Oculus Rift Review: VR’s Rising Star Isn’t Ready for the Mainstream

Re:Oculus Rift Review: VR’s Rising Star Isn’t Ready for the ... by MBCook on Monday March 28, 2016 @12:35PM (#11375292)

If any go mainstream it will be the PS VR. Sony has 30m consoles out there, and it only costs $500 to get setup with PS VR. Total price is about $800-900.

Plug and play, games work great because they're designed for the system.

On the other hand with the Rift and the Vive you need a PC which has to be up to spec, the hardware is more expensive, etc.

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Re:Oculus Rift Review: VR’s Rising Star Isn’t Ready for the ... by Retric on Monday March 28, 2016 @01:30PM (#11375734)

I was looking though the Steam Survey and on the nVidia side ~7.5 million people have a nVidia GPU fast enough for the Rift. Add ATI and people upgrading this year and I think the market may be similar sized.

The real question IMO, is if you own both which do you add VR to?

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Re:Oculus Rift Review: VR’s Rising Star Isn’t Ready for the ... by MBCook on Monday March 28, 2016 @01:44PM (#11375860)

For me the answer is easy. I don't have a good PC (just a 5 year old laptop that I don't use much) so going with a Rift or a Vive is a huge investment and requires me getting back into keeping a PC setup just for VR.

The PS VR is cheaper and I already keep that equipment setup. I don't need to worry about specs/etc. Plug and play. Plus the PS VR is cheaper.

For me I'd go with PS VR and see how that goes. If I really liked it then I might buy a Vive for my (we'll pretend I own a) gaming PC. I could sell the PS VR to offset the cost.

Don't own a console? Already hard-core into PC? Then just going straight to Vive/Rift makes plenty of sense if you're willing to buy in.

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