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
Your best options are psvr2 with pc adapter and index. You will need steam to use them so some type of account is needed no matter what option you choose.
Okay, got it. Appreciate it. I’ll look into that, I’m watching videos about current headsets now.
PSVR2 just got marked for a temporary discount, $200 off
https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-consoles/playstationvr2
Dayummmm good looking OUT!
Thanks.
Wow that is a tempting price.
If I had to buy a headset right now then I’d be leaning towards an Index, but it’s a few years old now and price is basically unchanged (though in practice it might be seen as a relative reduction, since everything else has gone up). There’s ofc. some speculation about an Index 2, perhaps around the end of the year, but if you can’t wait a second hand Index might be a better value option than buying one new.
Oh, good to know… I can wait, I’m just trying to get back into the scene again, why is the index your preferred device?
I mean everything is still speculation regarding the Index 2, there have been a few patent applications filed but noone knows for sure.
At least for the time being, Valve seems to be one of the few large corporations which most of the time seem to have customers’ best interests at heart, while other large corporations tend to have more of a history of screwing their users over every chance they get. And while SteamVR on Linux isn’t great, there are at least some efforts being made. Pimax Crystal Light seemed like another good option on paper, but there appear to be severe quality control issues at the moment, and IIRC it requires a buggy Windows-only driver to work. Somnium VR1 looks great but the price made it a no-option for me.
I’d rather get something that’s been a bit battle tested, I like the index and the psvr2, man there are so many options it’s going to take a bit to narrow things down.
Although 350 for the psvr2 is real difficult to dismiss
I’m not sure how the big screen beyond works but i don’t think it needs an account either right? Aren’t there more pcvr headsets that can just plug into a PC and use steam directly?
If you use it the official way, you will need a steam account to make it work since it is a steamVR headset. It can also work with Monado, an OpenXR runtime, but support is not quite complete. LVRA is a great source of information about linux VR. To my knowledge, both Oculus VR runtime and SteamVR will require accounts to use.