Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets
Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets
It’s like PC versus the Mac all over again.
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I decided to wait for Valve standalone. Even if it never comes out I'd rather keep waiting than get a meta headset.
The Valve Index is here already and great. No bullshit like the Quest, just VR that works well. If you have a gaming PC with at least a quad-core and RTX 3060 then you should be good to get started with one. Mine works fine on a 9-year old gaming PC with 6 cores, 16GB RAM, and an RTX 3060TI. The motherboard is that old, the rest of the parts are newer (mostly GPU)
They're thinking of something that can work unteathered to a PC, like the rumoured valve deckard system
Right but you can't buy one of those, they aren't on the market. What Valve has currently is excellent already but you can't walk around town wearing it (as if anyone would need to)
I get you but that's not what the commenter above is looking for.
I know the Index is fantastic and I'm truly happy for you, but I can appreciate other people being in the market for high fidelity VR with a substantially lower asking price (along with a lower total cost of ownership as a standalone system).
We can't let meta pull ahead in this industry unchecked, and I really hope Valve (or literally anybody else) can step up to this segment in the near future.
I think by standalone they mean 'no PC'. Like the Quest ones that run the games on themselves.
The index isn't standalone 🤦♂️
Yeah no shit. Standalone isn't as good as wired because you can't fit a bigass Nvidia card inside a VR headset.
I own a lot of VR games and the only one that doesn't have a port that works natively on the Quest is Half-Life Alyx. Standalones can also be plugged in or stream PCVR wirelessly, and all of the standalone HMDs I am aware of, have better hardware than the aging Index (and thus look better even when not doing PCVR). Even the trackers are better and smaller and don't require a home base station.
No, the Index still has a higher resolution than the Quest2 and earlier standalone VR headsets, and the Index still has a class-leading 130-degree field of view and 144Hz refresh rate. It has excellent sound and the best VR controllers on the market. It's still an overall great VR setup for those of us that have good gaming PCs.
I've been playing Dark Souls, Elden Ring, and Cyberpunk 2077 in VR on my Index recently using mods. It's fuckin' awesome.
The Index still has a higher resolution than the Quest 2 and earlier standalone VR headsets
Uh... The Index has a resolution of 1440x1600 per eye with 15PPD. The Quest 2 is 1832x1920 per eye with 20PPD. The Quest 1 had the exact same resolution as the Index. The Quest 3 is 2064x2208 per eye and Pico 4 is 2160x4320 per eye. The Index doesn't lead the FOV game anymore, either; but the beasts with 200+ FOV are also super expensive and better in every other way too like the Pimax Vision.
I like Valve, too, but they're not the best at everything.