Quest 3 arrived. I’m pretty happy. It’s quite a step up for standalone. Very first impression was that the interface was sharp to the point of being pristine. The downside at the moment is that there aren’t any launch titles, but there are a few impressive quest 2 titles that have upgraded for launch.
I keep seeing people say that Red Matter 2 genuinely rivals Pcvr now, but the quest 2 version was a work of wizardry anyway.
I plumped for a new game that came out recently called Dungeons of Eternity which, it turns out, is an absolute cracker of a dungeon crawler and feels like the kind of dungeon crawling roguelite I’d happily play on pancake vision too. Hopefully I can persuade some questies to get a copy because it’s got 4 player coop too, which would be fantastic.
I loved the hour I played solo anyway. Visually, you can toggle the upgraded graphics and it really showed what the difference was. I’d say it easily rivalled most of the better indie psvr2 games I tried. Not the AAA ones, mind; but definitely knocks the socks off the likes of Light Brigade.
I didn’t see any form of visual aberration either. No god rays, no screen door. Nothing.
It’s also very comfortable. It’s not lighter than Q2, but it feels much lighter because it’s smaller and closer to your head. The stretchy strap is just fine as a result, but I’ll end up getting a 3rd party one with a battery because battery life is the Achilles heel. I reckon about 2 and a half hours.
There’s a lot of other things I want to try. There’s some interesting productivity stuff like displaying monitors from your Mac or pc, and I’m in the process of setting up my rig again, so I’ll be diving into ACC for sure. Plus I want to give Alyx another go with my new laptop.
But even without that, for my use case, I’m delighted with it.
