VR vs 4K

[Calo]

Question: Is traditional gaming at 4K competing with VR?

To elaborate, I was dead set on getting a VR setup this year, have used a Vive and Rift, but when looking at the cost required, I decided to ditch the VR plans for the next few years and put together a 4K gaming setup as the cost from scratch for both was very similar.

VR just doesn't cut it for me at its current resolution & controls. Do you think this will be on peoples minds for years to come?

People may just get an Oculus Go for the novelty, for example.

 

[Calo]

A 1080TI can't do 4k with high settings and they are north of £650. Then you need a 8700K\9000K cpu. Plus 32GB of DDR4 memory.

If you got all that for the price of a vive, send me the links and I will buy them asap.

You're right for a Vive, but i should probably clarify, it was the Vive Pro i had in the basket, but couldn't bring myself to pull the trigger knowing it was just an incremental res increase with VR 2.0 maybe just two years away with resolutions and FOV that will really blow me away. Yes im going on reviews of people i trust in the industry and havnt used one myself, which who knows, maybe would have won me over. But thats the point really, is the price just too much and makes people think "I could have XYZ instead for this"?

I wouldn't agree that you need 32GB RAM and an i7 8700K for 4K. Not thinking of crazy high frame rates of course, but at least 60.

I will miss BeatSaber for now though.

 

[Calo]

Heheh, the more i hear people saying they wont go back to flat screen gaming after using VR, the more i can start to believe the film Ready Player One may actually become reality!