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javeryh:
So... I'm thinking of getting the kids something out of the blue for Christmas this year and I'm leaning towards a VR headset. Is there any consensus "best" one to get? I'm not sure I have the ability to pair it to a PC unless the PC can be in the next room. We have an office off of the TV room with the home PC that can run most games at 1080P. Is it better to get one that tethers to a PC or something that is a standalone "system"? My house is tiny so there isn't a lot of room to be blindfolded and flailing around without knocking stuff over so we are probably limited to the TV room.

I imagine we will play a lot of Beat Saber since we've all played it and love it. I'd also like to try the new Half-Life game and whatever else is good.

Any suggestions?

fallacy:
I guess you are not reading this thread. Quest 2 just released for $300. They are using their billions to subsidize the headset to get people to buy games in their ecosystem. They have no competition at this point even Sony with the PSVR had to give up. You can hook it up to a PC if you want but it was made for standalone. My brother and my sister are buying it for their kids for Christmas everyone is; it's pretty much its own consul now.

javeryh:

--- Quote from: fallacy on December 07, 2020, 06:59:54 pm ---I guess you are not reading this thread. Quest 2 just released for $300. They are using their billions to subsidize the headset to get people to buy games in their ecosystem. They have no competition at this point even Sony with the PSVR had to give up. You can hook it up to a PC if you want but it was made for standalone. My brother and my sister are buying it for their kids for Christmas everyone is; it's pretty much its own consul now.

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LOL yeah thread too long. So it's pretty good from what I can tell... what about the Vive? Oculus Quest 2 is better?

Can you play any game on the Oculus or are you locked to their ecosystem? I don't see Half-Life Alyx in their store for example.

fallacy:
Vive is Gen1 PC VR (its out)
Index is Gen2 PC VR. (it has a higher resolution screen, better motion controllers and is still using the lighthouse tracking system which was solid. It also cost a whopping $1000 for the entire thing not including the gaming PC you need to run it.

Oculus goal from the start was to get mass adoption into VR. To do that they needed to make a headset that was not only easy to use but cheap enough so that Joe and Sally Walmart might just impulse purchase it and get them into VR for the first time. With the Quest 2 they pretty much accomplished this goal, all the research and development they have been doing with inside out tracking, creating their storefront, game development studios, motion control design has all been consolidated into this final product that they build for people exactly like you. What's really funny is because it is new and the index has been out for a year the $300 Quest has a higher resolution screen than the $1000 index(not including PC)

As far as half-life it is a Valve game, they will never make a Quest version for it or put it on the Oculus store. However you can still play it on the Quest; you need a PC that can run it, you download the game off of Steam and you hook your quest up to the PC with a USB C cable ( I also here it does a good job wireless if you have a wifie 6 router) you run the game off of your PC and the quest acts like a PC VR headset.

Howard_Casto:
Yeah that's what I was going to say, unless you want to play glorified cell phone games you need either a fairly powerful pc or a ps4/ps5..... there's no getting around that. I don't think a pc that'll just run 1080p is going to cut it, but I'm just guessing here.

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