Since the planet has encountered a fatal exception, we saw fit to try the Oculus Quest. Supply chain issues made it nearly impossible to acquire, but we still managed to get our hands on one. I (Devin) and my partner (Christopher Martin) have been playing with it for a while and we’re far more impressed than we were with the Oculus Go we’d tried before.
This sophisticated headset actually maps out the room using cameras and lets you setup virtual boundaries to keep you from running into a wall, television, or sofa. Perhaps devices like these will inspire us to change the layout of our homes. Perhaps someday we’ll have rooms dedicated to VR.
Oculus Quest is a self-contained unit powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, but it can also connect to a computer to crank up the detail.
The new house has a living room with plenty of space for VR. We are both impressed with the way it can track the room, the controllers, and motion.
Much like the Oculus Go, the Oculus Quest runs a Facebook-flavored version of Google’s Android OS with a custom interface. It lets users download applications from Facebook’s own app store. One of my favorite apps AltSpace. It lets users explore virtual worlds using avatars and has regular events involving education, current events, religion, and spaces for intellectual discussions about subjects like technology, news, and even death.
