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Planning on a Vive Purchase 4 4.76%
 
Planning on an oculus purchase 1 1.19%
 
Planning on a PSVR purchase 20 23.81%
 
Mobile VR for me. 0 0%
 
Waiting for a new iterati... 16 19.05%
 
Waiting on games. 4 4.76%
 
Don't have the money but want to buy into VR 6 7.14%
 
Not interested. 33 39.29%
 
Total:84
TallSilhouette on 06 January 2018
Puppyroach said:
TallSilhouette said:

Did I miss something? What are you referring to?

Microsoft has gone under the radar here but are doing something pretty smart IMO. In the fall creators update for Windows 10,they included software for VR capabilities. Several hardware developers like Samsung, Lenovo, Dell and so on is then licensed to create VR headsets according to basic specs provided from Microsoft. The smart approach with these headsets is that you get access to windows in VR (you can wqatch movies, play Xbox One through PC. It´s not a complete experience yet but it´s getting there) and the headsets has cameras built in which means you don´t need an external setup to use them. Microsoft calls this "Mixed Reality" which is only PR talk, but they have a really intereting approach to this.

The headsets themselves are quite affordable aswell.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-mixed-reality

That is cool if I can get the proper Windows experience in vr.

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vivster on 06 January 2018
Errorist76 said:
vivster said:

I'm waiting for the first premium headset with 4k(preferably both eyes) and built in wireless adapter. The stuff I'm gonna do with it is not GPU intensive or latency critical. I just want a clear picture and not a fucking screen door from a Virtual Boy 2.0.

So basically this.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pimax8kvr/pimax-the-worlds-first-8k-vr-headset

The Pimax has a worse screen door than PSVR. Just saying. It’s not the resolution but the screen tech that’s important and PSVR has a better , more advanced screen.

No it doesn't. Screendoor comes through seeing individual pixels. No lens ever will artificially alter the size of pixels and the pixels in PSVR are gigantic. Pimax 8K resolves that problem for the most part by throwing a lot more pixels in your face. PSVR might have a slight edge over Oculus and Vive but it cannot compete against just a massive amount of tiny pixels.

You may be thinking of Pimax 4k, which is garbage.



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Mr Puggsly on 06 January 2018

Yeah, but not interested in the current tech, don't wanna spend a lot, and the software just isn't there yet.

Maybe next gen when we see wireless headsets for $199, that would be hard to resist if there is notable software. I would probably even use it for games that don't have VR support, just as a display.



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Puppyroach on 06 January 2018
John2290 said:
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Microsoft has gone under the radar here but are doing something pretty smart IMO. In the fall creators update for Windows 10,they included software for VR capabilities. Several hardware developers like Samsung, Lenovo, Dell and so on is then licensed to create VR headsets according to basic specs provided from Microsoft. The smart approach with these headsets is that you get access to windows in VR (you can wqatch movies, play Xbox One through PC. It´s not a complete experience yet but it´s getting there) and the headsets has cameras built in which means you don´t need an external setup to use them. Microsoft calls this "Mixed Reality" which is only PR talk, but they have a really intereting approach to this.

The headsets themselves are quite affordable aswell.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-mixed-reality

Seems the PSVR headset design is the standard now, at least we now that. I like the idea of having multiple headsets in the same way you would buy a laptop or PC however I think this will lead to an unbalanced experience and lock people out of content in the same way PC games do with specs. It can't grow like this to MASS market appeal in the same way others like Day dream have the possibility of doing. 

That does look interesting for the smartphone side of VR. What I do like about Windows Mixed Reality is that it is compatible with Steam VR. That way it doesn´t really matter what headset I buy, as long as they give me access to a wide arrange of games from a unified platform. I do hope that the Mixed Reality headsets will come to Xbox One this year aswell (and I think it will). The best thing would have been if there was one standard that worked accross all platforms.



NobleTeam360 on 06 January 2018

not interested.



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S.Peelman on 06 January 2018

No, I don't want to stand around with a huge brick on my head. And from what I've seen the software is all gimmick so the novelty would wear off fast for me.



Kaneman! on 06 January 2018

No, not interested at all. I don't see the appeal of it at all, and even if I'd want to play it - I couldn't, because I'd get motion sick.
Got sick with the HTC when I tried it in 3 minutes, so there's that.



Azzanation on 06 January 2018

Its going to take me awhile to get into VR. This is more a flavour of the month thing to me. Ill probably only share my friends VR unit just for laughs and fun. Not something I can see myself taking too seriously.



Sixteenvolt420 on 06 January 2018

I was interested in PSVR originally, until i saw that they used those annoying move controllers, from PS3. I may try VR for PS4, sometime down the road.



vivster on 06 January 2018

22 people have not experienced VR porn.



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