New Poll. Is the oculus home better than the steam VR setup ??

Definitely if you're using the Rift.

I've been totally lost in SteamVR many times - menus in front of me not having a clue how to get back to the app - what the hell, where do i press?

I'm looking forward to going through all of the comments on this post. I'll be right back, going to get some popcorn.

molokow said:

Cyber is your vote bias?  ;)

No.

A tough call ... Prefer Home's ease of use and visuals, but appreciate a lot of the features that Steam[VR] has. 

To use home hands down but for more content steam, I use both just fine I prefer home out of the two

I find Steam very easy to use - don't have to be signed in to Stream to play games downloaded through  Steam, install Advanced Settings to get supersampling. And I like the fact that it's open to Rift owners - real non-constipated friendliness, that.

Techy, vote man.. 
Dont be a troll

Oculus Home isn't a bad platform - it suits the needs of the average Rift-User perfectly. Everything looks well designed and all is where it should be (store, library, etc). Easy...hasslefree.

Is it better than Steam though?

Perhaps...but keep in mind: Oculus Home is a closed system - only Oculus Users can use it. So what happens in a few years time when you get your next VR headset and it isn't an Oculus-Product? Basically you can kiss your Oculus library goodbye then.

But that's a longterm problem - as for right now: There is actually only one thing that annoys me: The download speed when updating a game. With Steam and their huge serverfarms all over the globe I seldomly have problems - updating one or more games on Oculus Home however can take a while while (downloaded an update for EVE, Elite Dangerous and Subnautica the other day and it took so long, I switched the monitor off, got something to eat, watched TV, visited a friend, came back and it was still running).

Yeh the steam monopoly is a bit of a killer and good point about if you change headsets etc.
I am sticking to oculus though.

Back when Diablo 1 was first released, I walked in to a store called "Electronics Boutique" to buy it. That was before they merged in to Gamestop. I loved walking in to the PC Gaming section of Best Buy, Target, and Walmart; as well as random other, smaller, computer stores.

There was a point where I stopped purchasing new games at stores because my main focus was with online MMORPG's, which I mostly ordered directly from the developers website.

Then one day I decided to buy the Elder Scrolls Anthology at a local Target. When I installed it I noticed that it integrated directly with my Steam installation. I couldn't play it without Steam auto-launching. That's not a problem but I realized that the true Store Front has gone away for PC gaming. Something I still feel nostalgic about. Steam kinda killed the PC gaming store front, and yes I can understand why making things digital makes far more sense than physical boxes on physical shelves.

However, when I first loaded up Oculus  Home and stood in front of my Library, I had that Electronics Boutique feeling all over again. Oculus Home combines the digital sensibility of software with the Store Front experience. Steam and SteamVR do not accomplish that at all as of yet.

I prefer Oculus Home because its presentation caters to (in my opinion) the mindset of the veteran gamer.