Oculus Rift

[Diff-chan]

But that doesn't mean that there is only "one standard." I mean, why do we trust that Razer put together a good standard? They can barely put together a mouse that works for more than 6 months. Their software is deplorable.

[Yoshi]

If it were Razer vs. Oculus, it would be a toss up, but I'm looking at this as Valve vs. facebook. That's the easiest trust choice ever.

Valve and 50+ others are behind OSVR.

[Diff-chan]

Keep in mind Facebook has John Carmack. He's kind of good at these sort of things.

I don't know, I'm just saying that the market needs to shake out a bit.

[Frogacuda]

Keep in mind Facebook has John Carmack. He's kind of good at these sort of things.

He made id Tech 5 OpenGL based, and it wouldn't work on AMD cards, so... let's just say he's maybe a bit of an idealist rather than a pragmatist when it comes to these things.

[Diff-chan]

id Tech 5 is amazing. 60fps, scalable, looks great on 360 and a high end PC, etc.

Carmack is ride or die with OpenGL, so no surprise there.

[Frogacuda]

Right but OpenGL doesn't work right on one of the two major card manufacturers, which is proabably a decent reason to go another route.

[Joust Williams]

well I wonder what one should do about that

[James]

To the best of my knowledge, Rift supports OSVR just fine. Or at least the DK2 does, and I highly doubt that's changing for the final release- http://www.osvr.com/join.html

Dividing the market is insane, and I think both Valve and Oculus know this. There's a ton of cross-pollination between the two companies and it doesn't help either of them to turn a rich-kid's-toy market into something that can't support either piece of hardware. First VR can be successful, then companies can start fighting for market dominance.

[Tain]

http://gfycat.com/WideeyedTimelyChafer Here's a very exciting little clip of the Vive motion controller.

Going by that it looks pretty damn responsive! And being bundled with every headset is obviously a big deal.

[kedawa]

Right but OpenGL doesn't work right on one of the two major card manufacturers, which is proabably a decent reason to go another route.

You mean the route where you don't buy a GPU made by a company that can't get its shit together?