WYP
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This price reduction will be taking place over the next six weeks.
Read more on Oculus' temporary price reduction.
Read more on Oculus' temporary price reduction.
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Oculus reduces Rift + Touch bundle pricing by £200 in the UK
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Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Damn, I would really love to get this, This is the price that VR headsets should be.
Hurry up pay cheque ^_^
Hurry up pay cheque ^_^
AlienALX
Well-known member
Seriously take it from some one who's tried it - don't.
Even with a DK2 the shortcomings are obvious. There's hardly anything worth more than five minutes of your time and anything that is is incredibly short in supply or costs a fortune (£40 for a bird over paris game).
I used my DK2 for about two weeks. I "ooo" and "ahhh"d a few times and that was it. It's been collecting dust for me ever since.
Not only that but Oculus could be in trouble with all of the lawsuits and etc going on. £400 is a massive risk, because if they tank it and the Oculus store goes you will be limited to Steam only. And gaming on a VR headset (unless it's Elite Dangerous) is horrible. The dash and cockpit of a car for example look fantastic. The road ahead and all of the graphics outside the car? it's like 640x480 all over again. It's so poor that I actually felt sick because it was so fuzzy and it gave me an immense headache after about an hour.
Even with a DK2 the shortcomings are obvious. There's hardly anything worth more than five minutes of your time and anything that is is incredibly short in supply or costs a fortune (£40 for a bird over paris game).
I used my DK2 for about two weeks. I "ooo" and "ahhh"d a few times and that was it. It's been collecting dust for me ever since.
Not only that but Oculus could be in trouble with all of the lawsuits and etc going on. £400 is a massive risk, because if they tank it and the Oculus store goes you will be limited to Steam only. And gaming on a VR headset (unless it's Elite Dangerous) is horrible. The dash and cockpit of a car for example look fantastic. The road ahead and all of the graphics outside the car? it's like 640x480 all over again. It's so poor that I actually felt sick because it was so fuzzy and it gave me an immense headache after about an hour.
g0ggles1994
Active member
Seconded. The problem I find with VR games at the moment is that they're either badly made (In the case of you example with the car simulator) or they have about an hour's worth of playtime. It's the primary reason I won't get a VR headset, the games available just don't make it worth it. Yea Arktika.1 looks brilliant (I'm biased because it's 4A Games making it anyway) but that doesn't warrant the price tag. That and I'd never buy an Oculus anyway
jimma47
New member
At $400 US ($550 AUD) I'd give it a try. At $1200 Australian which is where the Vive is priced at the moment I'm not going to outlay that without a decent demo. I'm worried about motion sickness etc. Although a lot of people in a sim racing group i'm in comment that the immersion more than makes up for the loss of detail. I do like my eye candy turned up to max though... Maybe next gen.
