More to let people know they are back in stock. These have both been selling at easy $1000 + on ebay. The 128gb has been even harder to get hold of than the 64gb but both now in stock.
Combine with 3% off Gift Cards with Suncorp to hit $629.93/$775.03
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Is there any advantages to getting the Oculus Quest over the Rift S for people who have a decent enough computer and don't want or need the portability?
It's possible to connect the Quest to a PC wirelessly. Full PC games without any cable connected to the headset is pretty great.
Does the Quest then utilise the PC's processing power?
Yeah. You run the Virtual Desktop streamer on your PC to connect wirelessly.
Slight latency compared to a cable, but well worth the extra freedom imo.
@DYEL: This! The quest just gives you every option really.
Also Quest is made and supported by Oculus where as rift s is actually a Lenovo project and gets way less updates and love due to the decreased user base.
You can also connect it to your computer over a single USB C and it functions exactly the same as the S.
I can play my steam VR games over it without a problem.
Moving between computers is easy (both my gaming desktop Ryzen 3900x / 1070 and laptop intel 7700 / 1060) - just plug it in.
The USB cable needs to be a bit special (active USB C) but you can purchase a 5m cable from Oculus that meets the requirements and just works (the cost is reasonable when you look at what you get and compare).
I got the 128gb on a black friday for about $650 but would recomended the 64gb version. The games are about 2-5gb each.
Playing wirelessly is doable - but nowhere near as good as wired. The requirements is that you need to have a decent wireless router and it is not actually that smooth (occasional dropped frames/stutters and lower quality and latency vs wired). I also found it a bit of pain when i needed to use a different wireless network.
Wired can now be done with the charging cable, no need for fancy ones.
Did read about that - have not tested it myself (even then 5m USB C cables are still on the expensive side).
My motherboard supports making a 5ghz wifi hotspot which I can connect to it removing the router middle man. Just an FYI
Yeah that's how I run Virtual Desktop as well. 5ghz hotspot straight from the PC to the Quest.
Found if the Quest is on the wifi by itself, with decent signal etc. it works without any issues. I even tried it using an old Telstra Cable modem rigged up as a sort of wireless access point and it worked a treat.
Making the hotspot direct from the PC should be even better but never tried.
Really like the quest, in particular as I use it in 4 different rooms without needing to setup base stations and wires.
That’s the exact reason I got one, I like VR but my OG Vive has a thick cable and the stations were time consuming to set up
Awesome headset but is more front heavy than a rift as has a full phone internals mounted at the front of your face.
However I would take this anyday for a quick VR fix, being able to just put the headset on wire free anywhere, and be up and running in less than a minute is essential. But the quest link setup is so good, once cable and you've unlocked full PC performance.
I've covered the benifits in my review of the official oculus cable and setup but one thing to remember is you have to generally buy a game for quest or for oculus desktop/steam VR. There is however a list of games where the Dev has chosen to give you both versions when buying it.
The main push back when I was last looking at the cables was that oculus made a fibre optic one, making it much more flexible, and also charge the headset over the 5M, but I also hardly play long enough to drain a battery from full!
Very helpful info. Thanks Cam!
This might be a silly question but how can an Oculus Quest come with enough processing power to play VR games and cost $799 yet building a PC that is capable of playing VR games costs $$$$? Is the Quest basically just a small GPU, a screen and some solid state storage?
It’s basically an android phone in a box, but it’s pretty magic how they pull it off. PC VR is much better graphical quality though.
By PC VR do you meant the Rift S?
Or the Quest connected to a PC with USB or over 5ghz WiFi.
It is not the same - it reduces some of the details to meet the specs. The CPU is a mobile CPU (Snapdragon 800 series i think). But becuase the games are being developed for a single platform they can be optimized a lot more effectively (similar to consoles).
You do lose the details - but the immersion is about the same (better becuase of wireless).
So the Oculus Quest is a gaming platform in itself? But PC games can still be played on the Quest?
Yup, some games are cross-but, some aren’t but are available on both platforms.
The Quest is an Android device, so it's about as powerful as a modern phone. The games have to be ported to the Quest specially, and compromises are made in terms of detail. It cannot natively play PC games on its own, but you can connect it to a PC via USB or wirelessly in which case the Quest is just a viewer for the PC and you are using the PC to do all the heavy lifting. As someone mentioned above, wireless is not as good as USB but it is still pretty good and you have complete freedom of movement.
@Sike O: Thanks. Would connecting it to the PC allow you to play all the games that are available on the Rift?
@Duckman: I haven't tried wirelessly connecting to play Oculus games, but I can play all SteamVR games wirelessly. Wired is via the Oculus software which is how Rift games are launched. I haven't bought any Rift games to try so I can't say for certain, but I can go into the Rift version of SteamVR and launch things from there, so pretty sure you can. There are a number of Rift games that are cross-buy between the various Oculus headsets too, so you may be able to play natively on the Quest even depending on the game.
I haven't tried launching the Oculus launcher wirelessly yet either, not sure that would work. If you want to play Oculus only games, it can supposedly be done through SteamVR the same way a HTC would do it through ReVive.
Is 128GB required?
No it isn’t, the games aren’t generally large
I wanna buy this just to play beat saber on.
Playing on PSVR with limited songs is such a bummer.
Yeah it’s almost all I play on mine Beat Saber with custom songs
is there an upcoming model of oculus?
Yes, there was a leak of an updated model coming, but as everyone always says when someone asks this, there is always another model of something coming… except maybe Dreamcast.
Too soon.
Are you able to connect this to a powerful macbook pro?
I’ve got the 16inch with 5400m and it plays Beat Saber ok, but really you need the 5800m with 8gb probably for smooth enough play. That new 16 inch graphics card would smash it.
Great device. Have had one for about 3 months now and it has provided quite a lot of entertainment. The quest is absolutely best in class for mobile VR gaming at the moment so strongly recommend it to anyone who’s interested in the tech.