Stan, also known as Stako, is a smartphone enthusiast who loves exploring the limits of Android customization. His journey with mobile tech began with the Nokia 5110 and evolved with devices like the BlackBerry 9350 Curve and Samsung Galaxy A4.
Meta’s first attempt at a pro-grade XR headset is impressive on paper: both in terms of specs and price tag, but those set expectations that simply don’t match reality.
For a headset that comes with a lot of stuff, it’s amazing that it feels like it’s missing components. | Image credit — PhoneArena If you think that 12GB of RAM is overkill, keep in mind that this headset isn’t for you. It’s, allegedly, for developers, who have some sort of higher cognition that allows them to take advantage of this amount of memory.
The cushions where you’re supposed to plant your face and neck are made out of this material, which feels like something between rubber and faux leather. No joke, this thing feels so soft that I accidentally tightened my headset a bit too much a few times, when I didn’t really have to: the material is also really grippy, without feeling like it’s trying to tear your skin away.
Oh, and yes: it does have an accelerometer built-in, which could’ve been used to detect if there was any sort of motion, specifically of the type that one would execute when trying to equip themselves with any sort of headgear, butWell, at least you can turn this nifty knob to move the lenses around, so you could wear your glasses while wearing the headset on too. Neat!The same lenses will be on the Meta Quest 3 too.
What I’m not about is everything being a fuzzy blur, or the impossibility of making out anything beyond big objects, or reaching out for my water bottle feeling like the risk of a lifetime, or the live feed constantly wiggling like I’m lying belly-first on asphalt during a hot summer day.and in color. But, honestly, big whoop. It still looks like a fever dream from some sort of Picasso painting, which personally had me feeling physically worn out after testing.
Lastly, a bit of good news for everyone: the displays are painfully bright. Now, I did get annoyed by the lack of an easy way to lower said brightness, because it really is blinding at times, but I definitely appreciated the stark blacks.All rendered content on the Quest Pro looks great! It’s sharp and that specific blur that typically becomes really obvious when viewing VR content on a flat screen is almost non-existent when you put the headset on.
So, you know how Android basically nailed the concept of a quick access menu and that’s been around for about a decade now? Well, Meta hasn’t gotten the memo, even despite the fact that the Quest Pro is running on the same ‘Droid-based OS like theHere’s Meta’s interpretation of that: if an icon is grayed out, the toggle is turned off, unless we’re talking about eye-tracking, which is gray by default and then turns red when it’s off, but other toggles are blue when they are on, but then don’t...
But whatever you do, just don’t rely on Air Link without setting up a dedicated network for it. From my experience, I can just say that I’m really happy that I’ve tried it during October, because now I have the perfect story for 2023’s Halloween season. Suddenly, I found myself in a deadly game of “The more you touch this slider, the more the Quest Pro stutters and starts to overheat!”. And when I say “deadly”, I mean that after a few attempts everything started lagging so much that the Quest Pro and my PC collectively crashed.
The fact that Meta didn’t include a cable to link up то my PC with made me feel like it expects me to repurchase titles — which I already own elsewhere, like Steam — on the Quest platform again. And if I didn’t like that, I could go for the alternative: buy a new, costly cable.Fun fact, the Quest Pro’s controllers are sold separately too. | Image credit — PhoneArena
Both of these bad boys have built-in, rechargeable batteries and I can confirm that they are batteries that recharge. If you put them on the dock, they charge more slowly, so Meta gave you a cable in the box that allows you to charge them more swiftly. Also, a bit of advice: when putting the headset and the controllers on the dock, make sure that their LED indicators light up. Just saying. It's not like I left them there overnight, but positioned in the wrong way and then spent an hour wondering what went wrong or anything.Tracking is possible thanks to all of these tiny cameras found all over the setup. | Image credit — PhoneArena
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