I cant and am not willing to pay the price for the cs1. I understand and respect the desicion of oculus, but its too expensive for me. Now i was thinking about buying a dk2(used). Should i go for it or wait 'til the cs1 gets cheaper or the cs2 comes out and buy a cs1.
If you do not have a DK2, I would recommend the CV1. (DK2's are still very expensive on ebay, most past the £500 mark)
If you do have the DK2, Bear in mind that the CV1 has the following additionals
Slightly higher resolution (1080x1200 per eye) in comparison with 960x1080 on the DK2 - Not much of a huge difference 90fps refresh (in comparison to 75fps on the DK2) Slightly higher FOV (But nothing dramatic) than the DK2 Lighter including embedded/removable headphones Positional tracking sensor more advanced (Allow for potential room scale VR??) - In a way, the DK2 also allows this, but cant turn the opposite direction. Onboard camera? - not sure if this will be utilised?
Bear in mind the above and then think whether it is feasible to spend >£500 on the device
Double resolution, for each eye, compared to the DK2, added in..is that the resolution and optics are OPTIMIZED. Which is critical. This was not possible, at all, for the DK2, as they used cheap optics and available panels.
After looking at the tiniest details considering optical resolution, eyes and optics, panels and optics, eyes panels and optics for about 3 years with the rift..... and over 18 years with projection technologies.....I can say with a small amount of understanding... that the CV1...with it's custom optics combined with custom panels in an optimized set up, will lay the DK2 to waste, on the 'flipping the switch into immersion' due to optics quality levels.
For some, it's only a few percentage points better, but those few percentage points, ie 30% in their mind (the known average that is emerging), is the deal maker for someone with good eyesight, and whatnot.
It is still set up for averaged optics (large user base), and in that it is very mildly compromised. You'd have to go to a custom to the individual person optimized optics package to get better, and that might be dicey at best, to get there.
Until I know better, I'm thinking the Fresnel lens in the mix is the quality limiter, but I might be mistaken. At the same time, it is a very good part of what makes it work. Other than that, the lensing costs get stupid, and heavy.
Intelligence... is not inherent - it is a point in understanding. Q: When does a fire become self sustaining?
If you do get a DK2, be prepared to tinker in order to get it working with different games, demos, etc. It's not meant to serve as a consumer product and will require considerable extra effort to work decent in many cases. It can serve as in introduction to VR pretty well but, it may also make your wait to get the consumer version a bit harder. 🙂
Hopefully, once we have SDK1.0 and titles have improved support, it'll be easier to use DK2's albeit, with some compromises.
CV1 total resolution is 2160x1200. DK2 is 1920x1080. Not much of a difference. However they did somewhat minimise screendoor, maybe via the transparent glossy method? 🙂
