Bl4ckSunsh1n3
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Oculus Rift pre-orders to open on January 6 8am pacific time
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OK, cool. Annnd I'm back. Huzzah!
Wowfunhappy
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What site do I actually go to to preorder?
metareferential
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Shuggananas
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lol, yes of course
InaudibleWhispa
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Glasses are fine in CV1. I haven't heard from a single source say otherwise, while people have tried it without a problem (such as Norm from tested).
Not sure it'll work out like that as you're not focusing on something close to your eyes, the lenses are tricking your eyes to look past the screen and focus to infinity. So in theory, I think, you'll just be near sighted in VR like you are in real life. But I might be wrong about that.
Not sure it'll work out like that as you're not focusing on something close to your eyes, the lenses are tricking your eyes to look past the screen and focus to infinity. So in theory, I think, you'll just be near sighted in VR like you are in real life. But I might be wrong about that.
Lemonte
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Someone posted this video earlier here but that one dude is wearing glasses with rift. https://youtu.be/H4PJSUcVSMg?t=370
family_guy
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Great. As a bonus I'll be able to replace my 360 controller.
Lostconfused
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Only as long as there are worthwhile additions and it doesn't stagnate like the development of "phones" and just does a new model every year for the sake of having a new model. Like cars.
friskykillface
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I just want to demo the damn thing :/ past two years at pax east i could not get into line since it was capped
will there be units in store eventually or demo units?
will there be units in store eventually or demo units?
Hey uh...good point. I'm near sighted as well.
StrawberryKikwi
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So is there gonna be a conference we can watch or are they just gonna update the site and be like "lol k gais dis b da pric$"?
Oculus.com - will then redirect to shop.oculus.com
Surprised they haven't released the price an hour before pre orders just so it reduces the load from people waiting for 4pm GMT just to see a price that might delay their purchase.
I wonder if there will be people buying just to sell on for profit as no doubt it will sell out pretty quickly...
ps3ud0 8)
I wonder if there will be people buying just to sell on for profit as no doubt it will sell out pretty quickly...
ps3ud0 8)
chrominance
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Me too. I don't actually want to spend $600+ every year for the next shiny headset. In fact, one of my worries is that the upgrade cycle will be so quick, it'll render old hardware obsolete way too quickly, making it even harder to justify spending the money.
Gipsy Danger
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I should stay away from this thread otherwise I'm going to end up pre-ordering this damn thing 
Dreamwriter
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It should be great for glasses wearers:
I have a DK2, and I wear my glasses with that - CV1 is supposed to be quite a bit better for glasses than DK2.
Product VP Nate Mitchell said:
I have a DK2, and I wear my glasses with that - CV1 is supposed to be quite a bit better for glasses than DK2.
I'm surprised at the PSN. I would expect that to change eventually, but i guess no one has challenged it yet.
I'm near sighted as well and thought as much. I can read a book or play 3DS without glasses, no problem.
I tried DK2 at pax w/ no glasses and it was way too blurry :/ The lens simulated real life and anything that was 'far away' was blurry for me. I had to put glasses back on.
I plan on getting laser eye surgery just for vr, haha
Sleeping Lesson
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Ideally I'd want to order from Amazon for the free 2-day shipping, but the fact that their image is a DK2 does not install confidence.
Felix Lighter
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There will be a lot of releases and iterations for VR headsets in the coming years. Any new tech will see that and the initial gains will be huge but I'm not waiting for version 5 that finally works out all the bugs. This is something I want to experience ASAP.
I'm nearsighted and don't need them at all. Of course, people are different and all that..
Dreathlock
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I really dont know if i should pre-order this or wait for the vive and a comparison. Will there be any exclusive games to one vr device? How is the picture quality of this compared to the vive?
Huh? I've heard glasses are completely fine. How do these rumors get started?
Yeah, I'll get the third or fourth versions but right now there aren't enough obvious issues with the device to make me wait. I've used cardboard and I know that non-4K 120hz screens won't deter me.
Ever tried contacts? I've been using night and day contacts for a few years now (one pair is good for a month) even while I did my 12 months in the army without any problems.
UpDownLeftRight
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My only concern with frequent updates is being limited by the device. Take PC where we're used to just turning down settings when we can't pull off the best. My worry is features from gen 2 completely negating gen 1 and so forth since it needs to eventually have some level of standardisation to truly crack the mass market down the line as intended.
Obviously it's going to have to progress fast out the gate but I'd hope it won't be too long until we can safely say 'that headset is good for 4 years or so'
Obviously it's going to have to progress fast out the gate but I'd hope it won't be too long until we can safely say 'that headset is good for 4 years or so'
MarineMountie
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I wish I knew if PSVR is going to PC compatible or not...
Dreamwriter
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Oculus Rift has a few exclusive games, basically ones developed or published by Oculus themselves. Vive will have exclusive games for a while just because they will be designed for the motion controllers, which won't be available on Oculus Rift until some time the second half of 2016.
Gipsy Danger
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It's highly unlikely.
Backfoggen
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Assume it's not going to be. At least not officially.
Falchion
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I want to know this as well because I've never gotten a chance to try any of the upcoming VR sets and if I'm dropping $400-600 on something, I want to experience it first.
Nope
Could get modded but no official support is my guess...
I don't wear my glasses when I'm using the DK2 and I'm pretty badly near sighted. It's no problem at all. It's actually quite clear and easy to read text considering how low the resolution of the DK2 is. The CV1 should be even better.
UnrealEck
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If it's any consolation, you can probably sell it for a decent price. There's a chance it'll be in high demand after the first load have sold.
flyinpiranha
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I can read pretty well without glasses but street signs and such are a bit blurry, forget my actual prescription and I don't wear my glasses. I 'could' ... but it's not as 'comfy' or 'easy' as some say, or maybe I'm just more sensitive.
But I found with the DK2 I can adjust to where I don't actually need to wear them.
plagiarize
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If you need glasses to see stuff far away, you will need your glasses with the rift. If you need them to see stuff up close you will not. The lenses focus the screens at infinity, so even though you have to converge your eyes to look at objects up close, you don't actually refocus your eyes when you look at stuff up close.
This isn't anything as bad as it sounds. If you watch 3D movies you're already used to converging your eyes without refocusing them.
This isn't anything as bad as it sounds. If you watch 3D movies you're already used to converging your eyes without refocusing them.
I really wouldn't count on it. It has an HDMI in and out on the PSVR box. So you would have to output over HDMI on PC in the exact format the PSVR is expecting. You also plug the PS eye camera directly into this box.
I bet you there will be community hax to make it work in some regard, but I would highly doubt it will officially work on PC. Would be an amazing cool move by Sony if they set it up to work like that tho!
It would make it an instant purchase for multi-functionality.... But I doubt it.
Dusktildawn48
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They said they'll take infinite preorders. Just some people might end up on backorder
Shuggananas
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scalping these seems super dangerous lol, it's not a new console or amiibos that are low price low stock
They already said it won't be the case. They'll accept as many preorders as they get. Later preorders will just ship later.
Not officially but I am like 99% sure people will be able to make drivers that'll let it work in Oculus/Vive enabled games the same way that there are drivers that let you use DS3/DS4s in games with 360/Xbone controller support
Yup, for two years I tried them. Pain in the butt. They never stay on 'right,' constantly slip and cause me double vision or blurriness, or just straight up fall out. That and the daily process of taking them out/putting them in is way more work than just putting on glasses.
Maybe I suck at wearing them, maybe the eye dr gave me the wrong kind, but I've had days where something would happen to one of them, and I wouldn't have access to a backup, so I'd either have to use one eye or not be able to see all day, which is super dangerous if I needed to drive. Never had that issue with glasses. Worse case is they'll get hit and scratched but I can still use them.
I'd rather have it all done with and get lasik once a decade or so.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
On my Gear VR I can see better without my contacts/glasses but YMMV.
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