So I ordered a Valve Index on May 8th and got it this past Saturday. It was a long wait for sure. I was freaking BLOWN AWAY and it's my first VR headset. I mean the demos at Best Buy were great but it's not like the Index at home! That being said I can only play in the home environments because of my setup. I know my GPU is garbage and the 3xxx series are coming out next month. However is it wise to upgrade everything else right now and hold off on the GPU or is something else coming out in September aside from the GPU? I can't even play "The Lab" because everything is all jittery which I believe is re-projection.

GPU: GTX 1060 3GB model
CPU: i5-4690K
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7
RAM: 8GB of DDR3

From my post 4 months ago:

So I joined the club officially 4 months ago but I didn't have a computer that could run my Valve Index. I now have:
CPU: Ryzen 5 3600
Motherboard: TUF Gaming X570 WiFi
RAM: 16GB of DDR4
GPU: The EVGA 3070 XC3 Ultra

Over the past few months I was steadily upgrading my computer and about 2 weekends ago I showed up 20min before my Microcenter opened in hopes of buying an NVIDIA 3000 series video card. I was talking to 3 people in front of me and 2 had a 2080 super duper edition already and just wanted to game in 4k. When they opened though store employees were like "all NVIDIA 3000 series are sold out". A bunch of people just walked off in frustration. Except for a few of us. The guy in the blue sweater got a hold of a manager and showed him their website. Some people waited at least an hour or traveled more than an hour to get one. We were fucking PO'd. So the manager is like "oh we got a shipment in this morning....we got 1 3080 and.....2 of the 3070's". It didn't become chaos but the 2 people in front of me were honest and confirmed our placement in-line. The people around us were ultra jealous and 1 asked if we were going to scalp it. The guy in the blue sweater wanted to actually flip his old card and the other wanted it to game on his Valve Index like I want to.

So I played a bit of Superhot VR last weekend and that was incredible but I started playing Half-life: Alyx yesterday and I was BLOWN away. I just completed the part where I derailed the train. Weird stuff happens to you after you start using VR I have read and it's just not me. Text on my monitor looks like it "floats", I get super mentally tired after gaming in VR, you feel like you are on a boat afterwards. This goes away though the more you use VR apparently as it "conditions" your mind. Also I can run everything maxed out, no NVIDIA stuttering.

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Oh yeah the headcrab zombies are terrifying and certain areas in which there is no lights. Then it gets crazy fighting the Combine. It's like Time Crisis only you physically have to duck and shoot and not use a foot pedal. It's insane and nothing can compare to VR. I know why they won't make a Portal or Left 4 Dead in VR. People would have a heart attack and it would be too hard to play.