Something I wouldn’t have done ordinarily, but as you can probably tell from that description, I spent a lot of cash getting to virtual reality nirvana.Īnd that has been the problem. I upgraded my GPU to get better framerates in VR. I upgraded to a normal Rift when it came out. I poured hundreds of hours into Elite Dangerous in VR, hours that I would never have put in had I been playing on a flat screen. I had an Oculus Rift Dev Kit 2 long before the original came out and it changed my gaming landscape forever. Put a VR headset on somebody though and there’s that initial wow factor (assuming they don’t throw up) of something they genuinely haven’t experienced before. Then you tell them it costs over $1000 dollars to get anywhere close to that and suddenly they are happy with good old 1080p.
I can show my friend’s Read Dead Redemption running at 4k on a massive screen and they might be impressed. I can show a 4K display to my wife and she can’t really tell the difference between that and normal HD.
Yes, it relies on the success of another tech, better processing, displays, and so on, but it one of the few things I have encountered that you can give to somebody who has never used it and they just go ‘wow’. I think it is the one technology I have seen in the past couple of decades that could genuinely be a game-changer.
I want to start this review by explaining my position on virtual reality.
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