Friday, January 19, 2018

Best VR headsets



The OCULUS RIFT BUNDLE is the headset that started the current hysteria. Developed by Palmer Luckey, funded via Kickstarter and snapped up by Facebook for a cool $2 billion, the Rift plugs into your computer's DVI and USB ports and tracks your head movements to provide 3D imagery on its stereo screens.
The consumer edition Rift uses a 2160 x 1200 resolution, working at 233 million pixels per second, with a 90Hz refresh rate. It's high-tech stuff, and matches the HTC Vive for refresh. However, given its access to the power of the latest PCs, it's pushing a lot more pixels than Sony's PS VR headset.

The Oculus Touch controllers arrived at the end of 2016 and have made a world of difference. Not just that, but when it comes to games Oculus has come on leaps and bounds. That's been largely helped by some developer cash injections from Facebook, giving us quality, polished titles like Lone Echo and Robo Recall. Room-scale support has been added too, though you'll need to purchase at least one additional sensor to get it to Vive-level tracking, and even then the Vive tracking experience is a little better.

Simply put, the Oculus Rift platform is finally a finished product that excels at giving you the VR experience the company initially promised. The price is a lot lower now too, especially now that Oculus is including the Touch controllerswith every headset from here on out. Oculus VR permanently dropped the price to $399 after a successful "Summer of Rift" event. Taking into account the games, the experience, the quality of the VR and price, the Rift has climbed up to the top spot of our list, kicking Vive off the top and becoming our new VR champion. But guess who's not far behind...