and here I passed on wireless for my vive cause it would have been another $400+ and installing a card on top of the $699 kit price. Index doesn't have a wireless option?

Wireless streaming has always just seemed so obvious to me. I've been advocating for it for years. Of course Valve is the first one to make it.

I mean the tech is here unless you're looking for full holosuite.

Yeah, but depending on where you live you can get some dirt cheap kit on the used market. Depending on who you know you probably could even get a headset gifted. I for sure tried to just give away my Rift S to friends.

Sure, its not the newest shiny thing. But is your PC even powerful enough for these?

I constantly see people in VR communities which are happy because they sniped a headset for 40 - 100 bucks. Which today is like premium controller money or depending on the game not even the price of a premium edition.

Best part is if you invest now for the first time you have tons of games of the last 10 years to play. VR still has a content issue. But not if you get that kind of backlog at once. Well, minus a few great games which were lost in time.

Quest is good and cheap. You can Sideload apps, run Steam VR and never touch a Meta app.

Doing this actually hurts Meta because it's assumed Meta underprices the hardware and makes up the difference in software like other consoles. It's win-win.

The original planned price was below the valve index ($1000), so the real question is by what percentage markup is applied from the chips inside vs. the steam machine.

It's a niche alright, but judging from VRchat and the modding communities around getting VR working in more and more games, it's a niche people are willing to spend money on.

Some things are also best experienced in VR (such as Half Life Alyx)

Facebook killed it I think. They came in swinging the money dick right when the tech started getting interesting and immediately VR became about "being part of a software ecosystem".

It'll come back. People have been enamored with this concept since at least the 1980s.

I've already come to terms with a high price.

Since I am upgrading my OG Vive, I can live with it. I know I will use it plenty and for a long time.

I missed my email 🤷‍♂️ probably for the best, I didn't really need it.

But the frame? I've been holding out on VR for too long. This is my moment.

At this point there's really no price point too high for scalpers as there'll always be a sap who'll pay more.

Lol