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Re:When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet by memetherapy on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @01:18PM (#25446107)
The quest 2 is pretty much a revelation. Untethered, light, cheap, high quality display and inside out tracking and connects wirelessly to a gaming PC allowing you to play virtually any title if you pay $15 for vrdesktop. Obviously you have to be comfortable with facebook but it's just a better end to end experience than any other headset I've tried, although it would be better if VR desktop or something similar was included out of the box instead of them trying to flog you the kludgy occulus link cable that doesn't work as well and which tethers you to a pc. It feels like VR done right for the first time in the same way as the iPhone was a smart phone done right for the first time.
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Re:When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet by baron_harkonnen on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @02:20PM (#25447161)
> Obviously you have to be comfortable with facebook

Interestingly enough this is the primary reason that my quest is collecting dust. Once they forced a facebook login for accounts I decided it was no longer worth me clearing an open space in my apartment.

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Re:When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet by bquest2 on Thursday December 17, 2020 @02:53AM (#25453563)
I don't know if you know this but, existing Quest users are grandfathered in (no fb account needed) for the next 3 years so you dont have to let your device collect dust.
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Re:When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet by kreddor on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @01:41PM (#25446513)
Is it that much better than Quest 1? The first Quest was already pretty great compared to everything else, Facebook or not.
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Re:When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet by scpedicini on Thursday December 17, 2020 @12:09AM (#25452722)
No, the resolution and refresh rates were increased but the field of vision was actually REDUCED from the already narrow oculus quest which had a fov of about 90 degrees. Think about that for a minute, the normal fov for a human is about 200 degrees.

It's like looking out of a damn periscope on a submarine, which is the first VR experience I would develop for the oculus quest.

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Re:When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet by chaostheory on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @07:28PM (#25450747)
The visuals are already a big improvement, but I think the big difference will happen once 90HZ unlocked with Quest 2
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Re:When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet by ipsum2 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @07:21PM (#25450670)
It's not substantially better. It's only a good upgrade if the screen resolution bothers you.
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Re:When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet by canada_dry on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @01:43PM (#25446552)
> quest 2 is pretty much a revelation

I liken where we are with VR right now as to about 5 yrs ago with IoT. Arduino and Rpi began to gain huge momentum due to the low cost of entry and availability of more and more useful tools. Quest hopefully is just the start.

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