This week has been crazy for the VR industry.
We got so many updates and good news that I’m beyond excited.
We got news from Sony that they are making a PSVR 2 and I know a lot of you may not be
interested in that since you need a PS5 for it, but it is excellent news that Sony still
sees value in VR.
It also means more ways for developers to make money and that hopefully means more content
for all of us.
I was starting to think Sony may have backed out, and that would have been bad.
Anyways, today I wanted to cover five more tangible things.
Oculus released new updates on Quest 2 again.
They are really pumping these things right now.
But some of these things you can use immediately or in the short term.
Like wireless PC VR streaming is now on the official Quest store, and a TIMELINE has been
released for the 120Hz refresh rate for Quest 2, so in this video, I’ll tell you when
this is coming as well as talk about the other cool updates.
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Let’s start with the best news, in my opinion!
Virtual Desktop, which a lot of us use for wireless PC VR streaming on Quest, is now
on the official Quest store.
Before, Oculus did NOT allow this feature to be on the Quest store as they thought it
didn’t qualify for their Virtual Reality guidelines.
Basically, they thought it would make too many people motion sick because of latency
and all that.
So to get this working on Quest, you had to do a lot of complicated steps like turning
on developer mode and sideload a patch to get it working.
It was all very confusing.
So the good news is that Oculus now decided to reverse their decision.
Now, all you have to do to get wireless PC VR streaming on your Quest is… buy and download
Virtual Desktop on the Quest store.
Then get the PC version of the Virtual Desktop Streamer.
Put in your username on both Quest and your PC, and you are ready to go.
I highly recommend it if you can get a good working 5ghz local wireless network running,
because then this works great.
My latest video on the fast-paced Hyper Dash game actually used Virtual Desktop, well,
Chary did.
Go watch if you have haven’t yet *shameless plug lol*
But back to the news, I think this is great news for the Virtual Desktop developer, Guy
Godin, so big congrats to him.
I know many of you didn’t want to do the many steps to get this working; now, you don’t
have to.
The dev also added some improvements, as he always does, so even if you already have it,
go check it out again.
Moving on…
Now, I’m not sure if you saw it already, but v25 wasn’t even out for long and not
even everybody had it, but we already got v26.
Which includes a pretty cool new feature, a way to mark a couch from real life to bring
it inside VR.
This feature is being rolled out gradually, so it may take like a week or two before you
get this.
It will then be an experimental feature, so you have to find it under Settings > Experimental
Feature.
Here you can add or remove a couch at the ‘Bring Your Sofa into VR section.
To add one, you draw the couch in the passthrough camera mode by touching one side of your real
couch and then dragging a blue rectangle to the other side.
And after the setup, you’ll see a standard couch model inside VR, so you know exactly
where your couch is while playing games.
For when you need to rest, I guess.
But I think this is a very nice feature, especially if you have some kind of chair in your play
space.
It’s nice to switch from standing to seated quickly.
Ok, next, I got something exciting.
Last week, I already covered this during my VR Update video that the 120Hz refresh rate
MIGHT be coming.
This was all based on Boz, the Facebook Vice President, replying on a question during his
AMA with a thumbs up.
Not a lot of info, but I know it’s gotten a lot of you excited.
Now, I have confirmation for you that it is coming, because a timeline was released.
Oculus updated their roadmap that now includes the 120Hz refresh support (experimental).
And it is releasing in the upcoming 3 months.
It’s even expected in March already.
They describe this as: This release offers experimental support for 120Hz refresh rates
only for apps that support it.
The feature will happen in two parts - API support for devs, Experimental Settings toggle
to enable 120Hz and user being able to toggle 120Hz for supported apps.
Very, very nice, I didn’t expect it to come so soon, and I didn’t know for sure if it
was coming on Quest 2 or maybe on a refreshed version.
But now, it does look like all Quest 2 users will get this.
So good news for all current owners.
So what games do you think will get 120Hz?
I’m betting on Superhot VR and Beat Saber for sure.
Let me know.
And this week, another update was released, but this is a weird one and one I do not like
at all, honestly.
This is a new opt-in experimental feature rolled out on Quest 2 and only for countries
with voice activation available.
Which is not in my country by the way but now I’m a bit glad as you now can say…
Hey Facebook to activate voice commands.
Not Hey Oculus, but Hey Facebook.
*Moment of silence*…
One last piece of news came out just yesterday as Boz did another AMA on his Instagram.
Someone asked…
Why can’t Oculus make a 600$ headset and put the best specs like Quest Pro 3 etc plz.
- This is what he said about it…
Boz: Quest Pro huh?
Interesting….
*wink*
Again, not much info but looks more a tease.
So take it with a grain of salt.
I do think it is confirmation they are THINKING about this.
But I still honestly do not believe we will be getting a Pro or a Quest 3 this year as
it would just not make any sense.
There are still so many people interested in the Quest 2, which is already a great headset
compared to others, and I know there are still so many people looking to buy one in the near
future.
It would just crush the Quest 2 sales if they released a better version now.
Much more realistic I would think, is that they may release a new version next year,
and this year we may get like an updated refreshed version with some better specs but not very
interesting upgrades.
More like a Quest 2 plus or something.
I think we may be getting some info on what they are doing soon as Oculus tends to come
out with something in Quarter 2.
But what are your predictions?
Is a Quest 3 coming or do you agree with me?
And what upgrades would you like to see?
I would love to know.
So put it in the comments below!
Ok ok, one last bonus one.
I wanted to include this as it looks interesting and I’m a fan.
We are getting a Star Wars, The Mandalorian, Pinpall game for Quest.
Yes yes yes, at first I was like, okay why Pinpall but then I saw you can go from pinpall
to 3d 360 environments in VR like an interdimensional shift.
Plus you can customize your own room with Baby Yoda.
Sold.
Now, I hope you enjoyed this video.
I didn’t expect to make this one, actually, but I couldn’t not as there’s just so
much to be excited about.
For some reason, Oculus is going crazy with updates, which is, of course, not a bad thing.
I love it.
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