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HTC Vive is $799, ships early April 2016
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Oh, okay. I was just wondering because I tried the SteamVR Performance program and even tho I have GTX 980 ti and i7 2600K, I got the lowest score? It says that the GPU is not good enough for VR.
Compsiox
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YES definitely. Unless the hold goes through before then.
Chairmanchuck
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740.
flaxknuckles
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If only Valve had launched this with some new games. My finger is itching to pre-order this but I need to know there's more to play on it than little minigames.
You definitely shouldn't be getting the lowest score with that (You should be getting 'Very High' - are you running any software that is limiting framerates to anything below 90fps?
Visualante2
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£4.01 shipping is really nice.
Oh god not these clowns!
Dude's a billionaire yet is still sporting a PC gaming setup that's this pedestrian? It looks like my PC setup.
I expected at least 3 30" 4K monitors and a roaring beast of a rig.
Me too, but not for that price. Maybe in a few months, in case it doesn't do as well as expected, but for that price you can buy quite a few different things that probably give me more joy
Shuggananas
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don't need big specs when you only play minecraft
Not that I know of. I only have a 95hz monitor if that matters.
Turin Turambar
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He alsi could use a better smarphone / camera.
artsi
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742€, shipping was less than half from this. HTC should really have done better.
Chairmanchuck
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Me too, but not for that price. Maybe in a few months, in case it doesn't do as well as expected, but for that price you can buy quite a few different things that probably give me more joy
Yeah. I am saying "200 more expensive is half the price of a middle-class Pascal GPU soon".
If Touch comes out and Oculus reveals their roomscale tracking, I will buy that. Just sad, since I really wanted to buy it...
I don't know if you are into space sims but Elite
angerous is a great game in VR.though you'll have to spend at least some of that $200 on Oculus Touch
Dreamwriter
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You gotta think like a rich person. This is his VR Rig, so large high-res monitors wouldn't be very useful. Those would probably be on one of his other computer setups. On this thing he's got two GPUs, that's all that's supported by VR. On his hardcore gaming rig, it's probably some beast with four Titans. And he probably has a business rig designed to be super quiet/cool.
Ninja Sharingan
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how do you get the cheaper shipping?
iceatcs
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He only need a PC that run enough for Minecraft.
bequietdrive
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Cheers for the advice RE credit cards guys. I guess I'm going to have to apply for one now and hope they don't sell out soon!
shira
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Unless they are manufacturing them in Canada
Specialmias
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Chairmanchuck
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Visualante2
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Also well documented in this Ni No Kuni GAF thread.
Uh yeah, I hope he wasn't seated on that chair when he called it awful. You'd think coding minecraft in Java would teach you a thing or two about occlusion.
flaxknuckles
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I don't know if you are into space sims but Elite
Yeah, that's not enough. I checked the Steam VR games list (http://store.steampowered.com/search/?#sort_by=_ASC&vrsupport=101,102&page=1) and I'm definitely gonna chill out and wait till next year or later to get a VR headset. Valve sucks ass at launching hardware, they should have had some games man.
Almost certainly.
Guardian Monkey
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Its a 1st gen launch. Not sure what you expected. Also with wrappers etc more stuff will be available than what you think.
flaxknuckles
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I expected a bit more content like the exclusives Rift has. I thought maybe Valve or some other companies were keeping some stuff under their sleeves but now I see that isn't the case.
Wrestlemania
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He's already said that he's tried nothing from Oculus since DK2 and that Rift is the better of the two when seated. He just doesn't trust Facebook.
Well HTC decided for me I suppose, they don't ship to Malaysia. Since when do we get anything new anyways.
Looks like I'll have to pick mine up when I get back to Australia at the end of the year when I get home. I suppose it's good in a way as we should probably know who has the lead between oculus and HTC by then.
I really hope HTC are well supported, I know oculus will definitely be around for a while but HTC I'm not so sure about but I want room scale much more than the just the pure seated experience of the oculus. I think oculus has the better quality headset though.
Looks like I'll have to pick mine up when I get back to Australia at the end of the year when I get home. I suppose it's good in a way as we should probably know who has the lead between oculus and HTC by then.
I really hope HTC are well supported, I know oculus will definitely be around for a while but HTC I'm not so sure about but I want room scale much more than the just the pure seated experience of the oculus. I think oculus has the better quality headset though.
The only time I've ever gotten dinged after taxes buying US stuff was shipping with UPS, and it happens every time with them. Hopefully we either get a different shipper or it ships from within Canada.
Specialmias
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if mass cancellations happened here oh boy
Haint
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He probably expected at least one moderate production value title from a commercial developer. Like Eve Valkyrie or Edge of Nowhere on Oculus. Doubly so with this being Valve's (a development house) brain child.
yes, the room setup tool lets you draw the space you want set for your play area, and you can always go back and change it. Theres also the option to switch between standing setup and room.
Think of where the light houses are positioned as being the maximum usable space (one at each opposite corner) since you will lose tracking once you go out past where they are placed.
Since my successful pre-order I have been looking at some VR demo trailers to get my self hyped. And then I realized something...
Since VR is blurring the lines of the digital and reality I hope devs put character creation similar to the Mass Effect Series in their games. One of the best experiences in VR was looking at my hands and body in Elite: Dangerous. Depending on the depth of the game it is going to be jarring for me to get really into a VR world and pick up an object with a white males hands. If the game is really character focused this is not big deal (sorta) But if my interaction with the world is simply a mute avatar please don't ruin immersion for the rest of us! Gender choice and skin tone slider can't be that hard to implement!
Sorry for the derail. Maybe I should have started a new thread!
Since VR is blurring the lines of the digital and reality I hope devs put character creation similar to the Mass Effect Series in their games. One of the best experiences in VR was looking at my hands and body in Elite: Dangerous. Depending on the depth of the game it is going to be jarring for me to get really into a VR world and pick up an object with a white males hands. If the game is really character focused this is not big deal (sorta) But if my interaction with the world is simply a mute avatar please don't ruin immersion for the rest of us! Gender choice and skin tone slider can't be that hard to implement!
Sorry for the derail. Maybe I should have started a new thread!
DOT DASH DOT
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Have they stopped taking preorders now? Seems to have disappeared from the site.
Charles Alan Ratliff
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Had to use a debit card that doesn't have enough money on it at the moment since the credit card wouldn't work for whatever reason. I don't see a hold or anything yet. Hoping that this means I don't have to worry about it until April.
Guardian Monkey
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LOL.. NO. You are fine.
When card expires it is valid through the end of the month( that means through April). Also this was preauthorized prior to expiration.
DOT DASH DOT
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Na seems like it's overloaded or they've sold the allocation, I got one but curious to know.
Guardian Monkey
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Still looks like orders are open. I would imagine that they would still take orders and ship when ready like oculus.
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