in the past few months Oculus has more than fallen from Grace from attacks on
their new launch video for the Oculus touch controllers like the nightmare
fuel like versus dislike bar to the
comment section with people saying things like Oculus is anti-consumer and
anti-competitive that they're killing an exciting new area of Technology with
terrible business practices that they're turning into the apple of VR that they
are the cancer of VR people are are
really mad and my Twitter polls showing a shift of our community's Outlook to
the Vive compared to the rift obviously
doesn't capture the entire picture it's not just that people seem to generally
prefer the Vive these days it's more that they're enraged at
Oculus let's explore why and while we're at it I'll give a 2 and 1 half months
late review of The
Rift
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putting aside the hatred for a moment ignoring room scale forgetting about the
controllers and putting a pause on the accusations of bad business practices
trust me we'll get back to those soon but taking just a moment to look at the
headset alone the rift is actually rather remarkable the combination of the
tension retraction mechanism and the velcro straps make it effortless to fit
the rift onto your head the lightweight overall design and high quality
materials make it quite comfortable to wear the ipd adjustment or like how far
away the lenses are from each other is easy to find and simple to use even the
on ear headphones are surprisingly quite
good meaning that you won't have to worry about earbuds or headphones
falling off or falling out when you whip your head around in VR everything about
the headset even down to the cable breakout feels quality but unfortunately
for Oculus immersion in VR is key and an
important big step to immersion is getting your hands in the experience
without some form of hand presence even something rudimentary the rift feels
incomplete especially because we aren't examining it in a magic vacuum where
other products like the HDC VI don't exist content especially exclusive
content could be the answer to this but honestly I found the games pretty boring
I see no benefit to luy's taale a platformer being in VR and as cool as a
demo that it was to track the progress of the riffs development the multiplayer
space dog fighter Eve Valkyrie got a little dull after a while even the climb
a beautiful rock climbing simulator from krych was much less engaging than it
should have felt thanks to the Xbox controller I mean sure for Passive
experiences that don't require controller input like watching movies in
a virtual reality theater or the throbbing Market of POV virtual reality
experiences for adults the Oculus
actually wins pretty handily the headset is lighter and more comfortable for
long-term viewing and the foam face padding collects less you know
perspiration to keep it at least the headset itself uh more hygienic ah which
isn't to say that Oculus has no solution for hand presence in VR the Oculus touch
controller is fantastic I've used it and in my opinion it's even just slightly
better than the admittedly wonderful Vive controllers so great it wins but
you can't win an award if you don't show up for it so where the hell is it well
let's see there's a new video on the Oculus YouTube channel about the touch
surely that will tell us when it's coming out how much it will cost Etc
nope just a video of some Attractive people being super excited about
watching each other play VR games which is pretty awkward and kind of boring for
the most part by the way oh uh and it's coming this year so that's good news I
guess so the headset is good the touch controllers are late but they're coming
let's get back to the community anger I alluded to earlier why all the hate it's
partly to do with the first part of the video title the over 30 full games part
at first this sounds awesome the lack of full games has been a big problem for VR
so far so to have a whopping 30 of them
coming out is a great thing the problem with that is that a significant number
of them are going to be exclusive or
wait are they there's actually some misinformation floating around here
Oculus doesn't actually seem to be after fullon exclusives what they are doing is
giving developers straight up cash for them to release on their platform first
in one case the most documented case in fact they didn't even suggest a timed
exclusivity Clause the developer said it would take them 2 to three months to
release on the Vive and they were cool with that Gabe Newell by contrast
responded to a Fan's email stating that while they do financially support devs
by essentially giving them an advance on their steam sales they never asked for
any form of exclusivity time or not so
you can decide to raise your Pitchfork or not you're entitled to that but
personally until I have more hard facts
mine has been stowed but the ultimate question remains should you buy one nope
the Vive I was hesitant to recommend the glorified Tech demo game library and
high price point are both difficult pills to swallow but as an Enthusiast
who's been saving for quite some time I bit the bullet as far as the Riff goes
at this point I would not suggest the purchase of a rift regardless of if you
want a seated or standing experience and I'm even trying to cancel the order from
my personal Rift which if unsuccessful
will probably turn into just selling it on eBay shocker right well it's true
there's a lot to like about the rift but ever since trying the newer version of
the Vive at CES this year I've been simply uninterested in the Xbox
controller Centric experience that the rift currently is for the consumer and
I'll need to find out how much the controllers cost and when I can even get
them before I'm willing to give it another chance at this point this is an
incomplete experience and the Vive is a complete experience it seems like a
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