You must own at least one piece of MSI hardware to gain access to TriDef VR, Nahimic VR, or Nahimic 2+.
The restriction with the audio software makes sense. Nahimic is MSI?s favored audio technology and the company has offered Nahimic software since 2015. We can?t give the same pass for TriDev VR, though.
TriDef 3D is software that you can use on any PC as long as you have a 3D display. That?s not the case with TriDev VR, though. To use TriDef VR, you must own a qualifying hardware component from MSI. If you own one of MSI?s VR-ready gaming PCs, laptops, or a VR One backpack PC, you qualify. MSI also accepts motherboard ownership and graphics card ownership as access pass for TriDef VR, but late models only.
If you have an MSI motherboard with an Intel 200 or 100-series chipset or AMD AM4 socket, you can use TriDef VR. Or if you own any of MSI?s GeForce 10-series graphics cards, you qualify. But, if you own an older MSI motherboard and a 10-series card from another brand, you don?t qualify. MSI doesn?t even accept any AMD Radeon cards. If you have an MSI RX 480, you?re still going to be sitting on the sidelines.
It?s nice to see technologies like TriDef VR emerge, but it?s disappointing that MSI would lock down this tech to its own branded hardware and alienate the rest of the small VR market.
If you have qualifying hardware and wish to try MSI's new software, you can find the download links on MSI's website.
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