Oculus Quest 2 - $299

That is a great price for that. I still think VR is a niche market but at that price I can see more jumping on board

Cool and all, and exactly what I expected would happen; i.e. subsequent generation devices being better and more affordable.

But... ...Facebook. Urgh. Just urgh. I hope somebody less yucky comes along and compete with them head-on on this.

Dam, that's a pretty amazing price.

Yea, regardless of Facebook being insidious this shit is going to do very well.

the more vr sold = cheaper tech in the future.

i hope the psvr2 will launch at 199 though.

Personally, couldn't care less even if it was $99. In all these years the tech has been available, there's only 1 game (Alyx) worth buying and playing. Even the Switch has more good games, and that's saying a lot.

Gameplay wise enjoying Until You Fall a lot more than Alyx.

Alyx is great for sure, but this game really pins down melee combat, hella fun.

Wow they just announced a new Splinter Cell game for Quest 2 but I still will never ever buy a Oculus product again since they require a FB account F**k um.

VR is the future, it's time to stop struggling.

299 for a Facebook account, cool.

@warmblur:

Yet another Splinter Cell-related stuff that's NOT Splinter Cell 7. Haha. Ubisoft sure do love to troll Splinter Cell fans.

Yves Guillemot must have a decanter on his desk so he could feed on their broken spirits to keep himself young.

creepy :D

MS has a 299 price point, Oculus has a 299 price point, Nintendo has a 299 price point. Does this mean Sony will offer a 299 price point??

Can't say I have a problem with a Splinter Cell spin off as long as it's A) good and B) An actual stealth game

An Ass Creed game as well, franchise is generally shit, but who knows. Might fair better in VR.

Finally japan has cured its country's depression. As stupid as i think this is I think there is a spark of genius.

That price is crazy. Pretty much every spec is better compared to the Quest 1 which came out just a year ago (except same storage capacity for the $299 line). I did read the Quest 2 strap is not that great though. On certain heads it will just keep sliding down. But they sell an "Elite Strap" and maybe that is more sturdy and balanced.

I guess they had to cut costs there to bring it down to $299.

I must've missed the news. The Xbox Series X is $299?

Get third party shit as well, they'll try to sell accessories for anything humanly possible.

Even for this Rift S ended up buying a new face cover, while the default is ok, was worth getting a better one for comfort.

I said "has a 299 price point" meaning an option at 299

The original Quest head strap kind of sucked there were mods out there for it

This is a great price considering the entry level of VR is significant for the ones that require a rig. In any event, you still need a rig to play the best VR games.

I actually am impressed with VR, but it could be much better.

You'd be surprised. Astro Bot is a better platformer than Mario Odyssey. I know that's a PSVR game, but it goes to show that VR titles are a lot better than people realize - the trouble is they don't get much attention due to lack of marketing, so you might not even hear about games like Astro Bot.

This then causes people to assume that Alyx is the only truly good VR game, because it was the most marketed title.

Wow, this is great. Can somebody knowledgeable confirm or deny whether this would be able to run Half-Life: Alyx?

If you hook it to a PC yea, standalone, nope.

@hardwenzen: Beat saber is worth it

The facebook requirement stuff is horseshit but i don't care that much personally. I pre-ordered mine today, im pretty damn excited. VR is actually pretty damn fun if you try it and the quest 2 is a smoking deal

While i haven't played the game, this is not what i want from VR. I want immersive AAA titles like Alyx, CP2077, Demon's Souls, etc. Not interested in some indie games, mini games or any of this 1-4 hours long shovelware.

Ahh of course, makes sense. Cheers for that.

Hopefully they make a good 3rd party strap. If not, the Elite Strap doesn't seem like a bad choice at all at $50 (reviewers say it feels really good and solid). And someone said there's a "hidden" $80 version not listed yet that is the Elite Strap + battery.

But yes, the default foam gaskets and what-not for a lot of these VR headsets aren't usually good. Definitely need to spend a bit more for some comfort mods if one wants to spend a lot of time in VR.

I didn't realize it sounded sarcastic but I honestly didn't follow the news lately (I only logged on because yesterday had two big tech events I was interested in -- Oculus and Sony), and thought the Xbox Series X was announced at $299 and Microsoft was stunning the world with the price. Now I realize it's their digital-only line.

@whatafailure: it is all good.. sorry for being snarky :D

In this forum you can never tell who is being snide and who is actually seriously interacting :D