a better headset in the works that solved motion sickness and all these ails?

Apparently there is a pretty clear upgrade path for the tech to take as the years roll on, if they keep upping the rez/hz and tweaking the IQ and dropping the price adoption + support will snowball. But fact is most people can't afford £500. They can afford iPhones though somehow...
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No, there was a rumour that Nvidia were working on a headset from wccftech or some other site but that never appeared and as for people affording iphones, seriously? A bit silly that.
 
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