We pretty much agree , but I don ' t think a major upgrade a must have upgrade is coming until late 2018 or 2019 . We agree on this too , when I said end of next yearearly 2018 I was talking about nvidia ' s volta line dropping , not new vives . From what little we can extrapolate from the single vive release a few things can be noted as possibly of valueThe 970 , aka minimum specs , released about 1 . 5 years before the vive . If we assume a similar time table for a revamp with the 1070 as minimum we ' re looking at early 2018 for 2 . 0 , Likewise the 1080 ti would be a year old at that time , same age as the 980 ti when the vive released . It also coincides with CES , a possible announcement venue unless they want to target E 3 for maximum exposure . That ' s optimistic and based off extrapolation that ' s barely better than a musing , but it fits the time table . Early 2018 announcement , mid 2018 launch . Maybe a price drop for the holidays that year , a VR in every home push . At that point a PC capable of nongaming VR is going to be standard .