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HTC Vive Reviews Thread

Shadowmask72
Honored Visionary

Here's a thread for HTC Vive reviews (please post any you find) as the official launch is hours away.

Note: If you're not interested in the Vive on the Oculus forums then don't click the topic or read it.

Cramgaming.com

https://youtu.be/wB2qXp2SSNI



Destructoid

"VR is here, and I have been sold as a believer. While the Oculus is a very strong VR headset, the Vive feels like it's in a league of its own comparatively. The big sticking issue is how the market reacts to the price long term, and if development of new games maintains a consistent pace."

Kotaku

While the Vive’s best moments are some of the coolest I’ve experienced in video games, I can’t recommend purchasing it right now. You’d be spending $800 on something that’s going to be much better after months’ worth of software (and maybe even hardware) revisions, and there currently aren’t enough great games to justify the investment.

The Vive really is something you should see for yourself, but if you want to try it, go to a store that’s demoing it, or make friends with somebody who already ordered one. I’m excited about what the future holds for the Vive, but the future’s not here yet. 


The Verge 8/10


    GOOD STUFF

  • Lots of innovative motion control-based games and experiences
  • Emphasizes motion control and body movement
  • Rich, customizable user interface
  • Solid construction
  • BAD STUFF

  • Heavy and ungainly
  • User experience can be glitchy and confusing
  • Many games still feel unfinished
  • Highest total cost for a VR headset


POLYGON 8/10

So yes, the Vive asks a lot from anyone buying the platform, but it gives just as much back, if not more so. Everyone has the same reaction after a demo, in our experience: They remark on how complicated it seems and how little they’d want to set one up in their own home, and then they get wide-eyed and want to tell you all about how amazed they are by the experience. Valve’s challenge is to get the second part of that reaction to overrule the first, and the company will have an uphill battle on its hands, but it’s off to a very promising start.

GAMESPOT

Before you take the plunge with Vive, you have to prepare yourself accordingly. Unlike Rift, Vive comes with strict spatial requirements if you plan to utilize its hardware's full potential. It's not the easiest suite of hardware to set up, nor is it as refined as Rift, but Vive delivers the most advanced VR experience to date, a luxury that comes at a cost and with compromises. Where Rift feel's like a VR headset built for mainstream consumption, Vive caters to the hardcore crowd that will stop at nothing to get the best VR experience. Over time, Oculus can presumably catch up when it releases its Touch controllers and sells individual sensors to expand Rift's interactivity and motion-tracking capabilities. But for people who can't wait, who are willing to go the extra mile right now, Vive is the only way to experience today's most advanced VR technology from the comfort of home.

ENGADGET 

The Vive is no doubt the geekiest thing I have in my home right now -- and that's saying something. It's an impressive effort by HTC, which has had a rough few years in mobile, and Valve. It's oh-so-close to being the Holy Grail of VR experiences. It's just too bad that ergonomics get in the way of truly enjoying it.

At the same time, I'm sure there's a market for the Vive, even in its current incarnation. Hardware geeks are known for sacrificing their bodies for the glory of technology, and I'm sure they won't have a problem with a few aches and pains for glorious, immersive VR.

Tested - 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiDBp6OnsKY



IGN Review - 9.3/10 


AMAZING

The Vive's room-scale VR and motion-tracked controllers make it an incredibly powerful system.


Pros:
  • Amazing VR
  • Room scale
  • Motion controllers
  • Comfortable
Cons:
  • Tracking issues



System Specs: MSI NVIDIA RTX 4090 , i5 13700K CPU, 32GB DDR 4 RAM, Win 11 64 Bit OS.
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Zenbane
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So let's bring things up to speed...

So far:

1) Since the release of the PlayStation-VR, people like Shadowmask have sold their Vive.

2) HTC Vive released "Vive Pre" and has discussed a new HMD and controllers.

3) HTC Vive has won about 3 awards (Gadget of the Year, and 2 others)

4) More people are discussing the fact that Valve, not HTC, owns the patents on the Vive; where HTC is just a manufacturer.

5) Google launched Earth-VR which only works on the Vive right now (with future plans for other vendors soon)


That about cover it?

Zoomie
Expert Trustee
Vive's Gen 2 controllers look a lot like Touch, which means these two systems should remain compatible for the near future.  This should bring Vive back to rough parity with Oculus + Touch once they release.
HTC has also announced a wireless solution but we'll have to wait and see if it delivers in terms of resolution and latency.  Very exciting if it works well.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C Clarke

Shadowmask72
Honored Visionary
IMO. The wireless solution is only so good if you're ready to leap into roomscale wave shooter type games like Raw Data  of which there are plenty of those. These games can get tiring and old after so long though and not something to invest many hours in at a time. Seated or standing games or those which require less drastic movements like Audio shield the wire isn't an issue at all (I'm sure many will agree once they play with Touch).  

Bit cold to resurrect this thread though. You guys must be bored.


System Specs: MSI NVIDIA RTX 4090 , i5 13700K CPU, 32GB DDR 4 RAM, Win 11 64 Bit OS.


Zoomie said:

Vive's Gen 2 controllers look a lot like Touch, which means these two systems should remain compatible for the near future.  This should bring Vive back to rough parity with Oculus + Touch once they release.
HTC has also announced a wireless solution but we'll have to wait and see if it delivers in terms of resolution and latency.  Very exciting if it works well.



So how much is the price of the Vive now?

About £1,200?
Big PC, all the headsets, now using Quest 3

Zoomie
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Bit cold to resurrect this thread though. You guys must be bored.


I take full blame for the resurrection.  A few guys have been carrying a dispute across multiple threads and I remembered you making this one (ages ago) so that the front page of the Oculus forums wasn't spammed with Vive posts by a certain user.  I'm sure you remember it :).  That user was banned and the forum went back to normal.  Well, your thread is useful again - assuming people use it...

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C Clarke

Zenbane
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Atmos73 said:

On the very first post of this thread it categorically states

Note: If you're not interested in the Vive on the Oculus forums then don't click the topic or read it.

Obviously Zenbane has no intention of doing this as he enters every single Vive thread to 'shitpost'.


Incorrect. You are using Vive information as the source of your shitposting, and I'm simply calling you out.

I'm down to talk about the Vive constructively in this thread B)

Anonymous
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Still absolutely loving my Vive, and very happy that Touch is finally almost upon us, so that all you Rifters can experience VR as it should be (given the current technology limits, of course).

Can anyone sell me (very cheaply) a larger house? A 2m square space isn't enough for full roomscale. I want more, dammit!

Expt626
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Why do vive users come oculus to post about vive? don't understand. do oculus user go vive forum to post? wait, is there a vive forum?

OpticKing
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This pic tho.. such a massive difference. I have a sneaking feeling that the vive wands feel a lot more like a fishing pole than a conventional controller.

Zenbane
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Atmos73 said:

This is the General VR Forum where we are allowed to talk about rival products including Vive and PSVR.



Just because you're allowed to consume mass amount of feces doesn't mean you should. Several posters have asked why you choose to consume poop publicly, and you keep giving the same answer: because I'm allowed to.

Think a little harder about what's being asked, silly.



OpticKing said:

This pic tho.. such a massive difference. I have a sneaking feeling that the vive wands feel a lot more like a fishing pole than a conventional controller.




The current Wands are way too phallic for anyone to ever take serious. I hated the Nintendo Wands for the same reason. But HTC Vive has about a week left before their entire product line becomes a non-factor.