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Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah no shit. Standalone isn't as good as wired because you can't fit a bigass Nvidia card inside a VR headset.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I own a lot of VR games and the only one that doesn't have a port that works natively on the Quest is Half-Life Alyx. Standalones can also be plugged in or stream PCVR wirelessly, and all of the standalone HMDs I am aware of, have better hardware than the aging Index (and thus look better even when not doing PCVR). Even the trackers are better and smaller and don't require a home base station.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No, the Index still has a higher resolution than the Quest2 and earlier standalone VR headsets, and the Index still has a class-leading 130-degree field of view and 144Hz refresh rate. It has excellent sound and the best VR controllers on the market. It's still an overall great VR setup for those of us that have good gaming PCs.

I've been playing Dark Souls, Elden Ring, and Cyberpunk 2077 in VR on my Index recently using mods. It's fuckin' awesome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The Index still has a higher resolution than the Quest 2 and earlier standalone VR headsets

Uh... The Index has a resolution of 1440x1600 per eye with 15PPD. The Quest 2 is 1832x1920 per eye with 20PPD. The Quest 1 had the exact same resolution as the Index. The Quest 3 is 2064x2208 per eye and Pico 4 is 2160x4320 per eye. The Index doesn't lead the FOV game anymore, either; but the beasts with 200+ FOV are also super expensive and better in every other way too like the Pimax Vision.

I like Valve, too, but they're not the best at everything.