As this shall be the first of these we've done here I'll start by explaining before I get lazy and simply copy another mod's work.
As some thing are poorly fit to post about in a sub with a focus we've been running a weekly post on some random topics over on Reddit. Since we're here we will be doing the same here.
So this week's topic, Virtual Reality
This week for discussions we are going to talk about VR and what people are doing with it. Playing video games, VR chatting, watching movies, whatever else is done on there.
Personally I've not done anything VR since sometime in the 90's where I played something in a arcade at Cedar Point... so let me ask those who do play with it, is it worth it?
I’d like to try one but can’t find anywhere that lets you demo the units. I’m not going to just fork over $500 on my best guest of which one I’d like to use best. The fact you have to buy sight unseen leads me to believe they aren’t very good.
If the product was sellable, they’d have it proudly for customers to try. Every store I’ve gone to has denied me the ability to try one.
I would use it mostly for sim racing but even there, people with rigs are going back to using monitor setups.
Each time I get excited and look to buy VR, there’s a lot of negativity around it. The games aren’t that great, the people don’t use them for very long and go back to monitors, and again nobody has a demo setup to try the damn thing before you buy it.
Get a Valve index.
Or, the Occulus Go if you're looking for a price sensitive version
Anything else will just disappoint you, either by being expensive but unimpressive, or so cheap it's insulting.
The Index is the top of the line, the Occulus Go is a good balance between cost and useablility - it also has the added advantage of not needing anything else to work, so you can just put it on a go wherever you are.
I use my Vive daily and am saving towards an Index, as the Vive is just old at this point