Oculus Rift or HTC Vive?

[Samfisher]

Just now, Sakkura said:

Valve is a company a lot of people like. So what if this is a new product category?

Facebook is a company a lot of people like.  They own Oculus.  Fanboy logic would mean Oculus gets the universal praise as the absolute best experience.

[ThatOneRussian]

4 minutes ago, Sakkura said:

Valve made several of the highest rated PC games ever.

 

With the controllers out of the picture, most reviews indicate the Rift is better than the Vive.

Please remind me when they made those games?

[ThinkWithPortals]

Just now, ThatOneRussian said:

Please remind me when they made those games?

The last big hit with them was Portal 2 in 2011. There was The Lab (the Portal VR themed thing) they did this year, but that's hardly a full-length game.

[Sakkura]

Just now, Samfisher said:

Facebook is a company a lot of people like.  They own Oculus.  Fanboy logic would mean Oculus gets the universal praise as the absolute best experience.

More people hate Facebook than like it, certainly among PC enthusiasts.

Just now, ThatOneRussian said:

Please remind me when they made those games?

Portal 2 in 2011? And people were so excited for Half-Life 3 it became a meme.

[ThatOneRussian]

1 minute ago, Sakkura said:

The Rift costs $599, Touch controllers $199. Total: $798.

 

The Vive costs $799.

 

That's a price difference of $1.

Shipping? Plus I dont want to wait months to get the full package.

[ThatOneRussian]

1 minute ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

The last big hit with them was Portal 2 in 2011. There was The Lab (the Portal VR themed thing) they did this year, but that's hardly a full-length game.

THey didnt make that game. That was made by the developers of Portal Stories Mel

[Becausei'mBatman]

1 minute ago, Sakkura said:

The Rift costs $599, Touch controllers $199. Total: $798.

 

The Vive costs $799.

 

That's a price difference of $1.

Rift will have a wireless addon. I personally liked vive more, but both got boring pretty soon. I would support vive much more, it's meant to be a pc accesorry like a mouse, kb, monitor, it shouldn't have it's own closed eco system like the rift.

[ThatOneRussian]

1 minute ago, Sakkura said:

More people hate Facebook than like it, certainly among PC enthusiasts.

Portal 2 in 2011? And people were so excited for Half-Life 3 it became a meme.

That's 5 years ago. 5 years ago is a huge leap in technology.

[Sakkura]

Just now, ThatOneRussian said:

Shipping? Plus I dont want to wait months to get the full package.

Free shipping for Touch, and people who preordered Rift got free shipping on that too.

 

Touch is not months away.

[ThatOneRussian]

Just now, Sakkura said:

Free shipping for Touch, and people who preordered Rift got free shipping on that too.

 

Touch is not months away.

It has been months though. THe original rift was released ages ago.

[Sakkura]

Just now, ThatOneRussian said:

It has been months though. THe original rift was released ages ago.

Who cares about that now? OP is not going to travel back in time to the 28th of March.

[ThinkWithPortals]

3 minutes ago, ThatOneRussian said:

THey didnt make that game. That was made by the developers of Portal Stories Mel

Nope, Valve made The Lab. Look at the Steam page or the Wikipedia page.

[tlink]

14 minutes ago, Gamessys said:

Didn't really take the time to go through all 1000 games and put the ones I liked into my post.  Sorry, I'll do better next time.

thats okay, i already thought that but you can never be sure, thats why i included it

[ThatOneRussian]

5 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

Nope, Valve made The Lab. Look at the Steam page or the Wikipedia page.

Portal Stories: VR builds on the foundations of the award winning Portal 2 modification Portal Stories: Mel. Portal Stories: VR has a brand new mini story set in the Portal Universe.

Lets look at the steam page.

[ThinkWithPortals]

1 minute ago, ThatOneRussian said:

Portal Stories: VR builds on the foundations of the award winning Portal 2 modification Portal Stories: Mel. Portal Stories: VR has a brand new mini story set in the Portal Universe.

Lets look at the steam page.

That's not The Lab, that's Portal Stories VR. This is The Lab: http://store.steampowered.com/app/450390/

[ThatOneRussian]

1 minute ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

That's not The Lab, that's Portal Stories VR. This is The Lab: http://store.steampowered.com/app/450390/

That is hardly a portal game.

[ThinkWithPortals]

Just now, ThatOneRussian said:

That is hardly a portal game.

Set in Aperture Science, and the Portal universe.

[dizmo]

I wouldn't bother buying either right now. There just aren't any quality games out there. There are a few that are ok, but none of them that are worth the price of admission. If you buy it now, chances are the second iteration will be out before there are any solid, AAA titles. Then you'll be behind tech wise.

It's a pretty neat tech, but for what's out right now, I'd wait for V2. Or at the very least, for HTC to release its wireless kit.

 

36 minutes ago, Gamessys said:

On Steam alone there are over 1000 games that come up when I search "VR" but ok...

Sure but do you know how many are actually good? Next to none.

Most aren't even finished.

28 minutes ago, Gamessys said:

It doesn't seem that difficult to set up, especially with Steam VR making it look easy to just jump into VR games.

It's not easy, for the Vive at least. You have to have a big enough room, and the sensors have to be positioned just right.

You also have to mount them to the ceiling, so that can pose a whole other level of difficulty.

[Sakkura]

5 minutes ago, dizmo said:

It's not easy, for the Vive at least. You have to have a big enough room, and the sensors have to be positioned just right.

You also have to mount them to the ceiling, so that can pose a whole other level of difficulty.

You don't have to have a big enough room.

 

You don't have to mount the base stations to the ceiling.

 

It depends how big of an area you want to be able to use in VR. If you just want to sit in a chair, the setup is pretty straightforward.

[dizmo]

1 minute ago, Sakkura said:

You don't have to have a big enough room.

 

You don't have to mount the base stations to the ceiling.

 

It depends how big of an area you want to be able to use in VR. If you just want to sit in a chair, the setup is pretty straightforward.

I think that sort of defeats the purpose.

[Astonuats]

Go with vive, it's way more fun. Thats all I have to say, sorry for wasting your time.

[LucasDerpYT]

The HTC vive has a solid line up of games. Both can do some games with mods that werent created for VR (Skyrim but I would say The HTC Vive

[Sakkura]

Worth noting that practically all VR games on PC can run on both Vive and Rift (once the Touch controllers for the Rift are out). Running the Oculus Store games on Vive does require the Revive "hack," but it works.

[rockon5622]

I have used both the vive and rift with there controllers. I wear glasses as well which is a huge factor into this. 

 

Controllers: The rift touch controllers are awesome. The tracking is great and smooth. The vive's controllers are not as good in my mind.

 

Headset: The rift was much much lighter and caused less strain. Also, unlike the vive, it worked nicely with my glasses. Yes they are both designed to adjust to allow for glasses. But like the gear vr, no matter how much I adjusted the vive it still looked blurry. I have spent a long time with my gear trying to get it right but to no avail. The same issue happened with vive. But the rift worked fine. I have fairly normal glasses but this doesnt seem to affect everyone.

 

Audio: The rifts audio is decent nothing amazing. but it is light compared to a big pair of headphones. 

 

Games: This is one I cant really speak for. But, valve is generally going to give you better games. But I have no idea here as I only tried two demos.

 

I would get rift but game support is not that good. It is far more comfortable and works with my glasses. 

 

 

[WkdPaul]

Moved to PC gaming