oculas rift versus vive

[Darth Wilhelm]

I am wondering what is better, vive or rift?

[CyberFern0]

Just now, william axton hylle said:

I am wondering what is better, vive or rift?

Easy

HTC Vive

[owluitar]

I get less nauseated from an HTC Vive, but I've heard from others that say the opposite. 

[ARikozuM]

I'm going to tell you the honest, simple truth for which is best. 

 

Are you ready? Truly?

 

Both.

 

That's it. Try one and see if you like it. If not, return the first and get the second. 

 

Edit: I have the Vive, and have spent the summer with the Rift, and I can vouch for both. @Sakkura has the Rift and can vouch for that one. They're both great for room-scale, simulations, movies, and "other movies" that may or may not be against Community Standards.

[Streetguru]

31 minutes ago, william axton hylle said:

I am wondering what is better, vive or rift?

Vive 100% it's controllers are what you need for better VR
 

but VR is still a meme and really not worth buying into IMO.

[Daniel644]

can't say, I haven't even got my new Vive setup yet (waiting on my brother to come install the new outlets/circuit  I've wired in because 1 wall in the room didn't have any outlets at all) , but HTC is running a Vive/GTX1070 Founders bundle right now for 799, you can turn around and sell the 1070 and end up getting the Vive for basically the same cost as the Rift instead of 200 bucks more depending on how high the bids go on Ebay.

 

I am surprised by how light the Vive controllers are for there size.

[Sakkura]

2 hours ago, ARikozuM said:

Edit: I have the Vive, and have spent the summer with the Rift, and I can vouch for both. @Sakkura has the Rift and can vouch for that one. They're both great for room-scale, simulations, movies, and "other movies" that may or may not be against Community Standards.

Yep, they're both very good. I would say the $200 price difference is a bit unjustified. Hopefully HTC can shave that down a little, because the Vive is a good product when the price is right.

2 hours ago, Streetguru said:

Vive 100% it's controllers are what you need for better VR
 

but VR is still a meme and really not worth buying into IMO.

The Oculus controllers are actually better than the Vive controllers. Valve is working on next-gen controllers that will be even better, but there's no word on when they might get released.

[Streetguru]

2 minutes ago, Sakkura said:

 

Thought the rift still lacked like whole room tracking

[Sakkura]

2 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Thought the rift still lacked like whole room tracking

That was added a year ago.

[Daniel644]

15 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Thought the rift still lacked like whole room tracking

if you add an extra sensor or 2 you get room scale. and the cost for that extra sensor closes some of the 200 dollar gap.

[007Mix]

Personally i have the HTC Vive and one of my good friends has the Rift, i will say that if i was gonna buy my vr headset today i would still go with the vive, but the rift is still really good and personally feels nicer imo than the vive out of the box (i got the deluxe audio strap for the vive tho and if you add that then its a lot more expensive than the rift haha but it's worth it) anyway the rift has some really good controllers as well, but the tracking is not as solid on the rift even with the 3 sensors from my experience.

 

Also there is a $140 price gap between vive and roomscale rift (and if you want the deluxe audio strap then the gap is $240)