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Re: Oculus Quest 2

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Post by haberman »

bufferoverflow wrote: post #164
haberman wrote: post #115

As someone who only barely follows VR, what benefits would this have over the upcoming HP Reverb G2 besides price? I was eying the HP Reverb G2 for high resolution, and for its Microsoft Flight Simulator support. EDIT: ah I just found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/HPReverb/comments/it5jvj/hp_reverb_...

If you're going to ignore 2X the price, why not compare to Pimax 8K?

Maybe I should! I didn't know about the Pimax 8K.

Will all of these have access to the same software titles, or are they built on closed or incompatible software ecosystems?

Re: Oculus Quest 2

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Post by t0mbstone »

yboris wrote: post #160

I'm an Oculus CV1 owner and I still love it. The next one I'm buying is the HP Reverb G2. The resolution is phenomenal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZvPnd_xTBs Consider it when you're deciding on a headset.

Any VR headset with a tether is a dealbreaker for me, period.

Re: Oculus Quest 2

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Post by mouldysammich »

the whole mandatory facebook thing has made me want to sell my quest. Its a shame, I think its truely the best device out there. I was able to play have life alyx totally wirelessly and enjoy the full experience, and I dont think there is anything close out there to emulate this.

Re: Oculus Quest 2

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Post by chaostheory »

haberman wrote: post #115

As someone who only barely follows VR, what benefits would this have over the upcoming HP Reverb G2 besides price? I was eying the HP Reverb G2 for high resolution, and for its Microsoft Flight Simulator support. EDIT: ah I just found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/HPReverb/comments/it5jvj/hp_reverb_...

I feel that wireless and better tracking are the biggest technical differences that favor the Quest 2. WMR, whether deserved or not, has a bad reputation for tracking. I don't know why Reverb didn't support a base station option since it was supposedly about "no compromises". Oculus would be superior for non-sim games and would be near equivalent in sim game performance when it's linked to a PC.

The facebook requirement is a hard sell for many people though. The lack of IPD adjustment may be a be killer for a lot of people, but I'm pretty sure that's one of the major things that brought down the price to $299

Re: Oculus Quest 2

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Post by istorical »

how2draw wrote: post #148

So, are there any sex games or is this going to be yet another walled kindergarten like we're used to nowadays?

there are sex games for the Oculus Quest 1 (and a streaming pornhub style app). seems very unlikely Facebook would be stupid enough to intefere with the latter, not sure about the former.

Re: Oculus Quest 2

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Post by esyir »

TheRealSteel wrote: post #178
pluc wrote: post #126

Pretty scathing review on Ars: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/09/review-we-do-not-reco...

"nor can you toggle the system's "developer" mode and sideload VR-optimized Android apps of your choosing" That kills this product for me. If I can't mod BeatSaber it's useless.

Talk about a misleading quote. The full text here is this.

Quest 2 requires a Facebook account to function; without one, you cannot run the system's built-in fork of Android, nor can you toggle the system's "developer" mode and sideload VR-optimized Android apps of your choosing.

Re: Oculus Quest 2

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Post by t0mbstone »

stanlarroque wrote: post #104
mike_d wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yikes. I advise a few companies doing enterprise VR and they are all OEM'ing the HP Reverb at half your list price with 4K per eye and high quality 6DoF. Are you going to try to integrate SteamVR, cut the price by a thousand dollars and try to sell a privacy conscious headset?

We already have SteamVR compatibility with remote rendering over Wifi 6 or USB-C. And for the rest of your questions, yes.

What kind of latency are you getting with the headset and wireless remote rendering

Re: Oculus Quest 2

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Post by TwoBit »

brutus1213 wrote: post #41

Really sad that they are getting out of PC based VR. That said, my rift has been sitting in a corner for a year. I was really impressed from a technical perspective and felt the tech showed great promise. Good for HTC I guess.

Oculus isn't getting out of PC VR. They are converging on a single headset for both PC and standalone VR.

Re: Oculus Quest 2

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Post by wincy »

ianlevesque wrote: post #37
shajznnckfke wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really though? Facebook makes money by displaying targeted ads to users. What data from the Quest is being used to target ads? I’m not familiar with anything related to this in Facebook’s product for ad buyers, and can’t think of anything particularly useful that they could be doing. You could think of Oculus as an effort to increase the amount of user attention inventory Facebook has in supply to rent out to adverti…

What is it with HN and trying to read between the lines so hard? There's literally an Oculus Store app store for quest games. Probably they are just making money on game sales, like every other game console has for 35 years.

Also remember that Mark Zuckerberg himself demoed the Samsung Oculus headset to everyone. That was a really big deal at the time. It's possible that this is a pet project he's adopted and really wants to see succeed. However, practically, it's a great jumping off point for AR and we know that Apple is experimenting with Augmented reality headsets that are tied to your phone.

Facebook might just be trying to get ahead of the game, betting that the next step past phones is VR/AR.

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