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I "upgraded" from the regular rift and can definetely say it is not worth the upgrade for a few reasons, not just the bugs. 1st- The non adjustable ipd makes this thing almost not worth it alone. It seems like it is made for some kind of horse face. You have to have a long narrow face. I actually have a small medium (or ipd 65) head and the lenses are close together making it feel like you are cross eyed even with correct program ipd. You absolutely feel you got a loss in field of view. I warn you now. Unless you are 12 years old this is going to tick you off. What a failure. 2nd- The inside out tracking works good if you never experienced the tower version. I can see now that the towers are worth their weight. If I hold still in a game I can notice that this thing is constantly trying to calculate tracking and there is an ever slight "wobble" in the vision. Don't focus on it too much cuz it will make you feel weird. 3rd - Audio is terrible even with headphones. The speakers built on the sides are useless. I put in some expensive headphones to find out that the audio quality the oculus was processing was just flat out bad. It is still tinny and lacks bass. I tried to find a way to equalize the audio from my pc and have run into road blocks because what seems to be that the because the headphones are in the oculus itself, it is bypassing any fixing I do from the pc. I have been searching for a work around for hours. What a failure. 4th - The pass through vision sucks. It is black and white and blurry. No way to stay in that mode and work on stuff. I was really excited for this feature. What a failure. 5th - The cotrollers are ok but I find myself flip flopping and juggling them all over the place to find the right grip. I think the old ones were superior as they just fell into your hands the right way. Might take some time to get used to but feels like a downgrade Final thoughts : I have spent 2 days playing with it hoping it would just get better and I would get used to it. It did not. It just kept getting worse as new problems would just keep popping up and hopefully I have gone through all of them. But that is enough problems to not recommend this to anyone as long as their are other options out there. I will say the screen is a lot sharper but then even that comes with a downside. With the lcd screen and not oled you immediately notice your blacks are washed out and faded. From pass through videos I saw of the screen it looked fine and I could be ok with it but it is a lot worse than those videos represented. I forgot where I read it but I thought I saw that one of the original engineers just up and quit on facebook for this product. Now I can see why. I really wanted to like the rift s and tried to make that happen but sadly it did not. What a failure.
May 2019 · Video Games · verified purchase
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Oculus Rift S PC-Powered VR Gaming Headset
4.3★ · 18,478 ratings, as of 2023
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