Chet Faliszek (Half-Life, Portal, Left 4 Dead) says VR to bring resurgence of high-end PCs in homes

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jangelelcangry said:

JEMC said:

Conina said:

JEMC said:

jangelelcangry said:
I don't know about vr future. But also, I don't understand how a $400 console can run vr and a $1k PC is not enough for vr. Can someone explain me that?

Well, to start with a $1k PC can play VR games. The min requirements for the Oculust Rift asks for a quad core CPU and a GTX 970 or an R9 290, and you can get that with less than $1k. And that PC will be able to run the VR games by itself.

These are the recommended requirements for the "full Rift experience", not the minimum requirements. I'm sure, there will be a lot of Oculus compatible games which will run okay with lower specs, especially VR Porn and VR-patched older games. ;)

https://www.oculus.com/en-us/oculus-ready-pcs/

Even better!

Although I'm not sure you'll want to try VR on a PC that "just" meets the basic needs of VR.

 

Thanks for the info and sorry for my level of misinformation. I shouldn't rely on rumors. That's not that much of power for a vr rig, that's good news.

My pleasure.

The biggest problem for VR will be the price of the headset and its accessories, not the power to run it. And with AMD and Nvidia launching new and more powerful cards next year this 2016, that will be even less of a problem.