VR basics.

TheEvanFactor · October 20, 2018

I was looking to get into VR but I have no idea how to start.

what things do I need?

what headset is the best value?

etc.

Thanks

Slottr · October 20, 2018

What do you have for a pc? What are you looking to spend?

TheEvanFactor · October 20, 2018

I have a rx 580 and would like to spend around 300-200 dollars.

Slottr · October 20, 2018

7 minutes ago, TheEvanFactor said:

I have a rx 580 and would like to spend around 300-200 dollars.

Then don't bother wasting money on VR. Even an oculus, which just comes with the necessities for VR, is still 400$ USD.

Honik · November 15, 2018

On 10/20/2018 at 11:25 PM, TheEvanFactor said:

I was looking to get into VR but I have no idea how to start.

what things do I need?

what headset is the best value?

etc.

Thanks

200-300 $ is not much, don't expect miracles. You have ok pc though, so it's just question of headset. I'll omit smartphone Trinius and other ways to use smartphone as your headset, because your experience would probably not be very good and you still would need to solve hand controllers problem.

With your budget, I would go for PS VR with PS Move controllers complet. They can be run on your pc no problem and using Steam with SteamVR, you should be able to try quite a few free titles (definitely try VRChat though). This setup can run between 200 and 300 dollars and is good enough entry level. It requires bit of configuration, walkthrough here.