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Not only is it not available for the quest natively it's a pretty demanding game. It's like 150gb on the hard drive and if you don't want your load times to be literal minutes you absolutely need to have it installed on a SSD.
ooh that sucks you cant play asgards wrath native. thought you could due to it being shown on their quest website
remember being surprised I tghought that game was too demanding
remember being surprised I tghought that game was too demanding
do people recommend what version to buy? will get PC link for asgards wrath so 64GB vs 256GB?
also is it expected to sell out? dont want a PS5 situation
also is it expected to sell out? dont want a PS5 situation
If you're using it mainly for PC link the 64GB one is fine. One podcaster said he fit about 13 games on the 64GB model before he started running low on space so if that's enough for you, then you'll be fine.
The 4 times as much storage jump was too much for me to resist so I went with the 256GB model. The upgraded head strap ($50) is almost a must buy from what I hear in reviews. It makes it drastically more comfortable and the included fabric strap gets very dingy.
Sales suck on the store. Some might go on sale for a bit. 20% at most. Beat Saber has never gone on sale tho.
i want an humble bundle oculus sale, also, i already have some game on steam and i really dont want to rebuy on oculus
The cross buy (with the regular oculus store) games sometimes go on decent sales.
like keep talking and nobody explodes is sometimes getable for like $5 through humble bundle, I think star trek bridge crew is also that way.
ouch price rapidly increasing lol didnt know about strap and need the link cable
is PC link performance similar to having a rift? ie as accurate in its tracking versus rifts sensors placed around the room?
you could try without the strap first to see if it's comfortable enough, and you don't need the oculus brand link cable (at this time) i think they got it working with any usb 2.0 or higher cord at this point.
PC link performance is a bit lower than the rift, but down the line it might be better. As for tracking, the high end tracking with sensors around the room is better, but the quest tracking works really well in general, just with rare hickups here or there especially if you have your hands really close to your head for long periods of time.
Because they had a goal of $299, whatever it takes, even if it means making the headstrap less comfortable. Also, currently 64GB is plenty as long as you aren't installing videos on the device, you can install quite a lot of apps in that 64GB before you have to delete one.
This. It's not a huge deal. I have plenty of space on my first gen Quest @ 64GB. Now, I know games will get bigger. But it's not going to be anything crazy I don't think. But I also have no desire to put videos on the thing, I typically stream them when I do watch em.
i think i get where there line of thought was on cheapening out on the headstrap.
it only takes 5 minutes to wow someone with vr but an hour or so for the headstrap to feel uncomfortable. they're still focused on wowing people first and foremost. the price ensures a lot of early adopters buy it. the experience ensures that a lot of friends and family of the adopters try and and like it. once you've got them hooked they spend the extra 50 on the headstrap no problem.
it only takes 5 minutes to wow someone with vr but an hour or so for the headstrap to feel uncomfortable. they're still focused on wowing people first and foremost. the price ensures a lot of early adopters buy it. the experience ensures that a lot of friends and family of the adopters try and and like it. once you've got them hooked they spend the extra 50 on the headstrap no problem.
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" Source is this Oculus Tech talk for Developers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kwj-VX_Axo&feature=youtu.be
Quote 1:30 : "(Those gains are) Even after the increased eye buffer. (...) That means there will be plenty of additional performance for you apps."
What is the Eye Buffer: The eye buffer is what is given to the oculus compositor and eventually is what you see on the screen.
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I have to asl you to look at Jet Island, it is one of my favourite VR games and I can thoroughly recommend it. Traversing that games world is damn fun
1: I got to say Half-Life Alyx, I would say that game is stunning. Great story, great world design and simply a must-play
2: Personally I would say Beat Saber, that game always makes me come back for a few more rounds, though Gorn is also something I boot up again and again
3: That is a tough one though I would recommend something like Boneworks for the interactivity of its world.
boneworks dev says rift titles in play as native quest 2 experiences with minor optimizations:
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would be awesome if true. should mean boneworks gets ported at the very least.
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would be awesome if true. should mean boneworks gets ported at the very least.
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boneworks says dev rift titles in play as native quest 2 experiences with minor optimizations:
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would be awesome if true. should mean boneworks gets ported at the very least.
LOL No. GTX 970 was a ~4.5TF card in practice with 200+GB/s bandwidth. Assuming the XR2 has an Adreno 650 it's around 1.2TF with probably 30-40GB/s. It's an entire console generation behind the 2016 PC spec. CPU speed doesn't mean jack shit given the complexity limits of that GPU at relatively low frame rates (many games rely on Time/Space warp). That developer is full of shit IMO for marketing purposes. PC Boneworks is either comically unoptimized, or they're going to gut and bastardize the hell out of it to run on Quest. Echo Arena for example runs on Quest 1, but it has nothing in common with the PC game visually. Now there may be something to talk about if Oculus have implemented their AI upscaling to Quest 2, which would still be underwraps AFAIK.
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graphics are more straight forward to scale down than game logic though. it's obviously far from a 970 but i get where he's coming from on the cpu and ram side.
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On the review units they are identical to the Quest 1. But Facebook have said that it will require having a payment instrument on file in future.
The price needed to be great for me to consider Facebook forced implementation, and that's low enough for me to roll with it. Wonder if PSVR2 will be comparable in a couple years
Tried importing/ordering it from two retailers in Austria, but both times I got told they aren't allowed to sell it to me as there are no official plans for the Quest 2 to be distributed in Germany. Amazon UK same thing. Seems Facebook really put their foot down...
The CPU comment was just as dumb. I'm quite certain that an XR2, running at half speed, isn't beating a i5 4590 at anything. Maybe there's a completely meaningless syntethic benchmark it can win at, but come on. Without looking anything up, it just seems absurd.
Oculus recommends not exceeding 50 - 100 draw calls on the Quest vs 500 - 1000 on Rift. That's like a 10X performance gap between Quest and min spec PC.
- Nearly 2K resolution per eye, over 50 percent more pixels than Quest
- 6GB memory with Snapdragon XR2 processor
- 10% lighter than Quest, smaller form factor
- New and improved Ergo controllers
- $100 cheaper than Quest
- 90hz
- Requires a Facebook account (real name too)
The price is good... but... but... FACEBOOK.
At least it 'caps' the PSVR2 from going above $300 (would be ridiculous in this new environment).
In the original tweet thread, he clarifies that he's only talking about cpu and ram, since that's the only bit he cares about. He also says he was talking about 2016 Rift Titles, not 2020.boneworks dev says rift titles in play as native quest 2 experiences with minor optimizations:
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would be awesome if true. should mean boneworks gets ported at the very least.
I would impulse buy one if it wasn't for the Facebook integration. I have a Rift S and the fact that I have to create a Facebook account in two years in order to continue using it makes me want to jump ship to another headset before that happens. I deleted my Facebook account for a reason.
To be fair if asgard's wrath came to the quest it would need the 256g one because it's like 150gigs (and basically requires a ssd) but there is no way in hell they could get that running well on the quest 2 :P
Someone told me earlier that it was PC only, I thought it was on quest because quest page on oculus website showed asgards wrath
So I dont need a 256. Since I have a lot of VR games though it would be useful as I believe a license for a rift game transfers to quest at no charge (where applicable)
that would be cool. VR has so much promise lets hope oculus keeps innovating and offering great prices given that in this space there is no competition (especially since facebook bought up all the good VR companies that could be bought)
64gb is enough for me but I don't mind redownloading stuff. We'll see how the timelines go. In 18 months we could be talking about a quest 3.
There are multiple reasons we could get that far along in 5 years, the main one being eye tracking could greatly reduce the required specs to run asgard's wrath well. Beyond that mobile tech in general tends to catch up decently with consoles in 5 years (it won't be on par with a ps5, but could be closer to a ps4 pro at that time) and the final thing is if there is a breakthrough in battery tech that could lead to a huge increase in power for mobile chips and have them catch up must faster than expected.
oh yeah definitely. it depends on their focus. for example do they want to target $200 to attract more potential people that are priced out.
Yeah I reconsidered based on using PC for asgards wrath could play other games as well from the PC, keep the fun smaller games on device
changed preorder to 64 version.
