*** Oculus Quest 2 Owners Thread ***
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I'm enjoying it. It's more of the same, with improved graphics, new levels, etc.
It does have a few problems:
- there's noticeable draw in as you approach a new surface (say via a zip line, or even jumping) where the LOD pops in suddenly. Breaks the immersion a bit.
- it's a bit glitchy, occasionally jumping from one surface across to another there's a freeze, a yell like you are falling, then it catches up and you are fine.
- occasionally you try to pull yourself up onto a platform and it gives you a black screen and a warning that you are intersecting something with your head and need to duck, even though nothing is there, so you lower yourself and try again and its fine.
- the menu is also a bit glitchy and stuttery. it needs more polish.
I'm sure after a few patches it'll be just fine. I'm not regretting buying it. But it's really just a level pack with a graphics boost than anything truly new mechanics-wise. If you love the first game, you'll be fine with this I think.
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For my next stupid question... I want to buy The Wizards. It's a cross buy game so if I get it on the oculus phone app and download it to the headset, I can play it wire-free but it will look not that great. But I can then download it for free to the Oculus PC app and play it in higher quality but with the link cable. Is that right? Or would it be the exact same game i.e. look the same and be at the same resolution.
(Also aware of virtual desktop).
(Also aware of virtual desktop).
It really depends on the game. But, yeah, generally the PCVR crossbuy games look better than Native Quest 2 versions.
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Same here although the stutter introduce in V25-V26 and the white flashes in FS2020 are fixed using link with my Quest2
Quick Q for Quest 2 experts.
Thinking of buying one this week to help alleviate the lockdown stir-crazyness. I only have a laptop (reasonable spec) with USB 3.0, with integrated GFX. Will this be enough to play movies / media at least? Any games I will just buy to install and use wireless, for now. I won't be using the streaming option, but will purchase the Anker cable, if my laptop can handle movies and media.
Thinking of buying one this week to help alleviate the lockdown stir-crazyness. I only have a laptop (reasonable spec) with USB 3.0, with integrated GFX. Will this be enough to play movies / media at least? Any games I will just buy to install and use wireless, for now. I won't be using the streaming option, but will purchase the Anker cable, if my laptop can handle movies and media.
I almost never link mine to my PC. The quest, stand alone will do a fine job of streaming movies without bothering with your laptop, or streaming wirelessly from your laptop with a 3rd party app like Pegasus. Warning, some movies may make you go blind. From a gaming perspective, I prefer the simplicity of no wires, native quest games, so again, latop isn't an issue.
Yep I plan to use the games from within the Quest, no issue there. But I can't do any streaming, as I don't have a fixed internet connection or a router etc. I just want to know whether the laptop will be able to power the Quest for movies, should I wish to go that route.
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The issue is that it won't be native quest resolution. If you buy the larger quest so you have lots of space, you could just copy movies on there. I'm not sure the Quest will work though if it can't connect wirelessly to the internet. I've never tried.
I just tried, and yes it works without Wifi. Much of the interface is designed for connectivity though, even the game thumbnails (or most of them anyway) lose their pictures and are replaced with black backgrounds. It's definitely best with Wifi. But it looks like you can get by without.
Is your Laptop connected to the Internet?
My situation is a bit odd atm. I have access to someone else's internet, which I can use respectfully and sparingly.
Hey, everyone has their own situation. It's just are you downloading the movies elsewhere? If not, I am struggling to see what the difference would be using your laptop respectfully and sparingly to stream movies vs using your Quest 2 to respectfully and sparingly to stream movies?
If you are downloading the movies elsewhere, then ignore my ramblings!!
Seriously though, if you have movies already downloaded on your laptop. You can use a USB cable to transfer the movies across and watch them natively on the Quest 2.
Just busy right now, but I can check later to see if the cable that's included will work for that. That would save you buying another one.
You should in theory be able to stream movies from your laptop to your quest without much issue over your network. Use DeoVR on your quest, that should find dlna servers on your laptop.
Amazon prime has a native app for the quest 2, and you can watch a lot of online content through the ifrefox browser, but if you don't want to use someone elses internet then I guess thy aren't really options.
EDIT - Guess you might mean using the blu-ray player on the laptop?
Amazon prime has a native app for the quest 2, and you can watch a lot of online content through the ifrefox browser, but if you don't want to use someone elses internet then I guess thy aren't really options.
EDIT - Guess you might mean using the blu-ray player on the laptop?
