The VR Thread
 

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So a friend of mine works somewhere that got a PSVR dev kit and despite being pretty skeptical, it blew me away. So now all the higher end players are known, here's the skinny:

VIVE

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The Steam VR machine. The most high end in terms of specs and technology. You can walk around in this one with the lighthouses you place around the room you're in. You need a GTX 970 or AMD 290 at a minimum too, but man, you're at the top of the line. This beast will cost you $800 for the headset, lighthouses and touch controllers though....

OCCULUS

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Same PC specs as the Vive and most of the specs of the actual headset are very similar, but technically not as advanced. The headset lacks the camera to press a button to see the real world there's no motion controller solution yet (but coming) but that means a lower price. It's $599 with an XB1 controller, sensor and remote.

PSVR

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My money has gone to this for ease of use. The headset is a comprmise witha lower resolution compared to Occulus and Vive, but is using real RGB pixels to get around this and even though the PS4 is lower tech, it has technology to get around that and boost a 60fps game to a visible 90 or 120fps. $399 will get you the extra box needed to make it run, headphones for 3D positional audio and the headset. Unfortunatley, you do need the PS Camera to make it run and although every game has to have Dualshock 4 support, you might want a couple of Playstation move controllers too.

Honestly, after using one, I'm pretty damn excited for VR. Fully expecting it to mostly be little games to start with (Other than RIGS, which is an online VR only FPS), but playing these little games is incredible. Really hoping demo stations get rolled out because it is well worth experiencing it for yourself.

As I was typing this out, Sony North America said pre-orders for that region start on 22nd March at 7am PDT... but it's only for a $499 bundle of the headset, 2 move controllers, camera and a game collection called VR Worlds.

You mean March?

That's the month.

I was tempted to go that route, RDD. TEMPTED!

But I left it for someone else.

Just how much porn are you going to watch before/inbetween "games"?

Please document your experiences in a journal on the forum.

"Hasney's Jerkatorium Journal"

or

"Hasney's World Wide Wank"

Knowing Sony, it'll probably only work in the 360 media player. But dodgy games with no nudity are coming in Japan, like Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 and Summer Lesson.

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I think I need my women to be real though.

Google Cardboard with phones will do that too.

Remember when you were a kid and your parents would tell you not to sit so close to the screen or you'll ruin your eyes.... now we are about to literally strap screens to our faces... seems good....

Your (and my) parents lied.

Are you saying, drave, that our parents weren't right to warn us about the Nintendo Virtual Boy? Because our parents were right to warn us about the Nintendo Virtual Boy. Even if their reasons for warning us were the wrong one.

No, it turns out the red in the Virtual Boy could actually do damage if used for a prolonged period. Luckily, not many games made people want to use it for a long time.

Yeah, I'm just glad I never had to experience it firsthand. Remember watching AVGN's review some time ago now, and I'm homestly surprised at how many titles were actually put out for it before its demise.

Amazon sold out of the PSVR bundle with the camera and controllers in about 10 minutes. Now has this message:

Please Note: Due to high demand and limited availability of this product, we have sold through our initial allocation of the PlayStation VR Launch Bundle. We expect a second wave of allocation at some point in the future so please sign up for email availability notifications to ensure you stay up-to-date.

Core version has been announced with the basics.

That goes up for pre order next Tuesday.


http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/03/...tart-next-week

PornHub just launched a free VR version. Just saying.

For those that went with the Kickstarter option for the Oculus Rift, Oculus announced those headsets have currently been delayed till at least June for best case scenario and TBA for worst case. Was originally planned to arrive around the same time as the Rift's launch before the delay occurred.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...r-backers-tbd/


Oculus is also dealing with Congressional issues in regards to privacy concerns after a US Senator wanted to know what the company is doing to keep private information secure and how they are using that information.
http://www.destructoid.com/united-st...s-354703.phtml

If No Man's Sky gets VR support down the line then I am absolutely jumping on this train.

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