I have owned my Quest for about 3 weeks and I’ve had friends play it and they say it’s better than the Pc powered ones. They mainly say that because of the wireless ability to play without being tethered to a Pc, and mainly because one of them has the Htc Vive and they all played it and said it was way too expensive for an experience like that. The Htc Vive starts at around $800, while the Quest starts at $400 for the 64 GB but then the 128 GB version costs another $100 which makes it start at around $500 unless you get it used
Features
When Oculus saw that there was a way to connect the Vr headset to the owners Pc they introduced the Oculus Link, and the reasoning for this was so you could download games from your Pc and play them on the go. And the good part about this is you can download a game from your Pc on to your Quest and bring it to your friend’s house and play that game at their house without asking if they have a Pc to connect to and play the game you downloaded. And if you played in your garage and you couldn’t bring your Pc out there then you bring your Quest inside your house overnight and download the game you were going to play and then bring it back outside and play that game with the freedom as if the game was on the store on the Quest. And all the games work decently well considering that it’s completely standalone.
And Oculus recently released the Hand-Tracking on the Oculus Quest where the 4 cameras on the front track your hands. It hasn’t been used in any of the hit games such as Beat Saber and Job Simulator yet because they released the hand tracking on January 2 so they need to have more updates so it can have better tracking because the cameras on the front can’t run the highest quality. But when you use the Touch Controllers (The same ones Facebook used on the Rift and Rift S) the tracking gets much better because it focuses on the tiny lights on the controllers. Which used to have issues because if you got yours around Christmas, like me, you would have issues with the tracking because of the lights on the tree but Oculus recently fixed that so it can only track the lights on the controllers.
Competitors
Now you may be asking yourself “Why the Oculus Quest over PsVr, Pimax, or Htc Vive.” The reason why I wouldn’t prefer for the PsVr is it tracks these bright colored lights and if you have a light with the same colors in the background then it will think that the light is the controller and will mess up the tracking. And you need to buy a Ps4 for about $400 and the PsVr starts st $200 so that’s already $600 which is already $200 over the Quest. And with the Pimax the lowest priced on is double the price of the 64 GB Quest. You might get a better experience with the Pimax but you have to buy a Pc that’s over $1000 if you want the best experience. So that’s a $1,600 difference then the Quest. And with the Htc Vive, it isn’t as expensive but you still have to have that super nice Pc and the Controllers don’t come in the package so you have to spend another $100 to get those just to be able to play. And with it being 2020 people are getting into Vr especially teens so the Quest is a good starting Vr and affordable. And the games on it are decently good. Considering that it’s a fully standalone headset and has some of the most popular games.
With Beat Saber on the Oculus Quest, you can connect it to your Pc and get custom songs while with the PsVr you can’t and you always have to be tethered to a PlayStation which is much lighter than a Pc which makes the chance of it falling off and breaking higher. Which would mean that you wouldn’t be able to play Vr anymore, or you could get to Quest and not have to worry about that. Sure, you get a better field of view but that would make you feel more in a different world which would mean you might try to walk and it wouldn’t work, and then your Pc or Ps4 could fall and break. And then you wouldn’t be able to play Vr at all if it broke. The worst thing that could happen when you’re playing the Quest while it’s plugged into an outlet is it just gets unplugged.
In conclusion, the reason why the Oculus Quest is growing is because of the price, the freedom aspect of it, and the Oculus link just made it run the same as the $600 Oculus Rift, but of course to use the Oculus link you need a Pc powerful enough to run it so that could cost a small fortune but other than that the Oculus Quest is one of the best selling Vr’s.
