Meta Quest 3

[...] Nothing comes close to Meta Quest 3 and I'm so happy I invested $500 into it along with all the peripherals and all - some of which I ended up buying multiple times as I broke the controller accessory twice. [...]

Keeping my eye on the price. [...] The wifi thing is a little bothersome, but honestly, the pancake lenses and the removal of the sensor rings in the controllers are the things I'm most interested in. [...]

[...] Also for first time users...a replacement controller cost a 1/3 of the unit at $189.00

I've had my Q3 for over a year and continue to love it. [...] My one big complaint is that I wish it had a display port input for uncompressed PCVR display. [...] I also understand that Meta is trying to push the standalone side of VR gaming, and that is where their real money is made. [...]

With every VR release I check the resolution per eye to see if I can use it as a work desktop replacement. IMO the current Meta Quest 3 is not there, and this roughly matches it. [...] Unfortunately, i think the screen stack at that level is well outside mobile usecases so there is kind of a chicken and egg. Manufacturers don't want to work on advanced VR display tech without demand, and it can't be used for work purposes until display tech improves.

[...] my meta quest 3. [...]

[...] Even the Meta Quest 3 can render much better. [...]

I use probably 70% Windows, 20% iPad, 5% Meta Quest 3 [1], and 5% MacOS -- for the latter though it is mostly "test that something works on MacOS" and "tech support for the computer the family uses". [...] [1] I've got some web applications I wrote that run perfectly on the MQ3, especially after I got target sizes up to WCAG AAA level and it is fun to put the headset on and crash out on the couch and get things done

I had a programmer pushing multi-gig packages to a Meta Quest 3; and it was taking around a minute. He didn’t even think that it could be faster because he assumed the Quest or software was slow and didn’t check. [...]

I'm running Qwen3.5:0.8b locally on an Orangepi Zero 2w using llama.cpp, runs just fine on cpu only. If I want vulkan GPU I have run qwen3.5:2b locally on a meta quest 3 with zeroclaw and saved myself hundreds of $$$ buying a low power computer. I recommend people stop shopping around for inflated mac minis and look at getting a used android phone to load local models on.

[...] I’m a VR enthusiast with a Meta Quest 3, and it’s a shame that this headset is better than the Quest in every way except the most important one. [...] Right now it’s not worth it, and I don’t think it ever will be, no matter how good the graphics get. [...] So the controls have to become really stiff and avoid requiring wide movement, at which point you might as well just push buttons on a gamepad. [...]

The Meta Quest 3 has inside-out tracking and no cables so it has a lot of appeal for experiences where you walk around the room, particularly fitness games. I can view complex virtual worlds from my PC with the link cable and it is is practical to carefully move around the living room if I move the furniture but then I have to play in the living room.

[...] I’m on Threads mostly because what I post to Instagram goes to Threads automatically and if you’re a non-traditional instagram poster (no selfies, take flower photos with an interesting background and the flower isn’t always inscribed in the frame, …) you might find Twitter clones have people who appreciate you more. I got the feeling Threads was feeling me out at the beginning to see if I was interested in breathless panicked posts about the Trump regime and I didn’t take the bait and it shows me other stuff now. [...] I think Meta in general has the problem that oldsters like it’s new platforms better than anyone else, once I started using the voice chat features in my Meta Quest 3 I found more than one retired woman who liked to share panoramas and other 3-d content. [...]

In my experience the one big problem on the Quest 3 is the user interface. I am still puzzled why they made a floating taskbar with tiny buttons that you have to hit with VR controllers. I have good eyes, decent hand-eye coordination and don't have shaky hands, yet I manage to hit a button at first try maybe 40% of the time. [...] Meta Quest 3 feels like sci-fi tech with badly executed UI design from the 90s.

It's already making life worse on the Meta Quest 3. [...] Meta is selling much weaker hardware than Apple, so if Apple manages to trick Meta into making a fancier-but-more-expensive interface for their XR headsets, Meta headsets get laggier, less reliable, maybe they screw up and you go VR-to-ER. To little fanfare in the wider world [1], Meta rolled out an update for the MQ3 that adds more transparency. It isn't really bad, it isn't really that fancy, it probably doesn't lag the headset much. [...] It used to be if I wanted to follow somebody I was playing with in Beat Saber I could hit the Meta button and the screen was right there. Now I have to hit the Meta button, and I have to click on the Meta icon, then I have to pick "People" (I think) from the app library, and then it is open to the wrong tab so I have to pick a certain tab and finally I have a choice to follow somebody I'm playing with. Being a leader in social software is not about being good at social software at all, it's just about your customers being locked into a two-sided market. It's about being careless, even about the bottom line -- it's not like they "enshittified" the UI to make money, they just made it worse carelessly and I think they did it to ape Apple. [1] what a luxury it is to be able to live your life unexamined by the breathless -- Thomas Frank pointed out how frickin' lame it was that youth culture was worked over in the media which leaves me feeling today that being a Generation Xer meant I could have my youth (and middle age) without being a bug on a slide.

Never mind the fact that desktop apps for the birds. Microsoft won't even tell you what widget set to use post the failure of Metro, "use Electron" seems about as official as anything else. From day one I planned to use my RSS reader on both desktop computers and a tablet (via Tailscale) and when I got a Meta Quest 3 I found it worked great on that although enlarging touch target to the AAA standard helped a lot.

[...] Hardware, mostly on: - 4 NAS (2 QNAP, 2 Synology) for multimedia, filestorage and backup - Rasperry with Home-Assistant - Linux Webserver on a Mac Mini - OPNsense firewall on a passive cooled MiniPC - Mostly wired 1gbit Ethernet Hardware, on when used: - Mac Notebook - 3 Gaming Rigs / Work PC - 4K-Beamer connected to 2 of the PC's - Meta Quest 3, sometimes used as a screen for the second pc or for VR (VRDesktop) Software: - Home-Assistant to Boot devices that are locked away and sometimes shut-down. [...]

I love wearing the Meta Quest 3 while driving. [...] I can charge it while driving from the USB - C port in the dashboard. [...]

I’ve had a quest 2 since the year it came out and I use it all the time. I’m hoping to upgrade to the three this year due to the controllers finally reaching their end of life, and because I’d rather have a more up to date headset. I would 100 percent recommend a quest headset to anyone.

I received the quest 3 today and I ONLY purchased it because I’ve noticed my Quest 2 getting hot and glitching since the updates. I don’t use it enough for that to even happen so it has to be from the update. Also I think it’s wrong to give an option of 128 or 512 gb knowing what most people will do and with a price tag of almost $700 for the larger gb is WILD! [...]

[...] So, a while ago I got a Quest 2. [...]

Honestly I found I use my Quest 3 WAAAAAAAYYYYY more than I used the Quest 2. Its just more comfortable to wear. [...] Plus the lovely pancake lenses and their huge sweet spot just means getting it clear and comfortable are WAY easier. Its just a vast improvement all around IMO and while I would look at the Quest 2 sometimes and end up going "Naw, its too much hassle to put on and get adjusted", with the Quest 3 its like "Oh yeah this is just easy on and off, time to jump into VR for a half hour or so". Honestly I have used it basically every single day since I got it and with Asgard's Wrath to getting yet another Quest 3 upgrade, that doesn't look like it will change anytime soon.

Well I went right for buying the Quest 3. [...] Besides better comfort, it provides me a battery which has larger capacity for playing even longer times with the Quest 3. [...]

I've done it on an index, higher res than the old vive and significantly less 'screen door'. PPD (pixels per degree): vive 10ppd index 11pdp quest3 25ppd steam frame 30ppd AVP 34ppd while the ppd between the vive and the index is similar, from personal experience the coding experience on the index is far more comfortable, perhaps because of the significantly reduced 'screen door effect'. I haven't purchased a meta quest 3 simply because i have no desire to give zuck money or have any kind of meta account, but perhaps i will have to see if i can't find one on ebay or something for cheap.

I don't need any of the 3 announced Steam hardware products, I already have a decent gaming PC running Steam on Ubuntu, a VR headset (Meta Quest 3, that I would not have bought had I known earlier, though it works wonders streaming PCVR games through ALVR+SteamVR) and a classic Steam controller that is more reliable that my Xbox One one on BLE. But I do benefit from the announcement, because this means Valve will continue investing in the GNU/Linux ecosystem, and this will net more Linux players, which in turn means better software overall. Yay!

I did buy a Meta Quest 3 and was impressed by its overall quality. [...]

I have one of these occasionally I've made a red-cyan anaglyph that has been really striking and I also view my stereograms with a Meta Quest 3. [...] I slide the L/R channels horizontally to keep the image close to the paper which makes the image look like an ordinary photo but a little blurry/stylized but then you put on the glasses and wow. [...]

[...] I own a Meta Quest 3 and this thing is one of the most impressive tech I saw in the last decade. [...] While I’m amazed by the hardware, the thing is totally limited by the software. [...]

only thing I wish this headset didnt suck so bad at is the charging. I mainly use this headset on steam games which I connect to using a cable. that cable should keep the headset charged, there is no reason for the headset to die while plugged in and yet it will slowly discharge during use, this is something pimax has over the quest 3 as it doesnt even need batteries it gets all its power from a gaming pc, but the need for base stations is why I still use the quest more over pimax.

I bought a 512MB Quest 3 on sale (the price has been jacked up again now) and it's a nice headset. [...] Next day it worked, but not with freezing on a few screens during purchase so I wasn't sure or not if I had bought the thing. [...] It works reasonably though and I also have it set up with the Steam app to hook to some Steam games over wifi and that works too.

Personally I came from a RiftS with Occulus/Meta, but I also have a Valve Index - Knuckles Controllers are still the best hands down but the Quest 3 controllers are built like tanks and lightweight, Tracking is much much Better than the RiftS was despite having better placed Camera array. Honestly LCD/Lenses I prefer the Quest 3 the pancake lenses just make that much more a difference, you aren't getting the blacks that the Index has, Its really hard to compare the 2 as the Quest 3 relies on compression versus a native render from the GPU, I wish the Quest 3 had USBtype C with DP support for the USB jack it would honestly make such a difference and a more fair comparable comparison because some games just don't Compress well, although some apps support the AV1 codec which makes a huge difference if you are using NVidia 4000 series. [...] From the RIftS its a major step up, Index though is a bit more complicated, If you have the extra money to toss around I would say get the Quest 3 just because it has the ability to go anywhere. [...] Personally I think the speeds of Wifi 7 will be the key to wireless HMDs having a higher bandwidth allowing for less compression artifacting and image degradation while being more stable as well. [...]

[...] It's just not a good value. [...]

[...] (2) I have a QooCam Ego stereo camera so far my main way of sharing images is the red/cyan anaglyph which only goes so far. [...] It can all be done with WebXR, three.js, A-frame and all that but to get it to work on the Meta Quest 3 I’ll need to be careful about memory management. Might do it someday but I am so busy taking photos, developing photos, posting on my socials, and trying to sell more sports and event work. (3) I want to build a general purpose text classification framework that automatically trains and selects from: bag of words, ModernBERT + pooling + Classical ML , and ModernBERT + (Bi)LSTM. I was working to build one in 2017 at a job which was marginally successful, today I know a lot more and the technology is better. [...]

[...] I did close out my Facebook account in 2016 and I created a new one to go with my Meta Quest 3 last year. [...]

No. Its not. I've had mine for about 6 months, and have used it a grand total of six times.

[...] I nuked my Facebook account in 2016 but made one a year ago to go with my Meta Quest 3. [...]

I use my Meta Quest 3 with Termux & Termux X11 to run full desktop apps, and it works like a charm. No emulation, too! Native ARM64!

It looks good until I reached one bit: Passthrough - Monochrome passthrough via outward facing cameras This is an outright bone-headed move that I can't believe Valve is making. Only having monochrome cameras means augmented reality is basically a non-starter. [...] I literally bought a Meta Quest 3 just for PianoVision [0] when I already had a Valve Index. [...]

No idea, which is notable because I boot into my Meta Quest 3 most nights for sim racing. You'd think I'd have seen it if they were pushing it. I am glad they don't, the headset should be a general computing device first and foremost, launching apps you choose to participate in.

I never use YouTube outside of a browser except on the Meta Quest 3 where you can watch panoramic videos with the app. A big factor is that carriers get to pick what OS you run on your phone. My understanding is that it was the end of Windows Phone when US carriers said they weren't going to activate any devices.

[...] Uploading photos on Instagram is much more of a hassle (takes much longer) than it is on the unfunded web Mastodon client which is developed by open source fanatics who'd I'd expect to have zero empathy for ordinary users. I like the idea of the Meta Quest 3 but so many things, particularly the social features, are terribly thought out and if you're delighted that something works now there's a good chance it will regress next week. If Zuck fired his whole front end team in Silicon Valley and hired some good FE people in Minnesota, retired and put a rando in charge I bet he'd be worth 5x as much overnight.

In my experience, web applications make good iPad applications. And if you hit WCAG AAA standards they even make good XR applications for the Meta Quest 3. I don't have much interest in learning how to make iOS-only apps, not least because the app store puts the brakes on plain-ordinary software development, never mind vibe coding.

[...] These work great on desktop, great on iPad, pretty good on Android and sorta OK on phones where the screen size is a little too small. I even found out they work great on the Meta Quest 3, where it isn't a real XR app but I can view and sort images on three great big monitors hanging in my room or in a Japanese temple [1] For years I had a series of bottom-of-the-line Android phones that left me thinking that "app" is a contraction of "crap" as opposed to "application". [...] On the iPhone a number of factors come together for the app to be worthwhile but I think it was never true on the iPad and web applications have long been undervalued, even though the experience of most web apps on the iPad, even if they weren't designed for it, is the definition of "just works". It's an astonishing mistake that Apple never caught up with the Microsoft Surface and made the iPad Pro compatible with Mac applications, from a hardware reason there is no reason why not other than Apple thinks anyone who buys a Pro is made of money and can afford a macbook too -- it's like the way Digital struggled in the microcomputer age because they were afraid that cheap microcomputers compatible with the PDP-11 or VAX would cut off their minicomputer business. It's hard to say what part of the Vision Pro failure was "too expensive" (the Meta Quest consumer thinks the MQ3 is too expensive) vs the moral judgement that using controllers is like putting your hand in a toilet; the MQ3 shows you can make great fully immersive games and experiences if you have controllers... At Vision Pro prices the

[...] Most of those don't work for me except in the sense that I learn 'sounds like I have a cold' means 'the sound is supposed to be above me'. The exception is my Hololens where if I use the web browser to play music and turn around it really sounds like the music is coming from behind me. I have yet to be impressed by spatial audio on my Meta Quest 3. [1] Oddly the surround sound soundtracks that impress me the most are old VHS tapes encoded with Dolby Pro Logic [2] let's see... [...]

I have an RSS reader that learns my preferences the way TikTok does. Got an image sorter based on the same principles. (What a blast to be viewing and sorting images on three huge web browser windows in my Meta Quest 3) As for coffee I just pour my own drip coffee at the cafe that is between the bus stop and my office or I go to the gas station near home or the 7-11 in Collegetown and 'order' it off a touch screen like

[...] That software has been through some rewrites and revisions and now I use it as an RSS reader and as an "image sorter", boy was it fun to be viewing and sorting images in it with three huge windows with my Meta Quest 3 last night.

[...] The other day I thought I might try it on the Meta Quest 3 and it "just worked"; it could use a little enlargement of UI targets in accordance with Fitt's law but it works great now and with a little customization but being surrounded with three huge windows already feels halfway to "minority report" In a world where web-based apps are effortlessly portable to platforms I wasn't even thinking about, it's hard to justify any investment in an application that doesn't have those wings. [...]

I work lying down using my Meta Quest 3 sometimes when my back gets sore. I love it.

[...] Personally I got the 3DS around the time that my presbyopia got bad but I thought the images looked really great with my reading glasses. [...] (I'm a little sad that I never got to see You don't lose quality in principle from this scheme but you do lose brightness and the real answer is "it's complicated" when you change the frame rate. [...] My best 3D viewer right now is a Meta Quest 3 on which I've watched Space Station 3D and The Rise of Skywalker though sometimes I think about picking up a used 3D TV. If a monitor or TV supports high frame rates you could get 3D for free if it wasn't for the shutter glasses being rather expensive.

I hardly ever shop at Amazon anymore because (1) so many of the product listings are word salad, and (2) I've complained and they tell me they don't care. I opened a Facebook account to use with a Meta Quest 3; I haven't otherwise used Facebook or added friends but it generates a feed for me anyway that looks like subprime spam from after the heat death, on a level of "sketchy" well past the come-ons for pig butchering scams I get on Skype.