03-29-2019 04:26 PM
04-30-2019 07:25 PM
snowdog said:
pyroth309 said:
RedRizla said:
I'm so glad that Valve have made it such an easy decision for me to buy a Rift -S. All the hype surrounding Valve index having features it doesn't have has just made it look really bad for the price. All it really has over Rift -S is a slight bump in resolution and a slightly bigger FOV. The audio for Rift -S will be great because I'm 100% certain there will be clip on headphones made for the Rift -S.
Asking for £600 more for a slight bump in resolution and a slightly bigger FOV - No thanks Valve. I'll stick to having a really comfortable to wear headset in Rift -S and just wait for the clip on headphones. That's if Oculus haven't released them already at launch.
This is great news for Oculus because it means lots more sales for Oculus while Valve still continues to play catch up. Only this time around I think Valve index sales are going to take a massive hit at that price.
While I agree with the gist of your post and think Valve have pretty much relegated this thing to High end users and the Professional level with the pricing, 25+ degrees wider of actual FoV over the Rift will be quite noticeable. I notice the 10 degrees of the O+ (105 vs 95) and 10 degrees would be more along the lines of "Slightly bigger FoV".
It's actually 20° wider according to the blurb on their website. It's 20° wider than the Vive which has (as far as I'm aware) the same width as the Rift. The Vive does have a slightly higher vertical FOV though, but there isn't much in it.
04-30-2019 07:29 PM
04-30-2019 07:44 PM
Well everyone has their own opinions. To me inside out isn't an improvement over constellation or light house except in convenience. I've stated multiple times I dislike halos because of how loose they are when you shake your head. And are you certain the Rift has better lenses? I omitted them from the comparison until I know for certain. Either way I digress. I don't want to pick apart the Rift-S. If that's the product that you feel is right for you great.
RedRizla said:
@pyroth309 - Well if that's highend then so is Rift -S, but it's cheaper. Everyone has a different options on what makes a headset highend.
So there's my list which also makes Rift -S a hightend then. I wasn't going to say Rift -S is highend, but since you made a list of what is highend, I thought it only fair to give a list of Rift -S positives too.
04-30-2019 08:12 PM
pyroth309 said:
Well everyone has their own opinions. To me inside out isn't an improvement over constellation or light house except in convenience. I've stated multiple times I dislike halos because of how loose they are when you shake your head. And are you certain the Rift has better lenses? I omitted them from the comparison until I know for certain. Either way I digress. I don't want to pick apart the Rift-S. If that's the product that you feel is right for you great.
RedRizla said:
@pyroth309 - Well if that's highend then so is Rift -S, but it's cheaper. Everyone has a different options on what makes a headset highend.
So there's my list which also makes Rift -S a hightend then. I wasn't going to say Rift -S is highend, but since you made a list of what is highend, I thought it only fair to give a list of Rift -S positives too.
04-30-2019 09:02 PM
04-30-2019 09:20 PM
04-30-2019 09:28 PM
RedRizla said:
@Luciferous - The Rift -S has had positive reviews too.
04-30-2019 09:59 PM
04-30-2019 10:16 PM
04-30-2019 10:49 PM
Luciferous said:
however the knuckles give me future options. As they are independent of headset, if another headset launches in years time, I can still use knuckles.
We now now might see more headset manufacturers adopting knuckles and concentrating more on the headsets.