Virtual Reality Headsets

[Resistor]

Just wondering which VR headset people are looking at

Oculus Rift

Resolution of 2160x1200
90Hz
110 degree viewing angle
"You're looking at a setup with at least an Intel i5 CPU, 8GB of RAM and an Nvidia GTX 970 or AMD 290 graphics card, according to Oculus"

Playstation VR

Resolution of 1920x1080
120Hz
100 degree viewing angle

HTC Vive

Resolution of 2160x1200
90Hz
110 degree viewing angle

http://www.wareable.com/project-morpheus/oculus-rift-versus-project-morpheus

 

[Quivorir]

I'll more than likely get the PSVR

 

[Resistor]

I'll more than likely get the PSVR

Are you in a position to get both or just the PSVR?

 

[Quivorir]

Are you in a position to get both or just the PSVR?

I could probably get both with no issues. I don't really have a huge reason to go one or the other tbh, so I go with a brand I know and love.

 

[Resistor]

I could probably get both with no issues. I don't really have a huge reason to go one or the other tbh, so I go with a brand I know and love.

Yeah same, I would have to get a new graphics card for my PC, and I don't want to be giving $$ to facebook

 

[Del80659]

i didn't know these were so far along, my friend mentioned a couple of days ago how one of these now has an RRP of 599 and is up for preorder.. first thing i asked were what games will they have but that seemed to be irrelevant...

 

[Resistor]

i didn't know these were so far along, my friend mentioned a couple of days ago how one of these now has an RRP of 599 and is up for preorder.. first thing i asked were what games will they have but that seemed to be irrelevant...

Really hoping No Man's Sky is a launch or close to it for the PSVR

 

[funk44]

Everything I've read about VR is that you need a min of 60fps to achieve an 'immersive experience' (hence the oculus recommend specs) so how does the PlayStation VR intend to this at 1080p when it struggles to do output 45fps+ 900p for alot of games. Seems like a waste of money at first glance. Am I missing something?

 

[sacka]

i didn't know these were so far along, my friend mentioned a couple of days ago how one of these now has an RRP of 599 and is up for preorder.. first thing i asked were what games will they have but that seemed to be irrelevant...

That's $599 US, with shipping it is over $1100 so out of reach to a lot of people.



While it's interesting I think it will be a few gens before i think of investing in one.
I'm more interested in Hololens, i can see that being way more interesting in a gaming world.

 

[Resistor]

Everything I've read about VR is that you need a min of 60fps to achieve an 'immersive experience' (hence the oculus recommend specs) so how does the PlayStation VR intend to this at 1080p when it struggles to do output 45fps+ 900p for alot of games. Seems like a waste of money at first glance. Am I missing something?

The PSVR will have an external computer to do extra processing for the unit

 

[Mercurial89]

That's $599 US, with shipping it is over $1100 so out of reach to a lot of people.



While it's interesting I think it will be a few gens before i think of investing in one.
I'm more interested in Hololens, i can see that being way more interesting in a gaming world.

The implications for the Hololens I think will be more readily apparent for more casual users. I see a comeback of table top games with everyone sitting around playing holo board games. Of course that's if its affordable enough.

 

[dwwaino]

Will definitely get PSVR for no other reason than just because. Also likely to get Oculus to add to the pile of PC stuff I don't even use anyway yet continue to waste money on.

I just honestly wonder the side effects to health of these things however. I watch a lot of discovery science and stuff and they often show adverse effects when talking about prolonged use of technology like this. Could be a sensual overload. I went to the intrepid museum in NY recently and in the space shuttle pavilion they had some VR stuff and at one time my heart was racing and body reacted like I was really there (was a VR experience of riding a roller coaster on another planet). I'd probably die IRL if I had to play a horror game on one of these bad boys.

 

[Quivorir]

Just looking through the games that are confirmed for PSVR. Holy shit there is some good looking ones.

- 100ft Robot Golf - Self explanatory
- Ace Combat 7 - Dogfight combat sim -Pretty keen on this
- Atom Universe - A Virtual Theme park
- Adrift - A space adventure game
- Albino Lullaby - Weird looking horror adventure game (no jump scares )
- Alison Road - Spiritul Successor to P.T - Nope.
- Apollo 11 VR Experience - Go to space in the Saturn V Rocket
- Ark: Survival Evolved - Already out on PC and XB1, survival/hunting game with dinosaurs
- The Assembly - Seem to make you some kind of science experiment
- Battlezone - Re image of the Atari game - meh
- Bebylon Battle Royal - Odd looking game, fight your superstar baby vs other superstar babies
- Chernobyl VR Project - Virtual tour of Chernobyl and Pripyat
- Classroom Aquatic - Dolphin classroom where you cheat your way to the top of the class
- Cult County - Survival Horror game originally planned for 3DS. Moved to VR due to limitations of console
- Crystal Rift - 30 level grid based dungeon crawler
- Cyber Danganronpa VR: Class Trial - Tasks players with exposing a killer among the students
- Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 - Virtual boobies
- Dead Secret - Tasked with finding out who killed the victim, find clues and look back into victims past
- Desert Bus 2.0 - Stupid game that has no place anywhere
- Distance - Futuristic arcade racer
- Dreams - Create what you want in your own 3D world
- Driveclub
- Dynasty Warriors 8 VR - Dynasty Warriors 8 but in VR
- Eagle Flight - As eagles, fly around with your friends over a beautiful city
- The Easel - Mario Paint x Guitar Hero? Paint in 3D space to music
- The Earthlight Project - Astronaut VR experience - Looks really cool
- Eclipse - exploration game
- EVE: Valkyrie - Multiplayer dogfighting shooter in the EVE universe
- FATED - Action adventure game set in a Norse land
- Futuridium EP Deluxe - Already on PS4 - Shitty looking retro into shoot em up
- Futuridium - Same as above apparently similar to Star Fox
- The Gallery: Six Elements - Exploration game
- Get Even - FPS with horro, puzzle solving and exploration thrown in
- GNOG - Shitty looking puzzle adventure game
- Godling - Exploration game, looks really nice
- Golem - Nothing really known other than a trailer
- The Golf Club - Really like this game, hopefully I wont have to buy it again to get a VR version
- Gran Turismo Sport - Gran Turismo in VR.
- Harmonix Music VR - Not a game, load a song and watch a music visual, smoke a cone and sit back and chill
- Hatsune Miku Project - A rhythm game?
- Headmaster - Soccer game where you do skill drills
- Holodance - VR music game, nothing known. Has a dragon.
- Hyper Void - Already on PS4, shitty little indy shoot em up
- The Hum: Abductions - Alien Horror game. Probably a big fat nope from me
- iO Moon - Exploration game based on Jupiter's moon, iO
- Job Simulator - Self explanatory
- Joysound VR - Japanese karaoke game
- Jurassic Encounter - You, a stick, and dinosaurs!
- Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes - One person sees the bomb, one person sees the defuse plans. Communicate to defuse the bomb.
- Kôna - Adventure game
- Loading Human - A man put into training to go to space. A puzzle solving game
- The London Heist - Pull off a heist on the Russian mob
- Magaton Rainfall - Stop an alien invasion by shooting energy blasts
- Mind: Path to Thalamus - Control time and explore
- The Modern Zombie Taxi Co. - Taxi driver for a town of zombies
- Mortal Blitz - Arcade shooting game, waves of enemies
- The Music Room - Learn to play VR instruments, record songs and share with the world
- Nighttime Terror 2 - Top down shooter against your child hood toys that come alive at night
- Omega Agent - Fly around open world city doing missions
- Paranormal Activity VR - Nope
- P.O.L.L.E.N - Players can interact with everything in the world trying to find out what happened in a research station
- The Playroom VR - Evolve type game but with the playroom critters
- Project Cars
- Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin - Bridging the gap between 1 and 2
- Q.U.B.E.² - 3D jigsaws and platform based trials
- Radial-G - sci-fi racer with the aim to support 32 players
- Rigs: Mechanized Combat League - Robot version of rocket league. Could be very very good.
- Rez Infinite - Remake of the Sega musical shooter with a new level!
- Robinson: The Journey - Exploration game on a mysterious planet
- Snow - Skiing (and snowboarding/possibly all winter sports?) game
- Summer Lesson - You're a linguistics teacher for 2 high schools, one Japanese, one English
- Superhypercube - Rotate shapes into correct positions
- Surgeon Simulator - Surgeon Simulator in VR
- Synthesis Universe - Sci-fi game, nothing known
- Tea Party Simulator 2015 - Set up a tea party, controls like Surgeon Simulator
- Technolust - Cyberpunk exploration game
- Tekken 7
- Trackmania Turbo - Trackmania finally coming to console! Fast paced racer on some cool tracks
- Until Dawn: Rush of Blood - Nope. On rails horror shooter. Nope.
- Vanguard V - Flight action game
- Vector 36 - A Star Wars Pod Racing type game
- Vizioneck - Shitty looking indy fps
- Volume: CODA - Expansion of the game Volume, test your skills against 30 new levels
- War Thunder - War Thunder, but in VR
- Wayward Sky - Exploration game
- White Day - Remake of White Day: A Labryinth Named School - Korean horror game - Nope
- World War Toons - Cartoony multiplayer FPS. Kid friendly shooter
- XING: The Land Beyond - first person puzzle adventure game

 

[calyam]

PSVR seems likely if others on my friends list. My PC is also more than capable so I might grab one of those as well.

 

[Igloo]

I'll get the playstation one if I get any.

Was looking at that Rigs game the other day. Looked really fun.

 

[CasuallyDressed]

PSVR.

Those prices though.

 

[Hawks1523]

Only one I'd consider would be psvr. Would need to be reasonably priced and have games I want to play with it.

Don't care for the others.

 

[The Big Sauce]

I know Quiv hates the entire shoot'em'up genre but REZ was always a special game. VR seems like its natural environment, its one of the most tempting VR releases on that list.

It's also been rumoured that No Man's Sky will have VR capabilities which looms as the killer app that VR needs.

 

[dave123]

Everything I've read about VR is that you need a min of 60fps to achieve an 'immersive experience' (hence the oculus recommend specs) so how does the PlayStation VR intend to this at 1080p when it struggles to do output 45fps+ 900p for alot of games. Seems like a waste of money at first glance. Am I missing something?

Yes ...give it time

Sony will work it out - have Sony ever not succeeded

Saw a demo of the deep .....in shark cage. I want to dive with sharks ....hell yes