Oculus Quest | Meta Quest 2

[Picao84]

Cuz I like to rain on other people's parade.


There's insane hype around VR and AR. It's worth discussing the downsides.

How can you discuss the downsides without actually experiencing it?

 

[BRiT]

How can you discuss the downsides without actually experiencing it?

That hasn't stopped the anti-vaxers talking about vaccines or flat-earthers talking about geography and space.

 

[wco81]

OK I'll get right down to BB and see if they have a demo set up ...

 

[Karamazov]

 

[Karamazov]

Finished the Vader immortal experience, that was way too short, because very good ! I want more !

 

[Alexko]

The best VR game I've ever tried, by far, was Super Hot:

 

[Karamazov]

i'd like to have in on the quest, but it's a bit expensive, i would buy it if i had not already the PSVR version.

 

[hughJ]

Superhot is the only VR game that I've actually stuck with long enough to finish, and I've probably played through it a dozen times. Considering how simple the concept is and how prevalent wave shooters are it's surprising there haven't been any copycats of it at this point. A couple tweaks to the mechanics, a map editor, map sharing and community leader boards and you'd have another BeatSaber-level hit, imo.

 

[Karamazov]

 

[Karamazov]

 

[Karamazov]

 

[Karamazov]

not bad at all

 

[imerso]

I bought one when it launched, and found it awesome.

Wish there was a fake Rift driver which could stream Rift games to it.

I know about ALVR and Riftcat, but they can only stream SteamVR titles, but I want to run my old Unity VR experiments for the CV1 (not Steam).

Anyway, I love it and have been doing new experiments. It is straightforward.

 

[Karamazov]

 

[Karamazov]

and that game does not uses Vulkan yet !

 

[imerso]

Just wanted to add that, apparently, this is possible to stream pure Oculus Rift games as well, by using Virtual Desktop + Revive.

I will be trying that combination soon.

Please note that this has nothing to do with piracy, I've bought several titles from the Oculus Store when I had a Rift, for example. Now I only have the Oculus Quest, and I want to run games that I legally bought, or that I developed myself using their Oculus SDK.

Also such a feature is so obvious, imho Oculus should provide such a feature from day one.

Edit: by the way, Virtual Desktop works nicely with SteamVR! Definitely should be built in on Oculus Quest!

Update: it works, and works well. I must say, I love the Quest. Imho, by far the very best option on this VR generation. =)

 

[manux]

How good is quest at playing vr180 and vr360 3d videos? Is there list of supported formats+resolutions+framerates somewhere? Or even better review from video playback pov? Youtube I believe works great but what about standalone videos?

 

[imerso]

I don't watch much 360º videos, but when I checked Youtube some time ago it worked great. It has hardware H265 (HEVC) support, so I think it must support all the common formats. Hmd resolution is pretty good. There are a few vr360 apps in store as well (free and paid) but I did not check them yet.

SteamVR and Oculus Store apps work through streaming from PC through Wifi, using H265 encoding with audio. On 5ghz it feels very fluid, I even forget that I'm streaming. So, essentially, I am *very* satisfied with thid hmd. =)

 

[imerso]

Check:

 

[Silent_Buddha]

Heh, I find it sad and amusing at the same time (mostly sad) that at 3:14, she shows pirated movies on the device.

At lead edit the names so you can pretend that you ripped them yourself from your own collection girl.

Regards,
SB