We aren't going to waste your time building up artificial suspense just so you'll read to the end: we think the Vive is the better headset, pushing the leading edge of VR farther forward with its 360-degree room-scale tracking and Chaperone safety net.

Right now you strap on the Vive and walk around a large space, in this feels so flippin' real first-person experiences with motion controllers tracking your hand movement. Put on the Rift, and you sit down in a chair with a gamepad in your hands, playing what amounts to classic video games, that just happen to a) be in 3D and b) surround you in all directions.

Today's Oculus Rift games are more like futuristic extensions of video games as we know them. Vive games are more like something completely new that you've never experienced before. Classic gaming VR-ified vs. virtual reality in the most literal sense.