Virtual Reality
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Shonuff
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I have money, and I tell you that if this is higher than $450, I'll pass. Because I've got to drop another 1.3 on a PC. The Samsung VR is fine. I don't get motion sick, but I've found I can only handle one hour of VR a day, as my eyes get tired. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to handle long play sessions with the EVE MMO.
Fuck it, who am I kidding. I'm going to be lined up like the rest of you. Maybe I'll get stamina as time progresses?
Shonuff
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But will your PC be ready for it? On the Rift website, it says the Rift ready PC's are still "coming soon."
Attog
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I've got an i7 and a geforce 980ti, hopefully ready for it but if I have to shell out for another video card to SLI I suppose I can, but it gonna hurt.
Tuco
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Imagine if I said something like, "Hatorade's posts are so bad, only 25% of the population can understand anything he's saying.". But I include non-english speaking people in that. It'd be a meaningless number because only some 2 billion people in the world can speak passable english.
It's the same with that article. It's including PCs that aren't even attempting to run 3D games. Most of those PCs couldn't run Everquest. Including them into a statistic about whether they can use the Rift is misleading.
(PS: sorry hatorade, your name was the first I saw!!!)
Shonuff
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Is it a misleading stat? I've demoed the Samsung VR to many hundreds of people. Some of them asked me for more info, and told me they are waiting on the Rift. These are non-gamers. They don't have the type PC to be able to run it, but they have a PC.
Personally, I think what's going to happen is that casuals will use the Samsung VR, and the hardcores like us will do the Rift. We are used to dropping 2k on PC's anyway. Your general populace is going to say WTF at the PC required.
Onoes
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Yeah, I'm guessing the price point will be around $400, but I'm willing to go to about $650 before I start getting annoyed about it.
Friend bought Dev kit 1, which by all accounts was heads and tails worse than the finished product will be, and I was blown away, sold me on it immediately. I'm just hoping I don't have to buy a second one for the lady.....
Friend bought Dev kit 1, which by all accounts was heads and tails worse than the finished product will be, and I was blown away, sold me on it immediately. I'm just hoping I don't have to buy a second one for the lady.....
Shonuff
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Which is why I'll have the Samsung VR and the Rift. One thing we do at my house is use VR a lot, or not use it at all. The last time I used my VR was when I had a threesome on virtualrealporn.com on Friday night. It's a bit weird that my dick is white, but I'll take a menage anyway I can
meStevo
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I like the idea of what Sony is doing w/ outputing a signal to the TV and opening up the idea of others in the room interacting w/ the game being played by the person using VR.
Just wondering how much that will even be used, and if they can make the device more than just a PS4 accessory and the inherent limitations that results in.
Just wondering how much that will even be used, and if they can make the device more than just a PS4 accessory and the inherent limitations that results in.
Shonuff
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I was reading that this can be done with the Rift also? There's an app, maybe someone can share that?
Skanda
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You use to be able to just mirror the display onto your primary monitor. Not sure how/if that's change in that latest SDKs.
Shonuff
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Hatorade
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I currently run triple monitor 5760x1080 on the latest games with no issues so I sure as fuck hope so, that said I will buy whatever my computer needs to run it smoothly if I don't have it already.
Tuco
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That's a critical feature of VR / the rift, so I think you can expect that it will work with it. It's worked (and was broken) at different times with the DK2. One of the big hurdles with the DK1/2 was integration with the OS. They have to do very specific things to minimize the amount of latency of the device, and that meant fighting with Windows. I'm hoping they nail that aspect with CV1, because that was one of the biggest problems I had when using the DK2. It seemed like half the demoes I tried didn't work without some finagling.
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As long as you're only mirroring 1 viewport, so one eye, there shouldn't be much of a performance hit. Once you start adding viewports, that's going to be a large performance hit.
Intropy
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I haven't been following the VR scene since I was blown away by the DK1 when it first came out. Ideally I'd like to only buy one VR headset in the next couple of years - should I go ahead and jump on the Oculus band wagon on Wednesday, or are there other serious competitors that are worth waiting for?