Well the Oculus store will work on other devices, that's been confirmed already. If Oculus are total dicks they will find a way of making certain games not work on the Vive, hopefully it doesn't come to that, especially as everything the Oculus can do the Vive can do and more.

More so we may see some Vive games not work on the Oculus headset, Valve already announced Steam VR will work on other headsets, but there are certain things a Vive can do than no other headset can replicate.

Hopefully this all gets sorted out before I can afford one myself :p

It makes no sense for Oculus or anyone to lock software to a particular model of hardware, unless there's clear limitations of one over the other (i.e, Vive games that require room-scale spaces and tracking won't be compatible with Oculus, etc).

The goal for everyone here should be to make the hardware as transparent as possible to help make the market flourish.

There's not a lot of money in selling VR headsets. The real money is going to come from selling VR software and services.

While I completely agree, Pandamobile, I hope they don't focus so much on market share of the devices. Oculus (Facebook, Valve, and Sony all seem to want the technology to flourish in the future.

but I feel like the room tracking is just wasted if I can't make use of it, so why wouldn't I just get the rift?

So you have room-scale as an option in case you want to use it later?

That, and the Vive actually ships with the VR controllers, rather than shelling out $150 down the line for Oculus Touch controllers later in 2016.

Also the size you need is tiny actually, as demonstrated by a Vive developer.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...