Qikz wrote:Does anyone have an oculus quest here? I've just ordered one and I'm being told by a few people it's great and by a few that it's not good at all. Trying to get an honest opinion before it ships in a few days.
I've got one and I think it's strawberry floating great.
I've not used any higher end VR kit, so I can't really compare it to the index or the Vive, but my experience with it has been brilliant on its own. Cable free VR, that doesn't need to be hooked up to a PC and can be moved easily from place to place, is honestly a really enjoyable experience, that I think I'd properly miss if I had a tethered headset. Having played through Half Life Alyx on my Quest, I'm not sure how people manage to play tethered VR. I'm sure I would have throttled myself, or ended up pulling the cable out of the PC/standing on it.
My biggest criticism is the Quest store. The range of native titles is kind of limited compared to what's available on the PC, and the pricing is bad, with stuff very rarely going on sale, and Oculus attempting to sell you bundle deals that are usually 6 tangentially linked games selling together for like 5% off. What makes it worse is that the Rift store is much better, because it's obviously having to compete with other PC VR markets, but the Quest is a closed system, so the prices are gooseberry fool. Cross buy is also rare, so buying a title on the Quest store, won't get you the Rift version, and vice versa, meaning the same game can be cheaper on the Oculus store for Rift than it is for Quest, butif you want the Quest version, which will have been scaled down for hardware requirements, you have to pay more for it.
What the Quest does have though, is Sidequest. Unofficial side loading of other apps and games, some of which are just amazing. You can load up the original Half Life, and play through it in VR. Swinging the crowbar in VR feels so good. Tea for God is a really cool game that can generate potentially infinite levels, entirely within the playspace you've marked out. Quake is on there if you want to give yourself motion sickness. There are also some people releasing really fun tech demos, especially with the Quest finger tracking, although that's very early days yet, and still pretty unreliable.
It's sidequest that will also let you wirelessly stream from your PC to your Quest via Virtual Desktop, so you can play Steam VR games as well. All of a sudden, you've got the full PC VR library available, and as far as I'm concerned, the quality is still good. There's some visual compromises, as the video feed has to be compressed, but I was really impressed with the visual quality of a game like Alyx, even when my computer had to run it in low/medium settings. I have my PC connected by ethernet to my router, and then play in the same room to minimise lag while streaming. I typically get about ~40ms or under, and while it's there, it's never caused me any issues like disrupting gameplay, or any physical discomfort.
You also have the option of using the Link cable to connect your Quest to the PC wired, doing away with the problems wireless streaming might cause, but then obviously, you're playing while tethered to the computer again.