One if my kids wants a Meta Quest 3 for his birthday, and I am only vaguely familiar with VR hardware, and on top of that I’m wary of everything Zuckerberg.

  1. How are the ecosystems? Does the choice of brand lock you in or out of particular titles? I suspect his main goal is to play gorilla tag and similar.

  2. Is Metaquest 3 an objectively good/decent product? What are some viable alternatives?

  3. He’s got a decent phone and a half-decent PC. Will the same headset work for both?

  4. How much HPU (if any) is required to drive one of these decently?

  • Björn@swg-empire.de
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    7 hours ago

    Yeah, new standalone VR headset from Valve. It’s pretty lightweight, modular, has eye tracking and runs on SteamOS. It includes an x86 to ARM emulator to run Windows PC games. And it can run Android games, ie Quest games.

    But it is mainly meant for streaming from a PC. They use the eye tracking for “foveated streaming” to only send the parts of a frame where the user is actually looking. Testers report that they cannot defeat this no matter how quickly they move their eyes around.