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Microsoft announces new VR headsets for Windows 10, starting at $299

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Re: Microsoft announces new VR headsets for Windows 10, starting at $299

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

I was super excited to preorder an Oculus on the first day... until I saw the price. At a more reasonable price point, this is probably going to get me started on VR, finally. I know it won't be the "best" quality, but the market's too fluid to invest heavily in the high end immediately.

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Post by trapperkeeper79 »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #2

I was super excited to preorder an Oculus on the first day... until I saw the price. At a more reasonable price point, this is probably going to get me started on VR, finally. I know it won't be the "best" quality, but the market's too fluid to invest heavily in the high end immediately.

Likewise. I have phone-based VR and a beefy PC. The pricey headsets, limited content and exclusives for headsets have kept me out of the higher end. A friend (also a dev) and I were just chatting yesterday that we'd get hololens and attempt to write apps with it - were it not for the insane price (especially after I wasted almost 2K on Google's Glass debacle). A lower price point and wide availability across vendors might mean fewer exclusives and that is great for the whole industry.

Incidently, I thought Google was doing a good job with the Google VR SDK. But I now am very skeptical since it appears (just my humble, personal opinion) they are more focused on their Daydream platform than they are on wide availability across vendor devices.

Re: Microsoft announces new VR headsets for Windows 10, starting at $299

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

trapperkeeper79 wrote: post #3
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #2

I was super excited to preorder an Oculus on the first day... until I saw the price. At a more reasonable price point, this is probably going to get me started on VR, finally. I know it won't be the "best" quality, but the market's too fluid to invest heavily in the high end immediately.

Likewise. I have phone-based VR and a beefy PC. The pricey headsets, limited content and exclusives for headsets have kept me out of the higher end. A friend (also a dev) and I were just chatting yesterday that we'd get hololens and attempt to write apps with it - were it not for the insane price (especially after I wasted almost 2K on Google's Glass debacle). A lower price point and wide availability across vendors…

Yeah. For $299, I can buy a headset with the knowledge I'm gonna replace it soon. But if I buy an $800 headset, it has to do EVERYTHING.

I did Glass too, and again, HoloLens outpriced my acceptable "stupid expense to be on the leading edge" budget. :D

Re: Microsoft announces new VR headsets for Windows 10, starting at $299

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Post by djsumdog »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #2

I was super excited to preorder an Oculus on the first day... until I saw the price. At a more reasonable price point, this is probably going to get me started on VR, finally. I know it won't be the "best" quality, but the market's too fluid to invest heavily in the high end immediately.

Same with the Google Glass. At the time I was living in a place where $1k USD was way more than I wanted to pay. Looks like it was a good thing I didn't either.

MS is probably selling this at a development loss (probably not a raw materials loss; betting the parts are I have a hard time believing the augmentation is as clear as they portray it to be, and you can't really tell without the product either (like trying to show off how good UHD is on a 1080p screen).

I think it'd be interesting if within 4 years, we see versions of this products that are the same size as the holobands from the Caprica tv series.

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Post by Keyframe »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #2

I was super excited to preorder an Oculus on the first day... until I saw the price. At a more reasonable price point, this is probably going to get me started on VR, finally. I know it won't be the "best" quality, but the market's too fluid to invest heavily in the high end immediately.

I bought IO-Glasses (back in 90's) for 1600 Deutsch Marks. Early adoption is not foreign to me. However, somehow I still don't see anything compelling about current VR/AR wave that would nudge me towards buying one.

IO-Glasses were great for Dark Forces though. And a motion sickness after 20+ minutes or so.

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