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just put my index back on after 5 weeks of using a quest pro and i'm fully convinced i will never switch to anything that's not the valve index 2. not even talking about the accessories (lmao the quest pro controllers are bad bad), just purely the hmd itself.

the screens and lenses on the quest pro are breathtaking, wireless pcvr is nice, and the face/eye tracking stuff is a neat gimmick albeit a bit useless for me bc none of my characters Do That. but the comfort? the immersion? the audio quality? index undefeated and it's not even close.


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@clip

going for an optical tracking system (3 cameras and a snapdragon cpu in each controller babey!) which completely falls apart when you dim the lights is just really funny on a headset you HAVE to use in the dark if you want any sort of immersion due to the approx. 5 mile wide gap at the bottom. brain genius move.


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@clip

i guess it's just super obvious that one of these things was made purely to generate shareholder profit by promising Work Meetings In The Metaverse whereas the other one was made by the only company left who actually cares about real pcvr.


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in reply to @clip's post:

i understand this is not a "looking for solutions" type post, but just in case you find need for the headset again or other camera tracked HMDs, you can often get a dark room if you have IR light for the headset (and now the controllers too lmao)

in reply to @clip's post:

no speakers, 90hz max refresh rate, no way of sharing it without making a second gasket, no ipd adjustment... all of that would be fine-ish if the hmd alone didnt cost as much as an entire index kit with controllers and base stations (required but sold separately for the bigscreen lmao)

it feels like a very Apple At Its Worst type product to me where it's about the form factor way more than anything else. they couldve made a much more fully featured and functional hmd while still being the smallest and lightest on the market by a mile but they just had to optimize it to death