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Of course. Only available on the HTC Vive. I regret my oculus rift purchase.

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thearn4 10y ago
FWIW, I use both and vastly prefer most things on the rift (especially flight and driving sims). The room-scale experiences on the Vive are fantastic and definitely the direction this tech will go, but the majority of the SteamVR experience are... unpolished? That's the best way i can describe it. SteamVR itself is also extremely buggy, but I've also had USB 3.0 issues on the Rift, so there are some issues on both platforms. But flight sims feel extremely natural (DCS World and Elite:Dangerous in particular), especially with Rift's ASW.
- oopsies49 10y ago
  Steam vr recently added asynchronous reprojection.
  - russelldc 10y ago
    SteamVR's implementation is equivalent to ATW, but not Oculus' new ASW.
    - TwoBit 10y ago
      And Vive reprojection doesn't work on AMD hardware, unlike Rift.
- davidjnelson 10y ago
  Vive takes some fiddling. Make sure the lighthouses are secure and try a usb2 port. Those fixed it for me. And camera 60->30fps or off, maybe Bluetooth auto shut off also off.
- rubicon33 10y ago
  Thanks, this is slightly reassuring. I'm honest when I say, I've really worried that I made the wrong decision when I purchased the oculus. Hopefully once my Touch controllers arrive, I'll feel less so. Any other recommendations you have for games on the Rift? I've been playing Obduction and, it's pretty cool... Definitely spent the most time on that game compared to any other.
haydenlee 10y ago
It's built on SteamVR so it supports Oculus natively (edit: however Google has added a software check to Google Earth VR to block any other headset, which I imagine they'll remove once Oculus Touch launches). Since you don't need hand controllers for the guided tours it should still be a pretty good experience. And Oculus Touch in 3 weeks will allow for the full experience. As an early Touch owner I think a lot of Vive owners will be regretting their purchase.
- shostack 10y ago
  I haven't tried the Vive but I recently tried the Touch the Microsoft store at Stanford mall. Annoyingly enough they had a Vive in a glass display but didn't have both available to demo simultaneously. The experience in that wizard duel game was pretty immersive, and it was cool to kind of be able to wiggle your fingers. How would you compare the oculus experience to the Vive given that it still isn't room scale VR?
leoc 10y ago
There's already a hack for it https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/5dcgts/how_to_remove_the_google_earth_vr_headset_check/ https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/5dcgts/how_to_remov... , and it's likely to be enabled for the Rift when Touch is released.
- rubicon33 10y ago
  awesome, thank you
TwoBit 10y ago
The Rift has better apps in general than the Vive, so you're fine. This will come to Rift and others in time.

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FWIW, I use both and vastly prefer most things on the rift (especially flight and driving sims). The room-scale experiences on the Vive are fantastic and definitely the direction this tech will go, but the majority of the SteamVR experience are... unpolished? That's the best way i can describe it. SteamVR itself is also extremely buggy, but I've also had USB 3.0 issues on the Rift, so there are some issues on both platforms. But flight sims feel extremely natural (DCS World and Elite:Dangerous in particular), especially with Rift's ASW.

oopsies49 10y ago
Steam vr recently added asynchronous reprojection.
- russelldc 10y ago
  SteamVR's implementation is equivalent to ATW, but not Oculus' new ASW.
  - TwoBit 10y ago
    And Vive reprojection doesn't work on AMD hardware, unlike Rift.
davidjnelson 10y ago
Vive takes some fiddling. Make sure the lighthouses are secure and try a usb2 port. Those fixed it for me. And camera 60->30fps or off, maybe Bluetooth auto shut off also off.
rubicon33 10y ago
Thanks, this is slightly reassuring. I'm honest when I say, I've really worried that I made the wrong decision when I purchased the oculus. Hopefully once my Touch controllers arrive, I'll feel less so. Any other recommendations you have for games on the Rift? I've been playing Obduction and, it's pretty cool... Definitely spent the most time on that game compared to any other.

haydenlee 10y ago

It's built on SteamVR so it supports Oculus natively (edit: however Google has added a software check to Google Earth VR to block any other headset, which I imagine they'll remove once Oculus Touch launches). Since you don't need hand controllers for the guided tours it should still be a pretty good experience. And Oculus Touch in 3 weeks will allow for the full experience. As an early Touch owner I think a lot of Vive owners will be regretting their purchase.

shostack 10y ago
I haven't tried the Vive but I recently tried the Touch the Microsoft store at Stanford mall. Annoyingly enough they had a Vive in a glass display but didn't have both available to demo simultaneously. The experience in that wizard duel game was pretty immersive, and it was cool to kind of be able to wiggle your fingers. How would you compare the oculus experience to the Vive given that it still isn't room scale VR?

leoc 10y ago

There's already a hack for it https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/5dcgts/how_to_remove_the_google_earth_vr_headset_check/ https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/5dcgts/how_to_remov... , and it's likely to be enabled for the Rift when Touch is released.

rubicon33 10y ago
awesome, thank you

TwoBit 10y ago

The Rift has better apps in general than the Vive, so you're fine. This will come to Rift and others in time.