VR Ready Laptop for Oculus 2

ivoru84

ivoru84

ivoru84

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Hi Folks,

Just joined this amazing community, this is my first post!

I'm willing to buy a "VR ready" laptop, I would like to keep the budget under 2500 euro.

I own an Oculus 2, my first VR, I love it!

My expectations are that I want obviously to be able to play most of the "HEAVY" and "LATEST" VR games available on PC on the different platforms (Half-Life Alyx, Falcon Age, Resident Evil, Project Cars and so on) probably i miss many other games..

I will be mainly using link cable (Virtual Desktop is also an option but my wifi can be a problem!)

I'm in Europe so I would like to buy the laptop in EU to avoid custom and import fees.

I've experience in the past assembling desktop, and my fear is to spend lot of money and have incompatibilities issues (CPU,GPU,USBs and so on..)
I won't be playing PC games without VR, this will be exclusively used for the VR, so if I've issues it's going to be a disaster!

I'm finding very hard to understand what to buy, for example I thought to pick what i consider at the top in the market, eg Alienware m17 R4 or similar, but then I found out there may be incompatibilities issues with the GeForce RTX™ 3070/3080 series because of the lack of USB within the graphic card itself, oculus team itself replied to many users that this card may be not yet fully supported.

Also I will start with Oculus2 but i would like to buy something that would allow me to upgrade to a better VR in the future.

Have you guys any laptop to suggest, what can be the best option here? I want to be sure it will 100% works with Oculus 2 and most of the VR on the market.

I've been looking on VR ready laptops from Oculus website, but there are no preset configuration (e.g. falcon northwest), I still need to decide the hardware and I'm really confused about it.

Thanks a lot
Ivano
 
@ivoru84 do you have to have a laptop? You may get more bang for your buck with a desktop. The current best hardware still struggles to run some of the most demanding titles smoothly with all the settings maxed out... Plus if you did get a desktop, you always have an upgrade path when next gen GPUs come out.
If you do have to get a laptop, then you may get more informed help in the laptop forum. https://www.overclockers.co.uk/forums/community/laptops-tablets.111/
 
Why are you looking at a laptop for your needs if gaming will be exclusively for VR? You're going to get much better value for money going desktop and have a much easier time upgrading in future.

If you need some portability because of work/documents or whatnot then just pick up a cheap laptop for that. It might work out similar costs buying both but a better option imo.
 
I need the portability unfortunately.
That's the reason instead of looking a 1500 euro desktop i'm looking at 2800 laptops.

Laptops are almost double price for same spec of a desktop, and yeah, you got no upgrade chance, that's so true.

I won't play any game that is not VR, simply cause I don't want to! I don't want run games at max settings, I just want them to run and be able to play with 90% of the VR on the market...
 
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