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Wow! Incredible edge-edge clarity.
Mine comes in today sometime, I’m excited!
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A PCVR sim focused look from @Troll’s buddy (
I’m kidding, I’m kidding…)
A sort of a flat review. If you’ve got a 40x0 then the encoding/bitrate stuff can be made to work better.
“If you’ve got a Pico 4 I would not bother, unless you want the mixed reality capability. If you’ve got a Reverb G2 if you’re happy with it I don’t think it’s a good idea upgrading either, which is a shame because we desperately need a mid price point headset…”
Hmm.
Amazing lenses, not great resolution and no DisplayPort. A great value VR headset away from sims and PCVR. Edge to edge clarity making the Reverb look its fresnelly age, but some screen door and mura due to it being primarily a mobile VR focused set of panels.
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He can “meh” to his heart’s content. I am thrilled.
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Yeah, in the video above he said that the Quest 2 upgrade was worth it for sure.
Haha!
I heavily disagree with the G2 comment. The pancake lenses alone smoke the tiny sweet spot in the G2.
I haven’t seen mura yet and the SDE is pretty minimal, at least in DCS. I need to check MSFS.
It’s early in the Quest 3’s lifecycle, but I’d also add the obvious, that if you have a Quest Pro, no need to purchase a Q3.
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I personally believe you Chip, in that the Q3 is going to be better buy than a 3 year old crusty G2. For me it’s the certain use case of staring at tiny numbers in aircraft in MSFS cockpits and perhaps my face geometry or something - as in the sweet spot is just bad for me, but not embarrassingly disaster bad. I do need a higher resolution where I can get it, even if the edge to edge has to suffer, if that makes sense. I think that’s a really narrow (heh) sim usage though and not typical.
If my G2 died today (which let’s be honest is a 50/50 shot each time it is picked up now) then I’d get a Q3 or a Pro I think. It is a bit of a ‘cheap pair of shoes’ dilemma in that if I spent twice as much then maybe the Aero/Crystal/Beyond might be worth it for me? It’s hard to say.
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Also, I see myself using the AR capability in the future. I am doing it now! My daughter wants to do it more now that she has experienced it. To sit in a comfortable chair and learn a language or watch Dune on a big screen is pretty mind-blowing. I just use my hands while the controllers rest on the PC desk. Meta implements that pretty well. Voice recognition is the most accurate I’ve used yet so I rarely need to type. This thing is the Sony Betamax of AR for sure. But Betamax was pretty good for its time. For now, I feel like I am experiencing something new.
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The AR looks awesome and not having some high ceremony about being in or out of VR or even just in a single VR app has a lot of value for PCVR usage for sure as well.
I know why they didn’t put in slightly higher res panels and wouldn’t allow display port, but with all the other features and the price for the pure PCVR scenario it is tantalizingly close to being a slam dunk.
At least I have buddies… 
It’s his first impression vid. It will grow on him.
Trust me. 
This is the most interesting part of the Q3, I think. It is also why I’m cautiously curious about the Somnium VR1 which will have stereo pass through vision.
Maybe I’m just a poo-pooer…but so many of the videos I’ve seen featuring the Quest 3…whether full VR or passthrough…seem to be showing the dumbest games and technology demonstrators. They have zero appeal to me (throwing balls at clowns??)…I’m too old and curmudgeony (is that a word?) apparently. The stuff they are showing just doesn’t appeal to me…nor do I expect it to. Us seated sim pilot VR guys are not the target audience at all I’m sure.
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Already saw someone driving down the highway w/ a Q3 on their head,
Apparently there’s “Unofficial” (As in they had to side load it) game that uses AR to Make the road a raceway, and you drive your real car on it,
Here’s the kicker, it grades you on clean passes, and driving the speedlimit, roflmao.
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I am… appalled and intrigued at the same time…
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Forza, ER edition?
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Ouch, ok I had that coming… 
You misunderstand, you can see the entire clown’s face clearly now - not just the red nose in ultra sharp detail!
reddit is pretty much summing it up right now as people thrash around a bit. It is early days like @chipwich said already…
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Clowns need balls thrown at them. They is creepy!
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So I played with mine stand alone for a bit tonight. My son loved the tutorial minigame with the robots and so he spent an hour playing through it ten minutes at a time. Loads of fun. Passthrough is awesome and the headset is surprisingly comfortable with the stock headband, although something better will definitely be in the future. Lenses are incredible, really great picture quality.
Now, how do I connect this thing to my PC? What’s the preferred method, wireless or link cable? Any suggestions on a cable? (both my gaming PC and laptop have USB-C, and I want some sort of charging-while-playing solution) Does the D-Link router thingy work? I’m thinking about playing PCVR games on the road in hotels and such.
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The potential…
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Not as creepy as ventriloquist dummies 
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