Oculus Rift pre orders to go live Wednesday... What's your price prediction?
https://www1.oculus.com/blog/oculus-rift-pre-orders-to-open-on-january-6/
Is it US only?
$400
>>322622617
> 2016
> giving money to facebook
>>322622738
they didn't specify
>>322622617
$450they confirmed it'll be more than dk2, plus bundled with gaems, plus xbone controller
>>322622617
$449,- in US and $499,- in EU
What games are compatible with it?
Are there any porn games lined up?
Five hundred and ninety nine US dollars
Isn't it already known what they priced this shit for? It was at least $400.
It's going to be at least 600 dollars you retards.
>>322622617
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNZG4YO8ugo
I hope they have a collector's edition.
I get my bonus at the end of the week so I'll have plenty of money to burn.
>>322622879
>xbone controller
>>322623089
What, it's the best controller you can buy.
>>322623089
>games being made for rift are made to be played with a controller
bundling a controller with it was unavoidable, but still a shame
>>322623146
I already have a wired 360. Literally spiking the price for MS jew monies.
>>322623089
>tfw I already have 4x xbox 360 controllers, 1 snes controller, 2 gamecube controllers and 1 steam controller that works for the PC
>>322623328
>Spiking the price
The controllers are shipped at a loss, you can resell them and make a profit.
Only way Oculus could get Microsoft to promise to integrate Windows 10 in the future was to give them a cut now.
999$
>its actually happening
>google oculus news
>rebbit is actually more hyped than /v
wew
>>322626264
>/v/ has better taste again
>>322626375
>/v/ is full of kids who cant afford shit
Between 375 and 400.
222€
So just before Vive announce their breakthrough? Nice damage control facebook cuckulus.
>>322627734
You mean just after Vive delayed? What do you expect them to do, wait until next year so it's not near any other event?
>>322622617
>What's your price prediction?
199$ + a 24 month subscription of 19.90$
I'm going with $500 for the HMD and $150 for Touch which will come out this holiday season.
Remember:
VR will be something everyone wants before it's something everyone can afford. --Palmer Luckey
what will it have to do with facebook? can we reasonably expect porn for it?
>>322628523
>expect porn
It's already there. You can expect more porn.
>>322628523
Gaming is just the facade bro. We are all on it for the porn. There's no way we won't have it.
Wouldn't be surprised if it's $650.
>>322628523
Other than funding it has nothing to do with Facebook. Zuckerberg sees VR as an extremely important future communications platform (and he's right) but they are smart enough to know they'd kill their product by forcing any FB integration, especially considering the niche enthusiast market they are targeting.
There is already porn too and some of it's very good.
Any good flight sims that work with it?
Is the 970 going to drop in price much by the rift's launch?
>>322628868
I know DCS and Flight Sim X work on the DK2 already.
VR is a huge upgrade for sim games so it's hard to imagine developers not jumping on the bandwagon.
>>322628983
Id wait for the next gen cards with full dx12 support desu.
>>322628983
hopefully It will, next nvidia pascal might come at june or july at the shortest, but their release it's a meme at this point so we shouldn't expect them to release it
the best bet is waiting or buying a 980 used imo
the 970 was deprecated six months ago and will most likely be when the rift releases
>>322629274
directx is a botnet
>porn
3Dcg porn is terrible.
Bottom of the barrel, even worse than professional normal porn.
Oculus Rift is going to be shit without Touch. VR is made for moving around and using your hands. You'll be bored of seated VR after a week.
$600 or $400 with built-in ads
>>322629709
>3Dcg porn is terrible.
The fuck are you talking about?
http://www.naughtyvirtualreality.com/
360 degrees 3D porn
599.99 cheeseburgers
BUT WHEN DOES IT SHIP
>>322629765
Tech is not there for moving and shit yet. Nice snowflake opinion, though.
>>322629765
sims/cockpit/racing games etc are going to be incredible in vr
>>322629709
vrgirlz looks good
>>322629765
I'm an early adopter and agree.
The CV1 is just a nicer version of what I've already been using for ages. Still awesome, but I'm leaning heavily towards the Vive at this point, even without their "breakthrough". The first thing you want to do when you try VR is to reach out and interact with things, even in seated situations. A standard controller holds back the whole experience.
I've gone from planning on pre-ordering both to deciding to just wait for pricing and all of the details and some reviews.
>>322629765
For dumb fuck cucks like you. Pilot masterrace
>>322628523
>can we reasonably expect porn for it?
http://www.vrgirlz.com/
VR will flop just like 3D TVs.
>>322628350
If it is more than 500, no buy.
650 with touch is already pushing the limits of my budget. Was expecting 350~450 with some room to purchase a few games.
I hope they bundle a game with touch, but that was delayed to H2 so I have time to save up some more dosh.
If HTC vive with motion controls launches earlier with a tolerable price for its features, I'll consider it over the rift. They have until CES to wow me, if they stall on price and their big "breakthrough" is a load of hot air they can suck a fat one.
Jan 6 murrica time, judgement day. my patience is running dry as a dingos donger
>>322629961
I have a sub for NA VR and VirtualRealPorn and VRP is way better imo.
>>322632837
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH
450 is my guess. Two games, paired headphones, and Xbox One controller? I'd be surprised if it was less than 450.
>>322623089
There needs to be some kind of intuitive standard interface. KB/M doesn't work as well when you can't see your hands, whereas a controller is much more natural for most people.
>>322633030
499
>>322628523
No, actually, there's no overt interference, which is surprising, but good. Facebook is presumably doing a lot behind closed doors with the tech as far as social communications and that sort of thing, but they're keeping their hands off the tech itself.
As far as porn, oh boy. None of it's going to be on the Oculus store, but there's going to be plenty outside of it.
>>322632837
I love this meme
>>322633030
Boner controller is being sold at a loss, so it won't affect price significantly, plus, you can sell it back and recoup costs
Anyone have that image of a bearded guy eating pizza and getting stomped on by a bunch of giant anime girls?
And I'm projecting about 500 bucks
>>322622916
inb4
but here's a list of the 58 confirmed games with full Rift support either out already, or coming at launch or shortly after
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/wiki/compatible_games
>>322633396
Oh, I know most of those things are being sold at a loss. That's why I only tallied it to 450.
>expecting anything less than 500 dollaroonies without Touch
You guys are just asking to be disappointed. Oculus has said time and time again it'll be pretty expensive.
>>322633398
The bearded guy is the Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward btw.
>>322622617
post yfw the oculus bundle comes with a pin-up pic of zuckerberg and you need a facebook account to log on to the rift
>>322634528
my prediction is that the rift will be a walled garden piece of shit
>>322634129
Ah I didn't know, was just going off memory but thank you
So how many people do you guys predict will buy the rift and then complain because they don't have a computer fast enough to run it?
soon.....
In fact there's already a few h-games that support it...
>paying premium price for an unfinished prototype that's literally the "early access" of hardware
>>322635042
Despite Oculus and HTC being very, very clear and repeating many times that you need a beefy system to run VR people are still going to attempt to run one on a laptop and bitch about it.
>>322635346
Thats what the DKs were broski. The consumer version is actually pretty damn good on all fronts. Vive ect.
>>322633094
Do you look at your keyboard when you type?
>>322635042
I'll be fine.
>>322635512
oh of course, of course my friend. I mean, they said this on their own website after all, why would anyone lie about their own product being top notch.no but really just wait a year and some other $600 gimmick will arrive with another groundbreaking feature, like an iPhone
![3f9ab35b613ebc15fb8956a000031fdc[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ry75Ssm.jpg "3f9ab35b613ebc15fb8956a000031fdc[1].jpg")
>>322635346
>Buying a Ford Model T? You can't even drive to the moon!
>>322635586
I'm not saying it's impossible to touch-type, but using a controller is much more accessible in a situation where you're effectively blind, especially for a wider audience.
Of course you'll still be able to use a keyboard, but the controller is bundled for accessibility and for a standard interface.
If you don't want it, you can sell it and get a significant amount of money back.
>>322636319
Why not just give the option to not get a xbone controller? I already have plenty of other controllers and don't want to go through the hassle selling one.
>>322636673
Because the controller's manufacturing costs are smaller than you think, and it's being sold at a loss anyway. It won't really affect the price by a significant margin. If you ebay it at less than retail price, the net cost will be less than the device without the controller in the first place.
400 quid and I'll bite. Might sell the Xbone controller to recoup some, because I already own it.
Curious to see if the 'big breakthrough' will be shown before the preorders go live.
>>322623627
obligatory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h14PveFwLeI
>>322637575
>Curious to see if the Vive's 'big breakthrough' will be shown before the Rift preorders go live
Bad wording.
>>322635172
Why are people excited again for this? It's a Facebook product.
>>322637575
£300 is like $450 so I hope it's not close to £400 or we're getting fucked.
>>322629765
>>322631540
>wii happens
>m-motion control is gonna be huge!
motion control was a meme
>playstation move
motion control was still a meme
>kinect
motion control was STILL a meme
>kinect 2.0
STILL A FUCKING MEME
>oculus touch / vive motion controls
LEARN YOUR FUCKING LESSON. MOTION CONTROLS ARE A MEME. Why would anyone make games for the incredibly small number of people who own motion controls, when you could make games for traditional input methods, with an audience of roughly 25x the size? Motion controls are good for tech demos and LITERALLY NOTHING ELSE
>>322638326
Rumours are it's around the 500-600 dollar mark. Any less than that and I'll be happy, but I'm wholly expecting the price to be ridiculous, so I'm cautious with any optimism. Plus there's the whole USD == GBP fuckery too.
>>322638326
You always pay more you stupid goy. How much do you pay for taxes by the way?
>>322638191
Simple, It comes out first and is cheaper. If HTC didn't back out at the last moment would've gotten that.
Remember when he said they weren't going to sell out?
Remember when he said it was going to cost $350 and now it's over $450?
>>322637692
>Sees moose
>Moose isn't going anywhere
>Decides it's a good idea to start approaching moose
>Moose make aggressive display (head lowered, ears back, hair on back standing up)
>Decides it's a good idea to try to scare away an aggressive 1000 pound animal by making noises
>Aggressive moose is aggressive
>Continue approaching moose
>Aggressive moose is aggressive & makes false charge
>Decides it's a good idea to approach a moose after it's already made a false charge
>Aggressive moose is aggressive & attacks
>Surprised that moose had to be killed
>Hopefully learns in the future to not to approach moose
>>322639000
Yes. I also remember when Oculus was shit and had no chance of surviving.
Are there any people who donated money to a business here? How does it feel you made Palmer a billionaire and all you got in return for your "investment" was a shitty prototype that is now obsolete? How does it feel to be a cuckold?
>>322628868
No because the resolution is far too low to use with sim games
>>322639000
>and now it's over $450?
[citation needed]
>>322639231
Someone needed to do it. I'm just glad it wasn't me.
>>322622879
>xbone controller
aaaaaaaaaaaand RUINED!
>>322622617
Why do we need this for video games?
The purpose of the Facebook acquisition and injection of money was so that Oculus could have enough R&D to produce a price-leading product. Zuckerberg had said he wanted to see it selling for no more than $100 and that it would keep it on top of the market and highly accessible to consumers.
Whether they achieve this or not will be interesting and highly impressive if maintains its build quality.
How many other VR devices are we seeing in the near future that aren't exclusive to consoles or certain systems? All i can think of atm is the HTC Vive- which could be exclusive to steam machines; though I have personally no idea.
>>322640212
Simulators friendo
>>322640124
ok just get a vivebundled motion controls which have no games :^)
>>322622916
You can already play a bunch of Illusion games on it like Harem Maker and Sexy Beach. Once the software is out expect 3rd party patches for compatibility with basically everything.
>>322639000
>Remember when he said they weren't going to sell out?
They never said that though. They said they hadn't gotten right offer yet at the time.
How much of a gaming machine do you need for this? Like how much extra performance does the VR bullshit take beyond the game itself? I'll admit I know little about the VR wars.
If it's $400-450 I'll be tempted. Past that and I'll just wait and see how things play out.
>>322641869
You should be aiming for an over 9000 3dmark Firestrike score.
>>322641869
tl;dr – Given the challenges around VR graphics performance, the Rift will have a recommended specification to ensure that developers can optimize for a known hardware configuration, which ensures a better player experience of comfortable sustained presence. The recommended PC specification is an NVIDIA GTX 970 or AMD 290, Intel i5-4590, and 8GB RAM. This configuration will be held for the lifetime of the Rift and should drop in price over time.
https://www.oculus.com/en-us/blog/powering-the-rift/
>>322641869
>I'll admit I know little about the VR wars.
>If it's $400-450 I'll be tempted.
Nobody knows, except for the nose
>>322642123
also
>On the raw rendering costs: a traditional 1080p game at 60Hz requires 124 million shaded pixels per second. In contrast, the Rift runs at 2160×1200 at 90Hz split over dual displays, consuming 233 million pixels per second. At the default eye-target scale, the Rift’s rendering requirements go much higher: around 400 million shaded pixels per second. This means that by raw rendering costs alone, a VR game will require approximately 3x the GPU power of 1080p rendering.
>>322642123
>>322642016
>>322642532
Cool thanks. That's actually borderline identical to my specs except I have a GTX 960 with the not 4gb of vram so it should be close enough.
>>322642123
>AMD 290, Intel i5-4590, and 8GB RAM
>people still claim you need a high end machine to use rift
I bought a computer with those exact specs almost 2 years ago and it was considered mid range even then
>>322641869
What's really interesting is that once foveated rendering gets added to HMDs (most likely coming 2nd gen), you'll be able to do much better graphics at much less performance cost compared to a 2D screen. Once that happens VR will be an objectively superior platform for games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq09BTmjzRs
>>322637663
you picked on the wrong guy idiot moose
>>322642636
The 960 is about 60% weaker than the 970.
>>322635615
>>322635615
This will never -not- be my problem with VR heatsets
>Price of a mid-high end GPU
>Or a console
>Or a gun ( I like my funs )
>Or a years membership at a weight gym (Would love to get /fit/ back in my life
I'm sure it's fucking awesome, but I'd have to retro-fit my PC with a 250$ CPU, probably a 600$ GPU, and another 130$ PSU not to mention more ram (Only have 8 atm)
And then you need to turn around and pay 450$ for the damn headset.
>>322643004
It's close enough that I don't mind dropping a few settings for performance. I just wasn't sure how much of a performance hit vr did in general.
>>322643953
VR requires roughly twice the performance and if you drop below 90fps it will make you feel sick.
Keep that in mind.
>>322644216
It'll be pretty funny when foveated rendering comes out and VR games become better performing and higher fidelity than normal games.
>>322642123
>>322642123
>No AMD CPU recommendation
Goddamnit guys, I can't afford a 200$ INtel CPU.
Fuck that horseshit, Where's the fucking next runner up to take AMDs place. We need CPU manufacturer competition. Fuck Intels pricing.
>>322643464
>VR heatsets
Can't wait for the ebin maymays
>facecooker
>acne cultivator
>dogulus leash
>housebreaker
>>322644835
>chronic bald fade syndrome.
new Touch page went up a bit ago
looks dope as fuck, too bad it's almost a year away
https://www.oculus.com/en-us/touch/
>tfw 4570
can i still into vr?
I'll probably wait until I upgrade my rig first.
Plus, first year of VR will just be mods and shovelware. It'll come full spin years 2 and 3.
>>322645039
can you run things at a bit higher than 2160×1200 at 90fps without drops?
>>322642651
nope
>>322645039
Geforce experience says 4590 or higher
>>322642532
>not just wanting to play in a blocky 8-bit world
>>322645219
No because I have a shit GPU, I'm not upgrading it until near when I actually get a rift/vive.
>>322645526
Then why did you even ask?
>>322645619
because i wanted to know about my cpu
>>322645219
90hz means how high the FPS can go, not how much you need.
2160x1200 isn't necessarily required either as you can scale down to other 16:10 ratios.
>>322645018
what do you think these are? speakers? thumb rests? cappacitive touch buttons?
>>322645830
Scent emitter.
Now you can smell your waifu.
>>322645830
On another picture if you zoom in, they're not holes. They're bumps. So we can eliminate some possibilities there.
I just want to know how much it fucking costs, and then they won't release the price of the touch for another six months, so there's still no way of knowing what will be cheaper, unless the vive is ridiculous price like $1000.
>>322645693
If you drop below the refresh rate the image will judder and you will feel sick.
Also, you could scale up lower resolutions but they will look like complete shit. Clarity and sharpness is already one of the weak points of the Rift/Vive and that would make it even worse. You need a bit higher rendering resolution to account for distortion correction.
>>322645830
I have no idea. I'm guessing they're just thumb rests, but I guess we'll find out soon.
The World when?
>>322645039
I still have a 8350 and a 7870.
It'll work out somehow, right?
