Rift has this.Vive. Room-scale is just super cool.
Rift has this.
Vive is in no way worth $200 more. Way worse controller as well.
It still has it, and even to add another camera or two it's cheaper than the Vive.Not out of the box.
Or are they selling the Rift with two/three cameras now?
Rift has this.
Vive is in no way worth $200 more. Way worse controller as well.
Not out of the box.
Or are they selling the Rift with two/three cameras now?
The $399 Rift bundle comes with two controllers and two cameras. I do not have enough space at my place for room scale, but the two camera tracking seems really good.
Not out of the box.
Or are they selling the Rift with two/three cameras now?
I found this on Amazon but it was $500. Link me, please?
Ew, hell noPersonally, the Microsoft Mixed Reality headsets are far more attractive.
No external sensors needed, (uses Hololens tech for inside out tracking) just a single USB cable to the PC. Lower PC specs needed, yet higher resolution.
Also, it's a open standard, so the competition will drive the price even lower.
It's also compatible with SteamVR.
This is the best post of the thread. Based on these factors I went with the vive a while back, but he / she is right to recommend the rift right now for the value, or wait 6-8 months.Vive's tracking quality is quite a bit better than Rift, the FOV is a little larger, and the displays are brighter. With the $100 add-on Deluxe strap, comfort and ease of use are a wash, but it's +$100. The controllers (due to the weight, balance, and way they're held) are much better than Touch for gunplay, but are worse for general interactions and picking stuff up. You can play most (all?) Rift games with Revive, but performance is markedly worse than native Rift and the games are not designed for the Vive Wand's crappy grip buttons. $599 + $100 deluxe strap is very expensive for hardware that's likely going to be made outdated by competing SteamVR headsets in the next 6-8 months (LG, Pimax, perhaps some unannounced).
Rifts $399 price is great, but a third camera (+$60) is effectively a requirement for some games. Placing the 2 included cameras in opposing corners can work pretty good if you have an ideal room though. Tracking is prone to hitching and jumping from USB issues and odd arrangements of camera height and angles (which your room may necessitate), but is largely functional and still vastly superior to PSVR. FOV is a little smaller than Vive, but pixel structure/screen door effect are less noticeable. Rift's god rays (physical lens flare/bloom) are also worse than Vive. Performance in Rift native games is great and they're designed with Touch's grip mechanics in mind. Some SteamVR games don't support, are slow to support, or have buggy support for Rift/Touch, but that seems to be improving since the player base exploded with the price drop.
If you're wanting to buy right now, I would probably go for the Rift, but if you can wait 6-8 months, I am guessing you will see new SteamVR headsets shipping with Valve's new knuckle controllers and much better HMD specs than the Rift.
Extension cables come with each camera you buy separately.The only thing I don't like about my Rift is the cameras. I have two of them mounted on my walls, and I have to run those chunky wires across my walls to the computer. I also don't like keeping them plugged in because I'm paranoid about having cameras in my room.
There's also a dead spot when I'm facing away from them where my controllers lose tracking, I could fix that with a third camera but that would mean another one that I have to run across my room and I would need an extension cable too.
I also don't like the low resolution, but it's the same as the Vive so that doesn't really matter.
Other than that, it's not too uncomfortable to wear for a while, the controllers are really nice (I'm still on the AAs they came with in August and they haven't even lost one bar on the power meter.), it works fine with SteamVR, Oculus Home works alright. The cameras are really the only Rift specific complaint I have.
Extension cables come with each camera you buy separately.
I have both. My suggestion: wait for next gen.