HTC Vive vs Oculus Rift CV1 - PAX Prime 2015
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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thank you to hypx for sending us to PX Prime 2015 this year check out their
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Cloud 2 gaming headset in the video description down below also thank you to
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ASUS and Corsair welcome to no actual booth in
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particular what we're checking out right now is the Oculus cv1 or consumer
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version one and the valve HTC Vive combo
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thing what I came to PX Prime 2015 expecting to do was have a head-to-head
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between these guys in terms of tech specs but that doesn't seem to be the
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really important thing here which is a little abnormal for me I'm used to being
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like well has this resolution screen and this refresh rate on the screen all this
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kind of stuff that's great they're both kind of getting to a point where it's
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it's okay it's obviously not great it's not the ideal VR experience people still
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want higher resolution people still want higher refresh rate because then it will
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feel more immersive and look more realistic you can still kind of see that
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the graphics aren't that amazing because frame rate is super important in VR so
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you need kind of lower settings and higher frame rate and a really beastly machine we know all this kind of stuff
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so okay what is it coming down to well as you guys know killer apps is super
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important Oculus right now has a valkyrie gear VR has some from Eve as
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well and valve HTC Vive has a whole bunch of their own killer apps coming up
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it's going to be kind of that whole console PC gaming War thing all over
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again even though they're both on PC because it's going to be okay well this
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one is hooked into this one specifically and yeah that's kind of a problem to be
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completely honest I'm hoping that they merge libraries because then people are
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going to be able to get the experience from the hardware that they want and be able to play whatever game they want but
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I don't know how true that's going to be in the end we've seen it time and time
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again people are like oh yeah we're going to get rid of exclusives and then
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they super don't so I don't know we'll have to see now Hardware experience
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there is some stuff I can say here the main differences are about the sensor
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the Oculus has a sensor that sits in front of you and looks at its IR LEDs
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and that's actually pretty good but only kind of condenses you into either a
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sitting experience or a standing experience in a fairly small square you
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can still stand and move around a little bit but really not that much the Vive
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gives you much more freedom you can move around in a much larger area and have it
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still be relatively accurate because there's sensors that will go up on the
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walls in kind of the corners of the room and track you there the problem with
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this is it's less consistent and harder to set up harder to set up uh the first
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demo I did for the vibe was at NVIDIA on the first day early on and none of the
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demos that I tried worked every single demo I tried had a critical failure at
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some point in time during the demo also the HTC truck that was outside the
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convention in a parking lot had so many problems that they had to shut down
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partway through the day another booth that I tried it at a Seuss they had it
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going on but I tried them much later on so they were able to kind of fix some of
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the bugs it's an interesting idea a lot of you guys out there are going to be
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tinkerers and you're going to be able to work on this stuff and set this stuff up
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and that's cool you'll have no problem but other people are going to want the the more simple experience I don't know
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if I can condense these two Brands into simple experience and more complicated
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experience yet they're not out yet we'll have to see but that's kind of how it's
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looking for now I'm excited hopefully you guys are too we'll have to see in
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2016 how this war ends or some might argue begins anyways thanks to hyperx
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for sending us here to PA Prime 2015 if you want to check out their YouTube
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channel it should be up here in the top right hand corner in the cards section
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they release a whole bunch of cool gaming content be sure to subscribe also
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thank you to ASUS and Corsair if you want to see products from all of these
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companies click the link in the video description down below thank you guys for watching we'll see you next time