I'm sure everyone already knew that but it is a much better experience.
Installing was simple enough, updated all my drivers and lighthouses. Re-sink the controllers and it fired right up. Vive Pro runs smooth no dropped FPS or anything I could see with my setup Skylake/1080
Text is much clearer, screen door effect is way more subtle, colors are a lot more vibrant.
The whole unit is larger. the face piece part especially, I wear glasses and they fit snug in the gen 1 Vive, now I have room for days. Perfect for larger glasses. WAY more comfortable to wear, the gen 1 would always bother my head where the rear strap was after a while. I feel l could wear this as long as I wanted.
Not a fan of the built in speakers, I feel like my ears are getting tea bagged by them. I like my Man O' Wars.
They say the nose part is better and while it fells a lot better on the nose, I have more light coming in than from the gen 1. (I have a fairly small nose)
All in all I'm happy, This is what I wanted when I got the first Vive, This is really something more like you gotta have over need to have. I'm a weird guy when it comes to my tech, I gotta have the best shit and I always feel like I live in the future with 90's technology.
I was 12 when Lawnmower Man came out...
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[–] SunBrew ago
Just the headset is $800?
[–] AmazingFlightLizard ago
Does it come with lighthouses and Vive controllers or can you use the ones from the first gen? My headset is first gen and I have to get it fixed, but I might pick up a Vive pro and donate the first gen to my daughter so we can play VR stuff together. Still, my very favorite VR experience is Rec Room and that’s free.
[–] JayDrifts [S] ago
Nope.
[–] i_scream_trucks 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago (edited ago)
Yeah nah.
Get a gear vr setup with riftcat and vorpx. Same thing for a quarter of the price and as the phone is doing most of the processing you dont need a brand new ultimate spec gaming pc to run it.
Galaxy S8 + GearVR + MSI laptop with 960m + Riftcat and Steam VR = Hot laps around Albert Park in a Red Bull Renault in Assetto Corsa in full VR. FlyInside runs XPlane beautifully (have flown around australia in VR)
Now, immersion..... until we get pressure sensitive gloves and some way to move like a fucking human being instead of a teleporting statue (or tigger) that points where he wanta to go then clicks a button there is little to no immersion in any game that doesnt make good natural use of a hand controller. Running flight sims with a full hotas or racing sims with a racing wheel setup in VR is about as close as youll get until then. And its gooooood. The main Vive titles ove had a crack at all involve pointing and clicking somewhere to move. This is arse and utterly breaks any kind of immersiveness for me. To get right into anything it needs to be sit down which makes the major headsets complete overkill.
I wouldnt be paying the $2000+ necessary for a vive or rift setup at the moment. Its just not worth it. Even if youve got money burning holes in your pocket.
(Also - Trento Bondone hill climb in VR mode. Lots of fun.)
[–] roguevert ago
not the same man... not even fucking close...