Can Vive Users and Oculus Rift Users play games together?

[DeadCrow]

Can Vive Users and Oculus Rift Users play games together?
Or can Vive players only play with other Vive players?

[ShortFuze_Z]

Първоначално публикувано от flibbertigibbety:

There's a great shooter called BAM VR that supports both VIVE and RIFT players playing together. The dev does not currently have a Rift or dev kit, so he can't test... but he does support it, controllers are all mapped, and he's been told that it does work from Rift players.

My ping sucks in BAM 350+
Shame I love the game but waste of time playing

[flibbertigibbety]

Първоначално публикувано от ♥♥♥♥ Gandhi Rambo:

Първоначално публикувано от flibbertigibbety:

There's a great shooter called BAM VR that supports both VIVE and RIFT players playing together. The dev does not currently have a Rift or dev kit, so he can't test... but he does support it, controllers are all mapped, and he's been told that it does work from Rift players.

My ping sucks in BAM 350+
Shame I love the game but waste of time playing

Yeah... he setup a single US West coast server to try to keep the smaller player base together, but he can also setup another EU server. He actually had one for a while there. We've been getting more requests... especially from people in Australia... to have a more local server. We might be seeing one in the next couple weeks.

[Vidicus]

Vive and Oculus are not different platforms. They are merely peripherials like your brand monitor or controller. Yes you can play the games together if both headsets are supported.

[Cowski]

Първоначално публикувано от Kalimah:

Първоначално публикувано от DeadCrow:

Okay that is good to hear. :)
I bought a Oculus today, but my friend has a Vive and it would be sad, if we could not play together at all :/

Let me ask you this, what made you buy oculus over vive anyways? Not a flame reply, just curiosity.

I guess it would be like asking, Why buy a logitech mouse over a Razor?

I know this is an old thread but I guess it all boils down to what you can afford. I played the Oculus Rift at a friend' house...loved it. That's all my wife could afford for me at Christmas. The vive is way too expensive for something that is, in essence, a "toy". It serves really, no productive purpose and will not make me money or help me with my database admin job.

[Womb Raider O o]

I still don't understand. I cannot find anyone to play with. But vrlfg says there are some people playing.

The rift library is not compatible with steam community? It seems I am being segregated into a rift community which is dead.

[hyperion]

Първоначално публикувано от Kalimah:

Първоначално публикувано от DeadCrow:

Okay that is good to hear. :)
I bought a Oculus today, but my friend has a Vive and it would be sad, if we could not play together at all :/

Let me ask you this, what made you buy oculus over vive anyways? Not a flame reply, just curiosity.

My own opinion. But, I bought Oculus when it went on sale last summer for $399 with the touch controllers, 2 sensors, a wireless Xbox controller, and a few free games. At the time the VIVE was still at least $599 and it may have still been $699. The specs for the headsets are so similar, I mean same FOV, same resolution, that I think it's only a matter of preference, the experience has to be pretty similar, I've even heard many people who own both say that very thing and they seem to maybe prefer one over the other for some small trivial reason.

If the price of the two headsets would have been closer when I bought, I probably would have had a harder time deciding.