Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Oculus Quest review: can this save VR?”.
When I reviewed Facebook’s Oculus Rift in 2016, I thought it might be the start of something huge., But VR hasn’t blown up the way. A lot of fans hoped. SuperData estimated that around 354,000 Rifts shipped in 2018 and around 4.2 million headsets shipped across all the major brands. For contrast, Sony alone shipped more than 17 million PlayStation 4s, that year.
VR had a long history in training, medicine, design and research. Before the Oculus Rift – and it’s still big in those fields. But home entertainment is another matter.. A lot of VR headsets are still expensive or they’re, not very comfortable or they’re, just sort of weird and isolating.. But Facebook, of course thinks it has the answer with the Oculus Quest a completely standalone VR system that doesn’t need wires, tracking cameras or a separate computer and can play full-fledged immersive games..
The Quest is basically Facebook’s vision of an ideal VR gaming console right now.. It solved some of the problems that have kept VR on the margins, but it’s also a compromise. ( relaxed music ), The Oculus Quest’s first big selling point is something called the Insight system.. It uses four built-in cameras to track your head motion and a pair of hand controllers.
Instead of making you set up a whole VR room with mounted cameras., But there’s a new, a Oculus Rift that uses Insight too.. So the Quest’s big, unique selling point is that it’s self-contained., The Quest isn’t connected to a computer and you can use it basically anywhere indoors as long as you’re, not completely in the dark. Oculus thinks this makes a huge difference and I agree. I’ve been using VR For a long time and I’ve gotten used to stepping around wires. But not having to worry about tripping, while I’m jumping around a sports game or pausing an adventure game to face, the cameras feels even better than I thought it. Would., The battery lasts around two hours playing games, nonstop, which is longer than most of my VR sessions..
Oculus already has an all-in-one headset called the Oculus Go., But it doesn’t have the Quest’s sophisticated tracking and it’s meant more for watching movies in VR, which people keep telling me they like, but I still just can’t get into.. The Quest supports some of the best games for just moving your body, like the rock climbing game, The Climb .