It’s definitely still in beta. I’ve had some glitches, usually caused by it getting stuck in some weird state, usually requiring either killing stuff in task manager or restating the Pc, the Quest, or both. But yeah - by and large it’s great and I don’t regret getting the Quest rather than the Rift S at all.

Gaz and Doc, 64 or 128?

I've been pondering VR over that few days since having a go on the Dave's Vive (and after a conversation with DocG about the Google Daydream) and I reckon I can see where it's going. Here's my prediction of were we'll be in ooohh, 3 years.

- Self contained, wireless headset. All processing done on the unit itself. We all know that graphics chips are chewing along at an amazing rate, so how long before there's a mobile GPU that can do 90fps at 4k? Not long I reckon. The headset will need to more like a pair of specs. Think of those big old Asian-Grandma sunglasses that fit over other specs. Or Imax 3D glasses. Probably with built in headphones
- Courtesy screen tethering. Think Chromecast. Sync the technohat up to an HDMI dongle so others can watch.
- Full body tracking. Think Kinect. There was a moment when Curio was dodging his legs out of the way of lasers. Imagine if you *had* to. This might require more active cameras, but if they're similar to the the little satellites that the vive uses... it could work.
- Local mutiplayer. Self contained units and full body tracking means local multiplayer. Even if it's in another room.
- Some sort of glove controller. Even if it's only one hand. It would open up a world of puzzles.

There's my prediction. Remind me in 3 years to see if I was right, would you?

edit: I forgot haptics. Even a subtle feedback is awesome. The lightsabers humming in your hand was awesome

The new consoles can wait, but I am SORELY tempted to get a Quest 2.

Where are we preordering from, cool kids?

I’ve also now preordered a Quest 2.

Gaz! Sell me your Quest 1 for £100

£180 and we've got a deal

£180 and we've got a deal

£130?

Pretty sure the G2 does room scale, bud.

MS Flight Simulator was updated to support VR yesterday.

Apparently even with a top-of-the-line CPU and the RTX 3080 people are struggling to get over 40 frames per second

Just wait for Gaywood's legendary FOMO to kick in.

The guys in Top Gear showed excellent how you can participate in real races with such a budget.

Are there any good realistic games for those who want to feel like a space engineer?

TommyJ arriving in a thread:

For a day. Even the cheaper motorsports are incredibly expensive.


Kerbal Space Planet, obviously. Or - reaching a bit with this one admittedly - Space Engineers?

Adrift is kinda Spacey.

Only went and got me an Oculus Quest 2

constantly twisted by about 5 or so degrees as the human head (even normal sized ones)