Soldato
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How it all goes through ok. I notice the CEX cash price has dropped to £164 now versus the ~£290 it was last week.
just got the email... price will be honoured at £292!
Yes, and of course you can use the link cable you bought for your quest on the quest 2, probably also the quest 3.
Also, the oculus is the closest we have to a VR standard, and I've been burnt from straying away from the standard before. I'm a VR researcher and of the VR the papers submitted to place like CHI, 60% are oculus based, 30% index and 10% WMR. That tells me all I need to know about the future of VR.
It seems Oculus have completely given up on PC VR so anyone looking for something better than "mobile" VR will be forced elsewhere. Facebook may be selling more units, but I suspect those customers will be buying less games than PCVR owners.
It's like people buying a mobile phone to play games Vs a PC, both can coexist.
Oculus link is not the same as directly connecting a headset to a GPU, but it may be acceptable to the lower end of the market, it's not replacing PC VR completely.
True
The two headsets really aren’t trading blows when it comes to pcvr. The quest is cheap and and thumb prescience. The g2 has better audio and visual fidelity with better immersion due to no latency.
for a pc enthusiast forum who buy expensive GPUs... surely we understand the value of plugging our displays into a gpu display port rather than a USB port otherwise why do we bother buying GPUs.. we should just stream our pc games over the internet using shadow or something.. that’s what oculus link is
I agree that for the very high end, a dedicated VR display won't be beat. With Quest, the GPU works even harder than running a native display due to having to render and then compress the image. And then there are the bandwidth limitations.
However I don't think its right to say Oculus have given up on PCVR. Link will be supporting the faster chip and 90Hz soon (possibly even 120 Hz) and there is speculation that a wifi 6 link type solution will appear either direct or through a 3rd party dev like Virtual Desktop has done. VD isn't going to be blocked from what Ive read.
It comes down to how close Quest 2 can get. If its 90% of a G2 at one third the price, and you get the ability to run standalone on top, that is pretty good result.
I wouldn't recommend the Quest 2 as a dedicated PC headset over an Index or a G2 primarily because of the compression issues (both on image quality and CPU/GPU overheads), but it's a great capability to have in addition to the headset being a standalone experience.
And of course if you have a gaming laptop that is powerful enough for VR but which doesn't have a displayport connector then the USB or wireless (via virtual desktop) connection provides a way to play VR on a modern VR headset.
So it’s either £920 for an index with everything vs an oculus quest 2 with most bits a pieces for £500... that’s still a massive difference!
After watching how well the Quest works wireless via Virtual Desktop Im back to being tempted by the Q2 again.
Not really.So it’s either £920 for an index with everything vs an oculus quest 2 with most bits a pieces for £500... that’s still a massive difference!
After watching how well the Quest works wireless via Virtual Desktop Im back to being tempted by the Q2 again.
I have used a quest 1 with virtual desktop and it was a terrible experience.
hope you have a strong WiFi and mesh network to get even decent performance
Not really.
the G2 is available.
The oculus quest 2 for 500 quid is a rip off and too close to the g2 price
I just wish it'd work reliably for me. I can use Virtual Desktop right next to my router, which is pointless as it's next to my PC, but down in the lounge where I have more space it only works intermittently. Fine one minute, then a juddery mess the next.