Budget VR build

[Commander_Dork]

Howdy! I'm curious if anyone has experience running VR games on a quad core cpu. I here people nagging about how 6cores is bare minimum and I want to know by personal experience. Is something like an i7 6700 paired with the GTX 1070 enough? I mean if it's only running at 72FPS capped will it cause stuttering or any issues like that?  My main concern is cpu, since I'm only looking for low to medium VR settings which a GTX 1070 can provide will an i7 6700 be enough?

 

[The Hope]

If you go to most game fairs you see that there is often not one AAA VR game being developed in most countries around the world.

 

It's a dead platform because it's too expensive for the average person to buy VR glasses and a high-end CPU/GPU.

 

And because most people don't like to completely isolate themselves from everything going on around them.

 

https://boilingsteam.com/bitsummit-2023-overview/

10 years ago VR was seen in quite a few places in the show. Maybe a good 30% of the show had indie devs focusing on VR. This time, you had to look for a long time to find any kind of VR title. I think I saw two in the whole show, and they did not seem to garner much attention. This goes a long way to show that the VR market is just not there. If devs are not even trying to make VR games right now, this means there’s nothing much to expect a few years down the road either. For all the hype that was around VR in the mid 2010s, this is yet another example that hype is not enough to ignite the reality of a technology that does not take off among end users. I still hear and see that there are die-hard believers in VR, but it’s clearly a small niche of gamers at this stage.

[Commander_Dork]

Whether it's a small niche or not that's not my issue... I want to know what will run it. Or is the point you're making that since AAA titles aren't being made most games will run fine on low end hardware since the games available on PC VR are from awhile back?