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PS4: PSVR
PC: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Windows Mixed Reality
Most VR requires base stations needed to be drilled into walls for best placement. If it's your first I recommend the Oculus Rift S, one of the cheapest yet still very high quality on par with headsets that cost more than a grand. It also doesn't have base stations meaning no drilling in the walls.
With VR, I recommend testing your PC out first to see if it's suitable (there's a steam app for that and I think there's an Oculus one on their website as well).
If you're planning on getting a headset make sure your pc has the correct ports. Oculus Rift S for example needs one display port and one usb 3.0 port but others can require quite a few connections (especially ones with base stations).
Honestly though I have been real tempted to get the Rift S just so it would be easier to setup. I have a rift now.
I know you don't have to drill them into the wall, but it also depends on how the room is setup. I didn't want to splash out any more cash for stands for a space I didn't have the room to set them up in. Also, I found tracking issues using Vive when going near walls/curtain because I couldn't have the base stations in the right positions while with inside-out tracking I've had no issues apart from the occasional hiccup that takes a second for the hands to start moving again.
All in all tho I do recommend the Rift S, but if you already got a VR system you're happy with it might not be worth taking down the base stations and such if that's the only issue (and the Oculus Rift S doesn't offer a wireless option with the same tech, yet).
I live in an apartment and they dont allow us to put holes in the wall, so I have to use the stands and pull them out every time I want to get on vr. Which ends up meaning I don't get on it as often as I would like, the S would make setup a lot easier.
As far as the wireless tech, last I heard the rift and vive wireless stuff did not work very well (while also costing almost as much as the headset itself). Has that changed recently? I will admit I havn't bothered looking at that in a good while.
Fair enough I understand. I've never been a person who had a problem with the wire so idk about the wireless tech side, it's still definitely vastly lower quality with wireless but the quality drop is less so than the wireless option for Oculus which is a different headset altogether, worse hardware/graphics. The point is tho at least with original Oculus you had the option with 3rd party product for wireless vs buying a new headset with different games and such.
I'd say Rift S may actually be worthwhile in your situation since it is just a put on the headset deal instead of requiring additional setup each time. I hope more products like it come in the future but it seems only few actually care about not having base stations :/.