Both are great systems, and RealFlight will look the same with either. That said, if you are buying new and need to choose, we recommend the Rift at this point in time. Here are the main reasons:
If you happen to have a Vive, don't let any of the above get you down. We're talking about minor reasons to prefer one over the other. Both are still fully supported and recommended.
- Framerate is a little higher. As I understand it that is true for all software titles between the Rift and Vive, not just RF8.
- The Rift has built-in headphones. That's nice, and RealFlight's audio automatically switches between the headphones and your PC speakers when you don/doff the headset.
- The Rift is cheaper.
Both are great systems, and RealFlight will look the same with either. That said, if you are buying new and need to choose, we recommend the Rift at this point in time. Here are the main reasons:
If you happen to have a Vive, don't let any of the above get you down. We're talking about minor reasons to prefer one over the other. Both are still fully supported and recommended.
- Framerate is a little higher. As I understand it that is true for all software titles between the Rift and Vive, not just RF8.
- The Rift has built-in headphones. That's nice, and RealFlight's audio automatically switches between the headphones and your PC speakers when you don/doff the headset.
- The Rift is cheaper.
More software and higher quality software at that. Vive seems to be more tech demo type things than anything else.
Does that mean that VR software is hardware specific? The new Samsung platform seems to be head & shoulders above Vive & Rift... so I would prefer to get that one all things being equal.
Does anyone know if RF8 will work with the Samsung Odyssey?
the windows mixed reality devices don't appear to support openVR (steam) out the door.. I think openVR is coming "soon".