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Prophet_M
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ok, so I'm sold on VR. At first I thought it was stupid and a waste of time and money. Then I tried Samsung VR, thought it was awesome and then I thought PC would be so much better. The next week my local Best Buy had a Oculus Rift demo setup for people to try. I LOVED IT! So now I'm planning my build for a VR pc(i5 6600, gtx 1070, and other things but I'm gonna upgrade the cpu in the future) but there is one problem, I see a lot of people going toward the Vive and some for the Rift. What is the difference? price, usability? idk and I would like to. If y'all could help me know the difference that would be great! 

 

thank you all for your opinions about both headsets and pros and cons!

(the demo for the Rift had the move controllers and those were awesome)

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I'd definitely recommend the Vive. It's the most complete package. The rift is more comfortable, but from my experience the lenses have more glare. Soon the Rift will have touch controllers and technically "roomscale" but honestly, it doesn't have near as many games supporting it. With touch, they both cost about the same.

 

So you got to decide over comfort or content. 

Wishing leads to ambition and ambition leads to motivation and motivation leads to me building an illegal rocket ship in my backyard.

 

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7 minutes ago, christianled59 said:

I'd definitely recommend the Vive. It's the most complete package. The rift is more comfortable, but from my experience the lenses have more glare. Soon the Rift will have touch controllers and technically "roomscale" but honestly, it doesn't have near as many games supporting it. With touch, they both cost about the same.

 

So you got to decide over comfort or content. 

hmm, honestly I think I would lean more toward content. 

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Just now, Prophet_M said:

hmm, honestly I think I would lean more toward content. 

Same here. Honestly, the Vive is easier to use as well. SteamVR is an awesome platform and integrates perfectly with Steam. The Vive also has more features, like a chaperone system and a passthrough mode so  you can see real life without taking off the headset. 

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1 minute ago, christianled59 said:

Same here. Honestly, the Vive is easier to use as well. SteamVR is an awesome platform and integrates perfectly with Steam. The Vive also has more features, like a chaperone system and a passthrough mode so  you can see real life without taking off the headset. 

is it a mix of AR and VR? (Vive)

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Just now, Prophet_M said:

is it a mix of AR and VR? (Vive)

Gameplay is all VR. But you can set it up to use the camera have AR when you get close to your wall so you don't bump into it. 

 

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Just now, Prophet_M said:

yeah, ill end up with the Vive

Awesome. Add me on steam: christianled59

 

I'm a dev, I'll send a few keys your way. 

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38 minutes ago, christianled59 said:

Awesome. Add me on steam: christianled59

 

I'm a dev, I'll send a few keys your way. 

Hey not trying to mooch here but if you need someone to help test and give feedback I'd love to help. I have a Vive running on a GTX 1070 and i5-6600k with a full size room-scale setup.

Desktop: i5-6600k w/ be quiet! Pure Rock cooler. | Gigabyte GTX 1070 Gaming G1 | ASRock Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming K4 mobo | Patriot Viper 16GB DDR4-3000 | 240GB Sandisk SSD | Corsair 500r Case (White) | HTC Vive!! | Shitty Insignia monitor

Peripherals: Razer BlackWidow Chroma | Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum | Sennheiser 558

Phone: Nexus 5x
Tablet: Amazon Fire tablet (2015)

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1 minute ago, ZimFreak said:

Hey not trying to mooch here but if you need someone to help test and give feedback I'd love to help. I have a Vive running on a GTX 1070 and i5-6600k with a full size room-scale setup.

I'd love the feedback. Send me a request on steam. :)

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4 minutes ago, christianled59 said:

I'd love the feedback. Send me a request on steam. :)

Awesome. I'm at work now so I'll add you later tonight.

Desktop: i5-6600k w/ be quiet! Pure Rock cooler. | Gigabyte GTX 1070 Gaming G1 | ASRock Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming K4 mobo | Patriot Viper 16GB DDR4-3000 | 240GB Sandisk SSD | Corsair 500r Case (White) | HTC Vive!! | Shitty Insignia monitor

Peripherals: Razer BlackWidow Chroma | Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum | Sennheiser 558

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52 minutes ago, christianled59 said:

Awesome. Add me on steam: christianled59

 

I'm a dev, I'll send a few keys your way. 

thanks, I don't do much gaming now because my Asus G750 is now broken(about to be) and currently I have a 2016 MacBook m3, soon to be upgraded to a MacBook Pro, but ill have the gaming pc built early next year

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