Quest 2 is outselling Quest 3

I just want a good device for seated HOTAS / wheel flight Sim/driving sim use, with a reasonably decent FOV. My old OG Lenovo Explorer was ok for Elite Dangerous as a novelty experience, but I found everything pretty much subpar. You had to be right on the sweet spot and only look straight ahead for a warping kind of screen door effect not to be the only thing you'd see, or was it perhaps a blur?

And the FOV gave me literal blind zones not experienced in triple screens that caused me to take someone out in racing (he came out from the pits just as I passed, I would have seen it on my triples for sure). And in flight Sims, the resolution was so poor nothing could be made out of the instruments.

There's devices like the Pimax Crystal, but here they decided to make it battery powered which contributes to bulk, weight, causing it to be a massive pain in the neck - on top of the battery life issues! Oh and it's obscenely expensive.

To add to that, only my old Samsung Gear has allowed diopter adjustments (glasses). I've yet to see any that allows for someone with mild myopia to use VR without dealing with glass inserts.

There's just so many compromises. Which is why I stick to my triple qhd 32"s and trackir for now.

I bet the Quest will actually get a bump once the Vision Pro is out. Apple will market the ideal and Quest will look like an attainable alternative.

This is the reason why I went with a Pico 4 for now.

It has flexible IPD and a better screen than the Quest 2, and only cost me 200€.

The ecosystem is worse with less apps, but for getting my feet wet it’s ample.

These are awesome hobby devices to hack on. I’m not very experienced with graphics programming but I had a ton of fun developing with the SDK, wrote a blog post on it recently if anyone is interested in learning more about it.

https://jeskin.net/blog/meta-quest-sdk/

I bought one recently, it's the first VR headset I own.

As far as using it for productivity as a screen, it's more usable than I was expecting but not really the first choice I would opt for. it remind me of the days where computer had CRT monitors or early LCD the text is not blurry but the resolution not good enough that you can stuff a lot of thing in the screen.

the reason I bought one is to see how far we've come since the last time I used VR, which was around 5 years ago at work where there was a colleague showcasing the work his team was doing related to medical visualization software, they had a demo room to sell the project to upper management. I think they had steam + htc headsets.

so far my verdict has been that there's still around 10 years before these headset can replace my desktop monitors.

with an affordable price for : - +60ppd,

- varifocal lenses,

- good large field of view (on both direction).

because currently (for me at least):

- objects that are too close break the 3d or at least make it very uncomfortable and require you to close one eye or another to see things.

- the resolution is good but nowhere close enough that you forget you're in a headset, and the thing good resolution would enable qualitatively different content.

- the FOV because currently it feel like you're wearing thick scuba diving glasses. I don't know it this got more to do with the distance of the screens to eye or how the steam + vive + quest were made.

- this I think is more of quest thing than a general VR thing since the steam one didn't have this when I tried it, good visual overlap between the right and left eye. but when there's not enough in some angle the vision get uncomfortable.

I intend to use mine to dabble a little bit in my free time around what a 'desktop environment' would look like in these settings, stuff like spatial computing but with a focus on the other way around compared to what's get shown here of more generally in the media. like a portable workshop that can have your projects laying in a room, your 3d designs in another, A monitoring room with different dashboards, graphs, KPIs etc to track projects.

more generally exploring what kind of new UX this environment can enable.