Oculus Rift $599.00 (£410) fair price?

Rilot said:
Wow, I mean like wow. That's not even close to the Rift, HTC Vive, or Sony Morpheus. It's essentially just a Gear VR that uses a screen wirelessly from your phone rather than your phone as the screen.
Only head tracking - no positional tracking (positional tracking massively helps with nausea).
Lower resolution - It's the same as the DK2 which just isn't high enough at 1920x1080 (960 x 1080 per eye).
Android phone isn't powerful enough for a decent VR experience. Try some of the Google Cardboard demos. You will feel sick after 2 minutes due to the latency. Same deal here. There's a reason the Rift requires a 970 as a minimum GPU.

So yeah, it's £175 for a reason.
Click to expand...

Doesn't use your own phone, it's a self contained unit (so doesn't use processing power powering the parts of a phone) with optional HDMI input. Given a rift with a suitable PC will probably set you back £1200, at 15% of the price and nothing else required it's a good starter point and something you could easily buy for the kids who are probably less prone to throwing up due to movement. If you don't like the price of Rift, and don't have the hardware to run it, this looks pretty good to see if VR is the way you want to go.

I only paid £120 for mine as an early production run, wanted VR for films when travelling so I'll see how well it goes.
 
Was expecting around 350. But can understand them selling at 500. It's a lot of kit for the money

I usually spend 500 or so on a new phone every couple of years. So to me 500 for the rift and all the extras ain't bad. They sold out there first batch in 14mins lol

That being said I am getting one for free anyway :)

Backed there kickstarter a few years back. Great investment
 
Last edited:
ImMrChris said:
Whats the bets people moaning about the price are rocking a £600 iPhone or equivalent, i'd rather have a crap phone and a rift tbh :)
Click to expand...

People will get different amounts of value from it depending on how they use/plan to use it. Phones get used multiple times daily, some will do that with the rift, many wont. It's not the 'VR for the people' that many people were hoping they could dump a bit of disposable income on and climb aboard but it's definitely not a ripoff, its a good price for bleeding edge technology in a premium package.
 
WILD9 said:
its a good price for bleeding edge technology in a premium package.
Click to expand...

Exactly. and I still believe this is exactly what the industry needs to prove the use case for high end VR.

For the low budget/low end stuff Google cardboard is actually a fantastic solution.
 
for me after blowing well over 1k on my racing rig already, it's a no brainer really :) i can't wait, the main point is i've not listened to any of the hype that's the key i think, i never heard the $350 "ball park" figure i always thought it'd be around £400 - £500.
 
ImMrChris said:
Whats the bets people moaning about the price are rocking a £600 iPhone or equivalent, i'd rather have a crap phone and a rift tbh :)
Click to expand...

£300 G4 pay as you go with a cheap contract, can't get better value for money imo.

I'm completely neutral with the rift I like the concept but that massive chunk stuck to my face isn't appealing in the slightest.

Remember when we were told not to sit too close to the screen a as a kid?, now their bringing screens close to our faces! How times have changed.
 
kieran_read said:
Remember when we were told not to sit too close to the screen a as a kid?, now their bringing screens close to our faces! How times have changed.
Click to expand...

It's like Mohammed and the mountain... if the kid won't get close to the screen; the screen will come to the kid. ;)

I do see this first generation to be almost like Google Glass... purposely priced out of the mass market in order to deliver a more premium product and test the waters.

For a regular consumer like myself i wouldn't expect this technology to be interesting and well priced for another 2-3 years. Thankfully by then we'll have new generations of graphics cards and more likelihood for everyone to be able to run it.
 
I'm very interested in this, but I want to see what the opinion is on it after six months. If it really changes the way the games are played - think Assetto Corsa, etc. - then I might just be tempted. :)
 
I'm SO excited for VR. I'm into racing sims and this technology is PERFECT for it!

It wont be long before guys are developing all sorts of weird stuff for this, think about it, you could actually develop a program to make you feel ill, or make you feel like you are on LSD...

This could be the start of the "Future" we have seen depicted in movies for the last 30 years! :D :D :D.

I will probably wait for version 2 to come out as no doubt it will be a vast improvement.

Either way, very excited for this.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom