I can agree, but also disagree with this. kind of.
Rift was doing absolutely fine without FB and would have continued to do so the owner just saw the word billions and then started day dreaming of private islands. There cash injection will certainly add more into R&D and will push the tech faster but i have no doubt that with all the small firms who do this R&D themselves like primax that we would get there with or without facebook. Also when we have players like sony in the game id say there is a whole more chance of them pushing it forward to the masses than facebook as i dont think your average facebook user is willing to spend the same amount on a headset as they would on a console.
This is true, but i don't think it's fair as the rift doesn't come with 2 senesors. The vive is subjectively better at tracking in room scale (3.5x3.5) that isn't necessarily needed that size but the tracking capabilities are there. Just wish they would team up for two reasons.
rift headset:vive trackers:steam knuckles controller:vives wireless (unless rift now has something)
Also CROSS COMPAT THE GAMES ALREADY there is absolutely no reason to be making headset exclusive AAA games. It feels like they are trying to start a X vs X like the consoles are ps vs xbox
Oculus funded some of the best VR titles mate, this wouldn’t have happened without facebooks money, they then released the Oculus Go and are releasing the Oculus Quest next year, what they do next is anybody’s guess, personally I hope they concentrate on getting Oculus Studio’s back together, those short videos where brilliant, Henry wows everybody I have showed it to, we need more of that, and longer too. also an official wireless Rift adapter is a must, Sony could be THE main VR player in the future, but it needs to have considerably better gear for the PSVR2, not PS3 sex toys like controllers and the god awful tracking it has, another PS3 peripheral I believe?
The Rift comes with two sensors, it used to get bundled with an Xbox pad and 1 sensor, that all changed with the release of Robo Recall and touch controllers.
Cross play is a thing, and so it should be, but I would very much like Oculus to open there store to other HMD users, but that’s not going to happen unless Oculus and Valve can agree on which too use, OpenVR or OpenComposite or something else, or at the very Oculus least officially endorse Revive, or even take it over, VR is a PC peripheral, not a platform.
It’s a tough desicion between Oculus Rift, WMR and HTC Vive, they all have there pros and cons, and I have been lucky enough to have used them all, for the OP I would have gone with a WMR personally, could be had for less than half the price of the Vive and he has already said he doesn't thing he’s going to use it too much.
The big thing the Vive has on the others are the addons you can get, the wireless attachment, Knuckle controllers, Vive Pro and Pimax 5k and Pimax 8k too, but to get the very best out of the Vive you need deep pockets
