MrShooter01
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Posted - 2016.01.12 04:35:00 -
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deezy dabest wrote:MrShooter01 wrote:deezy dabest wrote: Requiring 3 usb 3.0 ports wait what? 3? at the same time? 3 3.0 AND a 2.0 It sounds like a mess to me but I am sure they bundled the wires up nicely at least.
okay I looked this up and figured it out, don't know why it seemed so bizarre to me at the time...
"Three unused USB 3.0 ports and one unused 2.0 port are recommended.
1x 3.0 USB port for the headset
1x 3.0 USB port for the 3D Positional Tracker
1x 3.0 USB port for Oculus Touch (not actually required)
1x 2.0 USB port for Xbox wireless controller (easily would work with a USB hub if any of the other 2.0 ports on your computer are tied up by mouse and keyboard, etc)"
deezy dabest wrote:Maken Tosch wrote:To be honest, I always suspected that my 10-year-old, $3,500 rig was not going to handle Oculus.  I expected some pretty high end requirements but I think they went a little far. I can run 3 screens of Eve on maxed out settings with 1080p @ 120hz so why I can not run a couple of 1 - 2 inch monitors in a helmet with 1080p @ 90 hz is beyond me.
For one thing, EVE is 99% empty space, filled with low poly models of everything but stations, the ship you are currently looking at, and ships you are close enough to be bumping. Because of that, despite looking very, very pretty, it has very low hardware requirements, which is important for a MMO. Hell, you can run it on intel graphics. It's not a very good benchmark for how demanding other games can be for 2160x1200 at a rock solid 90+fps
The second thing is the stated requirements are actually... not the minimum requirements. They're the recommended requirements. If you plug the rift into a computer with a GTX 760 its not going to flash "THIS COMPUTER DOES NOT MEET MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS YOUR OCULUS RIFT WILL SELF DESTRUCT IN 5 SECONDS". Probably.
They're going out of the way to avoid saying what the true minimum requirements are because they don't really want a bunch of customers with the bare minimum unable to actually play half the stuff on the oculus store. They want everyone who buys the thing to be sporting a 970 and i5 4690 so that they will buy and play all of the things on their store without complaining about nausea inducing hitching and fps drops.
There are some games, demos, etc that probably won't really need a 970. The main appeal to VR for me was actually going back and reliving games like Half Life 2 and Oblivion, and I don't imagine those games would strictly need a 970 to play in VR. I'd dare to assume that a lesser card could handle virtual movie theater duty, if a cellphone can. Systems with i5 2500k processors released in 2011 can meet the required cpu performance.
The support site even suggests getting USB 3.0 PCIE expansion cards for older motherboards to cover missing ports.
Anyways, I guess you'll have a lot more information on what is actually needed to run all sorts of first and third-party applications at a satisfactory level when people have the things in their hands in April-ish. Maybe I'll plug in my GTX 560 Ti or even try to get it running on my laptop for the hell of it and see what it can take. |
MrShooter01
Ustio Mercenary Squadron
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Posted - 2016.01.12 08:44:00 -
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Shinobi MumyoSakanagare ZaShigurui wrote:
That looked amazing though but I heard of people acquiring motion sickness ( VR headsets ) and my head started hurting just from watching this so I know it's not for me .
Sorry CCP .
Don't write it off too quick, there's other things to consider here: you're watching someone else whipping their head around and flipping the fighter around in circles. It's like getting motion sickness when riding in a car vs driving it yourself. You're not going to be seeing that bizarre side-by-side picture while wearing the headset (that's just how it gets output to video capture) and the point of view is going to be perfectly following the movement of your head.
The screen has a high refresh rate, and a whole bunch of technobabble specifically designed to make it feel more "natural" and reduce motion sickness.
plus there's more things to do than high speed spaceship dogfights :P
Find a buddy to demo it for you, or a store if they open up demo stations at malls (which I certainly hope they do) |