Oculus Quest (Santa Cruz)

Bonfire is another good game, not sure it warrants the £7.99 as it’s far to short , more like £1.99.

Is it because we’re early adopters the prices are high, assume they may come down?
 
welshboy said:
Is it because we’re early adopters the prices are high, assume they may come down?
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They're charging more because they're supposed to be strict on what can get into the Quest store due to high level of quality the games are supposed to have. There will be sales eventually, but who knows when they will start.

TheOracle said:
If this runs a snapdragon chop, can you not pair a set of bluetooth headphones?
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Not officially as they removed that option due to latency issues. But you can sideload some apps which will enable you to pair bluetooth headphones.
 
My workplace has an empty floor. I've been sneaking up there to play games with a huge boundary, far bigger than I can manage at home, and it's been incredible. Tether-less VR really is the future.

Some games like Robo Recall don't properly support room-scale though. :(
 
anyone here went from CV1 to Quest and is using ALVR? is it as good as swiver states in his youtube video?
 
Yaka said:
anyone here went from CV1 to Quest and is using ALVR? is it as good as swiver states in his youtube video?
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I've got ALVR running, but the video quality is really blurry, so I need to fiddle with it to get it working properly. The fact it works at all is incredible.
 
Yaka said:
anyone here went from CV1 to Quest and is using ALVR? is it as good as swiver states in his youtube video?
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I think its really going to be dependant on your wifi setup.
I know Swiver users the google home wifi thing which costs like £200-300.


I think if your wifi connection is amazing, it'll work decently well.
 
Mine should be here by Tuesday.

What's an absolute must-see 3d movie to watch on this? From what I've read, Ready Player One seems to tick all the boxes. Anything else?
 
regulus said:
Mine should be here by Tuesday.

What's an absolute must-see 3d movie to watch on this? From what I've read, Ready Player One seems to tick all the boxes. Anything else?
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Frozen is amazing. Well the let it go scene at least. It really sold me on VR 3D movies. Its not coomfy tho. Can't wait for VR covers to start shipping their leather ones.
 
I'm hovering between getting a quest or a Lenovo explorer (less than £150 on the bay now) with extra cash going to games.

I currently have a ps pro with psvr v1 and moves.

I love the idea of being tether free on quest but the current game prices are very high especially for the older games.

My pc is a bit dated though 2600k, r9 290 and 8gb. I'm being unusually indecisive as they both offer different pros and cons.
 
jennidc said:
I'm hovering between getting a quest or a Lenovo explorer (less than £150 on the bay now) with extra cash going to games.

I currently have a ps pro with psvr v1 and moves.

I love the idea of being tether free on quest but the current game prices are very high especially for the older games.

My pc is a bit dated though 2600k, r9 290 and 8gb. I'm being unusually indecisive as they both offer different pros and cons.
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Quest.

The Lenovo will probably require you to upgrade your PC anyway to be able to power through the better games which PCVR offer. Also you're locked out of playing Oculus exclusives on PCVR which is my main draw to going to PCVR as WMR has dodgey compatability issues with revive. Windows MR also doesn't have as strong or powerful ASW to compensate for your GPU (unlike the Rift).


The Quest and Lenovo/GPU will end up costing about the same. Also the Lenovo is really quite outdated now.

If you want the best VALUE, then get a used CV1 or preferably a Vive (so u can use the base stations in a year or two when u buy an index) and push the rest of the cash to a CPU at some point.

The Quest will be the more magical experience and provide you with a few VR use-cases which are impossible with PCVR (watching 3D films comfortably in bed, playing 2-D games on a 100 inch projector screen in another room of your house, VR porn in bed, Superhot untethered in your garden and being able to run and punch, portable VR for holidays) but it comes at a price premium for games, less graphical fidelity and less games to play (albiet enough games to play for a little while at least).


I think ANY fan of VR, needs a Quest. Its just so magical to have VR portable and so quick to use. Anywhere I am I can just slip on the headset and I'm inside a 3-D movie theatre. Its nice to have.

The best value PC headset is probably a Rift S, but that ends up quite expensive when you have to get a new GPU too.

Also a cheap second hand vive bundle is going to be hard to find because the base station 2.0s are so over priced, the 1.0s are holding their value. and a CV1 is based on dead technology (the sensors) so its a hard thing to convince urself to buy.
 
do purchases for cv1 games on oculus store transfer over to the quest or is it tied to a different store front?
 
jennidc said:
I'm hovering between getting a quest or a Lenovo explorer (less than £150 on the bay now) with extra cash going to games.

I currently have a ps pro with psvr v1 and moves.
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By pure coincidence I've just sold my Lenovo explorer headset after buying an Oculus quest! Personally now I have the Quest (and PSVR) I don't see me using my PC headset again!

There's nothing wrong with the Lenovo hardware but the windows mixed reality software is pretty janky and having experienced the Quest's wireless play anywhere VR it's definitely the way VR was meant to be!
 
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