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It's a fun novelty at first, similar in vein to Kinect, but the basic inconvenience of having to wear a headset stands in opposition to why I game: relaxation. Even so, despite the fact the Oculus Quest 2 is easily the best VR headset I've used, I still don't know if I care much for it. I'd be far more willing to invest in an Xbox VR headset, given that Microsoft isn't tying user habits to advertisers, and has long proven itself in the gaming space.
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PC solutions like Valve's VR platform are also astronomically expensive. It perhaps doesn't help that in order to simply try VR you have to be willing to go in at 300 dollars, and also, trust the Facebook ecosystem. There just doesn't seem to be an appetite for this technology.
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There's something to be said about supply issues, potentially, but the Oculus Quest 2 is currently easily available to buy on Amazon and has been for weeks, while the Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch all suffer massive supply issues. According to some reports, VR sales only hit around 5.5 million in 2020, despite the pandemic keeping everyone at home. The basic inconvenience of having to wear a headset stands in opposition to why I game: relaxation.ĭespite some high-profile releases like Half-Life: Alyx, VR's uptake is still not exactly what you'd call huge.
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Even still, development on these platforms continues, and Microsoft even brought VR to Flight Simulator late last year. Microsoft's interest in VR seems to extend only to augmented experiences with HoloLens, particularly in a business context, although they did buy some consumer-oriented VR products like Altspace VR. This was after the Xbox One X was announced to be supporting VR, which was later quietly shelved. Towards the end of 2019, Xbox head Phil Spencer said in an interview that there wasn't a huge amount of interest in VR for Xbox.
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Source: Windows Central (Image credit: Source: Windows Central) It's perhaps ironic that VR is supposed to be liberating, yet somehow it still feels so constrictive. I'm told it gets easier over time, but how much time? Then I start to feel like I should just fire up my Xbox or my Nintendo Switch, and enjoy a more relaxing, less fatiguing experience, with higher resolution and better graphics. I have to ask myself if I would be willing to put down $300 dollars for this experience, given that so many games still seem to induce motion sickness in me. No matter how hard I try, I seem to be overly sensitive to this. Games, where your arm and hand movements in-game don't match up with your arm and hand movements in real life, can induce motion sickness. This game, like Minecraft before it, I found incredibly disorienting to play.
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This was a full survival sim, complete with crafting mechanics, exploration, and a large variety of weapons and combat systems. Walking Dead Saints & Sinners was a different bag, though.
Time only moves when you move, letting you pull off John Wick-style stunts against an onslaught of faceless agents. Superhot is another excellent game for VR, taking place in slow motion. Beat Saber is a fun action game that in some ways reminded me of Kinect, where you slice cubes that hurtle towards the screen in time with popular music. I tried out various games, including the popular Beat Saber, alongside Superhot, and Walking Dead Saints & Sinners. Walking Dead Saints & Sinners is an excellent survival sim on Oculus Quest 2. This is the sort of seamlessness I would expect to see this tech proliferate.
The audio directionality is impressive, sounding incredibly loud when it's on your head, but quiet to everyone else in the room. The room scanning is shockingly detailed and accurate. A simple set up sequence asks you to designate a play area and also inform it where the floor resides by moving one controller to the ground. If you want to mainstream your tech, ease of use is an absolute must, though, and it's here that the Oculus Quest 2 really shines. Windows Mixed Reality can easily extend to Steam, and so can the Oculus Quest 2 if you're willing to jump through some hoops.
The Oculus Quest 2 blows those experiences out of the water, with mature and polished software, but also intuitive setup systems. My only other experiences with VR were quick demos in sweaty gaming conventions and the very low-end HP WMR headset of the past. The Oculus Quest 2 is a truly remarkable piece of tech.
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