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Bonus is being able to appreciate the little upgrades in immersion as you get better hardware, you kinda just throw the whole thing into the fire if you start out with an index and FBT because right now your brain doesn't know where the baseline is. Stock vive kit is still a mindblowing experience and there's nothing out there that necessitates an upgrade right now until gen 2 this/next year (hopefully the reverb valve collab). Just buy the vive, put yourself on the index waitlist (now) and if you feel like it's worth $500 more in a month, sell the vive (is quite easy) and pay for your index order.