since it's looking like we might actually have a job soon and thus have more money than we usually have available to us, does anyone here know much about what the best way to get VR going on a budget is? We want to get a valve index (which i know is far from the cheapest VR thingy out there, but we don't want to give money to facebook), but our current computer has a GTX 1060-6GB and we're led to believe that might not cut it for some VR stuff; what gpu is a good cost/performance balance?
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we're probably going to not upgrade the gpu for a little while and focus on just getting the vr headset first, i'm sure we can do some stuff with what we have and it'll just be a bit lower quality and stuff. we're going to have *some* money, not a ridiculous amount of money
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@Siphonay yeah the reason we got the 1060-6gb was that it was one step above what was considered at the time the bare minimum for VR (the 1050-ti), but then ended up not being able to afford a VR headset at the time, and now stuff's progressed to where the 1060 isn't quite the powerhouse it used to be
and yeah we're not going to just buy a vr headset and the gpu at the same time, going to upgrade the gpu later
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@Felthry the 1060-6GB might cut it for VR but it might be like, the least powerful thing that might be able to do it and it might not be a good experience a few years from now. I suppose the current mid-range (GTX 1660 and variants all the way up to the RTX 2070 Super, or stuff like the 5700XT at AMD) might be the ideal performers but right now I don’t think you absolutely have to change your GPU