I bought this from Game last weekend and it is definitely the best thing I’ve bought in a long time, I’ve never experienced anything quite like it before. I wear glasses so hopefully they won’t ruin the lenses, it didn’t feel like they were touching them as I was able to tilt the headset around without feeling my glasses move. So far I’ve played dreamdeck, which appears to need the oculus remote to actually control it which is a shame, but aside from that was a cool experience, first contact which is just loads of fun despite being a short demo, lucky’s tale which was surprisingly great, didn’t expect vr to work for a 3rd person game, dead and buried, great multiplayer experience and adr1ft on steamVR which made me really dizzy and badly needs motion controller support added but was impressive how well the mind can be tricked into thinking you’re turning upside down when you aren’t moving at all.

Mine arrived 3 days ago and I can honestly say I've never been so impressed with any other technology purchase. It's absolutely phenomenal.

I've barely touched the various games and experiences that are packed in, I'm still in absolute awe at the initial "first contact" app that is your gateway to using the oculus.

Last night I tried dead and buried and the 4 player shootouts were like something from every scifi film I watched as a kid!

What a time to be alive! More people need to understand and experience this - if you have a decent PC, but! If you don't have a decent PC, make it a priory to get one!

Pro tip: if you use your PC to connect to a TV via HDMI, you'll also need to purchase a display port to HDMI adapter for the oculus (I got one for £8 on Amazon)

>The 360 Degree Sci-Fi space Bullet Hell shoot em up, where your hand becomes your 'ship' is just incredible, and works within it's limits perfectly

Any idea what this game is called?

FFS does anyone know who has the bundle with the xbox one controller still?

Back in stock again.

Debating on this or upgrading my 24" 1080p monitor to a 27" 1440p. Can only afford one option.

Mine arrived last night. I only had an hour or so, I set it up with one of the two sensors and quickly ran through setup. Didn't configure the play space properly, so I couldn't really walk around that much, but... WOW!

I've watched a lot of VR videos on YouTube, and watched some streamers who play a lot of VR on Twitch, but experiencing it yourself is something else (for me at least).

I went through the demos, even the first room - the one where it's all white and there's nothing really in it, it was so weird in VR! With a little bit of suspension of disbelieve, you feel like you're really there. The high-rise demo, the little alien guys, the robot in the trailer thing - awesome!

I downloaded Lucky's Tale and had a quick blast, it's so weird to be able to look around things. Like putting your head around/through something, and to be able to see it the other side. I knew this was possible of course, but to actually do it is really fun. The Touch Controllers are great, really intuitive.

Some negatives of course, as with everything. For the focus to be the best for me, I get reasonably sized black bars noticeable on the left and right of my view. I can liken it to looking through a scuba mask. The 'screen-door effect' is also quite noticeable when you look for it - however when I stopped looking for it and just enjoyed the content I barely noticed anymore. One thing which I wasn't especially prepared for to the extent it bothers me, is - this thing is HOT to wear! It felt like if you don't let the lenses warm up, they can fog up pretty easily. It's also quite hot to wear, not the device itself being hot but rather pressed against your face hot. My nose sits surprisingly high into the unit itself, so if you're a nose breather like I guess I am, it doesn't help with the air temperate in the Rift itself.

Like I said though I really blasted through the setup, only had one sensor, and just wanted to see VR in the hour or so I had last night. I'm sure if I configured everything properly, and calibrated my space then it would be even better. My first impressions are great so far.

Appears to be OOS as Amazon as the seller

Might be a silly question but hoping someone can help,

If I were to buy this in the U.S.A and bring it back to the U.K, would it be compatible with the U.K Xbox One and PC?

Thanks

Gone now, but still on Oculus site.

Very happy with my Rift since getting it a month ago - truly amazing experiences that I haven't had since the evolution from 8 bit to 16 bit computing decades ago. Sure, VR isn't 'there' yet (I've tried Holo Lens enough to know that is nearer to what we'll all be using in 10 years) but it's a great experience that takes gaming to a new and interesting place.

Having played the Vive, I'll give my review on it.

I felt like a beta tester.

The device was huge, and weighty on the head, and I was continually grabbing the controller and resetting the games/fixing things for people who came round. I had to apply patches to the headset and lighthouses, which eventually corrupted, forcing me to run a firmware reset on the whole thing and do it over again. Adjusting the lighthouses to get the best calibration and smoothest movement is also a bit tricky. They have to be of a set height and distance from one another, and all mirrors and reflective surfaces, such as TVS and windows, should be blocked so as not to reflect the sensors inaccurately.

I gave the people trying it out a great time! But I sort of felt like I do at work, like a technician, which is honestly not what a consumer product should be about. Then again if you're buying a 1st Gen VR headset for £900, you'd expect to know a little about what you're getting into.

I bought a radeon GTX Geforce 970. And although it's classed as VR Ready, I needed to cap my FPS to 45 (half framerate) and even then, some games were so badly optimized and CPU intensive, that I couldn't play them, or they would judder causing motion sickness (Job simulator I'm looking at you!). Crashes were frequent enough to be a bother.

I also had to watch to make sure that the people didn't bang their heads or go too far out of the play area, like a child minder. You DO get a large red zone to see your limits, but by damn if the games don't just make you want to go THROUGH the boundaries and touch the "jellyfish" "robot dog" "Whale" on the other side. If you put your arm past the red line, you could very much be putting it straight through your LED tv, so caution is needed.

I recommend a very large area to mess about in. This really should be factored in when buying it. I managed to JUST, get a mediumXmedium block by turning my double bed 90 degrees the other way. I've measured this as about 8.5 X 8.5 literal 'feet' (relatively big feet). Medium allows a degree of walking, while anything beneath will only really provide a zone big enough for a bit of arm swing. Large I'm sure would be amazing, and very free, if you live in some sort of 4-5 bedroom huge house with a playroom. But if you're going to keep it, then like, the room pretty much becomes your "VR room", as putting anything else in it may block the sensors.

A larger area means you can 'explore' your zone a lot more easily, and don't have to keep teleporting your current destination about. You can walk a few feet and look around that object in front of you, before taking a cautionary teleport backwards.

It's the need to teleport around that for me personally really stops that feeling of immersion. I feel that the headsets will be better suited to 'rollercoasters' or 'pre-set environments'. Like a cardboard maze that becomes a metal dungeon when you put the headset on. Games are limited to either sticking you in one location, or having you teleport, i'm not saying this is a bad thing, it's simply a limitation, as it very noticable even when playing.

Some games break boundaries of what you can do in a small space though. The 360 Degree Sci-Fi space Bullet Hell shoot em up, where your hand becomes your 'ship' is just incredible, and works within it's limits perfectly. Or the archery minigame which doesn't require movement so much as it requires aim.

TLDR: Thinking about it. Buying an oculus is like buying a vive with the 'minimum space' provided (no full body motion tracking), which to me would not be worth purchasing at all. It's the freedom of movement, ideally in a large environment, that really makes the whole thing click, and even getting this out of the vive with my relatively large room was a pain in the ass.

I mean even on a small scale, not being able to take a step left or right while playing the archery game would feel very limiting, as it's a natural movement you make when putting on the headset and finding yourself in that situation.

Don't go for it if you wear glasses.

Oculus' claim of support is..... Interesting.
You *can* wear glasses, but no matter how carefully & diligently you use the headset, over (a small amount of) time you'll almost certainly scratch its extremely soft lenses.

You'll then learn that Oculus has *zero* provision for repair, or replacement of the lenses. Indeed, it seems as though they explicitly designed against maintainability, as the CV1 is worse than both the dk1 & dk2.

As a consumer product I fear the CV1 isn't yet ready.

Is there any advantage to getting this from amazon vs Game where it's £1 cheaper, has c. £8 in Game credit and c. £3 in TCB and free DPD next day delivery?

i'm so tempted to buy. I wish I bought when it was first posted. If those discounted amazon gift card vouchers ever come from viking i think i'll take the plunge :grin:

Will echo sentiments this is still a great deal even without the Xbox controller, dongle and remote.

If you're on the fence I'd say go for it. Amazing experience you can only understand fully after trying it for yourself.

So tempted to jump in on this offer.

I bought this the day that sale was announced, and decided to sell the Xbox controller + dongle for £40 as I already have a ps4 controller connected by Bluetooth and ds4windows.

Ended up with a 3 sensor setup, due to the odd shape of my space.

Very happy with it so far. I was on the fence and was a big vive fan before, but at 2x the price the value isn't there.
That, plus the fact that the rift has it's own app store (you'd need to use a workaround with vive to access) and native access to steam - it feels more consumer ready
That said, I still detest the sensor tracking setup that is ultra finnicky

Still a good deal to get in VR, i mean the controllers are £99 to buy alone, plus 6 free games, Robo recall will turn your head to VR, (pun intended)....plus you got a lot, and i mean a lot of steamvr free stuff as well to dip into, VR labs is awesome as is portal stories.

I am running that two sensor setup in 360 tracking with no issues, and even while one of the sensors was on USB 2.0 port, as i only had two USB 3.0 when i first got it during the summer sale, i have since bought a cheap USB 3.0 rear slot bracket that plugged into my MOBO to give me another two 3.0 USB ports, simply because my OCD was kicking in.......;).........and i have what the setup calls a moderate room space, but it is all fine and works great.

For £399 it is a hell of a good price for geting into Vr games like Elite, Super hot, Star Trek Bridge Crew, A:Isolation(just got a VR unoffical mod released today).......and i am running a GTX970, a Haswell i7 core, 16 gig and W10...and i have had a fantastic expereince with this so far, i may actually nail this to my head and never come out again, Red Dwarf style. lol

^^All of the above i agree with 110%....the battery life of these things are amazing, and here is a little tip, place them out of sight of your sensors and they will drop into standby mode almost instantly. :wink:

I'd prefer a Vive as it seems to be gathering more support, and I prefer the idea of the device being more linked to Steam. However I'm not paying double the price, so I've ordered this :smile:

for the price its great

Is it worth saving for another couple of months and going for the HTC Vive or is this just as good?

Still a great buy, although gamepad was a better deal hitman is right, not needed for VR now, the touch pads can be used as a gamepad now.

Plus the new one box is beautiful and perfect if you plan to demo somewhere/take to a friends.

Still a great deal imo. Rarely used the controller in any VR games I played. BTW remember there are still quite a few free games with this along with a number on steam:

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Looks alright to me

shame they pulled that little stunt to get rid of old stock with the controller, really enjoying mine though.

Did it come with controller and remote last time?