A New VR Challenger Approaches: Hands On With Valve And HTC's Vive

[Guest]

Valve and HTC have teamed up to create Vive, a VR experience one step ahead of the competition.

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[schwiing]

I'm glad lots of competition is sprouting up in this generation of VR. Hopefully it'll be here to stay this time around.

 

[dstarr3]

This article fails to explain what we all really want to know: Where did they come up with such a stupid name?

 

[whiteodian]

I keep hearing new VR, but nothing ready for us consumers (Oculus, Avegant Glyph, Morpheus, Razer VR, and now this). I wonder how long this project has been running. Oculus should have come out a long time ago, they are taking years and it seems like all these other companies are trying get their piece of the pie. I think Oculus will find some very stiff competion and Facebook may have wasted their money, IF they don't have THE BEST VR experience.

 

[Oldbutstillatit]

Saying FaceBook may have wasted their money is pretty a shallow statement. They have the all star cast and pockets so deep Jesus calls them to borrow cabbage. Don't count Oculus out just yet, you never know what they have up their sleeve

 

[atavax]

i wish it had a higher resolution, hard to get excited about essentially 1080p to cover your entire fov.

 

[Warsaw]

It's just so exciting, I can't wait to experience one of these sets or similar. TAKE MY MONEY and give me one of these things!

 

[therealduckofdeath]

I keep hearing new VR, but nothing ready for us consumers (Oculus, Avegant Glyph, Morpheus, Razer VR, and now this). I wonder how long this project has been running. Oculus should have come out a long time ago, they are taking years and it seems like all these other companies are trying get their piece of the pie. I think Oculus will find some very stiff competion and Facebook may have wasted their money, IF they don't have THE BEST VR experience.

I sort of get the feeling that's why Valve decided on this. "Them Oculus guys are sure taking a long time getting their stuff ready.... What if we....?". A bit of a shocker maybe, Valve being fast to react and finish something....

 

[koga73]

I love Valve and I hate Facebook. I hope Facebook gets CRUSHED in every way possible and loses all of their investors money until they have nothing to offer except to sell their users data to third party companies.

 

[Layman806]

Will it be affordable?

 

[Lambientan]

Reed this article just increase the hype inside me!

 

[Skoonj]

I don't know enough about the topic or the players to make any snarky comments. I am curious, though, about progress in the VR world.

What was described in the article was a pretty good indication of what is possible short term. How long, though, will it be before VR displays are available for air combat gaming? I played Falcon 4.0 some time ago. Since I had just one screen, I always knew there was a lot I couldn't see, and that was frustrating. Even if I could add a second screen, it still wasn't as good as I hoped, simply because of the limited field of view.

So how long before VR can allow all-around vision for such games? The pace of the action would be far greater than what is described in the article. Are we talking months? Years? Decades? Are we talking reasonable prices, or only for the seriously well off? This is something I can't figure out from this article.