Ok here are the reasons I currently recommend AGAINST purchasing the Oculus Quest and some reasons I DO recommend it. Depends on how each of these reasons affects you. Reasons to NOT buy the Quest
1. Price, at up to $500, it's not cheap.
2. Poor quality visuals. There doesn't seem to be any dispute about this, the only dispute I've found is that people saying for some reason that it doesn't matter that the visuals are poor? Here's the link to the video someone posted justifying the poor visuals of the Quest:
3. If you have a VR ready PC, that experience is far superior and the only "benefit of the Quest" being that it's "wireless", an issue that some don't see as much of a difference, including myself, especially due to things like routing your VR HMD cables through ceiling pulleys.
4.Currently there seem to be some issues with the Quest, most notably is that there are a ton of people experiencing visual glitches, and others are saying they audio crackling and some reporting dead pixels on the tracking cameras, although I think they are mistaking tracking markers in the camera software, especially since they seem to go away or change. See the following link:
5. There just isn't much available for it right now on the store as far as games and apps go. When the Go was launched there was vastly more available than there is currently for the Quest, although over time this should clear itself up.
6. For the apps and games that are currently available for the Quest, the prices are the same as the PC VR versions. While this is basically a glorified Go/GearVR. Almost *ALL* of your GearVR purchases are also available for the Go WITHOUT you being FORCED to purchase them again in order to enjoy them on the Go. This however is *NOT* the case for the Oculus Quest. If you want to play it on the Quest but you bought it on the Go or GearVR, well you need to pony up the cash AGAIN!
Reasons you SHOULD buy the Quest:
1.If you want to experience 6DoF VR but don't have the financial resources for PCVR hardware, this is a much cheaper alternative. Vastly cheaper.
2.The Quest is mobile, you can take it on vacation, to friend's house, etc.. Pretty much anywhere you have enough space to have a 6DoF experience.
3.Accepting the limitations of the Quest, you can still really enjoy it, it has some really fun experiences, as long as you don't have your expectations too high.
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