I had the Oculus quest DK2 before oculus was bought by Facebook and enjoyed playing whatever people made, but the more Facebook locked everything down the less interested I became in VR.

Now you can’t even play with a quest unless you have a Facebook account, and it seems so easy to get locked out of your account on purpose or accidentally.

Are there unlocked VR headsets that I can just have fun with instead of being locked into one company and their products?

Thanks

  • paraphrandEnglish
    2•4 months ago

    Meta owns Facebook. It use to be Facebook owned Facebook. But they changed the overall company name.

    You don’t need a Facebook account.

    The Quest works with SteamVR (PCVR) via a few methods.

    The Index is sold by valve. And while it’s a good HMD it is also end of life and not manufactured anymore. But they do have stock.

    The PSVR2 might be an option for using with PCVR soon. The adapter comes out soon.

    • @[email protected]English
      8•4 months ago

      You need a Meta account for quest with steam VR no matter what now. Even Gen 1. There were changes made a while back that broke the ability to do otherwise unfortunately.

      I now have a Gen 1 that’s a paperweight.

    • @EvilBitEnglish
      8•4 months ago

      Yeah. Never buy Meta. Ever. PSVR2 is on sale and incredible, but the lifespan may be short. Index is good, but definitely showing its age.

      The ideal current PC setup if money is no object is probably the Bigscreen Beyond with Index controllers.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•4 months ago

      I would add on that if you are sensitive to compression artifacts and latency which you are going to get with a standalone headset streaming games, a native PCVR headset will look better.