What does Sup Forums think about the Oculus Rift?

What does Sup Forums think about the Oculus Rift?

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I think you should get a vive instead.

More like ZOGgulus Yidft.

Reasons? I have heard the vive can only play vive games where as the rift can play rift AND vive games.

Rift cannot roomscale as well as vive. There are no good exclusive rift games.

200 extra dollars to limit my library seems a little steep. Just because there are no good exclusives right now, does not mean we will never see a great rift only title.

Fuck all of it since that cuck sold out to Facebook and cause all this proprietary horseshit.

superhot is the only good vr game, though

you can play oculus-specific games using revive.
other than that. the vive's tracking technology is overwhelmingly superior.

unless they do something really shitty, vive can be spoofed to rift and play rift games.

bullshit you have to do but thats just how things are.

also, unless facebook 100% funds a game it will never be a fully exclusive game, and facebook cant afford to do that for a real AAA game. what facebook wants is vr to be commonplace so they can sell seats at events, they are thinking a bit further down the line then just gaming, they will fund game development to some extent but they will not go full AAA because their interest lies beyond games.

Arizona Sunshine is the best currently, however there are quite a few good games if you are able to deal with them being a little niche and constrained.

There are 2 things I want vr for

1) desktop monitor replacement,
2) shooting gallery style games.

desktop replacement is close, but because its hard for them to stay focused, its not an option if you want to read (imagine everywhere you look left to right up and down is a monitor each one with the resolution of 4-8k that I want I want.)

and shooting galleries aren't enough for me to plop down 800$ for them alone.
The moment I can realistically replace my monitor with an oled screen I am jumping on it, or the moment I can be inside a shooting gallery for under 300$ im buying it,
So either the shit needs to get cheaper, which it likely will, or it needs to get better which again it likely will.

Which one comes first? that's 100% up in the air.

t. Mass murderer who trained in video games

Fucking love lightgun games more then you will ever know, and am sad they died out as a genre.

I paid for a CV1 preorder (didn't get a free one from kickstarter) and then I sold it a year later.

There are just so many issues. The lens give off WAY too much God rays, the cable is beyond annoying, it only comes with one camera, no touch controllers included, the Oculus software while much improved always has to be running in the background, it makes your fate way too hot because the air circulation sucks, the attached headphones at least for me where too short, it constantly needed adjustment and it always felt like one eye was more in focus than the other. Once I would get perfect focus I had to make sure the headset stayed in that perfect position.

Honestly the entire product from the price to the absolutely terrible launch was flawed. Nothing was more upsetting than paying $600 and then being told that you would have to wait while they gave them out for free to Kickstarter backers. Like what the absolute hell. You wanna give them free headsets? Fine. But do it after paying customers get theirs. Also $600??? I get that it's slightly cheaper now, but I often wonder if paying customers absorbed the cost of giving out all those free headsets. Should've been $300-$399.

If I were you I would wait for CV2 or Vive 2, that's my plan.

>VR
Shit, right? It's shit.

I would get a Vive instead.
Oculus managed to put out an inferior product even though they more or less stole talent and technology from Valve and had infinite Facebook money. I believed in them up to the actual product launch, even through the FB acquisition fiasco. But they put out an inferior product, simple as that. I also never liked that Iribe guy and I never believed he was genuinely interested in VR. I believe his only (or at least major) goal was to make money.

>Should've been $300-$399

I believe that was the original target price range. But the original was also not supposed to be very fancy and more in line to what the DK2 was. Considering the actual CV1 product I don't think the pricing was all that unfair. I just think they shot themselves in the foot by promising one thing and then delivering something else.
The guys working on the Vive don't ge much flak for putting out an $800 headset that is ergonomically inferior and obviously not as polished of a product. They made the choice to focus on delivering the best technology wise and worry about that later. I don't think Oculus expected the competition to catch up (and surpass) them so quickly and they focused too much of making a product that would appeal visually to a mainstream audience that was maybe put off by the idea of having a relatively heavy sky mask on their face.

I can't understand why anyone gives a shit about VR desu. Same old boring shit if you ask me.

Should have been porn-only a called Cockulus Lift.

Is head tracking necessary to counteract motion sickness while using these? If not I'd buy one because I don't want to simulate movement. Just want something that has a large enough FOV that I can't see the edge of the screen when playing games.

Their FOV and resolution is not (currently) high enough to do that to a satisfactory level.
But once they get there it'll be great for pretty much any game. Because you will not only be fully immersed, you will also have proper depth perception, something you can't get on a monitor no matter how good or big it is.

VR in general is not worth getting.

It might be useful for architects or engineers to show off projects they're working on but for entertainment purposes there is nothing worth spending all the money on.

>get VR headset
>go to the cinema in the comfort of your own home

VR is the future of cinema.

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Waste of money, if you really must spend money on the VR gimmick, at least buy the superior Vive. But again, it's just an expensive gimmick. You'll use it for about a week, show it to all your friends (if you have any) and after that it'll be gathering dust.

>buy VR set
>wear VR set
>watch screen inside a screen
>instead of just watching a normal fucking screen
What an absurdly retarded idea.

>watching a movie on a giant theater screen completely under your control is "retarded", just watch it on your smaller 15-inch laptop screen instead

It's not a giant theater screen, it's a tiny make believe screen inside of your VR set.

>15-inch laptop screen
Buy a normal TV you poorfag.

Huge potential, but it's not getting the investment it needs and they squandered their early adopter goodwill by failing to meet the promises they made during the kickstarter campaign.

If I were to buy today, I'd probaby go with the Rift just because of it's higher DPI. That said, I think we need one more generation and a bump up in price point to make VR truly attractive. I'd go for a $1000 unit with an 8 megapixel screen.

Oculus home completely ruined it for me, I had way more fun with my DK1.

Technology wise the rift is much better but the implementation is abysmal in their efforts to make a walled garden plug and play device for normies. VR is and always will be niche due to the necessity to calibrate to each individual

more like anulus rift

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