VR is slowly starting to become a reality for us gamers. There are several options available right now that I wanted to hear everyone's opinions on.
Have any of you tried them?
Does anyone own a system?
What games do you play?
What are your thoughts/experiences?
Pros?
Cons?
Oculus Rift vs. HTC Vive vs. Playstation VR vs. ?????
Discuss.
@TyGuy
@gourimoko
@Jack Brickman
1) I've tried all of them.
2) I own an older Rift dev kit, and I've occasionally have an HTC Vive.
3) Random shit.. but when Fallout 4 VR drops.. that will get a lot of attention from me on the Vive... Also, there's a new Bridge Commander out, looks amazing, and it's multiplayer.
4) My experiences are that VR is ready to rock.. I've been following this technology since the 90s. I still own a Virtual Boy.
But I absolutely love it.. I don't get any sense of nausea or motion sickness like I would on the older platforms or even the earlier devkits. The Vive, Rift, and PSVR all are great in different ways, but my preference is for the Vive -- although the Rift's touch controls do look
amazing.
5) The pros are full immersion and an excuse to buy some really nice headphones..
The cons are the wires and the screendoor effect that's still somewhat noticeable. Keep in mind, I use a ROG PG348Q as my daily driver, so I prefer the absolute best image quality possible on my display -- however, given the degree of immersion, I will gladly sacrifice image quality for three-dimensionality and motion tracking.
6) Up to the point that Oculus released their touch controls; it was HTC Vive all day long... No question..
Now that the Rift has touch controls,
and it's temporarily lowered it's price by like $200; IMHO, the Rift makes the most sense! I mean.. right now the Rift is $399 with controllers vs $799 (Vive) with controllers... There's absolutely no way I'd buy a Vive today over Rift even though I think, headset-wise, the Vive is superior in most facets. The 2-1 price differential is just, not something one can ignore. You could actually buy a used GTX 1080 for the $400 you saved between the two closely matched setups...
The only thing you're really missing out on with the Rift is the room-scale experience, which to me, makes it so much more fun to play.. especially with the wife and kids/nephews, etc... Everyone will enjoy the Vive in a room that's large enough to really move around.. The Rift has room-scale sensors, and can be enabled for such, but.. it's not the same experience as the Vive, AFAIK...
PSVR is great.. I've used it a few times briefly and it's actually a lot better than you'd expect. I don't own a setup though and this isn't the direction I would go as a PC user so... I'll just skip it for now.. But, if you do a lot of console gaming, then this is a totally viable option. Personally though, I would just as soon get a Rift (@ $399) and again, spend the money I saved on an SLI setup.
Oh.. and btw.. if the Rift price were to go back to $599+$100 for the controllers; then I would get the Vive without thinking twice. It is definitely the superior setup; although the Rift Touch controls are seemingly much better; the overall visual / tracking / room-scale experience with the Vive is definitely superior to the Rift... I think Facebook might keep the Rift at $399 for at least a few more weeks/months to try and gain some ground (or maybe they think they're going to lose their lawsuit with Zenimax?)
So with all that said, I think we're at a point where VR is about to take off... Fallout 4 VR and the obviously upcoming Skyrim VR are going to set the stage for new wave of users coming on-board....
