I'm not fully decided yet (still waiting on Vive price and launch details), but I have to say their tracking system seems more.... elegant to me. I don't know if that's the right word, but the simplicity of it is nice. I think it's better to keep all the complex stuff on the HMD itself, and not being tethered to the PC is a big plus.

If oculus could make their sensors wireless it might improve things in this respect, but I don't know if any inexpensive wireless tech exists that could do it without introducing extra latency. Theoretically wifi would work. I mean if I ping my router with wifi on my computer I get 1-2ms latency to the router itself but it is susceptible to interference.

Part of me also wonders if the Touch delay could result in some improvements that they don't want to publicly promise yet. If that is the case, it would be nice if it was announced before the rift ships.

The Facebook vs Valve thing isn't really a factor in my decision right now. That could certainly change in the future depending on how they behave. Right now Oculus still seems pretty independent to me, but it's hard to judge until everything is up and running. I'm also not someone who sees Valve as some kind of lord and savior. Ever had to deal with steam support? It makes the cable companies look like customer service experts.

The other reason I am not dead set on anything is room scale is pretty inconvenient for me. My PC is in a small area, and the only area with enough room to do truly worthy room scale stuff would require me to lug my 25 pound PC, monitor, cables, etc to another room every time I want to use it. For me, room scale needs to go wireless on the HMD so we can all keep our powerful gaming PCs sitting on the home office, bedroom, or whatever, and just take the HMD anywhere in the house (that has sensors). But if the Vive was comparably priced, it would certainly be tempting even if I was primarily doing seated and standing stuff.