I want it but it's still way too expensive with the inflated UK price, this is only £30 less than the launch rrp. If it was the US price of £589 then it would be a lot more attractive. Blame Brexit!

Still voted hot as best price if you have the cash lying around.

Lots of great suggestions there, I wasn't fussed about VR then had a shot of one and bought a Vive shortly after. I haven't regretted it for a moment and I love that it just keeps getting better, Raw Data is a lot of fun as a first person VR shooter and the recently released Google Earth VR client is amazing.

John

Just re-bought one from scan seeing as i've always used them and had no trouble with them. Also good reports on trustpilot. I also bought an 1070 for 430 euros (around £360-70) on this deal; http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/asus-rog-geforce-gtx-1070-strix-just-340-amazon-fr-2557196?p=29290892 the normal version has gone back up to 480 euros but the OD is still 430.

At 4:58 in that video you can see the fresnel issue I'm on about.

This is a useful video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcDuS-VNZjE you can see the fresnel lenses circles quite often on the Vive although the Rift’s lenses uses much finer fresnel lenses so you don't notice them although god rays and text are blurred. I prefer the vive although I don't think I'd be moving around much so the Rift makes more sense to buy although the Vive supports man Rifts games so yeah.. .lol.

I ordered from Currys last night but cancelled due to trustpilots reviews on currys (some folks in another deal on here made me aware they have poor service). And now i'm not sure if I have enough space (You need 1.5m by 2m where as I have 1.5m by 1.5m) and i've read up on the screen door effect which sounds as if it blurs the resolution to where you might as well just have 720p? Not sure whether to wait for the next gen now? Thanks.

​I know it isn't but the amount of tax we pay has nothing to do with the manufacturer! The pre tax price is what we should look at, in the UK we're just unfortunate that we get shafted with 20%

My circa 1980 View-Master gave me a week or two, and then I dropped it and it broke. Therefore Virtual Reality is a flop.



Seriously though, if you haven't used the Vive, there is no way to describe it to you. Buy it or don't, justify your decision how you like, all I can say is that this is more than the sum of its parts, and this generation of VR is unlike any computer experience I have ever had before.

When I think about the time I've spent with the Vive, my mind literally remembers the experience in the same way as places I have been to, rather than games I have played in the living room looking at a screen.

Why is this deal in the mobiles section?

You can now get this discount from Scan and Overclockers also! :smiley:

I want it but it's still way too expensive with the inflated UK price, this is only £30 less than the launch rrp. If it was the US price of £589 then it would be a lot more attractive. Blame Brexit!

Still voted hot as best price if you have the cash lying around.

I wonder if Job Simulator will eventually have a spin off called Unemployed Simulator...

Doesn't even compare.

Room scale tracking - controllers have great haptic feedback, sensors are particularly accurate, 2 lighthouses with laser tracking. Headset - 110 degree FOV - OLED display.

There are definitely some 'full' games on the VIVE and then plentiful 'experiences'. Just to name a few below

Tilt Brush
Space Pirate Trainer
Hover Junkers
Rec Room (free)
Subnautica
Audioshield
Out of Ammo
House of the dying sun
Vanishing Realms
Pool Nation
Raw Data
Tabletop simulator
The Solus Project

Other short experiences - Theblu, Google Earth (free) , Alt VR, The rose and me (free) , The Night Cafe, Job Simulator , The Lab (free)

Plenty more :smiley:

Must.......wait...for.........better resolution!

Heated anyway.

Hot ! Must resist, I know it will be a dust collector after a week, and mrs xtrouble would kill me.

I found it after logging into quidco but seems to just be on kitchen appliances and printers. I'm pulling the trigger if i can get it for less than £600 for sure...

Wonder if it'd stack with the currys 10 percent off at quidco

Still showing full price though

Isn't this the original price before they upped it? I am happy with PS VR until prices become reasonable.

How do people still not understand that the US price is before tax??? In the US it seems to be $700 on black Friday so take off our 20% tax and its pretty much the same as in the US at just over £580.

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-and-home-entertainment/gaming/virtual-reality/htc-vive-10144056-pdt.html it's now live with the new price.

I wonder if oculus will drop its price too. Amazon warehouse price of ocukus had been way over £700 lol

Argh even at this good price, even with currys 10% off through quidco (final price of 594) I still can't justify it! There's too much competition out there and prices are bound to plummet. Plus touch controllers in 2017, possibly wireless vr add ons... My gut is telling me to wait

And so is my wallet

And so would my girlfriend if she ever knew

Just went live

Had it all pal off there customer services like being made to feel like I'm lying, rude and arrogant staff.
Wouldn't bother me but it's such an expensive toy.
I'm without my controllers now and steam sale is on.
Last time was Halloween and I missed all the excellent updates alot of games got for it.

Oh and revive now has been updated to allow playing off most oculus touch games which is a nice brucy bonus :smile:

Tips for people if they get it.
Get the advance settings app for steamVR the chaperone and Super Sampling make it so much better as does that new sync option.

I've had nothing but bad experience with mine.
Had a charger die on me after one charge.
Had the squeaky trigger that I had to rma.
Controller came back with tracking issues where it was about 2 inches out.
Sent both controllers back.
Controllers came back excatly the same after repair (tracking)
Then had to go to scan to prove it was my controllers and not my system by using it on scans set up.
Contacted head of community manager @rockjaw who has manged to finally get my a brand new set to Me.
All in all in 3 and a half months that I owned it I've been without a charger for 3 weeks and my controllers I would have been without for 1 and a half months..Trying to get compensation at the moment but it ain't looking good.

But even after all this is love it and Google earth is amazing plus free :smiley:

Don't know how to post GIFS haha

http://imgur.com/5TLo5XL

​Still makes me laugh watching someone drop the controllers thinking they're placing them onto a ping pong table that isn't there :laughing:

I do like my vive. Wow factor wears off but I still put in the hours playing ping pong (paddle up) and yes I've had Assetto Corsa & Dirt Rally working with revive. Much prefer it to have developer support that having to jump through hoops. Heat. Best price available. :smiley:

I doubt gen 2 early 2017.i've seen pleanty of articles with head people denying this. The only thing i think we can expect is a wireless addon as this has been released over in the east but not here yet.

New base stations and touch like controllers.
Headset will pretty much stay the same.

Does assetto corsa work with vive? I know oculus does and its my main game that i want vr for.

Good discount, but anyone looking to pull the trigger do keep in mind there's likely to be news about a Vive 2nd gen (or updated 1st gen) at the start of 2017. So you pays your money and you takes your chances.