Closing A Chapter: My Experience with the Quest 2
My first actual post on my blog, I'm not the best at writing things so please be kind.
A Brief History
Let me start the story, on July 7th 2021 I came across my old broken WMR headset and wanted to test out more modern PCVR solutions, at the time I was slightly out of bank to buy an Index and heard good things about the (Oculus) Quest 2 and decided to buy one.
Oculus (Air) Link
I started off using a link cable but had a horrible experience using it, lots of screen-tearing and “ghosting”, after trying AirLink, it had a lot of disconnecting/crashing issues and eventually settled on buying Virtual Desktop to use for PCVR.
The Warranty
It is such a pain to RMA the products, email after email waiting for a response, The right controller had a thumbstick drift from the first moment it was used which was not a good experience and I eventually RMA'ed the headset and controllers around a month after getting it due to a cluster of stuck/dead blue pixels.
Virtual Desktop
I had a good experience with VD after setting everything to basically the lowest it can be, It was a chore to setup properly due to having subnets on my network but I eventually got it working, This is the option I stuck with for the 6 months of using the headset.
The Downfall
My downfall was the Oculus driver being a pain to work with, it would crash if either, the net/wifi drops, Virtual Desktop crashes or the whole headset crashes and I would have to restart my entire system to fix it, which is not ideal.
Worst of all if the headset crashes I have to login to Facebook over and over again like salt in the wounds,
All the technical issues, latency and resolution really ruined my experience.
Now and “The Future”
As I am writing this post, somewhere in a distribution center there is a Valve Index with my name on it arriving soon, I've heard better stories and experiences from Index users and I am hoping it gives me a better experience into the PCVR world.
Other neat VR related stuff
The Game Library
I spend a fair bit of my time playing VRChat, I have tried other VR games and enjoyed them, this includes ಠ_ಠ those kinds of games.
Full Body Tracking
Personally I use a Xbox 360 Kinect for full body tracking in VRChat using KinectToVR for leg tracking and owoTrack for hip tracking (Samsung A5)