Vive or Rift

[DirtyDane]

So, while I haven't upgraded my GPU just yet, I will be purchasing one from a friend for cheap in the coming days. I want to get into VR, but I dont have very much space for room scale stuff. This means ideally I want to have an entirely desk based setup that i can use sitting down. 

 

What are your recommendations? would a Rift or a Vive suit this better, and why so? 

[Crunchy Dragon]

The Rift would suit your use case better, the Vive was designed to be used in a full room setting more than the Rift was.

[QuirkyRobot]

8 minutes ago, DirtyDane said:

So, while I haven't upgraded my GPU just yet, I will be purchasing one from a friend for cheap in the coming days. I want to get into VR, but I dont have very much space for room scale stuff. This means ideally I want to have an entirely desk based setup that i can use sitting down. 

 

What are your recommendations? would a Rift or a Vive suit this better, and why so? 

 

[DirtyDane]

3 minutes ago, QuirkyRobot said:

 

Thats great and all, but I'm kinda looking for more than just LTT's opinion on this, I was hoping to hear what others in the community thought. 

[DirtyDane]

10 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

The Rift would suit your use case better, the Vive was designed to be used in a full room setting more than the Rift was.

how much space do i need to make for the cameras that the rift uses? Will they work if placed maybe 2ft back? I dont have a very deep desk as most of it is taken up by monitors. 

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, DirtyDane said:

how much space do i need to make for the cameras that the rift uses? Will they work if placed maybe 2ft back? I dont have a very deep desk as most of it is taken up by monitors. 

I think the last Rift setup I saw at a desk had the cameras about that far back. Honestly, if you're going to be at a desk, you don't really need more than 1 camera.

[DirtyDane]

2 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I think the last Rift setup I saw at a desk had the cameras about that far back. Honestly, if you're going to be at a desk, you don't really need more than 1 camera.

Alrighty, thanks. Thats good news to know. I originally thought the touch controllers required 2 cameras along with the rift itself. If i can get by with only one camera that may make things cheaper. 

[DragonTamer1]

My room is 11ft x 11ft and with a bed, desk and dresser it leaves me with about 4ft x 5ft of open space. My rift does very well here and also allows me to sit at the desk for games that don't require standing. It's also cheaper than the vive which is the main reason I chose it to begin with.

[Acrain7]

personally, id recommend the vive, even though there is a lacking of games (that goes for all forms of VR), it still is the best value choice.

 

but if im honest, wait a few years. or maybe 27, until something like this comes out... 

 

(i in fact actually do believe the way VR has to go is standalone headsets, rigging allowing you to sit down in vr and etcetera, as well as gloves instead of controllers. if the world were perfect, we would also have "bracelets" on our ankles for foot movement, and walking in place would work in vr, as an omni-directional treadmill is literally impossible... i think?) 

 

((cameras would still be an option, but possibly if there was a band that wrapped around your head with possibly low-power lasers or something that would scan your room, so when you move and the distance between the wall and the headset increases/decreases, those lasers could "sense" that or pick that up and translate that to movement in the game... i think i might be on to something with this! ))

[DragonTamer1]

1 minute ago, Genericplane said:

personally, id recommend the vive, even though there is a lacking of games (that goes for all forms of VR), it still is the best value choice.

 

but if im honest, wait a few years. or maybe 27, until something like this comes out... 

 

(i in fact actually do believe the way VR has to go is standalone headsets, rigging allowing you to sit down in vr and etcetera, as well as gloves instead of controllers. if the world were perfect, we would also have "bracelets" on our ankles for foot movement, and walking in place would work in vr, as an omni-directional treadmill is literally impossible... i think?) 

You can do full motion tracking with the Vive, it has ankle trackers. Both the Rift and the Vive can use an xbone connect connected for improvised motion tracking, though the rift is actually more flexible than the Vive at this allowing a wider range of connects to be used.

[Jtalk4456]

3 minutes ago, Genericplane said:

as an omni-directional treadmill is literally impossible... i think?) 

https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/05/kat-walk-mini-promises-a-compact-affordable-vr-treadmill-for-in-game-movement/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S0EshM9lM4

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FAqCxsHk.png&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Foculus%2Fcomments%2F6nb0j5%2Fthe_cyberstrider_omnidirectional_treadmill_from%2F&docid=VrYcdCbdSu4n8M&tbnid=Up06wx5m0q6llM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwiAwO6B06baAhXFwrwKHRdMDV0QMwhlKAcwBw..i&w=531&h=594&safe=off&bih=769&biw=1440&q=omnidirectional treadmill&ved=0ahUKEwiAwO6B06baAhXFwrwKHRdMDV0QMwhlKAcwBw&iact=mrc&uact=8

 

http://www.walkmouse.com/

 

https://www.stridervr.com/

 

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/katvr/kat-walk-a-new-virtual-reality-locomotion-device

 

 

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F1%2F13%2FVirtusphere.jpg%2F1200px-Virtusphere.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FVirtuSphere&docid=lBT9G4d7icxmuM&tbnid=feURuLClBr3bRM%3A&vet=12ahUKEwiHzrCR06baAhVMyrwKHQkgDyA4ZBAzKF8wX3oECAAQYg..i&w=1200&h=1600&safe=off&bih=769&biw=1440&q=omnidirectional treadmill&ved=2ahUKEwiHzrCR06baAhVMyrwKHQkgDyA4ZBAzKF8wX3oECAAQYg&iact=mrc&uact=8

 

http://nchsbands.info/new/omnidirectional-treadmill.html

 

not possible you say?

 

[Snapperx]

@Jtalk4456 Thank you for posting that. I was going to point to the omni which was around for some time already.

[Drak3]

Having quite a few hours with both under my belt, I'd go with the Rift. Controls are leagues better.

[Count2G]

ay yo wuddup my dudes. Need some help really bad.

 

Just bought a Rift with the controllers and everything but for some damn reason, the OculusSetup.exe application won't run for me... At all, it just crashes right after I run it, doesn't show any window or any error, just a windows error message. I checked the log files, all looks fine, nothing shows an error. I'm at a loss and their support isn't helping me, nor are their forums.

 

It's been 2 days...

[DirtyDane]

3 hours ago, Count2G said:

ay yo wuddup my dudes. Need some help really bad.

 

Just bought a Rift with the controllers and everything but for some damn reason, the OculusSetup.exe application won't run for me... At all, it just crashes right after I run it, doesn't show any window or any error, just a windows error message. I checked the log files, all looks fine, nothing shows an error. I'm at a loss and their support isn't helping me, nor are their forums.

 

It's been 2 days...

I would take this to the troubleshooting forum here instead of this thread actually, you might get better results. 

[Count2G]

On 4/7/2018 at 12:53 AM, DirtyDane said:

I would take this to the troubleshooting forum here instead of this thread actually, you might get better results. 

Lol yeah, I didn't realize where I was posting in the mental state I was in. Thanks anyways