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They said it's coming H1 2016, so if not launch then close. I think the greater factor is probably cost. Of course if they forewent the stupid Xbone controller...
I can't help but feel like they're waiting for Vive to announce a price before they throw the switch on theirs.
They're not in the driver's seat on much of anything anymore, so they might as well wait on price too.
Star Citizen is the 76ers of video games.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joust Williams
Pretty bland showing, but it's still very much up in the air between the two headsets for me. They're both using the same resolution, they both have an unknown price, and while the Vive Lighthouse stuff seems cool, I have NO idea how it stacks up to the Oculus Touch stuff. I guess that, at least now, I have an idea of what the Oculus will be like on day one: I stick that tracker on my desk and I grab a gamepad and I use some reasonably polished in-headset marketplace to download and play some solidly complete games that I've seen footage of.
There's this nagging worry I have that the user experience with the Vive won't be any smoother than the experiences I've had with SteamVR so far, but surely Valve isn't that insane. Surely.
It seems like early on we're going to have two standards with competing exclusives which kind of sucks. VR is so unknown/risky now that I understand why devs would want to take that exclusivity money. I imagine once the market is established, most games will want to support different standards but right now it's kind of a lousy situation for consumers.
Oculus's offering looks more polished to me, but we haven't seen final Vice hardware. Which is odd considering it comes out sooner.
Valves other big push is Steam Machines which goes out in November(?). Since that's dated that must be first and Oculus is saying they're going to launch in the first quarter of 2016. If Valve wants to beat Rift to market, that's a relatively small window of time to be launching two huge hardware/software platforms.
I'm fine with the two standards. Ultimately competition is good. I don't doubt that the market will coalesce around one. Bet on MS making DirectVR or something part of DX13. It means I won't jump in but that's ok.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
We technically have one standard and then Oculus not following it. It's literally everyone else vs. them, isn't it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
Vive was originally announced as November. I think it helps that Valve doesn't have to manufacture the SteamMachines or Vive, though they'll also have the controller and Link around the same time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rumpy
It remains to be seen, I guess, but I'm operating under the assumption that Valve is going to fund Vive exclusives in exactly the same way. I mean I'm kind of assuming Oculus' exclusives and portal won't support Vive, but I could be wrong about that too (it might benefit them to bring in everyone).Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
I don't think it's fair to act like there's a standard that anyone is refusing to follow. Both are going to be open in terms of support and anyone can make games for either or both. Any exclusivity is just artificial because of who's paying for it.
What will be interesting to see is if they can be united through drivers. Much like how Glide Wrappers allowed Riva TNT users to play Voodoo games back in the day, we might see actual Vive support in the Oculus API or vice versa. That would be the best scenario for everyone I think.
Valve is following Razer's OSVR standard.
edit: Now I'm seeing conflicting info about whether Oculus is too. I didn't think they were.