Oculus quest

[Little stoned kiwi]

Wouldn't it be cool if we could build our own headsets? Or get China to do it?
We shouldn't need specific licensed hardware running on a required OS with a specified client. Enabling access, and limiting you to, the company's domain.

[Rhythm]

Wouldn't it be cool if we could build our own headsets? Or get China to do it?
We shouldn't need specific licensed hardware running on a required OS with a specified client. Enabling access, and limiting you to, the company's domain.

This is completely possible and has been for a while. I know of at least three current competing "standards" of open-source VR. You want to assemble your own headset from parts? Go for it!

[zip accident]

Wouldn't it be cool if we could build our own headsets? Or get China to do it?
We shouldn't need specific licensed hardware running on a required OS with a specified client. Enabling access, and limiting you to, the company's domain.

This is completely possible and has been for a while. I know of at least three current competing "standards" of open-source VR. You want to assemble your own headset from parts? Go for it!

Three standards?



https://xkcd.com/927/

Oh dear.

[Rhythm]

Exactly the strip I had in mind when I used the quote marks

[Deckard]

New one shortly -

https://www.destructoid.com/meta-quest- ... -this-fall

“In addition, an upcoming software update for the Quest 2 and Meta’s more expensive Quest Pro will increase their CPU and GPU performance and enable Dynamic Resolution Scaling.”

And a price drop for the old one.

[Whiteball]

Some of these new 3D displays that use eye tracking cameras (so no glasses needed) are supposed to be pretty good. Might we see 3D come around again but only better this time a bit like VR did?

Can't really ever see myself getting another headset yet and probably never from Meta anyway.

Waiting to see who it is that has allegedly partnered with Lumus for their tech in AR/VR glasses.

[Deckard]

I have been offered a Quest 3 but with just 128gb for 230 quid - pristine and in box - tempted to go for it as I would like to try a few games and def some movies - any thoughts ?

[Misfit]

I have been offered a Quest 3 but with just 128gb for 230 quid - pristine and in box - tempted to go for it as I would like to try a few games and def some movies - any thoughts ?

Sounds like a bargain.

Games aren't that big, so memory is not a huge issue, and that's cheaper than a much inferior 3S 128GB

Note, the headstrap is crap, you'll need a better one and it would make sense to get a better one with a battery, so factor that in.

Mainly use mine for rhythm games/fitness apps and Walkabout mini golf, which is amazing.

Note that the arcade thing you showed me is not running natively on the Q3; he had the Quest connected to his PC

[MattyP]

Picked up an Oculus S for the PC a few weeks back! Essentially the same thing except its slightly higher res and is powered by the PC.

My tag is : CypherQ...

Sorry, but send it back and get a Quest. It connects to the PC so you get the best of both worlds. Can't tell you how good it is to be wire-free....

I wanted a quest but they were out of stock everywhere and for the forseeable.

I had a lot of game credit that needed using up so decided to take a punt on a S and I'm more than happy with it! Its great!

I'll wait for the Quest to get better before heading over to that. Sure there will be another couple of versions coming over the next couple of years. Right now though loving my S. Its great.....And I really don't mind the wires at the moment....

Well I finally moved over to a Quest 3 last week. Makes my Rift S look ancient in comparison so kind of glad I waited!

Also VR without wires is a revelation. Beat Saber and Rez are lovely. Super smooth. Loving the golf games on this great stuff.

Also worth looking at Horizon+ service you get a free trial for a month and there is quite a bit to get stuck into. Price per month is normally £7.99 or £59 for the year. Which doesn't seem bad.

You can also use it as a huge screen apparently using a USBC to HDMI widget which I will look into at some point. Battery isn't great though although to be expected with what is going on in there. Get around 2 hours.

[MattyP]

For anyone that likes Tetris type games this is pretty good although a complete mindf**k for me at the moment. Very smooth, trippy pass through visuals and nice music too. Also on Steam on the PC. Great little game to kill some time with.

[Misfit]

For anyone that likes Tetris type games this is pretty good although a complete mindf**k for me at the moment. Very smooth, trippy pass through visuals and nice music too. Also on Steam on the PC. Great little game to kill some time with.

Looks cool, but would probably drive me insane!

[MattyP]

For anyone that likes Tetris type games this is pretty good although a complete mindf**k for me at the moment. Very smooth, trippy pass through visuals and nice music too. Also on Steam on the PC. Great little game to kill some time with.

Looks cool, but would probably drive me insane!

Takes a bit of getting used too for sure! Been playing on/off today and its a nice distraction.

Really enjoying the Q3 - really should have picked one before now. Loving the play anywhere aspect. So many games on the Meta store its insane. Notice Rez infinite is currently on sales ATM too... I think this might be an expensive month for software.

Sadly not seen any LLamasoft wares on the Meta store - guessing they only have so much resource! However a version of Tempest 2K/4K would be great on this!