Oculus Rift

[Sarsippius]

That's great that it came before the long weekend. The biggest gripe from me would be the godrays, I didn't expect them to be as bad as they are but it's a trade off as the clarity and sweet spot is massively improved over the DK2.

[norbs]

[wobblysauce]

And have people seeing different things on the same coaster.

[DarrenM]

[norbs]

http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/6 ... et-uproar/

[Cursed]

Where "internet" actually means "noisy elements on reddit".

[c.j]

Raced with it yet Cursed?

[DarrenM]

There's at least 3 of us using rifts for the Friday night AC races, including Cursed. Though one is using DK2.

[GT VIRUS]

Yeah I was on DK2, but still worked fine.

[Cursed]

Raced with it yet Cursed?

It would be accurate to say that I haven't been racing without it since it turned up.

I do get some steamy/fogginess at times, but I figure it's nothing on what a real driver might contend with. The only time I feel any motion-related weirdness is when I put the car in reverse. I get a bit of a headspin going, but that's the worst of it.

Pretty happy having voice-attack hooked up. I say "show apps" and I have all my information, then I can say "hide apps" and it's just me and the car.

[Enforcer-J]

Question for GT and others who have dk2 knowledge..

Is it worth getting a dk2 for Assetto Corsa over the cv1? Condsidering the $1k price difference :/
Will it be supported by games in the future and how well does a gtx 970 power it in RL?

[GT VIRUS]

I haven't tried the CV1 so I can't compare, but I think the DK2 is good enough.

[Enforcer-J]

Thanks man, just thinking about futute support and for games like dirt rally that it might be better to go the cv1.. but i dont think im that keen!

[hylas]

What about that Razor OSVR one that was mentioned not that long ago? Wasn't that one similar specs? I haven't looked, but I remember something about it just being a headset with positional detecting thingy and not much else. Wouldn't that be an option for those of us that would be just using VR for racing/flying ?

[Sarsippius]

DK2 should work fine so long as Oculus support it, they have indicated that it won't be supported indefinitely. I think I saw mention of 12 months on their forum but from their point of view continuing support is only to enable developers to continue developing with it.

[Duke]

What about that Razor OSVR one that was mentioned not that long ago? Wasn't that one similar specs? I haven't looked, but I remember something about it just being a headset with positional detecting thingy and not much else. Wouldn't that be an option for those of us that would be just using VR for racing/flying ?

I'm keeping my eye on the OSVR for that very reason. Mind you the Vive is where my heart is.

[DarrenM]

Looks like they'll start selling Vive's in the Microsoft store soon. They might be able to cut the shipping cost down but I guess it will still be around the $1400 mark unless they Aussie tax it.

https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/ms ... 1925804100

[c.j]

Surprising given the apparent reported relationship between Oculus and Microsoft. I thought it would be an exclusive partnership. Doesn't bother me, so long as I can use one of them on PSXbox.

[DexterPunk]

Hey guys, I need a little bit of advice regarding cost. I need to provide work with a price to order it in. But on the oculus site it seems quite difficult to work out. After changing the address the cost went from $599 to $649... Would that be GST? Or shipping? At the moment $649USD roughly converts to $869. But that seems too cheap? Even if the $649 USD is with shipping included, and then you add on GST, it's only about $955 and I thought the oculus was costing people over $1100?

Cheers.

[Cursed]

When I did my pre-order, the cost (USD 650) included GST. Shipping was poisonously expensive and added on top of the USD650, but was later removed as a good-will gesture when everyone was delayed.

[DexterPunk]

Thanks for that Cursed. I'm surprised shipping is so much, that would have to be nearly $170 USD ($227 AUD) to ship it, if it's to get up near the $1100 mark. Unless i'm missing something. If that's the case, it is what it is. I just wish the Oculus website would give you an indication of shipping cost. They want you to plug in CC details before even giving you a total cost. I don't think I've ever seen that before.

[Cursed]

From memory, shipping was something like $130 USD initially.

[DexterPunk]

Cheers! I'll have to just try and give them an estimated price bracket and hopefully that's good enough and they 'OK' it.

Thanks again for your help.

[Sarsippius]

My original email was USD 781, I think originally we weren't sure if that included GST or not and even now I'm not really sure if it does. The estimates of around $1,200 I think were because we were thinking if we hit that $1k import threshold then we'd have to add GST + import duty on top. Waiving the shipping really helped us reducing the cost and staying under the $1k threshold.

If it's still USD 781 delivered then you'll go over that $1k threshold with the conversion rate at the moment and at the very least have to pay import duty on top, GST I don't know. Looking at my email invoice now it says it includes 10% VAT of 53.28 Euro lol, I don't think VAT is 10% so maybe that does mean 10% GST is included in the price.

[Dr. Pain]

The shipping cost is silly. I was looking into getting a rift and I need to spend over $1400 as I need a GPU. I have a 7970 but the rest of my PC is fine for a rift. I like AMD GPU's as I've had over a decade of flawless use from them but all the comparisons of the current generation cards to my 7970 just don't make it worth upgrading.