My Quest 3 Review-
I just want to say that after playing the Quest 3 for the past couple of weeks, I can say without hesitation, that this is one of the best gaming devices I own, right now.
Is it perfect? No. There are things that are "just good enough" like the battery life and the passthrough cameras. However, it's easily a 100% generational leap over Quest 2 in features and graphics, and they managed to do that in only 2 years, somehow.
Another thing that they have fallen short on, are the release games. We're getting several big titles in November/December, like Asgards Wrath II, Ghostbusters, Assassin's Creed Nexus, as well as Gamepass and Upper-body tracking, so it's only going to get better! We did just get remakes of Samba de Amigo and 7th Guest, and both are SOLID remakes!
Yeah, so what DID work for me, is that not unlike Xbox, Meta did have several graphical updates to already owned games, that are worth mentioning. Red Matter 2... HOLY SH!T, this game shouldn't even be possible. It already looked better than it should on Quest 2, but it looks more like a PC or maybe a PSVR2 game now. I'll have to see if there's a YouTube comparison. Golf+ was always a great game, but now they changed the aesthetic to more realistic colors, to match the added grass and trees that are now capable with over 2x the processing power. Then there's the Mixed Reality feature, which has trickled its way intro a whole slew of games, like a game mode in Samba de Amigo, and existing games, like Synth Riders, Eleven Table Tennis, & Puzzling Places. Yes, the passthrough camera resolution could stand to be better, and MR absolutely needs a well-lit room!
Best of all, the brand new lenses are just SO MUCH more comfortable on my eyes! I just want to be in the headset WAY MORE often! Unfortunately, Fresnel lenses, like every Quest before and PSVR2, just wear out my eyes, with the textured concentric rings. Aside, I really liked the spherical lenses of the PSVR, even if the colors bled, and there was some geometric warping... but these new pancake lenses in the Quest 3 are F-ing AMAZING! They are the thing that I didn't know that I wanted the most, in VR. I never want to go back to Fresnel lenses, ever! I was going to get a PSVR2 soon, and I want to experience the HDR, but I think I'll wait for a revision, hopefully with pancake lenses. I'm not sure why they decided to go with high tech everything else, when those lenses were just coming out.
Not much to say about the controllers, but they are so much smaller, but have Nintendo Switch-like textured rumble feedback. They are also more precise than before.
I should also mention that the built-in speakers are much upgraded over the Quest 2, and sound pretty great, and sound is even more localized. They should more headphone-like, to me.
Anyway, I hope that some of you are interested in Quest 3. The full product gets a solid 9 out of 10, for me. With the rate that Meta releases critical quality updates, this headset is absolutely somehow going to get better! It's $200 more expensive than the Quest 2 at launch, but there's just a lot added features to make the price worth it, for me.
Note: I had a HW issue with my Quest 3 originally, that I was going to go into, but I was able to resolve that HW issue, and it hasn't changed my overall opinion of the device, but I am slightly concerned about these devices potentially overheating.
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