Thought i'd put this together for all the potential new Oculus owners who have just splashed out £399. Once you have setup your equipment and Oculus accounts the following should be free in their store:
Nice one @hitman2411 appreciate that and I'm sure all the other new owners will. Thanks.
etmh
10 Jul 17#2
Does anyone know if I would get the freebies if I buy a new Rift when I currently have a DK2 with existing Oculus Home account?
lomax to etmh
10 Jul 17#3
Great post. Looking forward to Echo Arena, looks like it should be fun.
You should be able to use some of the free stuff now on your DK2. Luckys Tale, Dreamdeck and Farlands definitely worked when I tried them on a DK2. I think Oculus Home only checks that you have Oculus hardware attached.
lomax to lomax
11 Jul 17#8
CV1 arrived from Scan. All the free titles were already added to my Library when I setup the CV1 on the same account I used on my DK2. The Echo Arena beta has been extended to the 17th as well.
The install is a pain. I hadn't setup my DK2 since I upgraded my PC a little while back. Couple of tips:
- If the Oculus setup is complaining about windows update KB's not being installed even though you do have them installed you can bypass the checks. In a command prompt run: OculusSetup.exe /bypassHotfixCheck
- I had to disable one of my graphics cards and reboot in order to get past the driver version check screen.
Other than that so far so good. Seems far more comfortable than the DK2 and the tracking seems greatly improved. I'm not convinced the display is that much better. I am however very impressed with the touch controls after the intro demo way more immersive than using a controller.
Now I just need to move more stuff out of the way while all the games download so I can increase my play area :smile: .
@hitman2411 You missed these 2 which seem to be included:
It 'should' I believe it does a hardware check to validate the free games
LewsTherin
10 Jul 17#5
Buy From scan and get free next day with Eve valkyrie as well
voodooking
10 Jul 17#6
Can anyone verify this? I can't find any sources for this. Not even from oculas themselves?
barginchaser
11 Jul 17#7
Do you also get this with the Samsung VR headsets which are Oculus powered?
hitman2411
11 Jul 17#9
Glad it all worked for you. Forgot about Dead and Buried, but that's great that The Unspoken is also included!!
badasschris
11 Jul 17#10
so whats worth actually buying? I'm thinking a driving game to use with my steering wheel and a flying game would be great
lomax to badasschris
11 Jul 17#12
Dirt Rally and Project Cars are both fantastic in VR. You might be able to pickup Dirt Rally cheap as it's been in a Humble Bundle. Project Cars 2 is out in September so there should be even deeper discounts on Project Cars.
Elite Dangerous is good for sim space flight but it's difficult to read text or see things that are far away due to the low resolution of the headset. Even simple things like flying into a space station are jaw dropping though.
Overload is great for more arcadey 6DOF combat. It's still in early access but there is a free demo that works in VR. I highly recommend checking it out.
For all games check out isthereanydeal.com to get an idea of prices and when the last sale was. Also try to buy on Steam if you can, they'll work fine with the Oculus and your games won't be trapped in the Oculus ecosystem if you change headset later.
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Opening post
Thought i'd put this together for all the potential new Oculus owners who have just splashed out £399.
Once you have setup your equipment and Oculus accounts the following should be free in their store:
Robo Recall
Dragon Front
Luckys Tale
Rec Room
Oculus Medium
Oculus Quill
Big Screen
Echo Arena - not until later in July
ToyBox
Mission ISS
Farlands
Google Earth
Disney Movies VR
Mountain Goat Mountain
Oculus Dreamdeck
Minecraft Windows 10 Ed
Google Blocks
The head over to steam and get the following:
War Thunder
The Lab
AltSpace
Nvidia VR Funhouse
Skeet Vr Shooting
Hopefully that should be enough to get you up and running. Then you can move on to Superhot, Space Pirate Trainer, Star Trek Bridge etc :smile:
Hope this helps
Forgot you also get
Dead and Buried
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You should be able to use some of the free stuff now on your DK2. Luckys Tale, Dreamdeck and Farlands definitely worked when I tried them on a DK2. I think Oculus Home only checks that you have Oculus hardware attached.
The install is a pain. I hadn't setup my DK2 since I upgraded my PC a little while back. Couple of tips:
- If the Oculus setup is complaining about windows update KB's not being installed even though you do have them installed you can bypass the checks. In a command prompt run: OculusSetup.exe /bypassHotfixCheck
- I had to disable one of my graphics cards and reboot in order to get past the driver version check screen.
Other than that so far so good. Seems far more comfortable than the DK2 and the tracking seems greatly improved. I'm not convinced the display is that much better. I am however very impressed with the touch controls after the intro demo way more immersive than using a controller.
Now I just need to move more stuff out of the way while all the games download so I can increase my play area :smile: .
@hitman2411 You missed these 2 which seem to be included:
Dead and Buried
The Unspoken
Elite Dangerous is good for sim space flight but it's difficult to read text or see things that are far away due to the low resolution of the headset. Even simple things like flying into a space station are jaw dropping though.
Overload is great for more arcadey 6DOF combat. It's still in early access but there is a free demo that works in VR. I highly recommend checking it out.
I've seen IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad recommended for old school dogfighting but I haven't played it yet.
For all games check out isthereanydeal.com to get an idea of prices and when the last sale was. Also try to buy on Steam if you can, they'll work fine with the Oculus and your games won't be trapped in the Oculus ecosystem if you change headset later.