[christoph]

Totally agree. I had a Rift set up in the office (seated) with Touch (very impressed) and brought it home at the weekend to try roomscale (with a third camera) and was utterly frustrated by the glitchy tracking. With the Vive (in the same room) I've never experienced a single glitch in nearly 60hrs of play. I hated running all the cables back to the PC as well. It's worth mentioning as well that the sensor USB ports all have to be USB3 as well. That means it takes up 4xUSB3 ports for roomscale!

[somedangedname]

Also many motherboard USB controllers are incompatible with both Rift and the Vive: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/3zrtgs/psa_your_usb...

AFAIK neither company mentions this in their supported PC specs, though the Rift compatability tool will warn you if you have incompatable USB ports.

I would really have liked to have known this going into my Vive purchase - I've owned it for 2 weeks and have been able to use the device twice in that time.

[brazzledazzle]

Would a PCIe USB card work? I'd be pretty upset if I had to buy a new motherboard.

[somedangedname]

Yep, that's the plan. The recommended family of cards isn't sold in Australia so I'll have to import one.

The other issue is my older motherboard/CPU combo which may or may not be able to support the extra PCIE use.

Overall, fun times.

[sgift]

I have a Fresco PCIe USB card (afair that was what they've recommended) and it works just fine.