I must say that having purchased both the Vive and the Oculus, my vote is for the Oculus:
- easier to set up, the Vive requires these little captors placed at odd angles, that need to be powered and that make noise when powered
- the oculus is lighter. I find the weight of the headset to be a major factor for not playing long periods, more than motion sickness, particularly given that some games require some weird viewing angles
- the headset has less cables. I have the feeling of wearing an octopus with the vive
- I regularly lose tracking on the vive for short moments (grey screens) even though the captors are in direct line of sight and less than 3m away
- I have the feeling the vive is a lot blurier when looking at the sides of the screen. Not something one does when a zombie is trying to kill you, but certainly something one does when navigating menus
The only downsides of the oculus are:
- vertical green line between the two eyes, very visible in a dark environment
- the oculus pauses the game when I take off the headset. Except that I do that when a game is holding me hostage with some interminable, unskippable story telling instead of letting me play VR (too frequent!)
- easier to set up, the Vive requires these little captors placed at odd angles, that need to be powered and that make noise when powered
- the oculus is lighter. I find the weight of the headset to be a major factor for not playing long periods, more than motion sickness, particularly given that some games require some weird viewing angles
- the headset has less cables. I have the feeling of wearing an octopus with the vive
- I regularly lose tracking on the vive for short moments (grey screens) even though the captors are in direct line of sight and less than 3m away
- I have the feeling the vive is a lot blurier when looking at the sides of the screen. Not something one does when a zombie is trying to kill you, but certainly something one does when navigating menus
The only downsides of the oculus are:
- vertical green line between the two eyes, very visible in a dark environment
- the oculus pauses the game when I take off the headset. Except that I do that when a game is holding me hostage with some interminable, unskippable story telling instead of letting me play VR (too frequent!)