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Some of you VR veterans will have to bear with me, as my impressions will be partly impressions of the Quest 2, and partly impressions of VR in its current state.
(for context, I live in a very tiny Japanese apartment, so for now, I have the Quest 2 set up for sitting.)
My Quest 2 arrived this morning before work, so I popped it open, unpacked it, and set the whole thing up. The setup with both my gaming PC and my smartphone was pretty painless. (the only thing that was kind of a pain was putting in my wifi password, since I don't have that memorized, and I live alone, so I had no one to read it to me lol).
Loading it up and adjusting the lenses took a bit, and I noticed that it wasn't just the IPD, but the position of the headset on my face that I needed to get right. It didn't take long, though, and I was ready to go fairly quickly.
As soon as I get to the dashboard, I found myself in a Japanese ryokan as an environment. I don't know if this is because I'm based in Japan that it defaults to that, but it made a really beautiful first impression. Providing this really open, warm, beautiful space is a really good first impression. Navigating the menus was really intuitive, and I was flipping through menus and exploring what was available almost immediately.
I took the Oculus' recommendation, and started with First Steps. The little toys on the table to interact with immediately help you understand what kinds of things you can do with your Oculus Touch controllers. I pulled out the dance cart, slammed it into the deck, and began that section. I absolutely loved it. Moving my hands around like a big idiot, grabbing the robot's hands and dancing with them was just a ton of fun, and my head was filling with the incredible possibilities of VR interaction. I felt stupid as hell, but was having so much fun with it, I just didn't care.
Okay, First Steps gives me a good idea of possibilities. Let's check out some recommended games. Super Hot. I've played a lot of that game on PC. Let's check it out in VR.
In the same way the original Super Hot made me feel like a god of time dilation, Super Hot VR just makes it that much more real. Dodging around bullets, grabbing guns out of the air, tossing ashtrays at enemies, it all feels incredible. I really like that the hitbox seems to be just my head, so I don't have to worry about how I'm twisting my body to avoid incoming fire.
At this point I had to head to work, so I plugged the headset into my Oculus Link, bought a couple Oculus games (Stormland and Robo Recall), and will return to the unit tonight for more extended play.
So far, I'm really really digging it.
The only problems I'm having:
1) I have very long eyelashes, and they brush against the lenses. I have the same problem with sunglasses, so it's to be expected. I'm thinking I might put the glasses spacer into the unit to alleviate that issue.
2) I'm noticing bleed when looking at white text on dark backgrounds, but it sounds like this is an issue everyone has. I largely have very good vision, but suffered from a micro aneurysm a couple years ago that permanently affected a very tiny portion of the vision in my right eye. It's not noticeable in everyday life, but I was very worried that it would cause problems with VR. I haven't noticed any issues in that regard.
