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 GPU (if any) is required to drive one of these decently?

EDIT: He’s looking at the 3S version. Looks like 3 is more in line with steam frame. His birthday is mid-march.

  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago
    1. Ecosystem is closed, you buy a quest you need to buy from Meta and have your Facebook account linked.
    2. It is good, and objectively currently the best (and only) standalone headset.
    3. The Quest is a standalone headset, he doesn’t need the phone. He can plug it into his PC, but that’s not the main intended use and there are some quirks.
    4. Not sure what you mean, but like I said the quest is a standalone headset, so nothing else needed. If you want to run it connected to a PC it would require fairly decent hardware for it to be worth the bother.

    All of this being said, and like others have told you, we should be getting the Steam Frame somewhere in Q1, and it’s objectively better in all those points:

    1. Open system means you can’t be closed onto one garden. Although Steam is a lot easier.
    2. It’s theoretically comparable with the Quest 3
    3. Frame is also standalone, but it’s also designed to be wirelessly connected to PCs using it’s own designated bandwidth, making it much better at that than the Quest.
    4. While PC is the same for both cases. The streaming experience should be a lot better with the Frame due to improvements to the way the content is streamed that Valve has made.

    All of that being said, the Frame WILL be more expensive than the Quest. IMO, it’s worth to pay more for an open platform, but you might look at things differently. Also you should consider that we don’t know when it will be available and how much it will cost, but I’m confident that it will be a better purchase regardless if both of you can afford the wait and price.

    Personally I bought the Quest 1, and while I don’t regret it, I got fed up with lots of the Meta stuff. I plan on buying a frame on release, and would only get a quest if it was given to me for free since I don’t plan on spending a single cent more on that platform.