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Oculus Quest |OT| There Are No Strings On Me!
- Thread starter Selbran
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If you're interested in room-scale VR, sharing VR experiences with friends, and taking VR with you on trips, absolutely get a Quest. The freedom and ease of use is phenomenal - I have a dev kit and it's become my go-to daily VR system. If my wife wants to use the tv room where I have my rift setup, then I just Quest in the kitchen and it rocks. To me, it really feels like the culmination of this first gen of "good VR."
*but* If you are mainly interested in cockpit simulators, racing games, or VR art tools like Oculus Medium (which is crazy awesome, btw), then the Rift / Rift S is the way to go.
I'm so stoked for people to start experiencing the Quest this week!
Side loading is definitely a thing. It's a new platform so it will take a while for good stuff.
Also there's a free beat saber clone with mods and it'll be there in time.
I am a 3D artist and am suuuper interested in Medium! But man I also want the freedom you described in the first half.
I know a device that's the best of both worlds is gonna come, probably next year, but who can wait when there's a hype train to jump on?? ;))
CHANGE IT.
Edit:. I changed mine and got my pickup notification 18 minutes ago at midnight.
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I haven't been this excited by a new platform/device in a loooong time! I have a Vive, Rift (DK1 and CV1), Gear VR, and PSVR already, but the allure of having a self contained pick-up-and-go 6DOF device for all of my VR needs has me feeling like we live in the future. A lot more excited than I was back in 2016, even! I will pick up my 128 gig tomorrow morning so that I can spend the day testing this thing out.
Please let me know if Era will have an official Rec Room or VRChat room up tomorrow. Would love to drop in!
Please let me know if Era will have an official Rec Room or VRChat room up tomorrow. Would love to drop in!
Thanks for the heads up! I hadn't seen it was meant to be free for backers, and it turns out my Gmail account flagged the email as spam for some reason. Just redeemed it 😁
This has been one of the most absurd amounts of value I've gotten from a Kickstarter project.
Are you a Quest developer? I actually have questions that I'd love to ask...
Yep. change it. I'm in Los Angeles. My Best Buy had them at 3pm ready to go. I went to pick mine up and the lady had it in her hand was about to hand it to me when she realized that the release date is tomorrow and asked me to come back. They're already sitting there. Don't ship. Go pick up when they open.
RE: cockpit stuff in VR, when I got PSVR I jumped to the top 3 in Wipeout race results online immediately. Before that I was mid pack.
The VR advantage is real.
And it's because your degree of control spikes even though you're using the same controls.
Your control spikes because of your perspective.
The VR advantage is real.
And it's because your degree of control spikes even though you're using the same controls.
Your control spikes because of your perspective.
I've seen a lot of Reddit posts saying that their BB order hasn't moved either. I'd say if it's still available for pickup, cancel and do that. It's increasingly looking like they just dropped the ball pretty badly with this, and super unlikely that their system just hasn't updated with tracking info and its going to show up tomorrow.
On a Best Buy note, I'm pretty salty that they didn't have a pick-up at 12 PM eastern option like they've done with quite a few gaming related releases in the past. I know the Quest isn't Red Dead 2, but if my store is still open when it's 12 PM on the East Coast, I'm not super clear on why they couldn't ring it up. I had all of today off, and I'm at work for 10 hours tomorrow.
Yeah I was hoping maybe it'll just show up because they didn't update the status, but I went and changed it. Will be picking it up tomorrow night. Thanks :)
Bought Superhot, Vader Immortal, and Job Simulator again just because extended family is going to be around for some graduations and I still feel like it's one of the best VR showings.
I've got another $30 budgeted for one more title before my next paycheck; any suggestions?
I've got another $30 budgeted for one more title before my next paycheck; any suggestions?
I wish Vacation Simulator was out, I wanted to play that on Quest. I already have Job Simulator, I'm not gonna buy it again.
I'm trying to be a tiny bit sensible on some purchases but I'm tempted too. A demo would help
Think I'll get beat Saber at launch then see what my wife thinks as she wants a boxercise thing and there is boxVR or the switch one
Likewise I think I'll get shadow point or apex construct but not both immediately
With such a large day one catalogue I can imagine a bit of a drought coming up so pacing things may not be a bad idea and I can wait for impressions on some titles like Robo Recall
Space pirate trainer if you didn't already get it cross buy and it's super cheap
Then surely Beat Saber?
When you put some sliders on your furniture feet and realized that within seconds you can move things to create a 10x10ft playable space for roomscale.
Nice! Similar thing in my apartment - we have a rolling-cart-thing as a small island in our kitchen, so I realized that if I just and push it out of the way, I get a bigger and better vr space than my living room and don't have to hog the TV :D
Have SPT through crossbuy. Beat Saber is on my list, but as much as this makes me a monster, I've played a lot of it on PSVR and was looking for more roomscale walking experiences initially.
Sliders are amazing for quick rearranging to clear off space. I know that some people would call this 'friction' but I don't mind doing it every day.
You were talking about sharing with friends/family, so was thinking about them more than you, you monster :P
Free beta Eleven Table Tennis game and should be available tomorrow
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/bqwye6/eleven_table_tennis_beta_signup/
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/bqwye6/eleven_table_tennis_beta_signup/
Don't think anything actually ships out of Dublin, logistically wouldn't make sense for international shipping. Netherlands is the main warehouse hub.
Biggest are around 2GB, most are well under 1GB. 64 should be fine if you're not downloading tons of video and don't mind redownloading games now and again.
That was what I initially thought, but someone here based in Norway said theirs was coming from Dublin.
Well, biggest launch title.s are that size. The biggest known title is 13GB, The Climb, but really, 64GB should be fine unless you are downloading videos
Maybe mistook the sales invoice shipping source which is Facebook's HQ building in Dublin.
Did The Climb even make launch? I heard it got pushed back.
My wishlist for now. What is the best first game/experience to check out?
New to VR? Job Simulator - fabulous playground to get your legs.
If its on Rift S its on Rift too - they both work interchangeably.
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Yes! More or less. I had a DK2 for a week or so but only did some random rollercoaster thingy that got me sick. lol
Btw: I pulled the trigger and can pickup my Quest in an hour and have the rest of the day off. :)
I'm excited!
Set it up in the kitchen (THE KITCHEN), and whizzed through a few demos and games. Overall very impressed. Almost zero screen door (coming from a Vive), and acceptable god rays. Some performance hitches - Sports Scramble in particular was fairly stuttering. I can probably notice the refresh rate drop, but it's OK. Vader Immortal is absolutely marvellous.
It's here!
But it's also my daughters 2nd birthday... So I have to wait until she goes down for a nap...
Dammit.
But it's also my daughters 2nd birthday... So I have to wait until she goes down for a nap...
Dammit.
My wishlist for now. What is the best first game/experience to check out?
Job Simulator *1,000
My wishlist for now. What is the best first game/experience to check out?
Job Simulator and probably Vader Immortal. Leave I Expect You to Die and Robo Recall to the last
