20% blowout sale honestly is making me consider going index lol. But I could never justify having to mount the lighthouses
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Is it just me, or do they only have the headset, replacement left controller, and replacement tether available? You can't buy the entire kit?
They ran out of them. The index hasn't been produced for almost a year now, and first they ran out of spare lighthouses (though HTC still sells compatible ones) and now it seems they ran out of the full kits and put all the rest to a clearance sale.
(though HTC still sells compatible ones)
Not cheap, though. 1.0 lighthouses are $100. The 2.0 model is $230. Each. You're probably better off buying a used Index kit if you can find one.
they ran out of spare lighthouses
Shit, my vaccum cleaner has pulled a lighthouse off the shelf few weeks ago and I did not check whether it's working...
1600p per eye and it's over 400 euros on sale. That's...not remotely good value for that price. I can get a Reverb G2 for about 150 bucks which has 2160p per eye.
Granted, the maximum refresh rate is a bit lower, but the resolution makes a massive difference and imho it's what really matters in VR.
Doesn't the G2 have notably much worse tracking accuracy?
None of the headsets with inside-out tracking are as good as lighthouse-based tracking (Frame included), but they come close enough in most cases that the difference is irrelevant.
Could be, I don't know. I played HL Alyx on it with the Oasis drivers and it worked really well for me.
I wonder what will happen to the lighthouses. They are relied on by a lot of VR stuff. Is HTC going to make them? This could be awful news for the space if nobody is going to manufacture them
HTC Vive have took over, for now at least.
That was... Brief.
I really want to buy the frame, but my old index just keeps going strong. Sold CS skins to buy it back when it was originally released and it was totally worth it.
The performance on linux was unstable when I switched my desktop to linux only a couple of years ago, so i shelved it for a year, but now the performance is absolutely incredible and even more stable than it used to be on Windows. Love the linux VR community and what they have managed to build.
How does the new price compare to the frame? Their hardware is not supposed here officially so can't even see the prices but is it worth getting one now? Would it be a good cheaper alternative?
It costs 685.60 € with the controllers but without the base stations. They are not included and aren't offered.
The cheapest way to VR is probably a used Quest you never let on the internet.
I thought you can't even use those without an account. Is that not the case?
Not sure about the newer ones, but I've got a Quest 1 that is now unsupported and I can use that without an account. Even standalone with free games.
But you can also root the Quest 2 and 3 to use them completely without any ties to Meta.
Are you using it on Linux? If so, how is the compatibility?
Been a while. My daughter's been playing a lot with it standalone.
The Quest 1 isn't supported by Steam Link so the only way for PCVR is ALVR as far as I know. Back then it was pretty involved to set up but did work nicely. I think by now it should be easier.
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