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Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by ggreer »

tetris11 wrote: post #36
d--b wrote: post #2

The only information I need: horizontal angle:110, vertical angle 90. Garbage. I don’t know how anyone finds these experience immersive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_virtual_reality_headse... If you sort by release date, the Vive XR (2023) beats it on FOV+Rez+Hz, and weights 3x as less. If you sort by FOV, the HTC Vive (2016) easily wins on FOV+Rez+Hz

That's not true. The original HTC Vive has the same refresh rate (90Hz) and field of view (110° horizontal), but the Quest 3's resolution is 2064x2208 per eye while the Vive's is 1080x1200. The Vive XR Elite has the same refresh rate (90Hz) and field of view (110° horizontal), but a lower resolution of 1920x1920 per eye. It also costs twice as much as the Quest 3.

The Vive XR Elite's lower claimed weight of 270 grams is without the battery. With battery it weighs 625g, which is heavier than the Quest 1 (571g), Quest 2 (503g), or Quest 3 (515g).

Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by exhilaration »

capableweb wrote: post #22
saiya-jin wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

keep doing it and clicking on buttons, eventually I got in but it was maybe 6th attempt (firefox + ublock origin)

Just enable the annoyance lists in uBlock Origin and stop rejecting/accepting cookies like a modern person :)

Thank you! For Firefox mobile users: 3 dot menu > add-ons > uBlock Origin > Open the Dashboard > Filter Lists > Annoyances

There's two cookie notices options in there.

Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by AmericanOP »

MBCook wrote: post #86

So what’s the killer app? Beatsaber and some other games can be a lot of fun, but they’re not new. What new experience are ready for this? I get the quality is better, and that’s not nothing. But other than that this largely seems like more of the same. VR still doesn’t seem to have advanced much in software to me. And Meta keeps pushing virtual meetings and such but that’s not my cup of tea. I owned a Quest 2 and ha…

GeForce Now.

Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by MBCook »

layer8 wrote: post #121
MBCook wrote: post #86

So what’s the killer app? Beatsaber and some other games can be a lot of fun, but they’re not new. What new experience are ready for this? I get the quality is better, and that’s not nothing. But other than that this largely seems like more of the same. VR still doesn’t seem to have advanced much in software to me. And Meta keeps pushing virtual meetings and such but that’s not my cup of tea. I owned a Quest 2 and ha…

> This feels very “PC” to me. By which I mean they’re selling it because they can sell new hardware. The Pentium 9 is out! Which is fine. I mean, the same is happening for smartphones and tablets. Yes, it won’t dramatically grow the market.

But those already have mass market acceptance. They’re not trying to prove they’re necessary. The iPhone (and other smartphones) literally changed the world. There’s only so much they can innovate after 15 years of record breaking success.

VR doesn’t have that. People weren’t chomping at the bit for the day it was 20% better. Unless it passes some unknown threshold where it suddenly becomes good enough to suddenly be really popular, they’re still trying to prove relevance.

Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by throeaaysn »

Night_Thastus wrote: post #107
cm2012 wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a bunch of very powerful/ successful AI girlfriend apps like Replika. I think that will be a breakthrough use case for VR.

If all the recent LLM stuff is any indication, I can't imagine they'll be very good. I think we've got a few decades to go before that can be anything other than a novelty.

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Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by dougmwne »

jxi wrote: post #84
dougmwne wrote: post #31

This seems like on paper it is quite close to the Apple Vision Pro. The performance per watt of the chips is probably not far off and both devices deal with the same basic design constraints of needing to fit comfortably on your head. The main difference seems to be the micro OLED and eye tracking on the Vision Pro vs. the Quest’s inclusion of controllers. I’ll be curious how these two devices stack up to each other…

Performance per watt is not far off? The processor is half the speed of the M2.

These devices need to fit in a very specific power and heat envelope. Is the performance per watt 2x better at the TDP they both run at? We’ll need benchmarks to find out.

Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by RomanPushkin »

If you haven't tried it yet, Supernatural app is great. I lost around 30 pounds while I was using it at home. Now gained some weight back, but hopefully in winter time will get back to the app. And today I got announcement it's only $10/month vs $20 starting October 14.

Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by archiewood »

epolanski wrote: post #125
icapybara wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think, functionally, you have a point, but they wouldn’t sell nearly as many if it looked like a helmet. The devices have to be cool to sell, and headsets are uncool enough as it is. These companies want a mass market product, not a niche product that only tech enthusiasts can appreciate.

I mean, no one's going to use those if they aren't comfortable for long use. Looking cool is very low on the priority list.

it's wild to me that they don't offer colour options
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