Just be careful about updating… sounds like there is a bricking issue currently.
On a side note, spent some time trying to mess around with my 34" 21:9 setup and OpenTrack + aitrack. Just can’t seem to get the fov, tracking smoothness, etc. to my liking. Decided to try the Reverb G2 again… even with the narrow focus, it’s just so much better, especially in the Phantom.
I think I’m just going to have to buck up for the Quest 3.
We just got a Quest 3 and my wife and I are very impressed with it. It was so easy to set up and there seems to be a wealth of different experiences to explore.
I was hoping to avoid the need for prescription inserts. My VR Optician Varjo Aero inserts, which are almost mandatory for my use, were over 100 quid. While it can be done, getting the Aero on and off while wearing specs is not ideal. I did some research and went with a Kiwi Design Comfort strap to replace the basic strap for the Quest 3. It is hinged and makes putting it on and off with glasses quite easy. The shape of the Quest 3 accommodates my glasses quite well to the point I don’t know I’m wearing them. This also makes it very easy to swap over for the Mrs who for the first time has really taken to VR. She says its the passthrough that makes all the difference.
I’ve got Virtual Desktop dialled in so VR games I have on Steam like Walkabout Minigolf and Half-Life Alyx are fine on the Quest. No more dangling cables to worry about. IL-2 Sturmovik is almost there but not quite as good as in the Aero so the Quest won’t replace that for me at this point. No doubt I could fine tune it some more but the seated nature of flight and driving sims means for me the Aero is all good for those. The Aero is such a good headset.
To conclude I am very pleased to have both the Aero and now a Quest 3. Best of both worlds.
I bit the bullet and picked up a Quest 3 last night… holy smokes!! Not even gotten DCS up and running to try yet but I’m stunned with this piece of kit already. Looks fantastic so far in stock form and that’s without glasses or rx lenses. I can’t wait to get this thing dialed in but the passthrough and clarity of the pancake lenses already has me thinking this is where I want to be. Think I’ll be boxing up the Reverb G2 ASAP and trying to unload to help offset a little of the cost. (thought about keeping to use with my VM based backup sim but not sure I want to mess around that much trying to get it to work together)
Still trying to work on things but limited time today. Picked up a Syntec cable to try for now and was able to fire up DCS really quick with the Phantom at Nevada… 72 FPS out the shoot using my previous Reverb G2 settings. Adjusted the seat down and man… what a view!! So far, money well spent. Hopefully I don’t stumble into any show stoppers but it’s feeling like what I had hoped.
Now to get going with Asseto Corsa and turn some laps at Laguna… let’s GO!
Possibly the best little gem available on the Quest 3 is Moss. It was recently updated and is visually stunning. It is the cutest and most adorable gaming experience I have had in ages.
Walkabout mini golf is another gem. I use it via Virtual Desktop. We regularly have a round or more with players in Queensland, Victoria and the UK.
Hand tracking with the Q3 in DCS looks cool…
Cool! I tried it years ago with less than good results. It has early matured a lot since then.
Same here. I got the Leap Motion handtracker, but results were less than stellar… Either the Q3 does this much better or DCS has improved…? Or both.
Are you telling us we can now fly in a Tomcat inverted over a black foreign jet and communicate non-verbally?
DCS also improved a lot… back when I used a Leap Motion I was using a wrapper to make it appear like steam hand controllers to the game…
Wow, that looks impressive. Is the same possible in Falcon BMS (hand tracking)?
Haven’t seen support for it in BMS myself
Meta is constantly upgrading hand tracking…
I wouldnt be interested… its essentially a Quest 2 equivalent with MR capability but without the best resolution for flight simming.
But perhaps a bargains a bargain?
I feel like I’d rather get a secondhand Quest 2 if I wasn’t ready to go to the full Quest 3… indeed that’s actually what I have done (got a very cheap secondhand model with a stuck pixel right at the top of the left screen, for the price I can live with it!).
It seems like the proper Quest 3 adds so much more than the 2/3S, and I kinda feel like the 3S naming is a bit like the GTX 1060 3GB, GT 1030 D4 and other bits of “let’s name it so users who aren’t obsessive (edit: apologies, ablist language replaced) about tech specs think they’re getting the latest thing when they aren’t”…
To be fair, very few of the targeted users will have problems with the headsets resolution. That’s mostly a unique sim-cockpit issue…
More concerning to me would be the lack of pancake lenses, and because of that the often annoying hunt for the headsets visual “sweet spot”.
Yeah, the NP lenses (a “pancake” lens will always be the Pentax 40mm 2.8 to me 
) are the biggest feature, but the passthrough and hand tracking are also meant to be better on the full 3 aren’t they?
In reality, the lenses are the biggest jump forward in what the system offers… I do wonder what the screens from the 2/3S would look like with the better lenses of the 3 (and maybe a different diffusion grating to control the screen-door effect?)
I’m still struggling a bit with some of the process(es?) of the Quest 3. I hooked it up to my laptop computer today via the Link cable. It works well…but actually kind of feels like the WiFi 6 Virtual Desktop might work BETTER than the hard link cable…if that is possible. Two issues I’m trying to figure out though:
Using the LINK cable…when I’m in that Link menu system or tray or whatever (where the background is grey and there is that little semi-circular menu there)…if I click on the Desktop icon or menu or whatever…the desktop comes up in VR…but it is all black. It is clearly actually the desktop because I can move the cursor around and stuff and even select things that I can’t see (like icons)…but it simply isn’t showing the desktop interface. I Googled it to death and there were suggestions about "“set OVRServer_x64 to Power Saving mode.” and things like that. I tried pretty much everything and no luck. Anyone else ever see this? It is only happening on my laptop with the link cable.
When I launch X-Plane I guess it also launches SteamVR (because my X-Plane 12 install is a Steam game)…but apparently I don’t have OpenXR set as my Steam (driver?)… It still works…but does warn me that Steam isn’t set at the default OpenXR. I think I ran into this before…and thought I determined that either the Oculus software can run OpenXR or SteamVR…but not both? I don’t know. Sorta confused on this.
I am having the black PC screen as well. That’s new to me. In 5 years of using the link this never happened until a recent Meta update within the last two or three months.