reportedly, ValvE's & HTC's Vive will hover around 1500$ price point

[Commander Llama]

Aaaaaaaand not getting a Vive!

 

Or probably any VR device for the foreseeable.

[Xyes]

Seriously guys, you're believing this article?  This article's "source" also claims:

 

The Oculus Rift, which has investment from Google, has started pre-order sales with a price tag of US$599. The Sony PlayStation VR is expected to be priced at US$1,125.

 

If you want to see the source Android Authority is using:

 

http://focustaiwan.tw/news/ast/201601120023.aspx

 

Which has a slew of bad info like the one I put up.

[Guest]

Also one thing overlooked is there has to be a good amount of software for it to make people buy it. But it can't just be software that is like a normal game with VR, it's going to have to be a game that fully uses VR. Take the WiiU for example, a lot of games only used that touchpad a s a gimmick and rarely used it proply. 

[Betabot]

Also one thing overlooked is there has to be a good amount of software for it to make people buy it. But it can't just be software that is like a normal game with VR, it's going to have to be a game that fully uses VR. Take the WiiU for example, a lot of games only used that touchpad a s a gimmick and rarely used it proply. 

 

I thought the touchpads main selling point was to be a secondary portable screen, that you can keep playing the game if the main screen couldn't be on. Sure other games actually added stuff to it while both screens where activate, but I don't think that was the main purpose.

[CoffeeBlack]

Ford model T

Not a very good comparison. Model T wasn't even close to a first gen car. Cars were pretty refined for the technology level at that point. What was a first gen product was the model T assembly line.

[Belgarathian]

Ford model T

 

 

First affordable car, not first car.  Big difference.

 

 

Not a very good comparison. Model T wasn't even close to a first gen car. Cars were pretty refined for the technology level at that point. What was a first gen product was the model T assembly line.

 

Model T is a horrible comparison... It wasn't the first car, as pointed out, it was the first mass produced car. The Model T even managed to set back EVs by 80 years or so. 

[DXMember]

RiP VR

 

Aaaaaaaand not getting a Vive!

 

Or probably any VR device for the foreseeable.

top kek... oculus and vive is so 2000 and late

they are not the only HMDs on the market, they just have the greatest hype

 

here, get this, thank me later:

www.osvr.org/hardware/buy/

[Betabot]

top kek... oculus and vive is so 2000 and late

they are not the only HMDs on the market, they just have the greatest hype

here, get this, thank me later:

www.osvr.org/hardware/buy/

Except that the OSVR isn't close to releasing and that version has a max fps of 60 (eww).

[DXMember]

Except that the OSVR isn't close to releasing and that version has a max fps of 60 (eww).

what's oculus and vive at? like 90 tops?

also those are dev kits for osvr as well and osvr is modular meaning you can mount any display to it

 

btw, since vive is at 1500$ that's a realm of StarVR and I'd better go for that with their 1440p resolution per eye and 180fov

i know oculus is fhd both eyes combined which is bull shit for 600$ haven't payed attention to vives tech specs but I doubt they are any close to StarVR

[Ashaira]

1st gen excuse is absolutely bullcrap

and the comparison to 3D printers .. wow; 3D printers have a wider use than a PC peripheral

when you build something, market it at a general audience and claim mass adoption, then you bloody well price it accordingly

what's this? something we actually agree on?

[Commander Llama]

top kek... oculus and vive is so 2000 and late

they are not the only HMDs on the market, they just have the greatest hype

 

here, get this, thank me later:

www.osvr.org/hardware/buy/

 

What I might actually do is get nothing and just watch all these thunderheads smash into each other in the fuckfest we're all going to remember fondly in 2017 and onwards...

 

Unless my school department wants to fund me a free dev set, of course... That'd be grand just to screw around with.

[EpicAdom]

Waiting for V3 bc V2 is still gonna be too expensive....

[DarkBlade2117]

I think I'd rather buy 3x 1440p 60hz IPS 27 inch panels w/ Sennheisers HD598's, a bluesnowball, Mionix Castor and Ducky Shine 4/5. For the same price lol

[Humbug]

I think I'd rather buy 3x 1440p 60hz IPS 27 inch panels

RIP 750ti

[DarkBlade2117]

RIP 750ti

Soon to be 290x lol, though wouldn't use it for surround sound. Mainly multitasking, with college I have trouble with 2 monitors, no idea how some of these college students work on a 13-15inch laptop

[LAwLz]

I know this is a bad representation, but look at the difference in complexity between DK2 and CV1.

Its kinda a different process of making CV1 over DK2 yeah?

That is not a bad representation. It a horrendous representation. That comparison is completely meaningless.

 

 

The screen that goes into an iPhone goes into other phones, its a similar display to a bunch of phones, its not a display made for 1 device.

Plus all the components that aren't really going into any other devices. the Lens system and all the associated precise mechanics behind that, all the electronics behind a dedicated low latency camera system? It doesn't seem too far fetched to me that this is going to all end up costing a lot. Especially for a company at its first full scale consumer release. 

Nope, the screen for the iPhone is just as custom made as the Oculus Rift's screen.

if you want to talk about the lens system then how about we talk about the camera lens on the iPhone? That is extremely high precision as well. The "low latency camera" system is just a regular camera with a filter that blocks out visible light. The rest is done in software by your computer. The filter costs maybe 1 dollar. Apple reportedly has 800 people working on the iPhone camera. The entire Oculus company has about 200 employees.

 

The only reasons why you don't think it is far fetched are:

1) You don't know what parts actually cost.

2) You are overestimating the complexity of the Rift.

3) You are underestimating the complexity of phones.

 

 

 

 

Not a very good comparison. Model T wasn't even close to a first gen car. Cars were pretty refined for the technology level at that point. What was a first gen product was the model T assembly line.

The Oculus Rift is not "even close to first gen VR" either in that case. We have had VR devices for over 40 years now.

[Mihle]

That is not a bad representation. It a horrendous representation. That comparison is completely meaningless.

 

 

Nope, the screen for the iPhone is just as custom made as the Oculus Rift's screen.

if you want to talk about the lens system then how about we talk about the camera lens on the iPhone? That is extremely high precision as well. The "low latency camera" system is just a regular camera with a filter that blocks out visible light. The rest is done in software by your computer. The filter costs maybe 1 dollar. Apple reportedly has 800 people working on the iPhone camera. The entire Oculus company has about 200 employees.

 

The only reasons why you don't think it is far fetched are:

1) You don't know what parts actually cost.

2) You are overestimating the complexity of the Rift.

3) You are underestimating the complexity of phones.

 

 

 

 

The Oculus Rift is not "even close to first gen VR" either in that case. We have had VR devices for over 40 years now.

you are underestimating the complexity of the Rift, Iphone screen is much worse than Rifts, less pixels, worse colours, not OLED, not as low latency, and more. and Iphone screen is sold millions of, Rifts screen isnt and are not going to sell as well. same with the lens, the lens on the rift have to be better than a lens on a freaking phone camera. If a lens is little bit wrong on a camera, you will not notice it as much on the pictures, as you do if the same amount of wrong on a VR headset. the amount of lenses sold is also true here.

 

More of a product sold = the production of more and in a better way = less price per product.

 

Oculus Rift CV1 or HTC Vive isnt going to be mainstream, and at least Oculus do know that. every time new tech is coming out, it is always going to be more expensive, because of custom made stuff and the product is sold less, and then it gets better over time. thats just how it is.

the tech that is in the VR headsets now is going to be cheaper, but that not right now.

 

2016 is not the year VR get mainstream. And the mainstreamness is not going to start with the High end products like Rift or Vive, its going to start with the lower end ones, like the ones you use with your phone. You probably wont play VR games at your phone, but VR movies and stuff on phone VR is going to happen.