I'm not the OP, but I have both the Oculus and the Vive and, to me, the Vive is a much better experience. For me, the big issue is that, while the Rift is a bit easier to set up (but not by much), the tracking is just not good enough to get that immersive experience. As soon as you lose tracking once, it throws the whole thing out the window. The Vive's tracking is pretty flawless. The Rift, on the other hand, is finicky and, if you even attempt the room scale setup with touch, you'll feel like someone trying to mess with an analog TV antenna.

With the Rift, I'm initially impressed with it (resolution is better, headset is lighter, etc) but then constantly reminded that this is new tech. With the Vive, it's clunkier and more pixelated (not by much) but I forget completely about all of it when I'm deeply immersed in a game.

I am certainly biased, despite having huge issues with Oculus. My experience is Vive demos and second hand.

Setup was just placing cameras on a desk. I don't need external headphones. Store is curated, which is good and bad. I like trusting games won't give me nausea, or turn off people to VR. In my experience all it takes is one experience for some people to continue repeating "VR causes nausea" for literally 1+ year. My boss is this person, and it's hard to get him to try rift again.

Touch, and seeing my fingers closely mirrored in VR, I find extremely polished and wonderful. Grabbing the first object in VR made me laugh in excitement, first time I did that since seeing Tuscany in CV1.

Yup, for having tried both, the Vive is far superior to the Oculus.

Not the OP either but I use both extensively at work and haven't paid my own money so subject to less bias in that sense. I've also had a fair run at everything from Cardboard to the Hololens over the last couple of years.

Once setup I find the tracking similar. The main advantage of the Vive is the ability to track a larger space. Outside of arcades this is a bit of a non-issue currently as most users don't have that much space. A lot of users also don't tend to walk around that much or at least more tentatively due to the tether.

The Touch controllers are much better ergonomically and offer more input options. But they are also less non-gamer friendly. The Vive wand suffers from being enormous with badly placed buttons.

Headset wise the Rift is a clear winner right now. It's lighter, has a much better harness and the integrated headphones remove a lot of the faff factor putting it on. Vive is releasing kits that address some of this later in the year.

Store wise Oculus does a better job of surfacing products that will meet consumer expectations. Mostly because there are less hobby projects clogging it up and the exclusive content so far has been good. Then you can still head over to Steam, itch and others to explore more questionable variety.

From most reviews the Oculus is very plug and play whereas the Vive takes a couple of hours to get all setup and calibrated correctly.