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Early? They’ve been selling in the market for over 6 years now.
Yeah early as in early in market domination.
And they're still losing money with no path towards profitability or market domination?
Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
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Re: Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
#242As much as I wanted to get into VR, Meta taking over the Quest has thankfully saved me countless sunken dollars and hours.
I bought two recently for my parents and they don’t use them. I tried to use them but there are no real VR games to play. All of the games are arcade-style mini games with 20 year-old graphics. They get boring after a couple minutes. Huge disappointment! Around 10 years ago I gave up on VR and decided to wait for the VR game market to grow. It was a huge bummer to learn that nothing has changed after all this time. I…
I'm not surprised that a casual level gaming device didn't meet the expectations of someone with a $4,000 gaming rig. You aren't the target market for this device.
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#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, if you want to play Alyx you can also use the Valve Index. So no Meta involved
or an HP reverb G2, or HTC vive or one of dozens of other non meta vr sets... that said a cheap quest 2 second hand with virtual desktop makes for probably the best wireless experience / dollar you can have
To add to that: Even though the Pico brand is now owned by Bytedance (TikTok) I really enjoy their Pico Neo 3 (it's a hardware equivalent to the Quest 2, actually due to active cooling it has a bit more performance headroom).
The wireless streaming works great. There is no account setup whatsoever. Null, nada, nichts. You can just boot up the HMD and you're good to go.
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You're missing out, Quest 2 was one of the best purchases I've made in the last year. I also don't think VR is good enough to be worth investing $1k+ into a VR headset like Vive. $300 seemed like a very high return on investment for what I got. Not sure about $400 since I already have one but I'd probably still do it. I also made a fake, empty Facebook account to use the Oculus store, so I don't feel like it's a priv…
My Quest 2 runs glorified arcade games with 20 year-old graphics. What games are you playing that you enjoy for more than 5 minutes? Beat saber and VR-Chat bore me to death.
Eleven Table Tennis
There is also Golf+ plus I am way more into table tennis.
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Alyx is probably one of the greatest gaming experiences I've had... but I was also able to borrow a Vive from a friend to play it. I'm a Half-Life nut so I would have bought a headset anyway, but I'm glad I haven't bought a Quest.
You can use a Oculus Account (not connected to facebook) and then use Virtual Desktop to stream the game from SteamVR over Wifi. If you have a Wifi 6 router it's the best PC VR experience you can have (wireless, no base stations, really high resolution, very low latency) and besides the Quest 2 and Virtual Desktop you are not giving any money to Meta. If you are worried about battery life, I already player with a bat…
You don't even need Virtual Desktop, the Quest 2 supports wireless VR natively.
Re: Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
#246As much as I wanted to get into VR, Meta taking over the Quest has thankfully saved me countless sunken dollars and hours.
You're missing out, Quest 2 was one of the best purchases I've made in the last year. I also don't think VR is good enough to be worth investing $1k+ into a VR headset like Vive. $300 seemed like a very high return on investment for what I got. Not sure about $400 since I already have one but I'd probably still do it. I also made a fake, empty Facebook account to use the Oculus store, so I don't feel like it's a priv…
I bought the Quest 1 for $500, and I thought it was a good buy even then. $400 for the Quest 2 is still a steal, honestly.
And I have a PC that can handle VR games (and you can use the Quest 1 or 2 as basically a PC VR headset if you want). But it’s just so much less hassle to use the native Quest.
The main use of the Quest is still to play beatsaber tho LOL.
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#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
My Quest 2 runs glorified arcade games with 20 year-old graphics. What games are you playing that you enjoy for more than 5 minutes? Beat saber and VR-Chat bore me to death.
Demeo and Echo Arena are great if you have friends that also have a Quest 2 you can play with. I'm past the age where I want want to risk the enjoyment of my limited gaming time to the random match maker gods.
Assume you mean Echo VR. Fantastic game! I agree that playing with random people can be a downer, so I've "friended" several people who are competent players and not annoying. One likes to play private matches with 10 known "adults" and it's amazing.
It's not all about graphics, it's about gameplay, cooperation, competition and good sportsmanship with some friendly ribbing. I've got more than 2K matches in and still play a couple times a week until the battery dies.
Re: Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're missing out, Quest 2 was one of the best purchases I've made in the last year. I also don't think VR is good enough to be worth investing $1k+ into a VR headset like Vive. $300 seemed like a very high return on investment for what I got. Not sure about $400 since I already have one but I'd probably still do it. I also made a fake, empty Facebook account to use the Oculus store, so I don't feel like it's a priv…
>I also made a fake, empty Facebook account to use the Oculus store, so I don't feel like it's a privacy invasion. You're kidding yourself with that. You gave Facebook literal eyes into your home through an internet connected device. If you don't think Facebook know who you are I have some coins I'd like to sell you.
I talked to someone who used to be at Facebook's reality lab and they said they have very VERY strict controls on user data and no one just has remote access through Oculus cameras including devs but reputation is hard to shake when tied to a company like Facebook.
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#249I'm shocked that there aren't more multiplayer VR experiences. Yes, sure, there's Pavlov and VR Chat. But unless you have a friend who's into VR Chat, it's remarkably difficult to find a game that can immerse two different people at the same time. It felt a bit ironic that mini golf was one of the most fun multiplayer party games. My wife was like "You should bring over your quest 2!" to our new house -- she already…
>> It felt a bit ironic that mini golf was one of the most fun multiplayer party games.
Echo VR.
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Sure, with some hackery. I'd rather pay for something that doesn't require me to work around it like that. Why pay for this in-headset computer if I'm not using it?
no hackery required. it works wireless as well.
You're correct, it used to require hackery, not it appears it is an included beta feature.