A friend of mine just got one and this seems like the goddamn future we should all be going crazy over but no one seems to care much
A friend of mine just got one and this seems like the goddamn future we should all be going crazy over but no one seems to care much
I'm waiting until I can get a 6800XT.
Then maybe an Occulus Quest 2 if it looks like there's a solid way to use it without ever connecting to FB, otherwise IDK.
I'd be willing to spend more on a higher res headset, but none of the higher res ones seem to support wireless.
Anyone have any suggestions or experience they can draw on?
Vive supports wireless according to this thread.
Quest 1 is deffo 100% okay for PCVR. I use it for racing sims and Alyx. Quest 2 has been jailbroken to bypass facebook logins, but the hack hasnt been disclosed.
Im using a 1070Ti that I got off Ebay and its working great for PC games. Obvs not max settings and the Quest isnt best for its resolution but imo you forget about those things in VR.
At the very worst you can start off basic and move up if you need to, but paying $$$ for your first dip into VR is over-rated.
It isn't literally my first dip, I had an Occulus Rift. Most of the games were the equivalent of shitty flash games from 2005 and I was pretty sure standalone VR was a ripoff, but I got my PC to stream to it via Stream Theater and played Alien:Isolation with a wireless controller.
The experience was insanely immersive in the moments where I wasn't battling issues with only having 3 degrees of freedom, arms attached to the side of my head, nauseating cut-scenes, unreadable menus, and controller issues.
Yeah if youve not played VR for a long while its 200% better now in my experience.
Half Life Alyx is imo a genre-defining game, plus there's a load of quality VR titles now compared to the experimental stuff that VR started with.
Ive got a Quest 1, which works just fine without a PC (Feels great to play games without a cable attached) but getting it working for PCVR is quite easy too. Not plug-and-play just yet but I've been able to use it like a Rift or Vive without the massive price, or dozens of base station things
Quest 2 looks like it does 90% of what you cold want, and it works real well to wirelessly link to the PC and it handle the rest.
I signed up with my facebook, but then facebook was never more than something to check in with out of state family so privacy isn't a big concern. However opsec wise I used to do stuff on facebook but I switched to more secure platforms.
Quest 2 isn’t capable of being powered wirelessly by a PC, at least not without nauseating you. Latency would be nuts.
It worked pretty werl with the quest one. The reports are of it working fine so far
Theres more variables in wireless mode. Its probably better for 90% of users to get a 5m+ USB cable. Any USB-3 port on your motherboard works fine and users report USB 2 being okay too, but not from the front USB header.