Check out NRG. They have the Dell P2313h for £89 http://www.nrgit.biz/product/home/dell-p2312h-a-23-monitor-with-full-hd-led.html?c=0&p=473. They often have the P2414h at the same price. You just have to keep an eye out as they go very quickly.Yeah the rift looks really nice and I will probably get that but when will it be released?! They say 2015 but I can easily see it being pushed back. It does look like the ultimate experience but I don't want to be waiting around forever.
I have a samsung s22b300. Where do they do refurbished monitors then?
While I will for sure test the Rift once it's available in consumer version, and I KNOW it will be awesome, I have my worries about not being able to see buttons on my wheel and buttonbox when using the Rift, when just casually racing for a lil while it's no biggie but enter a longer race with pitstops and it suddenly becomes a completely different ballgame. Now you can learn where a shifter is by muscle memory, so maybe even a buttonbox, especially if it has a layout that allows for easier recognition without actually looking, but still, until I see this obstacle having been fixed with VR headsets I think it's not going to get used much in competitive simracing.
First of all you have peripheral vision, rob your brain of that and it will all of a sudden feel a lot less confident about where to hit that button. Second you don't need to take your eyes off the screen for very long to aid yourself in hitting the right button, and you might even be doing it without even thinking about it because it happens in a split second.When you're pressing a button, you shouldn't be looking at the wheel or searching for it on a buttonbox. If you do, change the layout. I never take my eyes off screen when racing.