Mostly personal with correlation from reddit community
My first pair left controller quickly had low battery after 1 hr of usage but still last as long as the right before they really went dead.
The new pair never had full battery indicator but both meter readings are similar.
I read bout the hinge issue and was very careful. The lenovo stock face pad is a sponge and does put pressure on the face at all. Its like wearing a headband. No light leak but.. There is lcd glow in dark games but not a game breaker. (All wmr except samsung's are lcd). This is bcoz humans eyes will auto adjust to what is seen.
Tracking is playable for gross movement. Doing find movement like 3d sculpture or sniping is tough. Some ppl may need an external bt dongle to overcome interferences.
But despite the cons, bug plus to wmr for better resolution and easiest basic setup (u can omit the room setup and start using immediately and walk into the abyss like johny english. Good if u need to demo vr on the go.

been watching and reading quite a number of review, still cant decide until now. i guess unless i tried side by side, then i wont be able to decide which one is the best. now the only things that i can conclude is either to get the room tracking with vive or simple tracking with rift, although rift now support room tracking with additional sensor.
anybody here has both unit? hows the differences if you compare side by side?

nope, not wearing glass

just to add, the playarea guide based on the picture attached is on the conservative/safe side.

I've managed to set up playarea of 7' x 7' with just 2 sensor.

Lol i guess im the only Vive user here. Its only fair if i give my point of view.
Take not that I do not have the rift, but i do have the Lenovo explorer (windows mixed reality).

I am please with my Vive, and if given a choice again, i would still buy the vive instead of the rift for several reasons.
- it only requires 1 usb and 1 hdmi port.
  The two tracking light house only need power source and users are free to put it anywhere without worrying of distance to PC. Though recommended to be opposite each other, its not a must to work. But obviously putting it opposite each other gives a better overall coverage(less blind spots).
  The Hmd require a power outlet too.
  (this is unlike the rift which require 4 usb ports to work for room scale (1 hmd, 3 tracking cameras)

-Head tracking for both is the same, but Vive hand presence is far superior than the rift, being able to do actions fast and accurate. Ofcoz if ur not a hardcore VR gamer, u probably wont notice it.
example 1 example 2

-uses SteamVR right out of the box. this is without any 3rd party app that may hog ur PC resources (eg, rift and WMR still needs to run their software background while using steamvr). Also in our demographics, steamvr games are always cheaper than oculus stores, due to steam's regional pricing. (eg, Beat saber is RM39 on steamvr, and $19.99 on oculus store).
Also, steamvr is open to "other download source VR apps"

- Vive hmd(without DAS) is the same weight as the oculus rift now. (Vive hmd is 468 grams, Rift is 470grams)

- Vive can adjust lens to face distance to accommodate for those with glasses. However, quality without glasses are essentially similar for both hmd.

- More accessories (first and 3rd party). Vive offers alot of accessories, such as trackers, guns, etc. 3rd party accessories are also easy and cheaper to find, such as silicon protector for hand controllers, face foam, lens protector.

- Vive is official here now. Warranty is less of an issue.
- Oculus rift is controlled by oculus, just like Apple's strict walled garden. If the company discontinues or neglect the rift, Rifts devices may lock up.

But like all products, there are some cons,
- HTC is infamous of its warranty service. May take months to get a replacement or worst, get charged for repair+transport, or transport(if refuse to repair), or never get back the item if owner refuses to pay transport cost.
- Vive is also infamously known for its horrible track pad rubber dislocation. (both of mine dislocated. i decided to open them up myself and elephant glue them back. no problem since.
- does not come with its own headphone? not sure if this is a cons. Vive does provide earphones in the original box. but if u prefer the headphones, u can purchase them as extra.
- no thumbstick. but at least the controllers are ambidextrous?

U can always try the vive in a VR cafe. I have not seen any VR cafe with the rift yet. closest is EXA Global which uses DK2 >.<

Waiting for Rift S announcement. if you guys can wait. highly likely to be with the Insight tracking where you no longer need the camera sensor.

Buy locally Rift is around 2k only. Rather than by at Amazon.

hey which app did u use?

Heard of it. But no estimate date yet.
Its gonna be a while.
But if realy launched, htc vive can bungkus ady. No way Viveport (vive official store) can maintain them. Its a malware and most user uninstall it. Thankfully htc vive isnt an ars3 about forcing ppl to install it, unlike wmr and rift that forces it their users to keep theirs running in background.

My rift reach already. I felt it is much clearer than vive, although didnt try same game yet. But very difficult to wear for glasses user. Anyone bought the custom rift glasses before? How much?

Where can i try pimax 8k?

Vive Cosmos looks nice, hopefully more affordable.

and Vive Pro Eye, with eye tracking.

Anyone can advise how to do a quick reset view for steam store games/steamvr?

When running games bought from Oculus store, Oculus has a very handy reset view function accessible from long press option button. It'll instantly reset front facing direction and center area according to where you're facing and standing.

However when running games bought from Steam store through SteamVR, I can't find any option to do this. The native Oculus reset view won't work when steamVR is running on top of Oculus.

The only way I know now is either to take off the HMD and place it on the floor and do recalibration everytime I start/restart SteamVR, or even more tedious is to access advanced setting in SteamVR and adjust play area position.

all games, thing is, I move around and shift my set up quite frequently cuz I bring my VR and PC around.

So, the direction and center of the play area will not be correct unless I do a full play area set up everytime I set up in a new location.

Good thing is, using Oculus and playing games bought from Oculus store, I don't need to run full play area set up although its recommended, I can just stand in the middle of my new location and press reset view and everything will be alright, its very fast and convenient, can do it wearing the HMD.

But because steam game need to run via SteamVR. This function don't work, and I can't find the equivalent of this function in SteamVR setting. I had to take off the HMD, put it on the floor of my new location, then run recalibration. And if SteamVR crash or need to restart steamvr, I have to do the recalibration thing again.

Oh that's really nice 
Next time if I get Oculus, I could try this out.

On PSVR there is CoolPaintrVR for this sort of things. I should probably try it out.

Want to watch YouTube/Netflix because they have official support right?
If buy cheap wmr now from Amazon for rm1.5k then few months later got new version rugi liao.