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Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by AmericanOP »

babypuncher wrote: post #45
AmericanOP wrote: post #27

Hey Mark, Send an email to NVIDIA's GeForce Now bizdev guy. Develop a cheap-o streaming device and put all the juice in the display. Congratulations, I just made you billions of dollars. Donate my cut to PETA.

streaming + vr seems like a recipe for disaster. even if you don't mind a few extra frames of latency when playing games on your TV, you absolutely will when head tracking is involved. streaming + mouse & keyboard for shooters still feels like shit, even when I tried it on google stadia over google fiber. honestly i kind of hope this game streaming fad never really takes off, because so far it just seems to make game…

Playing ultra-settings Starfield on an old retina MacBook air is mindblowing. GeForce Now, imo, is quietly the killer app of 2023.

> game streaming fad never really takes off

I am in the opposite camp. I want game developers to be freed from local hardware constraints, and indy developers to have access to the same graphical fidelities as AAA. Real, meaningful innovation in gaming is a possibility.

Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by crazygringo »

synergy20 wrote: post #64

I have a Quest2 that only used for about 1 hour, is there any resale value or trade-in somewhere? it's collecting dust these two years, supposed to be a Christmas gift, did not work out at all.

Looks like they're currently mostly fetching $150-200 used:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=quest+2&_sacat=0&LH_Ite...

I'm actually surprised -- I thought it would plummet once the 3 came out. Maybe it still will over the next few weeks if people with 2's upgrade to 3's and the marketplace gets flooded with 2's.

Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by clnq »

phowat wrote: post #65
fidotron wrote: post #52

Notable shift in emphasis to mixed reality. I wish they had HDR support called out for the passthrough though. The Quest 2 CPU was too weak, and while this one will be better the Apple chips are still way out in front there. The proportion of people in tech I know with a Quest 2 they never use is amazing. We all want VR to work but fundamentally headsets are a bad idea.

I daily drove my quest 2 using immersed VR for a few months. In the end, the resolution was just not good enough for it to be better than my 3 monitor setup. But I'm looking forward to trying again in a couple of generations.

The resolution was probably OK, you wanted lower FOV or higher pixels per degree (PPD). There are monitor replacement AR glasses with the same resolution or lower, but acceptable PPD due to their low FOV.

Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by MBCook »

epolanski wrote: post #120
supernikio2 wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>So what’s the killer app? I feel like the answer to that question will come next year, when Apple's Vision Pro is out.

Which won't release applications for the quest?

What if they can’t? What if whatever it is that makes the app so compelling automatically rules it out on the Quest 3 for some reason? What if it demands a better input method or higher resolution?

Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by wnevets »

As someone who hasn't done anything with these VR headsets it appears Meta & Apple are emphasizing AR/productively because gaming with these things are terrible.

Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by MBCook »

itsyaboi wrote: post #91
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…

XBox cloud gaming is pretty big. Roblox is huge with kids as well.

That seems to reinforce my point to me.

Both of those are available on other platforms. They don’t need the Quest 3.

Why not just buy an Xbox?

What makes me need a Quest 3?

Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by wigster »

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…

> So what’s the killer app? the porn app automatically locks the doors of your house to stop people "disturbing you"

Re: Meta Quest 3

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Post by genghisjahn »

I'll buy this simply to have a better experience playing Onward VR. I'd buy it if that was the only app/game available. There's other stuff to mess with from time to time but Onward keeps the quest 2 in mostly daily use.
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