I think the real value for the extra $49 is the pro warranty. You get the level where if you have an issue they send you a replacement first and then you return the broke one. The consumer warranty is more the usual RMA process.
Keen to hear what you think Chris, let’s hope HP ship them now! 
Ty i always wondered if my Odyssey + had problems cause of the crazy ipd readings…
Ty! Can’t wait for your review!
I can totally see that being worth $49!
All sold out now. Took about 6 hours in all.
Wow! Quite some demand!
Awesome. I don’t care if they are Rifts, Samsungs, HPs, or Pimax…the more VR headsets that hit the market the better for all of us. Go VR…!
By the way, I blame @PaulRix for sending me down this rabbit hole. He was the original preacher of VR and it wasn’t til’ I donned a Rift that I “saw the light” so to speak. So props to him for being an early adopter and an enthusiastic supporter!
Thanks, but I think a lot of people were excited about VR back in 2016. The real early adopters are the ones who bought into the DK1 and DK2 headsets. You are right about it not mattering which headset an individual decides on. I want them all to be successful because that pushes VR more into the mainstream. While a lot of people were not too thrilled at the design specs of the Rift S, they certainly came out with a headset aimed at a wider demographic. It is good that other manufacturers are coming out with headsets that push the technology in different ways.
I’m really quite content with the Rift S. I would have been even happier with a Reverb or Valve Index that runs natively on the Oculus platform ;). Anyway, here’s hoping we don’t have to wait another 3 years before the next wave comes in. Exciting times!
You called him a “supporter”…my 8th grade mind just giggled a bit.
Hey Beach,
Can you estimate a duration (hours, days, months) between receipt of headset and opening? Just want to be forewarned is all…
He doesn’t have a good track record with that 
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I hope to get it done prior to trying on my Halloween costume… 
Somebody from oculus mumbled about a race to the bottom. Not only on adjustable ipd, but on sound.
The companies are purchased, the visionaries that started it all are driven out, and the bean-counters and market survey guys rule… It’s like gravity.
Should be fun.
I have an HP Reverb “loaner” coming today and I’ll try to give you some of my impressions in regards to DCS.
It’s also my hope to bring it to the Flight Sim Expo this weekend in Orlando.
Thanks,
Wags
That’s great news!
I’m fairly terrified he’s going to switch it on, start up DCS, go ‘Meh, doesn’t work’ and then announce “I could see nothing!”, so did the cliff-notes on wrestling with WMR bit here:
https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3936113&postcount=1011
Actually, I’m sure he probably will set it up better than me, so more just insurance.
The ‘out of the box’ experience of WMR is terrible. Not ironic either, as I reckon it has meant lots of them went back to the shop in a box pretty quick. It’s a shame, as once set-up it’s fine, but getting there shouldn’t be an ordeal.
Wasn’t Wags an early Odyssey adopter?
I think he was, but I’d estimate the chance of anyone getting the runes of WMR lined up correctly to be tiny. I had it for about 2 months before I actually ran a game at the resolution the panels actually show and I’m a constant fiddler.
I’d go as far to guess that less than 10% of people actually set up their SteamVR / WMR in DCS, X-Plane or IL-2 so that it looks and runs as ok as it should. The defaults of practically everything are all wrong, to the extent that if you installed a fresh Windows 10 today then your O+ would run at half the available resolution out of the box. It’s a bad experience by default. DCS would literally make you cross-eyed with a headache until you changed it.
Ok hardware really let down with daft software, good old Microsoft. It’s Windows Zune / Windows Phone all over again. There is the Coke/Apple/Oculus and Pepsi/Valve/Android dichotomy, and then there’s this weird third off-shoot thing just waiting to shut down when Microsoft lose interest.
No wonder I have so many headaches 
. I thought that it was the halo. Keep it up though. I need a little more convincing to buy the Index. Hard to think that HP would let their baby underperform, but for a few settings.
Some good footage here - you might have to skip up to the 10 to 12 minute mark to get to the good stuff:
