Anyone in Glasgow have a vive/rift I can try?

If you never tried VR headset before, I wished M&D theme park in motherwell have some VR arcade games people can try out put on VR headset to see if VR suit them without bad side effects. The easy way for everybody to try out VR is buy mobile VR headset or VR cardboard.

I went to East Kilbride shopping centre 2 weeks ago, had browsed around in CEX store and I was very surprised to see Oculus Rift in store. Someone in East Kilbride pre-ordered Oculus Rift had it delivered and they tried VR experience first time but realised VR is not suitable to them after suffered motion sickness everytime they used Oculus Rift headset.

I checked CEX site that East Kilbride store still have 1 in stock. What a huge shame they sold Oculus Rift in store for £575, probably around £300 loss after pre-ordered it.

It possible if you go in CEX store in East Kilbride to ask staff to demo Oculus Rift for you to try out in store see if VR is suitable to you without motion sickness. If you experienced no side effects then you like it and could buy it. £800 is a hell a lot of money for a Oculus Rift headset with all stuffs, I recommended you to stick with mobile VR headset which can cost as little as £30 that can play Oculus Rift and Vive PC VR games through software like VRidge and Trinus VR which worked incredible for me. :)

Absolutely no reasons to get either grossly overpriced Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets, I read many horrible stories from customers who had ordered either headsets then it broke after just a month ranted about Oculus and HTC customer service non existent, just impossible to receive RMA number. It not worth to pay very expensive shipping cost to return headsets to abroad when Oculus and HTC has no RMA bases in UK!
 
andybird123 said:
Eh? Where is selling oculus rifts fir £800?
They're 500 from Oculus

They also dont charge you return postage for RMA's, they send you a prepaid label
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Yes £800 for CV1 headset with with Remote, Dongle, Pad, &
Sensor. You can check price on CEX site. I see lots of used CV1 headsets for £800 on ebay. I am not sure how much shipping cost to UK when order it from Oculus. Many customers was frustrated they never received prepaid label after checked emails.
 
Yes they are very slow at sending out RMA shipping labels, but they are free, so its incorrect to say its expensive to RMA because of shipping.

Buying on ebay or a second hand store you get no warranty support, so absolutely dont buy one from anywhere other than direct from oculus
 
Any luck try out Oculus Rift at CEX in East Kilbride?

If staff don't allowed demo then you could try Gumtree? I found 2 used Oculus Rift CV1 in Scotland, 1 in Glasgow and 1 in Edinburgh, you could email or called sellers on mobile to see if they can offer you a demo to try Oculus Rift. :)
 
andybird123 said:
Yes they are very slow at sending out RMA shipping labels, but they are free, so its incorrect to say its expensive to RMA because of shipping.

Buying on ebay or a second hand store you get no warranty support, so absolutely dont buy one from anywhere other than direct from oculus
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Hmmm interesting, yes you are correct after read Oculus warranty policy that they don't offer warranty support on used headsets sold as second hands on unauthorised auctions sites like ebay, gumtree and unauthorised retailers like CEX etc so they only offer warranty when buy direct from Oculus website and authorised retailers.

My eyes fell off after saw ebay listing of sold used Oculus Rift CV1 over the last 2 months, buyer bought one for £1500 with no warranty support. :eek:

https://static.oculus.com/documents/Rift_Warranty_English.pdf

So HTC warranty mentioned nothing about sell as second hand, also mentioned nothing about dead pixels.

http://dl4.htc.com/Web_materials/Manual/Warranty/Vive/Warranties_UK.pdf

Found this on reddit, someone emailed HTC about RMA HTC Vive with dead pixels.

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I felt very sorry for poor customer screwed by HTC. If you buy either Oculus Rift or HTC Vive and played with it for few months then discovered few dead pixels then you are so screwed with no warranty support.

I realised it really not worth bother with either Oculus and HTC headsets with huge risks when things gone wrong, I will stick with my mobile phone and Homido headset just on safe side and wait to see what OSVR will offer for DIY VR headset I could build myself much cheaper.
 
Whilst that is a true response from HTC CS, it isn't actually their MO.

I have 3 bright and 3 semi bright scattered around my vive. They RMAd instantly and had a new one in less than 7 days.

New one much better. No dead or stuck, but a few darker blobs..nothing to RMA over though.
 
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