Can A 1TB Rift-Ready Console For $600 Or Less Be Done? Who wants to Kickstart a VR-ready console at a reasonable price?! :mrgreen:
Better yet, what would you put in it(takes notes and prepares to make trillions :twisted: )? This would be, strictly, for VR gaming with wifi/ethernet for downloading, of course. Not another of the 100,000(and 2) media devices.
Could be a lot cheaper than upgrading, for some people.
I don't think is possible right now, GPUs able to run most stuff on the rift at 75fps minimum are almost at that price, a HDD of 1TB as cheap as you can find is like 80$ a respectable GPU 260$ a processor able to handle the GPU+engine physics etc. like 180$ 12Gb of RAM 150$ thats 670$ still you need PSU, custom motherboard, custom case etc, It will cost you a nice amount of money. sure you can do vr even with the processing power of portable devices but graphics are crude for a 75hz experince. I believe you will need to have graphics between PS2 and xbox360 to be able to run at an acceptable frame rate with a console of that price. So, its possible? yes, will it look awesome? i doubt it. lets wait for Sony's project Morpheus to see how it works.
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It will be doable by the end of the year. nVidia have said repeatedly that the 800 series will be significantly cheaper than the 700 series. A GTX840 will probably cost under $200, and be considerably more capable than a card worth twice as much today. I'm too lazy to put together a build for you, so I went and found a random one online that looked vaguely OK: http://www.amazon.com/lm/R3G6SQXQVC9M2G/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&linkCode=ur2&lm_bb... Now take out the R9 280, put in a GTX840, the price is now down to around $500. Use the extra money to put in a bigger hard-drive, and hey presto you're done. That thing will happily run all Rift-enabled content on reasonably high settings for the forseeable future. 🙂 Also keep in mind that the equivalent components will all be a little cheaper come October/November, so you might be looking at around $500 for such a system. You could probably get away with slightly lower-tier parts and still be able to run the majority of Rift-content quite happily.
That being said, I'm not exactly a custom-PC expert, so take all that with a grain of salt. But people who are saying that you need a crazy beastly GPU to run anything with the Rift are dead wrong. I've been reading reports of people running everything on max settings at 75Hz on GTX 660Ms and lower!
Melbourne-based creative technologist. I flit between experimental AR/VR experiences, audiovisual electronics and full-stack web development. http://www.lachansleight.io
Sorry but there is no way in hell will a card as powerful as the 780 Ti or even a regular 780 will be released within a year for less then 200 dollars unless you are not talking USD. That would not make good business sense.
"Shoma64" wrote: Sorry but there is no way in hell will a card as powerful as the 780 Ti or even a regular 780 will be released within a year for less then 200 dollars unless you are not talking USD. That would not make good business sense.
You're quite right. But you simply don't need anywhere near a 780Ti to run Rift-enabled demos. You could cobble together a decent rig for under $600 that will be able to run the majority of VR content at medium-low settings at 75fps, probably now, but definitely by the end of the year.
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"mptp" wrote: It will be doable by the end of the year. nVidia have said repeatedly that the 800 series will be significantly cheaper than the 700 series. A GTX840 will probably cost under $200, and be considerably more capable than a card worth twice as much today.
Its sad to see suckers like you believe everything. Its the exactly same when people were sure that mantle would double their FPS, and how did that turn out?
"IsoMacintosh" wrote: Its the exactly same when people were sure that mantle would double their FPS, and how did that turn out?
Pretty good actually. It does it job for the games that support it. Guess you are new to the hardware world? I bet you are like others "It's only 10% bla bla bla bla" but that 10% is actually really good. I wouldn't update every year on 10%, but you figure that happens every year.. over the next 3 years that's over 30% performance boost follow by a new tech idea that moves from software to hardware increasing the over all speed from 30% to 50% almost doubling everything 🙂
The only problem is that software also sees that 30% and goes... well that's 30% more we can play with guys 🙂 lets add new things and or optimize later on xx code.
