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Valve Index is sold out in all 31 countries
- Thread starter Arthands
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that's pretty amazing. I have an HTC vive still personally because I can't justify the upgrade to index to me.
PC gaming basically doesn't exist in Japan unfortunately. So it's still impressive that it's "kinda" sold out.
If anything I would just upgrade the wands to the index knuckles since that's the biggest change and well worth it.
Valve also reportedly did not think the release of Alyx would increase demand for their headsets, so they were not prepared at all for the rush of orders.
This is a supply problem more then it is, VR is alive problem.
I hope to get one one day, but im stuck with my cheap oddyssey plus
This is a supply problem more then it is, VR is alive problem.
I hope to get one one day, but im stuck with my cheap oddyssey plus
I actually just got mine today. I ordered it when the backorder was "February", so that falls in line with other posters saying they got theirs much earlier than the backorder date.
Not sure if I'm going to keep it as it's pretty expensive, but I'm also not sure I want to scalp someone on eBay lol. I know some people who might just play Alyx and then sell theirs oddly enough.
Not sure if I'm going to keep it as it's pretty expensive, but I'm also not sure I want to scalp someone on eBay lol. I know some people who might just play Alyx and then sell theirs oddly enough.
You can send me your Odyssey+ if you don't want it, I don't mind :)
Fair question. Because I definitely want to play Alyx at some point and I (think) that I want to play it on the best hardware possible (And on the day it comes out).
My goal isn't to profit off of anyone, but buying it early was the best way to ensure I got one regardless of my decision, as I can always sell it for approximately the same price I got it for (Well, time will tell if that's true.)
I might end up playing Alyx with the Index and then selling the Index, I'm just not sure yet. But I sympathize with someone who wants an Index and might not have one. My goal is not to buy things other people want and profit, just that a small profit here would cover the tax and and shipping that selling it later would need to break even.
Hurr hurr, lol, ruin the hobby for the forum you are posting on, hur hurrr lol
Bad, because VR was supposed to go mainstream years ago, at a speed 10x faster than smartphones, or so I'm told.
No, I have not! In the last few months all I've really done is research and looking at reviews for different headsets in order to learn about VR better. I also have a friend who got an Index early on and he gives me his impressions, but he also hasn't owned another set.
I understand that some people enjoy a combination of other headsets with the Knuckles, so that might be the option I end up going for in the long run.
Let me clarify: I'm not going to scalp someone. If I was, I wouldn't have posted in this thread at all.
Do you think this still has a possibility of showing up, or is it probably not the direction anymore?
That BBC article was such a narrow-minded outlook which focused solely on their own failure and the (*shocked*) discontinuation of a Google product.
It's looking less and less likely to me, but out of respect for my former colleagues I don't poke around to try and figure out what's going on. It was a pretty big effort during my time, but things move (and change) fast at Valve.
The last thing I can say at this juncture is that Valve's hardware team moved into a very impressive hybrid lab/manufacturing plant in Factoria, Bellevue, WA, and, at the time, it was intended for more than just the R&D and production of the Index and its peripherals.
VR is dead right up until it's not.
Wish it would only cost a couple hundred to get a decent set.
Wish it would only cost a couple hundred to get a decent set.
As someone who has zero interest, Alyx definitely is the one thing making me consider. Seems to be the case with a lot of people, pretty crazy.
I got my Oddyssey + for 220$ and it works perfectly fine for any VR game I throw at it.
Well I'm sure we'll see more hardware from them in due time with some recent patents coming to attention, even if it doesn't end up being what you thought.
Baby steps. Maybe if VR wasn't selling 7x slower than 3DTV it wouldn't get so much cristiscm?
Eh, we've been over this. 3D TVs have an entirely different trajectory before they even hit the market. It's just the nature of what type of product they are, being an extension of TVs, and not a new concept that both people and developers/manufacturers need to figure out.
Problem is, people generally don't understand this because many people aren't aware of how tech adoption curves work, especially considering how many people think the iPhone was the first smartphone and that it took off nearly instantly.
I know I want the knuckles...but I'm debating on the actual headset. I kind of want to get the Index just to keep everything the same, but I also want something like the Pimax 5k (8k has weird distortion issues on the edge last i knew) or just waiting for better headsets. I'm not craving VR or chomping at the bit for Alyx but I'd like to get one sometime.
Went ahead and signed up for the notifications...we'll see if I actually buy one soon. Planning on a new PC build this summer too...
Went ahead and signed up for the notifications...we'll see if I actually buy one soon. Planning on a new PC build this summer too...
3DTV is just as irrelvant a comparison as smartphones, which VR is also seriously lagging behind. Compared to VR smartphones did take off instantly, well before the iPhone.
They did not take off instantly at all. In the early 2000s, early smartphones would struggle to reach a million lifetime units. Same thing with PCs and consoles.
I compare VR to smartphones because that's the correct comparison to make. You compare it to a new computing platform which take 10-20 years to mature. I'd say it's probably going to follow more closely to PCs, but I used smartphones in my original comment because it was about how the BBC article mentioned VR was supposed to be mainstream in one year, 10x faster than smartphones.
Not looking promising for my index controllers replacement huh? Lol. I have the no click forward on my left controller issue.
