VR headsets

Which one Yas Forums?

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Quest for poorfag renters
Index for richchad home owners

Quest
>good tracking
>good screen
>lots of standalone games
>comfy cooming in bed
>can play PCVR with USB-C cable
>can play slower paced PCVR games like Onward wirelessly through virtual desktop streaming

also PSVR shouldn't even be on this image, its hopelessly outdated

samsung odyssey +

Isn't it discontinued?

I love my Odyssey+ but it depends on what you're wanting to play. The tracking shits the bed if you have the controllers lined up in front of the camera where the lights on the controllers overlap, what it does is it treats the obscured controller as out of area and tries to approximate it's position meaning you're moving your hand but the system isn't registering it and then it snaps in to place once it does its magic and figures it out. This is a huge issue in any game that has two handed shooting mechanics such as Pavlov, H3VR, Boneworks, etc. For everything else I've been extremely happy with my Odyssey+, but this is something I wish I had known as I may have considered saving up for an Index

>Index is apparently in the top sellers on steam at the moment
Are people dumping what they would usually spend on holidays on VR instead?

>want to upgrade from Vive
>there's caveats and giant asterisks next to all the current HMDs (80hz, LCD panels etc)
Guess I'll wait another generation.

Index would be alright if it didn't come loaded with QC issues. It's future-proofed with 120-144Hz, but I don't think anyone's Index will last.

I went from Vive to Quest and the 72hz aren't that bad to me. I doubt anyone could reliably differenciate between 80 and 90hz.

Honestly the upgrade from the shitty vive wands to touch controllers was worth it to me, the increase in resolution and clarity from Vive/Rift to Rift S must be world apart.
Everyone used to shit on LCD but honestly the lower subpixels on OLED just aren't worth it.

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it's a week's wage, big deal

>cheap and convenient option: Rift S
>high end option that requires awkward base stations: Index
Disregard all other options

Pretty much.

>just wait 8+ weeks to even have us ship your index
haha what the fuck no

Only 7 more weeks to go!

oh even better
>get your index
>controllers shit the bed
>tracking stations shit the bed
>realize that the build quality is way shittier than the pricetag should allow
real worth it.

Is this still an issue? What is valve doing?

>72hz

Can anyone recommend me a nice VR headset? What I'd want is
>to play HL Alyx
>to play some fan-made stuff such as Metroid Prime VR and Alien Isolation VR
>of course gain access to the VR library on PC
>not spend hundreds and hundreds of bucks

I don't think I will need full body tracking or room scale tracking or anything. I will mostly play seated. I wouldn't mind buying used if the condition isn't too bad. Thanks in advance.

I personally prefer the Rift S. Agree that PSVR shouldn't be on here, the resolution is horrific on that thing.

preowned rift

Rift/Rift S, pre-owned but test it before buying, replace the facial interface. Samsung Odyssey + is also a reasonable choice, but the tracking will be notably worse.

Pimax 5k plus or XR. Same recommendation with the 8k version.

PSVR deserves attention for its exclusives like Everybody's Golf and Astro Bot. I agree with you that modern PCVR headsets are better but PSVR is still fun

>pimax in 2020

None it sucks
Nothing has a be all and end all feature wise
You either pick between oled and rgblcd and they all have drawbacks + all of them are clunky wired or clunkyier wireless

its definitely the lowest of what a VR headset can be, but its fine for 95% of games.

Im glad that so many retards keep buying them, the one time blind consumerism works out for the better.

>VR IS TOTALLY IMMERSIVE GUYS STOP BEING POORFAGS
>image looks like shit, low FPS, low FOV, tracking issues
VR is a meme.

the only valid claim you made is low FOV
everything else is already worked out

Index if you can afford it and are willing to wait for a couple of months because it's sold out. Everything else involves fairly serious compromises on various aspects, so you need to have a good look at what you're getting and pick your poison. Compared to Index, you get:
>Rift S
> - no IPD adjustment (you're fucked if your face doesn't match the headset)
> - much worse audio
> - much lower refresh rate (80Hz vs. 144Hz)
> - lower FoV
> - worse tracking
> - less comfortable headset
>borderline worse controllers, but still among the best so not a problem
> + easier setup than Index, though Index setup is trivially simple as well

>Quest
> - much worse audio
> - much lower refresh rate (72Hz vs. 144Hz)
> - lower FoV
> - worse tracking (1 camera less than Rift S too)
> - less comfortable headset
> - some extra delay and image quality loss when used as a PCVR headset because it needs to compress and decompress frames to send them over USB
>borderline worse controllers, but still among the best so not a problem
> + easier setup than Index, though Index setup is trivially simple as well
> + standalone VR support, usually at much worse quality than the same game on PC, if you care about it

PSVR is significantly behind on the technology side, it's not really worth including in the same comparison as the other 3 headsets. The other 3 have fundamentally the same functions/features and the question is about quality of the experience (or portability). PSVR does not have the same type of controllers and does not have the same level of tracking capability as PCVR headsets. It does have a few worthwhile exclusives but there are plenty of games it just cannot run because those games are designed around more capable devices.

The overall order I'd suggest is is: Index if you can afford it, Rift S if your IPD matches, Quest only if you primarily care about portability, PSVR if you strictly want to play some PSVR exclusives.