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Re:How to Get into VR by greggman on Thursday May 04, 2017 @01:18AM (#14262611)
Vive's works with multiple people in the same space, Rift's does not. So there is a relevance to someone considering an HDM today.

There are VR experiences were 2+ people are in the same sim in the same space. There are also VR spaces (arcades, tradeshows) where if there are 2 rifts near each other (2 adjacent booths) the rifts interfere with each other

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Re:How to Get into VR by meheleventyone on Thursday May 04, 2017 @02:50AM (#14263011)
The Vive also interferes if two different sets are setup such that the lighthouses overlap. Two of my coworkers had to setup a curtain because of it.
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Re:How to Get into VR by greggman on Saturday May 06, 2017 @03:36AM (#14279181)
You don't need 2 lighthouses for multiple vives
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Re:How to Get into VR by meheleventyone on Monday May 08, 2017 @06:17AM (#14290447)
Indeed but that's not always feasible and still doesn't alter the fact that the lighthouses interfere with one another if the laser scanned regions overlap. Hence the curtain.
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