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cyberheater
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How was the latency
Darko
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I didn’t adjust any settings yet.. just tested it.. once I get emulators working it’s game over
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Minsc
Gold Member
Yeah the straps suck. The Elite strap w/ battery (acts as counterweight too) is 10x better, I don't have any discomfort with it.
All impressions say Alyx in VR using AV1 on a 4000-series GPU is the best anyone using a headset has ever seen it look by far.
Whether you need the 500GB version depends on how you intend to balance Steam VR / PC VR usage vs the Quest store that runs stuff right on the headset. It is nice to not need a PC to play, and stuff like Walkabout MiniGolf and fitness apps make a lot of sense on the headset (unless you're in to custom tracks and stuff and need PC mods). 128GB should hold like 10-20 games, and 512 like 40-80 games from the Quest store, maybe more or less depending how many odd-ball 30-40 gig games you find yourself playing, most are under 10GB though.
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chixdiggit
Member
Wow! Love the Quest 3! This is getting me back into VR. Dungeons of Eternity is amazing.
My biggest regret is being cheap and buying elite strap without battery.
My biggest regret is being cheap and buying elite strap without battery.
phant0m
Member
Because of the added battery life or to have the battery as a counterweight to the HMD?
Not gonna lie I lose track of time quickly in VR. The battery runtime gives me a mandatory break
chixdiggit
Member
Wish I had it for the extra battery life. The strap itself is very comfortable and don't really feel it needs any extra weight.Because of the added battery life or to have the battery as a counterweight to the HMD?
Not gonna lie I lose track of time quickly in VR. The battery runtime gives me a mandatory break
CobraAB
Member
Sounds like you need to return it.
No i think thats just how it is, people expecting the quality they seing of the recorded cast are gonna be dissapointed
funking giblet
Member
Just played a bit of Alyx on it.
Wow is all I can say. Steam VR Rooms are awesome too. Just looking at the detail of items you are holding is amazing. The lens is clear too, takes a while to get used to moving your head instead of you eyes though.
Wow is all I can say. Steam VR Rooms are awesome too. Just looking at the detail of items you are holding is amazing. The lens is clear too, takes a while to get used to moving your head instead of you eyes though.
Minsc
Gold Member
Superior 4000-series AV1 or regular HEVC? I wonder if Alyx goes on a sale often, I'm sure it's worth $60, but I need to check and make sure it doesn't drop to $20 or something every month.
Once I figured out to move to Home in Steam VR it became much cooler. I need to check out some of the other environments, like the HL2 ones which were featured, but yeah I was impressed with it, and I only have HEVC, but I didn't try any games just looked around in Home and at the store a bit.
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Romulus
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Have you played the HL2 mod? It's incredible.
Magic Carpet
Gold Member
Elite Strap with battery is finally installed today. I was hesitant to buy and use this thing thinking it would add weight and awkwardness. BUT
This thing is a must have. It feels so much better on the head, counter balanced and feels nice and does not get in the way of my ears.
It's also much quicker and easier to adjust and fit. Just turn the dial and done.
Battery status of the strap shows up alongside the main units battery. Elite strap battery drains first before draining headset battery. This might reduce wear and tear on internal battery.
Charging takes longer, But not 2 times longer. Less than 4 hours from dead, using included power adapter. I read somewhere that using a more powerful adapter will charge it faster up to 27 watts or something.
This thing is a must have. It feels so much better on the head, counter balanced and feels nice and does not get in the way of my ears.
It's also much quicker and easier to adjust and fit. Just turn the dial and done.
Battery status of the strap shows up alongside the main units battery. Elite strap battery drains first before draining headset battery. This might reduce wear and tear on internal battery.
Charging takes longer, But not 2 times longer. Less than 4 hours from dead, using included power adapter. I read somewhere that using a more powerful adapter will charge it faster up to 27 watts or something.
Minsc
Gold Member
100%. No downside other than the price really, an improvement in comfort, balance, and battery life, and looks premium too.
Magic Carpet
Gold Member
I think the only downside is I could no longer use the box the Quest came in to store it. So I also bought the quest 3 zipper case. It stores everything including the elite battery strap, controllers and a little compartment for cables and the charger brick.
ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
I wonder how hard it is to adapt my M1 Pro (with battery) headstrap to the Q3? I don't plan to buy another expensive strap for a while.
ResurrectedContrarian
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I love the RE4 port on Quest2, will probably replay on Q3. It's incredibly faithful to the original game, with just enough little updates to improve the VR experience while feeling 100% like you were magically dropped inside the original game.
alucard0712_rus
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Another (very) positive review:
cyberheater
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Do you have a 3D printer
ResurrectedContrarian
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Sadly, no. That's a toy for a future year, I'm sure.
I'd get both, but... if I spend that much on fun gadgets this holiday season that have only a tenuous "it's also for the kids" excuse, I'll end up having to buy something even more expensive for my wife, to even it all out.
Haint
Member
Forcing fixed rate 200mbps on the baked in Airlink looks like a Youtube video on scenes with a lot of geometric detail/clutter and high frequency textures (of which Alyx has several, as do a lot of the SteamVR Home/Destination environments). Virtual Desktop and AV1 would have to be a quantum leap forward to be tolerable.
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alucard0712_rus
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Is anyone tried Quest 3 with cable? Does it support Snapdragon Super Resolution, AV1 codec,10-bit color?
DenchDeckard
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I need m3 Pro with battery to go live on amazon UK or I'm gonna order the elite with battery.
Romulus
Member
I mean played through Alyx on Quest 2 VD and it never looked remotely similar to a YouTube video. I was actually shocked how good it looked compared to wired. And I'm someone very sensitive to dropped frames and iq differences too.
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Minsc
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Yeah, I'm positive all impressions I've read of VD + AV1 to be indistinguishable from wired visually. Have yet to see a single person say they're disappointed with VD, or even not amazed by it. Everyone says how crystal clear it is and how much better than any prior headset it looks.
Now, that's pretty neat. Couple of games already running through my head.
Haint
Member
It's very scene dependent, doesn't really show up in the abundance of darker and more simple indoor environments, but a lot of views in City 17 noticeably murder it. The SteamVR Hobbit environment (go outside and stand on top of the highest point and look out over the vista) is one in particular that literally turns into a Youtube video. The grass texture and foliage absolutely destroys it. A lot of views in the driftwood environment also mangle it pretty bad.
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is the FoV really 110 as facebook claims? This guys says it comes out to 100 in real world testing
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still a big jump from quest2.
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still a big jump from quest2.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Plenty more of these but it's quite a striking one thanks to the sleek & sharp reflections & lighting
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poppabk
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With a dedicated router it should probably look better. Wired on the Quest is still compressed and then decompressed and VD is using better codecs I think?
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Darko
Member
I’ll try it out .. I have the app
Minsc
Gold Member
I believe 1.5 super sample is just the environment, it has no effect on the video. You can see the background environment change from blurrier to sharper when you toggle in, but nothing happens on the video.
BigScreen is fun to see the different environments though, it's got more than probably any other app I think (50+). Virtual Desktop also has quite a bit but that's more for game streaming.
SkyBox is a bit better quality than BigScreen IMO, and there's more options for the video. Then there 4XVR that's even better still. 4XVR is noticeably sharper than both BigScreen and SkyBox in the videos, like they look higher res when zoomed in. There's a demo but eventually it complains for purchase. It is the only player than can actually play back frame packed 3D videos instead of side by side re-encodes. So you can rip a 3D movie right to ISO or MKV and use 4XVR to play it directly and it'll be the exact same quality as a blu-ray player would be, no converting it to SBS for 3D which BigScreen and SkyBox need you to do first. So yeah:
4XVR > SkyBox > BigScreen - in terms of image quality.
BigScreen > SkyBox > 4XVR in terms of fun and playfulness of the environment/UI lol.
Then there's also HereSphere VR which is like another player with a million options I haven't tried much, but might be worth a look. SkyBox and 4XVR don't have the level of environments as BigScreen though, each has like 3 or 4. But they have passthrough and movie theater and the space ones, with ambient lighting and stuff. If you're serious about watching 3D movies and not just well short videos we'll say, then you'll probably benefit from the better quality of one of those two apps IMO.
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Come On Tars
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For people keeping there Q2 for mulitplayer, what are you doing account wise?
Ran into my first snag with walkabout golf, will have to make another meta account and buy games twice it seems.
Sakura
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Number of youtube reviews saying it's 110 (or around there).is the FoV really 110 as facebook claims? This guys says it comes out to 100 in real world testing
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still a big jump from quest2.
Should depend on how close you have it to your face though, like if you are wearing glasses the FOV will be smaller.
Minsc
Gold Member
is the FoV really 110 as facebook claims? This guys says it comes out to 100 in real world testing
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still a big jump from quest2.
I imagine the 110 comes from having the headset on the 4th setting that is closest to your eyes - you can move the lenses between 4 settings, and the 4th is damn close. To me there's not much difference - not anything significant between it and PSVR2. On one notch back - the default setting, it seems a tiny bit less. I imagine on the furthest out it is noticeably smaller FOV. I wouldn't assume that this person ran their tests with the lens moved closer to your eyes, since he mentions default in his comparison. But people do mod these headsets to increase the FOV, at least with the Quest 2. I don't really feel it is necessary having only the PSVR2 to compare it against to mod the FOV - nor can I imagine getting the lenses any closer to my eyes as my eyelashes are practically touching them.
Interesting, I'm not sure your criticism comes from actual experience - it sounds like skepticism, based on other hardware than the Quest 3 running on VD. I do have a decent eye for compression issues, I've encoded thousands of videos and re-encoded them over and over and over with various codecs and formats over the years. I particularly hate banding and common dark-scene compression artifacts. The hardest video to compress generally is anything with hard noise coded in to the video. Whether it's really heavy film grain or just like a flash back with tons of noise overlaid - those situations will demand the highest bandwidth, but perhaps all the noise hides the artifacts too a bit, more than what you're describing.
I'm definitely curious and in time will form my own opinions, but as it stands - and from what little time I've spend in Steam VR Home space via Virtual Desktop, I definitely do believe that the people saying that it looks clearer and sharper than anything they've seen before in other headsets from Index, to Vive to Quest 2 are telling the truth - my short time in Home on Steam VR was a pristine experience and I don't even have a 4000-series GPU. But Home - the default one probably doesn't push the software as hard as it needs - so I'll give your suggestions a try and see how it goes. Even if it turns out not perfect when pushed hard through that Hobbit environment, it'll give me a point to start tweaking my settings from, so when I do run Alyx, it'll be the best it can! But hopefully you're mostly wrong and it looks great for me, haha! We'll see!
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chixdiggit
Member
Was wondering about this myself. Was going to let my nephew use my Quest 2 (with my games of course at a different residence). Can we both be playing at same time with different games?
Darko
Member
4xvr it is…. You didn’t mention you could use a usb drive which I see in the description. That’s game changing
Come On Tars
Member
someone on reddit:
Make your account admin on both headsets. Enable app sharing. Add another account on Quest 2. Play games together.
hollams
Gold Member
Having issues with a couple of Oculus Store games using Virtual Desktop/Airlink from my PC. Lone Echo and the Vader Series both crash in windows when trying to load the game. For Lone Echo I get a Bug report and for Vader I get an UE4 crash. I've tried deleting and reinstalling the games but they always crash. Duck Hunt worked though so I'm not sure what is going on.
On another note, Puzzle Places is a pretty awesome chill game. 3D models that you put together and you can choose between 25,50,100,200, or 400 pieces. I had to stop because my battery was running low.
On another note, Puzzle Places is a pretty awesome chill game. 3D models that you put together and you can choose between 25,50,100,200, or 400 pieces. I had to stop because my battery was running low.
Darko
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Bro.
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DenchDeckard
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Well, ive buckled and purchased the official elite strap with battery.
I may get the BoboVR m3 later down the line, but I needed one now.
I may get the BoboVR m3 later down the line, but I needed one now.
Of course, is even better than going through the router.
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