Oculus Rift Excited Like Kids Thread (My rift arrived)

AlamoX said:
it's all going to be about software in the end, i just hope all games would work on both headset and no one tries a console like exlusive crap, because it will be so frustrating to have a killer VR app that you cannot use because you bought the wrong HMD
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Unfortunately it looks as if this is already happening as all I see popping up all over are the words "Oculus Exclusive".

I can see VR dying a death even before it's 1st birthday at this rate. Why oh Why cant they get the whole concept of VR off the ground first before going on these crazy exclusive crusades. It's one of the things I hated about consoles and why I stopped buying them after the last generation.

Get VR off the ground as a household product for a few years, let it build then you can go **** it up with exclusives....well actually NO don't do that. Be sensible and allow ALL VR games on ALL VR products.

Why does corporate greed have to screw everything up.......:mad:
 
There are games on both sides that only run on one set of hardware currently. Most, if not all, of the current Oculus "exclusives" are having vive support added. And likewise when Touch is released the Rift will get access to a load of the Vive games. There will always be a few devs who build for a particular headset, as sometimes it's hard to justify the time to do both for whatever reason


There's actually so incredibly few "full" games anyway, but having a few of these small tech demo type ones being "exclusive" is hardly any loss
 
Zeeflyboy said:
Think you missed his point on that one - he was not doing a dollar conversion of $200 = £250...

Based on the US price, before shipping it is a $200 difference ($599 vs $799)... however here in the UK the price difference is £190 (£499 vs £689) which is a $270 difference.
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Neither the rift nor vive prices include sales tax in the US as it differs by state.
If you take VAT off of the UK price then the pre-vat difference is £158 = $226 - not so bad

I'm not sure this has relevance in the real world but.. nitpickers unite!


edit: i just looked up how much sales tax is in the US - it goes as low as 0% in some states! and the highest is about 9% and can even be different in different localities within the state...
 
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Zogger said:
I haven't heard of it working on CV1? Don't think it was even compatible with later DK2 runtimes. Unless I've missed something.
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That is a big shame, think it'd be awesome as an experience provided you don't mind going through several pairs of trousers.
 
Zogger said:
Neither the rift nor vive prices include sales tax in the US as it differs by state.
If you take VAT off of the UK price then the pre-vat difference is £158 = $226 - not so bad

I'm not sure this has relevance in the real world but.. nitpickers unite!


edit: i just looked up how much sales tax is in the US - it goes as low as 0% in some states! and the highest is about 9% and can even be different in different localities within the state...
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Why would you take Vat off the uk price? The whole point is that to buy a vive in the uk is £XXX more expensive than buying the occulus in the uk, with the widely quoted US price difference of $200 between the vive and rift not really being relevant or realistic when discussing it in the UK. The rate or indeed in some cases total lack of vat in the states doesn't really have any effect on that discussion unless I'm missing something? It wasn't a comparison of us rift vs uk rift, but of uk vive vs uk rift.
 
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