Oculus Rift w/touch - £350 - Is now the time to buy?

Just bought a used Oculus Rift for £227, no touch controllers though. It's in great condition and I thought it was worth the punt over the £399 for brand new.

I'm over the moon with it and would have gladly paid full price for new but I just didn't know what I was getting so I thought £399 was quite steep for something I might play with a couple of times.

Project Cars, Dirt Rally and Elite Dangerous are absolutely stunning in VR. Mind blowing.

If Oculus ever bring out a newer model in a couple of years with a higher resolution screen I will absolutely buy one.

I will be buying a new steering wheel and looking around for a deal on Touch controllers this Christmas. My kids love playing Lucky's Tail, it's so charming and I'm surprised at how much fun a 3rd person game can be in VR, it's like watching these characters all acting out in front of you.
 
TallPaul1878 said:
Just bought a used Oculus Rift for £227, no touch controllers though. It's in great condition and I thought it was worth the punt over the £399 for brand new.

I'm over the moon with it and would have gladly paid full price for new but I just didn't know what I was getting so I thought £399 was quite steep for something I might play with a couple of times.

Project Cars, Dirt Rally and Elite Dangerous are absolutely stunning in VR. Mind blowing.

If Oculus ever bring out a newer model in a couple of years with a higher resolution screen I will absolutely buy one.

I will be buying a new steering wheel and looking around for a deal on Touch controllers this Christmas. My kids love playing Lucky's Tail, it's so charming and I'm surprised at how much fun a 3rd person game can be in VR, it's like watching these characters all acting out in front of you.
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touch controllers are £100 so you've saved yourself about £20 unless you wait for used controllers
 
Yes, it's a bargain. The next gen of headsets are likely to be a lot more costly, so you might as well see if VR is for you now with a Rift. I love mine, and can't wait for higher res displays
 
nitram100 said:
Does anyone suffer from nausea from this? The DK2 killed me, 2 days in bed from vertigo!
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Depends what you're playing generally, CV1 is far far less prone to causing it due to ASW keeping 90fps (even if the source is below that) at the headset, though some games will still cause it. Elite Dangerous is fine, Robo Recall is fine, DCS world is not but it'll vary from person to person too.
 
In the short term, over the next year, the major players seem to be concentrating on the middle tier, mass adoption structure. Mid range more standalone portable devices. My guess is they'll continue to service the higher end gaming sector with the oculus and vive with deals and bundles over 2018, hoping the adoption rate gathers force and increases software development. There's a high end device that's ran through a kickstarter, which does appear to be all it's cracked up to be, which very much eliminates a lot of the problems associated with the current gen.
 
£350 for a Rift and controllers is pretty damn good. We've started using them at work from time to time for design and simulation.
It's not perfect for what we really need, but damn if they're not a huge whack cheaper than the commercial ones.

I'm holding off at home, mainly as I'd need to completely dismantle and rebuild my office/playroom to have a suitable area.

Linus took a look at a prototype headset that was '8k' and really quite liked it. Mainly for the increased view angle and the detail.
But then it is starting to look like the old Virtuality headsets. :D Really silly size.


However, with a reasonable price, good support and better controllers, they look genuinely impressive.
 
How does the rift compare visually to the PSVR?
My PC is capable of running it but is at the lower end of the required spec. Gtx970/ FX8320 @ 4.00ghz
 
budge1972 said:
How does the rift compare visually to the PSVR?
My PC is capable of running it but is at the lower end of the required spec. Gtx970/ FX8320 @ 4.00ghz
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Very similar to my eyes running both on a pc, no god rays on psvr and although slightly lower res screen design masks this, rift is well worth it at 399 though let alone 349.
 
Had a nosey in Game yesterday, they are selling the Playstation VR headset , camera, VR Worlds and Skyrim VR for £249, if the Oculus was this sort of money I’d take the plunge but frankly, given the relatively little stuff available in the Oculus store at the moment, I’m not paying £349.
 
Scania said:
Had a nosey in Game yesterday, they are selling the Playstation VR headset , camera, VR Worlds and Skyrim VR for £249, if the Oculus was this sort of money I’d take the plunge but frankly, given the relatively little stuff available in the Oculus store at the moment, I’m not paying £349.
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Don't forget you have steam as well for VR games.
 
Reasons not to cave in to Black Friday 'bargain' impulse:

1) It's a first generation product! (The DKs don't count IMO).

2) I only have a 7950, albeit a well overclocked one which scrapes into the bottom of the VR tests.

3) I want it mainly for racing/flight sims, which will definitely require a new video card.

4) I was horribly motion sick in HL2 a decade ago and still remember how awful it was.

5) I usually don't get big chunks of time to escape into and do most of my gaming on a laptop.

6) I only have one decent eye so half the hardware is wasted on me. I wish there was an option to save some GPU power and turn one screen off, or at least lower the res considerably. The left side's all peripheral vision to me.

7) I'm living off savings and £60 a week while caring for Mum.

8) And lastly... if Mum's having a bad day and thinks I'm the devil incarnate keeping her prisoner, I won't see her sneaking up on me with a carving knife.

Reasons to ignore common sense:

1) Dementia teaches you to take nothing for granted. Especially tomorrow.

2) CV2 could be way off and totally unaffordable (in overall hardware requirement) for me.

3) Curiosity! I know I'll hate the resolution and will want to throw up, and sensor placement might be a pain. But I'm 54 and Tomorrow's World promised me hover cars, holidays on the Moon and a life of leisure by now... not Donald Trump, oceans full of plastic and Toblerones with hardly any Toblerone in them. Raymond Baxter and Maggie Philbin have a lot to answer for and a low res sniff of VR might be as good as it gets in my lifetime.

4) £50 of Rainforest vouchers soften the blow. Ok, they're supposed to be for my nephews at Christmas, but they're young... they'll get over it. Come on lads, we're off to Poundland for an adventure! Here's a quid each, make sure you bring me back the change.

5) I'm never happier than when wallowing in buyer's remorse. I'll let you know just how much remorse in a few days. :)

In the mean time I'll waste some more time researching GTX 1060s just in case the worst happens and I actually like owning the Rift enough to dip even further into my reserves.
 
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Mr.Cookie said:
I ran it on a 7950 for a bit, it was fine ;)
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Thanks for the reassurance. The 7950 used to pull its weight very nicely in three screen sim racing, so I know it's not afraid of shunting a lot of pixels. But VR is a different kind of shunting+processing, so I'm not expecting miracles, just a starting point. And possible an end point if I throw up all over my PC. ;-)
 
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