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in the past few months oculus has more than fallen from grace from attacks on their new launch video for the oculus touch controllers like the nightmare fuel like versus dislike bar the to the comments section with people saying things like oculus is anti-consumer an anti-competitive that they're killing an exciting new area of Technology with terrible business practices that they're turning into the apple of VR that they are the cancer of VR people are really mad and my Twitter polls showing a shift of our community's outlook to the vive compared to the rift it obviously doesn't capture the entire picture it's not just that people seem to generally prefer the vive these days it's more that they're enraged at oculus let's explore why and while we're at it I'll give a two and a half months late review of the rift Kulu masters master case maker five features to the freeform modular system allowing you to customize adjust and upgrade make it yours at the link below putting aside the hatred for a moment ignoring room scale forgetting about the controllers and putting a pause on the accusations of bad business practices trust me we'll get back to those soon but taking just a moment to look at the headset alone the rift is actually rather remarkable the combination of the tension retracting mechanism and the velcro straps make it effortless to fit the rift onto your head the lightweight overall design and high quality materials make it quite comfortable to wear the IPD adjustment or like how far away the lenses are from each other is easy to find and simple to use even the on ear headphones are surprisingly quite good meaning that you won't have to worry about earbuds or headphones falling off or falling out when you whip your head around in VR everything about the headset even down to the cable breakout feels quality but unfortunately for oculus immersion in VR is key and an important big step to immersion is getting your hands in the experience without some form of hand presence even something rudimentary the rift feels incomplete especially because we aren't examining it in a magic vacuum where other products like the HTC vive don't exist content especially exclusive content could be the answer to this but honestly I found the games pretty boring I see no benefit to Lucky's tale a platformer being in VR and as cool as a demo that it was to track the progress of the rifts development the multiplayer space dogfighter e Valkyrie got a little dull after a while even the climb a beautiful rock climbing simulator from Crytek was much less engaging than it should have felt thanks to the Xbox controller I mean sure for passive experiences that don't require controller input like watching movies in a virtual reality theater or the throbbing market of POV virtual reality experiences for adults the oculus actually wins pretty handily the headset is lighter and more comfortable for long-term viewing and the foam face padding collects less you know perspiration to keep it at least the headset itself more hygienic ah which isn't to say that oculus has no solution for hand presence in VR the oculus touch controller is fantastic I've used it and in my opinion it's even just slightly better than the admittedly wonderful vive controllers so great it wins but you can't win an award if you don't show up for it so where the hell is it well let's see there's a new video on the oculus YouTube channel about the touch surely that will tell us when it's coming out how much it will cost etc nope just a video of some attractive people being super excited about watching each other play VR games which is pretty awkward and kind of boring for the most part by the way oh and it's coming this year so that's good news I guess so the headset is good the touch controllers are late but they're coming let's get back to the community anger I alluded to earlier while the hate it's partly to do with the first part of the video title the over 30 full games part at first this sounds awesome the lack of full games has been a big problem for VR so far so to have a whopping 30 of them coming out is a great thing the problem with that is that a significant number of them are going to be exclusive or wait are they there's actually some misinformation floating around here oculus doesn't actually seem to be after full-on exclusives what they are doing is giving developers straight-up cash for them to release on their platform first in one case the most documented case in fact they didn't even suggest a timed exclusivity clause the developer said it would take them two to three months to release on the vive and they were cool with that Gabe Newell by contrast responded to a fans email stating that while they do financially support devs by essentially giving them an advance on their steam sales they never asked for any form of exclusivity timed or not so you can decide to raise your pitchfork or not you're entitled to that but personally until I have more hard facts mine has been stowed but the ultimate question remains should you buy one nope the vibe I was hesitant to recommend the glorified tech demo game library and high price point are both difficult pills to swallow but as an enthusiast who's been saving for quite some time I bit the bullet as far as the riff goes at this point I would not suggest the purchase of a rift regardless of if you want a seated or standing experience and I'm even trying to cancel the order from my personal rift which if unsuccessful will probably turn into just selling it on eBay shocker right well it's true there's a lot to like about the rift but ever since trying the newer version of the vive at CES this year I've been simply uninterested in the Xbox controller centric experience that the rift currently is for the consumer and I'll need to find out how much the controller's cost and when I can even get them before I'm willing to give it another chance at this point this is an incomplete 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that I was going to keep my pre-order for the rift you know whatever I was probably talking about the dk2 at that point in time but don't worry about it I'm gonna go play five games