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News A new VR actor [HTC-SteamVR Vive] pre-orders 29th Feb

Discussion in 'Electronic and hardware generally' started by Blame73, Mar 1, 2015.

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  1. Blame73

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    I fear Oculus raised the price of its Rift already knowing what the price of the Vive would have been, so I don't expect it to be cheaper than the Rift.
    I should have paid 742€ (shipped) for the Rift, so maybe not less than 899€ for the Vive but I fear we're in the 1000€ "ballpark"
    Blame73, Jan 13, 2016
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    I think the biggest fear for oculus now is that they haven't released the price of the touch controllers and I suspect they're going to cost much more that people think. Obviously the vive plans to ship their controllers as part of the package so I think they could end up being almost the same price when complete.
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    What kind of PC is needed for that resolution?!? 2x(2560x1440!)

    EDIT: I think CV2 could go in that direction, using that resolution too
    Blame73, Feb 2, 2016
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    It is not just the resolution or the PC that will be needed, there will need to be a huge cost effective advance in low latency data handling to process the visuals at 90-120hz, which is where VR is headed, at that sort of resolution. Doing it a large resolution in development at a lower frame rate is possible, but personally I think there is a long way to go yet before that sort of display can run and be afforded for consumer spec VR.
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    You'd need probably a pair of 980 graphics cards at least to produce the lines needed to fill that range of vision fast enough. Crazy specs (pun there in case anyone missed it).
    In a couple of years, it might be affordable to produce that kind of improvement on existing VR platforms. Or judging by the way Oculus handled their first release, only affordable to some.

    Still excited to see what the Vive is priced at. I still think it'll be higher that what we expect but I hope they learned from the botched oculus release.
    Barry, Feb 2, 2016
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    I hope so, but I fear not.
    I owned some HTC's phones, among those two HD2s, a real jewel of tech that still now manages to run last version of Android even if born with WM6.5
    HTC were on top of hardware producers, now are miles away from Samsung - just to say one.
    A terrible, TERRIBLE, marketing. Quarters after quarters of loss didn't teach them anything, so...

    Let's hope it won't be their gravestone
    Blame73, Feb 2, 2016
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    They've got Steam steering them now though which I think gives them much more credibility for this project at least.
    Barry, Feb 2, 2016
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