While there is plenty of store lockout to be had in the PC space in both the 2D and VR arenas, there is no headset lockout as long as Revive is around. While I haven't purchased anything on the Oculus store by choice, I regularly enjoy playing Bullet Train and Dirt Rally without a problem on my Vive. The Index will be the same.
Yay for open sourcing on Github, I guess? It may sound blase' - especially coming from a layman who doesn't code - but I'm not really worried about Revive dying. Unless you know something I don't, the VR community is probably too stubborn (and too tech savvy) to let Oculus/Facebook win here.
Oculus already has an exclusive store and when they release the console like headset more locked games will come along to promote the hardware.
You missed my point. I didn't say they don't have games on the way. I just mentioned that demo just to say that my belief is that more games and probably HFVr are on the way, designed around their hardware . This is the logical way to go if they truly are trying to replicate the nintendo model.
Well that got a bit confusing because you mentioned a Half LIfe themed VR demo, which there isn't. The Lab and Moondust are the only demos Valve have made. The former is set in aperture and the latter is only for developers anyway.
I don't know how you do timers on the forum but the current theory is that the pre-orders will go live at 10:00am on the 1st.
I'm guessing that sometime around 9am PST or earlier, the press embargo will lift. So we'll get articles and videos with impressions and specs then. Maybe even the pre-sale store pages will go live. Then actual pre-orders will go live at 10am PST. That's what I'm hoping at least. I do think it would be shitty to drop the embargo and make the pre-orders live at the same time, but I personally think it was also a mistake to leave everyone speculating with zero info for an entire month so who knows.
I got into the thread to post just that. Where did the 1:St of May date come from anyway? Wishful thinking?
It was (Is?) on the teaser page for the Index
I don't agree with this.
Only (educated) guesses.
I get the feeling the index/knuckle controllers will be $299. If we're lucky $199.
You mean just the 2 controllers? I really can't see more than 200 USD for those. I actually expect 150. (But that's under the assumption that Valve isn't looking for a profit margin on hardware)
I don't think that's likely, for two reasons:
Pimax doesn't do a particularly great job of using the rendered resolution, so it's very likely that you get better perceived image quality with the same rendering res/FoV in the Index as in the Pimax. Also, the 5k XR, with 1440p pentile displays over its large FoV isn't great from a SDE PoV.
Thanks for the feedback. In all likelihood, if I'm getting into VR now, it will be the Index - especially if they have a good price for a bundle with controllers and base stations - but headsets like the Pimax seem tempting for that FOV even if it does mean far lower pixel density.
Supposedly that quote is from last week, not the Newell quote from years ago about price reduction being bad.
They're trying to advance hardware? If you want to spend a couple hundred there a ton of options.
Do you even have one? It sounds like you don't. Because the lenses have one of the largest sweet spots on the market, it's pretty darn easy to get a sharp, good looking picture without eye strain. And it has physical IPD adjustment as well. Sure, its default headstrap isn't great, but neither is the Vive's default headstrap. For glasses-wearers it's a pain, and I got used to the Oculus built-in headphones, which is why I bought a Vive Deluxe Audio headstrap. But you make it sound like the most godawful product ever released, and it's not nearly that.
