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Hugh_Lebowski

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1. I played Half Life - Alyx on a Quest 2 that cost like $299
Sun Aug 15, 2021, 02:34 PM
Aug 2021

It's reasonably comfortable, and I played it wirelessly (although that was a bit of a hack, it's not hard to implement and I think will soon be officially supported if it's not already). Game as a whole worked pretty damn well, and it was awesome I should add

It did require also having a reasonably beefy PC to actually run the game and transmit it to the headset. I was playing it at the highest settings, however, and one only needs about a $150 GPU to play it at medium, and a basic i5 or Ryzen 3000 series is plenty of CPU grunt.

Probably still a bit away from having a headset that can support really life-like graphics in a stand-alone (no PC needed) format, however, but there's some decent-looking games out that can run on the Quest/Quest 2 alone.

Once they start putting out that games that fully take advantage of Quest 2's greater power, we'll get stand-alone games that look better. Everything being made now still supports (and looks the same) on Quest 1, which is handicapping the newer unit a bit.

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