Who has gone to Best Buy or the Microsoft Store and demoed the Rift or Gear VR?
I demoed the Gear VR at the Microsoft Store and it was awesome.
I tried to demo the Rift at Best Buy but the demo guy was not there.
Some people probably even own it...
There's Google and Daydream as well. I will be getting Cardboard soon and know how to program Android so I may look into it.
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VR is a meme for retards.
literally doa
nobody cares about vr, and those who do and have the money for it, aren't just enough to develop an industry around
Oculus DK2 was DOA because resolution, Vive was DOA because the demo crashed, Daydream was DOA because focus was shit and was just some dumb video compilation.
Phone VR: shit
half the headsets give you double vision, not proper 3D
Rift/Vive
good for 1st gen hardware, screen door effect still noticeable
if you have an up to date gaymen rig, it might be worth trying at Best Buy
also the Oculus reps usually show up on weekends 12 to 6
I got a daydream for free with my pixel and love it.
I mean I just use it for porn but, you know, its pretty great.
I work for a hardware company so I often demo the Rift and Vive, in various set ups.
Phone VR is good, but anything with PC hardware is years ahead.
Phone VR is only 360 videos, but PC VR enables actual real-time rendered 3D CGI experiences. Games too.
I forsee there being a genre of "cinematic" VR games. Think about how Uncharted was a "cinematic" game. There will likely be a high ratio of these "non-game games" to actual games.
HTC Vive is more simple/robust and in general less prone to error. Oculus Home, though aesthetically polished, has given me more than enough headaches in the form of functionality glitches. Definitely shows that HTC & Valve are more experiences in delivering a final product than Oculus & Facebook.
I have tried the Rift with up to 3 sensors. Room scale is possible now, but the HTC Vive is still more accurate with its 2 sensor set up.
Just vomiting off the top of my head what I know about VR. Feel free to this professional anything.
>literally doa
I don't think so.
The current generation of VR devices might be DOA. But VR is here. It has immersion presence now. It is also "good enough" now. Maybe I'm looking at this more as a programmer than a gamer.
You get a good enough experience now, on devices which early adopters will get, at prices not more than a magnitude away from mass consumer prices.
I don't disagree this VR generation is early adopter. I don't think the line in total it is DOA though. As they improve the quality and drop the price, gamers are going to switch to it for sure.
I tried
>samsung
>htc
>Oculus
I liked the HTC vive best because of the crisp output.
Samsung VR is pretty comfortable.
The oculus gave me a headache after 15 minutes of use.
i have the Rift + touch, and while this tech is clearly still in its infancy some of the experiences are incredible
the problem is the price isn't allowing a large userbase right now so obviously developers aren't going to throw huge amounts of time and money at it yet.
i really hope once a pay cut happens that a lot more people give it a chance instead of immediately dismissing it, calling it DOA and a meme because the potential is definitely there for something special
I demoed oculus touch and enjoyed it a lot. The controllers feel great and tracking was smooth. I mostly care about vr for the eroge. If there is no eroge it's hard to give a shit.
Where do you get content and what do you play it with?
I have a Daydream VR and absolutely love it. I want more general computing environments for VR. Web browsers, apps, etc. all running together in the same space for productivity, with interfaces customizable.
Netflix and Youtube are some of the best VR experiences right now. Watching video on a big, curved screen in front of your face is great.
This is all I plan on using VR for. I'm not getting up and walking around. I just want to replace my monitors. Preferably with something I can look through like a visor.
I have a vive and it basically fills all my expectations, feels like I'm somewhere else. Phone vr is ok but it's kinda flat and head tracking is laggy.
Also people who spout "doa" and "gimmick" are mostly retards who never tried hmds
I tried it at an MS store once they started doing it. I enjoyed it.
Didn't enjoy it enough to go buy one.
I own a Vive and it's pretty awesome... if you have the Playspace and decent Hardware. Would absolutely recommend it for Games/Porn.
Is the price worth it?... if you would spend that much money on your holidays, then yes. It is.
I have a rift + touch, and also had both the DK2 and DK1. It's pretty great I think it's worth it. The wow-moment when you first try it is really something else.
It still has a lot of problems though, and it's expensive, so I don't blame people for wanting to wait a few generations. But I have no doubt at all that VR will become mainstream on par with the internet or cellphones within at most a few decades. It will change our lives.
its refreshing to fap on vr for a while but it gets old fast..especially cause most phones has shitty sensors and you end up straining your neck to look at the best parts
Apparently my current computer is VR capable.
I'll just use Riftcat Vridge until dedicated VR headsets get better and drop in price.
I need to upgrade my Galaxy Note 1 that isn't compatible with RiftCat though.
Tried a phone VR headset some dudes at my university were doing, while it was the best "VR' experience I had (better than cardboard) but I have been told that vive/rift are better.
Still pretty underhelming. First Person Teleporting Shooters aren't fun
My work had a demo Rift and Vive. Haven't tried the rift touch yet, but given that roomscale with rift is apparently still really minimalistic on Rift even with Vive, the HTC is definitely my choice.
So people just have this huge abundant space next to their computer that is just empty and can be used for VR?
I didn't have any room for Kinect, let alone full room VR.
I have tried the htc vive, it was the funniest thing I have done in my life (sadly:killmenow) you really felt like you were there, you could walk around, hear things go past you, it was awesome.. you can't know it till you try it, go to your local Microsoft store and try one...
This is the same situation the initial tablet/smartphone had. People are too stupid to realize they need to support the industry and but the first gen shit so they make enough money and know there is demand for it. You arent buying vr now for what it is, you're buying it for the future.
Seriously, what do you do to get vr pron? Are they movie files, applications, web streams...?
There are Videos and 3D Games. For Videos, you need, based on your HMD (Cardboard, Vive, Rift, etc.), an app to play these. For Cardboard etc you will need an App like "AAA VR cinema". For Vive/Rift Whirligig would be free. Look for the VR Thread on /gif/ for some examples on Videos and for Games look on /h/.
Vrporn.com ... Or Google around pornhub and you'll find something.
this
but you also need gloves
It was awesome, got vertigo.
I demoed rifr dk 2
Vive retail
Ps4 vr thing retail
Samsung gear
And i own a vr headset I use with a 5.5 1080p phone
Its a meme
Vive is the best of them because of the largers field of view but the whole vr will be useless until they manage to put 4k and stable 90 fps
I tried recently Rift. Pretty cool shit.
Do you think that Vive worths its higher price?
Playing with a generic phone goggle right now. Rollercoasters are fun, almost as much fun as watching other people try it.
I got it for $20 to try it out, a lot of potential.
Anyone waiting for the castAR? Been holding out for it myself. Its a new animal in the zoo. It has the potential of starting a new age of information interaction.
Unlike the others the screen in your face vr is one of three configurations. The whole projecting onto the environment will open the door for a lot of 3rd party side business. Paint, wallpaper and new types of desks come to mind first. Turning screen cloth into Baymax style inflatable robots riding roomba like rc chassis as real world npcs for AR gaming is a second.
I mean the creators have mentioned "full holodeck rooms will happen".
Then offhandedly they are like "oh yeah we got a lens clip that projects onto the glasses for full see through HUD and its like 2 inches thick" wut.
Tried the vive, it's great but has a few problems, namely:
- Lack of good lengthy titles
- Doesn't work too well in confined spaces
- Tracking stations use motors, so can vibrate and make noise
The smartphone VR concept is garbage. I have one right now, sitting and collecting dust. I've tried 2 others. Utter trash.
Not sure about the desktop variant though. I would imagine the quality is 10x better, however if its not, I would be utterly dissapointed.
Friend of mine got an HTC Vive. Pretty cool experience, though he has a plebian taste in vidya. Comes with earbuds, but I think that headphones would suit it better.
I sold off furniture to make room.
I'm about to buy a used DK2 because I cant afford the CV1 or the graphics card to run it
is this a bad idea