- This is the brand new Oculus Quest 2.
And when Oculus reached out
and wanted to sponsor a video on it,
I couldn't say no.
There are three brand new features with the Quest 2.
First of all, it is more powerful,
it also has better screens,
and importantly, it is now cheaper.
Three things I love to see with a new piece of tech.
So why don't we take a look and see what we've got here?
Whoo, you know what?
I like this packaging.
I feel this is a very like kinesthetic on this.
So this is the 64 gig model,
although you can also opt to go up to a 256 gig,
I don't need a knife.
What am I doing?
There's a pull tab right here.
The first Quest really was a huge step forward for VR.
Now there had been completely untethered experiences
in the past,
but that was really the first headset in my opinion,
to really kind of take it up to the next level,
and the Quest 2 improves on that even further.
So, whoo.
It's a really nice texture.
I'm really excited to try this.
I mean, I've been making videos on VR
ever since the early prototypes of the Oculus rift back in,
is it 2013, 2014?
And to imagine that we've come that far
to something which is completely portable like this
is really exciting.
Couple things to point out,
we do have a USB-C port here,
as well as we have a headphone jack.
And on the other side, we just have a couple of buttons.
So we have our volume rocker over here
and I assume that is the power button.
We also have the upgrade Oculus Touch Controller.
So if you use the original Quest,
these are going to be familiar,
which makes sense because this
is still backless compatible with original Quest games.
What you get here is a design language
which is slightly more influenced by the rift.
You have an upgrade battery doors
should be a little bit more secure.
And of course you still have all
of your buttons on the inside,
as well as you have your triggers and your inner triggers
which is especially important for a VR game.
You want to be able to reach down pick things up,
shoot, etcetera.
So now why don't we actually spend some time
using the Quest 2?
Because there are a number of major advances.
First of all, we gotta go
for the good old classic Beat Saber AKA
the game that I always stuck at.
Eric no, I love getting into a good rhythm here.
I would say the comfortability is nice.
So I'm using this completely standard.
So there are optional like head straps.
So if you would like you can upgrade to that.
I'm using it in the stock configuration.
It seems fine.
I've gotta give a shout out to the audio.
So of course you can hook up
a standard headset if you'd like
but what I find is that it actually is really impressive
at how good the audio is
with literally just the headset itself.
And especially if you're listening to my mic right now,
you should actually really hear it.
Like if you're around you can barely hear it,
but it almost sounds like you're using
like an open pair of headphones, huh?
Do the head tracking is so good on this?
I think that's one of the things
that's really impressive about the Quests 2 specifically
but even the original Quest had this.
Just how good the tracking is.
It does such a great job of placing you in the world
and consider you don't have a bunch of sensors
or anything around,
it's all being done inside the headset
with the inside out tracking.
This is really impressive.
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Oh, that's fun.
Okay, this is bad.
I don't like this.
Ah, no.
Oh, that's a fast one, that's a fast one,
get over here.
(gun shots)
Rubber ducky. I won that.
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So this is my first time trying DiRT Rally 2.0
running on the PC via Oculus link.
Well okay. I'm in the game.
Yep. All right.
That's a, that's the thing.
One of the interesting things about Oculus link
is that it actually
isn't just like, you're just plugging the headset dumb.
I mean, it's still handling all the tracking
but the PC is handling running the actual game now
it's all being transmitted via USB-C.
It's impressive at how, like,
as I move my head around the cockpit,
it how natural it feels. Right.
I know a lot of times when you get...
Okay. You get experiences that aren't completely optimized.
It can feel a little bit uncomfortable
but I'm impressed with just how smooth this really is.
So with the help of my good buddy, Eugene here,
let me give you a little bit
of a closer look at the Oculus Quest 2 headset.
Now, one of the first things
is really something that you can't see
but rather you feel.
The headset is about 10% lighter than the original Quest,
and that makes a big difference.
I mean, you have to consider
that this is essentially a full VR experience
with all of your sensors,
all of your cameras,
your processor,
your battery, screens, everything in this head-mounted unit
which means that that weight is a very big deal.
The heavier it is the more uncomfortable it's going to be.
So the thing is with the Quest 2,
what you're getting is a pair
of higher resolution displays.
So each eye gets a very high, nearly 2K resolution
and on top of that it runs at a higher frame rate.
So whereas the original Quest topped out
at about 72 FPS, this goes all the way up to 90.
And to be fair content does need to be optimized
to take full advantage
of the resolution and of the frame rate.
But just like when you get
a new console generation for example
developers will continue to update their games and get them
up and running as best as possible on the Quest 2,
but the nice thing is that is still compatible
with all of the original Quest 2.
Everything will work and some games will look even better
and run even better.
Now in large part, that is
because the Quest 2 is also a much more powerful headset.
So as opposed to the Snapdragon 835 in the original Quest,
this is using the specific
full VR Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chip set.
What that means is
that now you get a tone more performance,
you get more RAM,
you also get things like wiFi 6 built in
and that will enable much more graphically intensive games.
And that is a multiple generation step in performance.
And all of that being said,
the Quest 2 is cheaper.
This is a 64 gigabyte model
and it comes in at $299
with your upgraded touch controllers.
There's not- - [Ken] very unsettling.
- I can't quite, he doesn't really wanna hold it.
He's not very,
look, at least he has his wrist straps on.
Always be safe kids.
Always be safe.
We don't wanna wee this thing.
So one of the things that I really wanna try
the, I know you were using earlier is virtual.
Is it Virtual Desktop?
- [Ken] Virtual Desktop.
- All right.
So right now I am looking at the monitor
on the PC that I think is over there somewhere.
Now, what this is cool for is if I say
Oh yeah, I'm gonna open up the Nvidia control panel.
Oh, you haven't set up your Nvidia control panel, Ken.
- [Ken] No. - All right.
We're going to go on to some of the dark cinema.
Now I'm going to go into the computer room.
So ever since the early days of VR,
you've been able to watch video and it makes sense right?
VR is a very natural home theater experience,
but with something like this,
it really is kind of next level, right?
So I'm sitting in this room,
I've got the Zuck staring down at me, very kindly,
but essentially I can just sit here
and look at what looks to be essentially a real desk.
I have a keyboard, I have a computer, I have the monitor.
And I think where this really kind of helps
to push the experience forward
is in the resolution.
Of course you have to consider that these screens,
these pixels are very close to your eye, right?
So when it comes to VR, the ability
for you to have a very high risk experience is important
for these sort of
to avoid the screen door effect essentially just
to look more realistic.
I mean, yeah, of course.
Can I see some pixels?
Yes, but I mean, it's pretty impressive.
Like I can easily sit here and watch this video
and it looks almost as sharp
as if I was looking at a real monitor right in front of me.
It might not be time to throw
your original Quest in the garbage
but if you were interested in mobile VR,
I do think that the Oculus Quest 2,
is hands down the best option.
In fact, I'll go farther than that.
I think the Quest 2 is the best way
to play VR period at the moment.
Of course huge thank you
to Oculus for sponsoring this video.
But I mean what I say.
If you were at all interested in VR
the Quest 2 is absolutely where it's at.
Eugene agrees.
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- [Ken] Does he?
Yeah. Look at the smug look of satisfaction on his face.
He can't believe how great the graphics are.