Meta Drops Quest 2 Price Below $200
Meta Drops Quest 2 Price Below $200
$199 is an absurdly good price for a still-good standalone VR headset, but is the Quest 3 Lite around the corner?
If it still requires a Facebook account, no way. I walked away from that site 8 years ago and never missed it once.
You can create a dummy account and fill it with bogus data. I even share mine so it doesn't even belong to a single person.
Can it be jailbroken and used without a fb account?
I would also like to know the answer to this
I bought a quest 2 a few years ago. I searched for hours and hours to try and get it to work with no FB account. Best I found was that you can sideload APKs to it… with a Facebook account.
Eventually broke down and temporarily made a Facebook account to at least try it. Was pretty unimpressed with the content which was meager in comparison to PCVR. Ended up returning it and deleting Facebook account.
In my opinion the experience is not worth making a Facebook account for even if the headset was free.
If you want to get into VR on the cheap get a windows mixed reality headset off eBay. Most of them aren’t as good of a headset as the quest 2. But it will probably be comparable if you’re streaming most of your content from PC anyway. And you’ll avoid Facebook’s shit.
Be forewarned though windows mixed reality headsets don’t yet work on windows LTSC or Linux :(. (Though maybe windows 11 LTSC later this year?) So you’ll have to use the garbage version of windows to use it.
I feel like they'd get a lot more sales if they could be, I'd probably be one of them.
No
Not even if they gave me $200
I would use it for like 1 game on the quest store and more portable/wireless VR on PC. Even though my Index, is superior in almost every way, an easy headset to give to a visitor would be nice.
I probably wouldn't pay $200 for one, but if a friend was getting rid of one for $50-100 I would likely snatch it up.
Lol then why post about it? $200 dollars is a great entry price in VR
That's the right price range, for VR to properly catch on.
Shame it still owns you rather than vice-versa.
If I wasn't locked into the Meta ecosystem I'd buy it.
It's interesting how a single letter can entirely change the meaning of a comment.
Wait, I don't get it. Your comment implies you are locked in to the Meta ecosystem, so wouldn't this be a fantastic option for you?
I'm not interested because it requires a Meta account, which I'm unwilling to create.
For me the issue with VR headsets isn't the price, but the lack of a relevant killer app.
If I were super-into flight sims, I could totally see going VR -- makes more sense then the many-monitors setups that fans have done for decades -- but most game genres just don't, IMHO, gain that much. And there hasn't been a new genre that really blows me away that leverages VR.
I can believe that it might be professionally-useful for architects.
I have a Q3 and I'm also feeling that right now. Most of the games for VR aren't even really games. They're "experiences;" Interactive movies where the only interaction is that you can move around the scene. The other biggest type are practically mobile games. Alyx was great. But it's been long enough that it needs something to surpass it or at least learn from it.
Alyx was great. But it’s been long enough that it needs something to surpass it or at least learn from it.
Hmm. Yeah, that's a thought too. To put some numbers on that, if I go to Steam and do a search for VR-only games and rank by User Rating, I get:
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Half-Life: Alyx, 2020 release
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VTOL VR, 2017
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COMPOUND, 2022
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UNDERDOGS, 2024
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Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, 2016
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Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, 2015
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Half-Life 2: VR Mod, 2022
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The Room VR: A Dark Matter, 2020
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Walkabout Mini Golf VR, 2021
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fpsVR, 2018
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The Last Clockwinder, 2022
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Blade and Sorcery, 2018
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Vertigo 2, 2023
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I Expect You to Die 2: The Spy and the Liar, 2021
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Vermillion - VR Painting, 2021
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Beat Saber, 2019
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The Lab, 2016
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The Thrill of the Fight - VR Boxing, 2019
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OVR Advanced Settings, 2020
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I Expect You To Die, 2017
So of the best-of-the-best out there as of this writing, we have in releases-per-year:
2024: 1 (understandable, year is only about three months in)
2023: 1
2022: 3
2021: 3
2020: 3
2019: 2
2018: 2
2017: 2
2016: 2
2015: 1
I mean, that's just not really an exponential explosion.
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Check out Arizona Sunshine. It’s a post apocalypse zombie shooter that I really enjoyed. They just released the sequel a couple months back too, so if you enjoy the first you’ll have another to follow up with. It was the first, and honestly only, VR game that I really enjoyed that wasn’t beat saber or a sim.
Also, Meta
My friend let me try out his Quest 2 and I feel like it spoiled my first impression of VR... That is, I was not impressed. Picture quality was abysmal, I definitely expected something more immersive than blurry binoculars experience, and Facebook integration was annoying as fuck.
I enjoy mine. It's fun to get stoned and watch 3d music videos in my hammock.
How is the video qualify ? Is it decent ?
I mean, it varies a lot with differing videos. But if you just smoke more weed than you don't notice.
I am shocked they couldn't get everyone to wear a headset all the time for personal, work, and any other time for that price. I'm sure for 200 it'll work.