Given how well the finger and hand tracking for Oculus Quest is progressing, Facebook's investment in virtual reality may have been in hindsight a very smart investment.<p>The way I see the future of VR is not so much games, but virtual meetings and virtual sports. Still waiting for that headset that's comfortable to use while sweating. Beat Saber and its like are really a great way to exercise.<p>Oculus Quest 2 might very well be the breakthrough product people who are rooting for VR have been waiting for.
My family has officially been put under quarantine since April 30th, which means we were not permitted to leave the house since then. A friend, who owns an Oculus Quest was so nice to bring it to our house so we have something to do. We tried it and while it was an amazing experience (Superhot is totally cool), the novelty wore off pretty quickly.
After three days my kids were back at playing Minecraft and I am back to programming and playing Sudoku (thanks Simon!).<p>So from my experience, the answer is "maybe a little bit, but probably not for long".
Google Street View application on iOS used to have support for cardboard-like VR goggles, where one would make use of their mobile phone as a low cost glimpse into the VR world. What a better way to experience VR than by exploring some streets across the world.<p>Unfortunately, the iOS application has a bug for the past year where this functionality is not working any more, and there are no signs that updates will bring it back.<p>[0] <a href="https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/google-street-view/id904418768" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/google-street-view/id904418768</a>
I've been waiting for something like the Quest for a long time, and I think it's great.<p>Heads up for those who are considering hooking it up to SteamVR, though-- while I did get it working over my WiFi six months or so ago, it was a lot of hassle to even load up the environment so I stopped messing with it in hopes the experience would improve.<p>After reading lots of good things about such alleged improvements, last night I tried again. The whole convoluted process had changed enough that even after a couple hours of tinkering I couldn't get it to work. I also somehow temporarily hosed the HDMI audio out on my gaming PC, which was very stressful as this is how my S.O. and I watch all our shows together on a daily basis.<p>So if you don't have a lot of patience for possibly hours of fruitless/destructive screwing around (which probably won't work the same way in a few months), maybe try to wait until you can find an Oculus Link cable or 3rd party substitute. My two cents to save you what I went through.
I dusted off my GearVR and only used it for a few hours on and off but it was extremely effective. The Quest was sold out so I’ll wait. Definitely for some people it will be extremely helpful.
What is so hard about staying home with your family, working, reading, playing games and watching Netflix? Jeez, people in living memory have endured so much more, so much more gracefully.