Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week
by redisman on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @01:20AM
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It sounds like you’re describing the Quest 2 as a full computing device. I thought it was pretty much a replacement for just a monitor in a traditional setup.
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Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week
by snailmailman on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @01:33AM
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The quest two is basically an android phone with special hardware/software for VR. It’s running android. It can be used completely standalone.
It can be hooked up to a more powerful PC and essentially just used as a monitor, but it can also run less demanding titles natively with no additional hardware. It has a web browser built in and you can connect a Bluetooth keyboard to it. So you can do some stuff without a laptop/pc. There’s a good library of native games but if you wanted to make a PowerPoint or do office/work you’d likely be using a web app (or just connecting to a pc)
Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week
by jmiskovic on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @05:23AM
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You can also install (sideload) Termux for a decent standalone Linux experience - vim, git, python, ssh...
Re:What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week
by caslon on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @07:57AM
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The Quest 2 has enough performance to run Citra (a recent Switch emulator) without any slowdowns; you can install just about any .apk on it, and if you want you can literally run Docker. It works pretty much okay for just about any actual computing task you can throw at it.