I’ve spent over $1500 on VR (HTC Vive, and Valve Index, plus some accessories for both). I’ve never been able to talk myself into even a Quest 2 for $200 back when they went on sale shortly before they raised the price due to “supply chain issues.” I enjoy VR experiences and I’m personally okay with paying enthusiast prices for hardware that improves the experience, but I want nothing to do with Meta/Facebook’s ecosystem, at any price.
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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Well, possibly people have finally been turned off by Zuck Zuck and his creepy-ass avatar doing their combined best to make his “Metaverse” pipe dream as cringeworthy as possible. Seems he can’t get it through his head that all we really want to do is play video games (and I guess maybe watch VR porn), and for $1500/999, we can buy an awful lot of game console with change left over for some games, or a pretty significant chunk of normal gaming PC.
I think I’ll stick with my Reverb G2. I wouldn’t take a Meta/Facebook backed device, nor touch its ecosystem, if they paid me.
MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Jastas@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This ^ That is all the same exact reasoning I thought of when I purchased my Valve Index this year. Sure, it’s older hardware at this point but I want nothing to do with Meta/Facebook’s ecosystem as well.
CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 9 months ago
[deleted]RaoulDook@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Those are old GPUs you know. You can get a very VR-capable RTX card now from the 30 or 40 series for relatively cheap. 3060TI is doing well for my setup.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What extras do you recommend for the Index? I have the standard kit with 2 base stations and controllers.
MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The big ones for me are a cover/replacement for the fabric face gasket, prescription lens inserts, and for long play sessions a fan insert for the headset can be a nice to have, but I don’t run mine all the time since sometimes it’s just adding noise. The face gasket has probably been the hardest thing to get right, since a lot of third-party ones either don’t have enough padding, or are hard to swap in and out, so I kinda prefer having a full extra magnetic insert so I can easily change between the original which is most comfortable for me, and something else that I’m less worried about sweating all over for more active games.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Those are good suggestions. I made prescription lens inserts for my wife by simply removing the ear-holder arms from an old pair of her glasses, just leaving the frame and lenses which fits well inside the lens area
stigmata@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Uh, the Pro wasn’t aimed for that, you twit.
fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
$1500 also buys a lot of porn (or so I’ve heard) especially as free is a pretty low price.