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I own a DK1, and agree with you on a lot of these points. I would add that while first-person shooters universally made me sick to my stomach within about 5 mi
by thearn4 11y ago
I own a DK1, and agree with you on a lot of these points.
I would add that while first-person shooters universally made me sick to my stomach within about 5 minutes, flight sims generally never did. My guess is that being seated in a virtual cockpit and flying around seems a lot less wrong to my vestibular system.
Unfortunately, the flight/space sim market is a rather small one within gaming as a whole. Though it does tend to be one full of people generally more willing to buy dedicated sim hardware than most.
- phoboslab 11y agoThe DK1 is just awful in comparison to the DK2, though. Positional tracking and reduced latency of the DK2 improve the nausea situation a whole lot. I haven't had a chance to try the CV1 yet, but it's supposed to be an equally big jump.
- cookiecaper 11y agoI got a DK1 a few years back and was ridiculously excited to try it out. I had blocked out the whole weekend to mess with it. I tried it for under an hour, took it off, and didn't use it again for a week. It made me nauseous and gave a killer headache. My wife and brother had similar experiences -- both expected to be thrilled and have difficulty putting it down, but both ended up keeping their distance after the initial experience. I haven't tried any other VR devices yet (skipped the DK2), but I look forward to demoing the CV1 at some point. Since Linux support has been killed, it will probably be a while, whenever I get around to building the separate free-standing Windows machine I've been intending to get for the last year or so (with dual-boot, I find I boot up Windows once a year, or twice if MS is lucky that year; I just have too much stuff running on my primary workstation to let it go powered off for very long).