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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday March 06 2018, @12:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the picking-up-steam dept.

The Rift now represents about 47 percent of all VR headset users on Steam, according to the survey, sneaking just past the Vive at about 45 percent. Microsoft's Windows Mixed Reality initiative, launched late last year, accounts for just over 5 percent of the VR users on the platform.

[...] The Valve hardware survey is a self-selected voluntary sample of all Steam users and only detects VR headsets that are actively plugged in to the computer when the survey tool is run. Still, the rough parity between the two headsets is noteworthy given the Vive's use of the SteamVR standard, which Valve continues to update.

While the Rift is relatively easy to set up and use through Steam, the HTC Vive isn't officially supported on the competing Oculus Home platform.


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday March 06 2018, @03:04PM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday March 06 2018, @03:04PM (#648515) Journal

    I'm pretty sure the only upgrade that a VR headset really needs is a GPU (the top of the line 2011 CPU would probably hold up well). Unless the issue here is "running on old Windows" or something terrible.

    Even if you did get a new system, couldn't the wireless card and SSD transfer over? RAM could be an issue if the new box doesn't take DDR3.

    Back to your current system. What's the newest and most powerful GPU that could be stuffed in there?

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  • (Score: 1) by conn8d on Tuesday March 06 2018, @03:44PM (2 children)

    by conn8d (6887) on Tuesday March 06 2018, @03:44PM (#648531)

    Thanks, I had no idea the main component was the GPU. My comp is at home, but I think it's a DELL Laptop XPS 17 (L702x) Intel Core i7 with a NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M GPU.