Introducing Oculus Quest, Our First 6DOF All-In-One VR System

Re:Introducing Oculus Quest, Our First 6DOF All-In-One VR Sy... by the_clarence on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:04PM (#18078639)

This. I haven't got the vive because I don't want to get a gaming rig. It's too expensive, and then it comes with a lot of issues. Instead I got an occulus Go and the all-in-one experience is awesome. It just works. Coincidentally, I also bought a switch and I got the same feeling. It just works.

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Re:Introducing Oculus Quest, Our First 6DOF All-In-One VR Sy... by erikpukinskis on Thursday September 27, 2018 @10:19PM (#18090493)

Even the Go isn’t really plug and play yet. I wanted to watch the Connect 5 keynote yesterday morning. Pulled out my Go.

- Wouldn’t turn on. Took me a few times plugging both headsets in to realize I was pressing volume not power.

- couldn’t connect my controller. Thought maybe I had grabbed the wrong one but it turned out to be a dead battery

- Oculus Venues needed an update. Did that

- then it asks for my FB login. Take the headset off, get my phone

- turns out it’s a new phone, need to reinstall the Oculus app. Wait for that to download

- Connect my FB account via the browser

- now Venues loads, needs me to watch a Terms of Use video. Watch it. Nothing happens.

- hit the < button, the only identifiable option, it just takes me back to the Venues menu

- click into Connect again, watch the Don’t Be An Asshole video again. Still can’t move past it in any obvious way. Press all the buttons repeatedly

- close and restart Venues. No change. Give up

Total waste of 30 minutes.

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Re:Introducing Oculus Quest, Our First 6DOF All-In-One VR Sy... by the_clarence on Friday September 28, 2018 @06:41AM (#18092325)

Is it because you rarely use it? I remember having this issue with the PS3. Every time I wanted to play I had to wait for updates to finish.

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Re:Introducing Oculus Quest, Our First 6DOF All-In-One VR Sy... by rocky1138 on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:35PM (#18078932)

The Vive and Go aren't in the same market, though. It's like comparing a Tesla to Leaf. It's not that the Leaf is a bad car, it's that it can't hold a candle to the Model S.

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Re:Introducing Oculus Quest, Our First 6DOF All-In-One VR Sy... by ryanwaggoner on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:49PM (#18079604)

That's the point though: imagine if you can just drive a Leaf off the lot and really enjoy it maintenance free from day 1 onwards, but you need to assemble the Tesla and do a bunch of minor maintenance every time you want to drive it.

I'll take the Leaf, or better yet, do what I've done with VR so far: wait.

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Re:Introducing Oculus Quest, Our First 6DOF All-In-One VR Sy... by lordCarbonFiber on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @05:42PM (#18080521)

The nice inbetween is grabing an eGPU and a laptop (since most are going to own at least one laptop anyway). That's how I've got my Vive rig set up. Plug the laptop in and go to town in VR; finish the session and it all breaks down and packs away easy.

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