Virtual Reality Club

[marmiteonpizza]

Alright bro, it ain't a competition But please do tell us about it when it arrives!
I preordered a few days after preorders went live, so I'll be getting mine in May.

 

[Mindweaver]

I still have my Rift dk1 to tide me over until I get a Vive. I was told my dk1 will work in the Oculus store. Steam VR works with it as well. I can't wait for content to drop on March 28th. Crytek did just release Back to Dinosaur Island 2 Demo... and it's amazing! By far the best demo so far. The graphics are the best I've seen, even in my lower res DK1.

 

[Guitar]

Got my PSVR pre-order in on Amazon. People were saying they sold out within a minute, seemed like it.

 

[PainfulByte]

I cancelled my Rift pre-order yesterday after much debate with myself. I'm keeping the Vive pre-order.

I own the Rift DK1 and DK2, and I was quite the Oculus Rift evangelist among my friends and colleagues for the past 3 years. But I think the Vive will be the best VR platform, for me. However, I admit the Vive won me over by a very slim margin.

I'm really looking forward to all theses companies keeping each other on their toes.

2 weeks of painful waiting now.

 

[Guitar]

Dammit I want a Rift preorder too. My friend cancelled his and didn't mention it else I would've asked him to just sell it to me. I want all three, but I don't want to get a Rift two months later.

 

[marmiteonpizza]

I'll eventually want a Rift as well as a Vive too I think, but I'll wait and see what Oculus does and see how the two companies grow before deciding when the best time to get a Rift will be.

 

[marmiteonpizza]

2 weeks of painful waiting now.

How do you know the week you'll be getting your Vive? All I'm told is that shipment for mine will be May.

 

[AsRock]

I'll eventually want a Rift as well as a Vive too I think, but I'll wait and see what Oculus does and see how the two companies grow before deciding when the best time to get a Rift will be.

Thinking some will be taken over and leave you with a expensive paper weight. Techs not even matured yet.

 

[PainfulByte]

How do you know the week you'll be getting your Vive? All I'm told is that shipment for mine will be May.

Well, I have this little bit on my order confirmation:

Thank you for your HTCVIVE.com order – We will start shipping April 2016. Your pre-order's estimated arrival will be based from the date you receive your shipping notification.

Since they should start shipping around April 5th IIRC, I'm really crossing my fingers that these two things equate in an early April shipment for my Vive...

Please don't break my dreams...

 

[Guitar]

The Vive will start arriving April 5th for the first wave.

 

[marmiteonpizza]

Thinking some will be taken over and leave you with a expensive paper weight. Techs not even matured yet.

Exactly what I'm thinking, most people won't even place one preorder because they know the technology is too immature. I'm too stoked for VR though, I dream about immersion

Well, I have this little bit on my order confirmation:



Since they should start shipping around April 5th IIRC, I'm really crossing my fingers that these two things equate in an early April shipment for my Vive...

Please don't break my dreams...

Ah phew! Exactly what it says on my order but for May; I was afraid I was missing something.
Just take comfort in the fact that you'll get your Vive before I get mine

 

[Mindweaver]

Thinking some will be taken over and leave you with a expensive paper weight. Techs not even matured yet.

I agree their is really no reason to get both now. I would get one or the other until it's in more people's hands and they have a good amount of content. That's the biggest issue I've had with my OR DK1 is the lack of content. I have even got over the motion sicks with the DK1's lack of non positional tracking and non oled screen. I can play all of the dk2 stuff... and their just isn't a lot of content at the moment. That's why I'm more excited for the content to drop March 28th. I have even loaded up a couple Vive demos on steam using my dk1. One of them was Brookhaven and it looks really good, but I can't do anything in it with out the Vive's controllers. I think the Vive will do well, but it may take some time. I think right now for VR to really take off it will be because of the PSVR. Sony's line up of games look really good. But who knows until they are out. I hope it really takes off. It's hard to play games on a monitor now.. lol

 

[xkm1948]

Looks like my Vive will be here soon. Can't wait to try it on.

 

[marmiteonpizza]

I got an email with this too, but mine isn't to be shipped until May!

 

[Guitar]

Oculus for Kickstarter backers should start arriving today, as well as NDA should be lifted.

 

[Mindweaver]

Ok so, since the new SteamVR store content became available on the 5th.. I've been buying and trying everything with my DK1 and I'm really impressed. Each VR item has an Icon with either a Vive or Rift icon or both. I've downloaded all of the free Vive content and it all works with my dk1... Except I can't do anything but look around without the tracked controllers. Here are the games I've bought - Adventure Time, Space Bit Attack, and Eve: Gunjack. I bought EVE: Gunjack lastnight.. I've had my eye own it because it's an Oculus GearVR game, but it only had the Vive icon with it. Someone told me they bought it and the xbox controller and DK1 works with it. It's really good and very polished to only be a $9.99 game. I played it last night and made it to #11 on the leader board.

Adventure Time was my first purchase from the games that came out on the 5th. It's another game from GearVR. It's only $4.99 with around a 30 minute play through, but it's really good and well worth the price. All in all I'm impressed with Valve and steam simply due to the fact they have something for every HMD. I'm really frustrated with Oculus, because the new version 1.3 doesn't work with my DK1.. and they said before the launch of CV1 that the new store would work with every development kit. Now, that may change and they add back support and I hope they do, because I have a project I'm working on and I'm stuck on .8... Not a big thing, because all of the Oculus Rift stuff on SteamVR still uses .8.

If members want to share what games they have I'll add it to the OP. [:])

Games I've bought

1. Time Machine VR
2. Adventure Time
3. Space Bit Attack
4. EVE: Gunjack
5. DarkfieldVR
6. Elite Dangerous
7. The Grand Canyon VR Experience
8. CAT Interstellar
9. Among the Sleep
10. Lunar Flight
11. Boogeyman
12. Euro Trucker

 

[Guitar]

IF anybody has been following, Vive shipping is absolutely fucked so I don't have my headsets along with hundreds/thousands of others who preordered first.

 

[Mindweaver]

IF anybody has been following, Vive shipping is absolutely fucked so I don't have my headsets along with hundreds/thousands of others who preordered first.

Yea, it's a mess on both sides.. Oculus and HTC. It took a month for me to get my DK1.

 

[xkm1948]

Placed my preorder 1hr after initial preorder open up. Still haven't got any more updates from HTC. I cleaned up my apartment for the arrival of Vive.

 

[Guitar]

Sorry but 1h makes me laugh. I was an :02 order, and there's plenty of :01s that haven't heard a thing, yet they've shipped some out who ordered days after. What the fuck

 

[xkm1948]

Sorry but 1h makes me laugh. I was an :02 order, and there's plenty of :01s that haven't heard a thing, yet they've shipped some out who ordered days after. What the fuck

Laugh at what man? We are on the same crappy boat called HTC delivery service.

I am hoping for at least next Friday.

 

[Guitar]

Since there hasn't been much here....I finally get my Vive tomorrow.

 

[marmiteonpizza]

Since there hasn't been much here....I finally get my Vive tomorrow.

When was it meant to come again? Why was it delayed mate?

 

[Guitar]

They were meant to start 'arriving' on the 5th so most expected launch week. HTC/Digital River fucked up and shipped everybody out of order so people like myself who ordered a minute after the page was up got it after people who ordered 10 minutes later.

 

[marmiteonpizza]

Must have been torture

I'm expecting mine in May, hopefully the same thing doesn't happen!