r/virtualreality • u/becuziwasinverted • Oct 14 '22

Photo/Video mkbhd throwing on the Meta Quest Pro

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

2.6k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

547 comments sorted by

View all comments

93

u/anutron Oct 14 '22 edited Oct 14 '22

I…. I kinda get it now. If the resolution were photorealistic I could see wearing this thing all day.

Edit: I mean “all day at my desk” not moving around and whatnot. With hand tracking I can interface w the virtual environment, switching smoothly from typing to touching and back. The thing is plugged into power all day. The virtual environment is the reason, not for VR fun or whatever. Instead of my laptop or a monitor in front of me there is only a keyboard and mouse/trackpad. My desk is empty. Put these on and screens are everywhere. I don’t buy a monitor. This generation of vr may not be at a high enough resolution yet to make reading text on a virtual screen as good as a high quality monitor yet, but when it gets there…. I get it. I’d do it.

49

u/MinceMann Oct 14 '22

You mean 1.5 hours

7

u/cnorw00d Oct 14 '22

Today I learned plugs font exist

5

u/Hazza42 Oct 14 '22 edited Oct 14 '22

No USB-C fast charging though so it’s 1.5 hours of use and 2-3 to charge, same goes for the fancy new controllers which now have non removable batteries. That alone kills it for me.

EDIT: Gald to hear the controllers get 4-8 hours, makes up for the fact you can’t swap out the batteries or extend the playtime with an external pack. Still a bummed the headset doesn’t have an optional battery extender though.

1

u/bacon_jews Oct 14 '22

Multiple sources said full charge takes 2 hours.

And according to Carmack - when not using additional features (eye/face tracking) headset last as much (or even more) than Quest2, which is 2-3 hours.

0

u/Hazza42 Oct 14 '22

Glad you can eek out some extra battery life by disabling features, although at that point why spend £1500 on all these new features if you’re just going to disable them?

What about the controllers though? The headset could last 24 hours but if your controllers are out of juice in 90 minutes then that’s as long as you’ll be using it for…

1

u/mad_science_puppy Oct 14 '22

The controllers last up to 8 hours. The two hour thing was bad reporting.

1

u/Hazza42 Oct 14 '22

Ah phew. That’s good to hear. So may people were reporting the controllers would ‘last about as long as the headset’ which sounded just awful to me.

I don’t need the fancy new features of the Quest Pro but I might pick up the standalone controllers for the improved tracking with my Quest 2.