Complete VR newbie - Which one for PC gaming ?

[Medic-one]

I would like VR set to play games on my new PC but I've got no idea on which one to go for.

My only experience with VR is some simulator in a museum in Bruges. I've never played any actual VR games, but I'd love to play Half-life and similar games as well as racing sims.

My current PC is 8 years old but I started another thread on here on what upgrades to get that can handle VR, and forum user Sparx was very helpful and advised to go for this, of which I've bought a few bits already:

- AMD RYZEN 7 3700X
- Gigabyte GEFORCE RTX 2070 SUPER WINDFORCE OC
- Patriot Viper Steel 16GB (2x 8GB) 3600MHz DDR4
- WD BLUE SN550 1TB NVME M.2

And obviously new PSU etc as well.

Would I be better off with a Vive or Oculus, and is there much difference in the various models ?

Anything else I need to think about ?

 

[Medic-one]

The ones I've looked at are around the £ 400, - 600, market so probably looking at spending around that, and will want to play games like Half life and racing sims. Probably looking at buying within in the next 3 - 4 weeks, depending on holidays that we are hopefully able to book again from tomorrow (fingers crossed!).

I'm not too fused about it being wireless as I'll probably play in my mancave where my PC is, or do i need a certain amount of free space around me ?
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