Hey everyone, I'm so excited for VR technology and I've been raving on about Oculus Rift to my friends & family for past year or so but I just have a couple of questions about VR, Oculus, and other headsets etc but can anybody please answer these five questions.
1) It seems that my PC meets all the minimum specs as I have an I5 CPU, 8GB of RAM and an AMD R9 GPU but it says that 8GB or more is recommended. Would you guys recommend me going up to 12GB or 16GB of ram and do you really think it will make a difference?
Yes I would, doubt it though to be honest. Maybe games in 2016/17 will require more than 8GB
2) Also have you guys heard of STAR VR AND Virtuix OSVR headsets? I found these by chance and the OSVR headset says its only £265 but it is just a development kit. I think they're both well behind the likes of Oculus, HTC and Sony, but have you guys heard of them? It's exciting that theres at least 5 companies working on VR headsets as its good for the consumer when theres competition and choice. This should eventually drive down prices.
I have heard of OSVR, as per the name though, its open source so is a development headset. Good if you like to code and try things out, not so good if you just want a headset to play some games
3) I read that Microsoft are making a hologram headset called "Microsoft Hololens" which looks amazing but does anybody know if they're making an official VR headset?
not heard of that myself
4) Did you guys hear that Apple are making a VR headset too?
nope
5) I heard something a while ago about how Facebook bought Oculus Rift for 2 billion dollars but I also heard that Microsoft was partners with Facebook or something along those lines? Is this why you get an Xbox One joypad with Oculus? Is it like a joint venture between Facebook, Microsoft and Oculus so Oculus could be classed as the Microsoft VR headset? Or have I got this wrong?
I heard the same. Could be but I doubt Facebook would spend 2 billion then call it a Microsoft VR headset! 'Facebook VR' just sounds terrible
Thanks in advance for answering all these questions.