hello everyone today we're going to be taking a look at the oculus quest 2. today i'm going to be
unboxing it seeing what's in the box getting it set up and getting my first impressions in
so it isn't a sort of plastic wrap but i don't actually need to do anything with that because
there's this little tab here so i can just sort of pull that and look at that that's what
now this is the oculus quest 2 but it's changed its name so it's now the meta quest 2. so if
you're sort of confused why i'm saying meta quest 2 or why i might accidentally say oculus quest 2
they're the same thing it's all sort of facebook's new branding so wrapper is off we've got obviously
a little list of what's inside the box here so we've got vr headsets silicon cover for
facial interface two quest two touch controllers two double a batteries a power adapter glasses
spacer and a charging cable that does say on here facebook account required that should be changing
very very soon if not potentially now when i open this um and you'll just need a meta account as
opposed to a facebook account not that i actually know what the difference is so over here we've got
some examples of some games that you have on it hopefully i won't be buying all of these straight
away because i've just wasted all of my money on this but eventually i might buy a couple of games
so we can have a little look and see what they're like so let's flip this around and open it up
meta quest 2 lovely so i can just oh that's nice it's got this sort of nice little uh
pull to open thing oh lovely and there we go there it is so you've got some basic instructions up
here and you know what that is things just to keep that in place uh you got the controllers
nice and little wrist straps that are included on them a little pull tab i'm assuming that's to
sort of engage the battery uh same on the other side no different there got this little box here
with meta quest two and then you just obviously this is your charging cables so you get charged
so usb c to usb c you can also use that i from what i'm aware you can use that to
transfer files over so if you record videos on it you can use that to
move that over onto your mac i've got a little uk usbc plug that's nice to have
and then i'm assuming some sort of manuals and stuff like that here
we've got reference guide safety warranty guide it's not even like a setup guide nice um
we don't need safety let's pop that away and this is the piece to resistance actually well
before we do that we got a bunch of stuff stuffed in here as well so
you've got your glasses spacer that's to just a few of glasses it gives you a little bit more
room we've got in here a little silicon cover so i guess if you're sharing this you don't
want the sort of foam to get all horrible and sweaty you can sort of cover that with that nice
they're designed to fit over the quest 2 standard facial interface all right
then you've got in here we've lenses left to right to find the clearest view okay so you
have to move them manually that's interesting and then obviously this is the quest itself
is that paper it's actually got a paper covering for our fault that feels really really bad
but that's because it's paper that just slides off so let's move this out the way and let's
have a look at this thing in a bit more detail okay so we have obviously the headset here you've
got some cameras around and it does everything inside itself so this is one of the things that
i really wanted to find out really because um i had this idea in my mind of what vr was
and that it was you needed a ridiculously powerful pc you needed a headset that was sort of wired
into something and you needed things around the room to be able to pick up exactly where you were
i thought it was just ridiculously complicated thing but it's not and it hasn't been for a
while and that's just something that i've completely had wrong in my head
and in fact what it does is it does it all by itself it uses these cameras and sensors
and accelerometers and stuff to be able to tell where you're looking at and what position you're
in um and i think that's brilliant this made it so much simpler and it's battery powered so you
don't have to have to plug it in fantastic stuff okay so inside here we have a couple
of no liquid cleaners and no sunlight on the lenses so don't leave it in the sun that's fine
and you got the lenses here and from what i'm aware okay they sort of adjust like so depending
on how big your face is and then obviously underneath you've got some volume buttons i'm
assuming charge ports uh headphone jack and then i'm shooting that's the power button and i'll just
it's very dark in here i need to adjust that strap
so i have an absolutely massive head and that doesn't really help us in this situation so
that's a bit better it's trying to find that mixture of having it secure but also like not
that it's like literally squeezing your brains out you didn't realize how big your head is until
until you have to put something on it like this so how's that i mean i can't see anything so i don't
know if it's all lined up properly um it seems a bit different i can actually see at the bottom
i don't know if that's a problem i'm assuming i just sort of turn it on there's not really
so we want to pull these out peel that out nice and say if i pop it on i can't see the
instructions because it's not on one two i might need to charge it that might be the
the issue it's not the longest usbc cable in the world so it's not like you can sort of stand up
and use this thing i've got a little light here so that is doing something okay this is half
49 battery doesn't need charging are you playing that well then see now i hit it's gone dark again
so i to put it on and it had a 49 battery thing why am i so used to setting this i'm not am i
doing something wrong definitely works because when i plugged it in i saw a little battery thing
up here if that is literally all i got two hours later okay something's happening i've got a logo
i've got what i think is the oculus logo big old sort of squash donut it's making
noise ah okay all right i'm unplugging i'm in i can see my controllers that's really weird
when i was a kid there was a guy who got the nintendo wii when it first came out
and it absolutely blew my mind literally it was unbelievable um this sort of you're moving and
that's moving the screen and um it's all based on what's happened on the remote it was crazy to
me i thought was absolutely ridiculous it was so cool um i've not really had that since there's not
really been anything that's given me that sort of mind-blowing this is so cool and then a few years
ago i was in a shopping center here in the uk and there was a shop called game and in that shop
they were doing a demonstration of vr they had a htc vive with like the massive like matrix cable
coming out the back of it and i gave it a go and i had the biggest smile on my face and it was the
most unbelievable thing and just just from putting this on and seeing the remotes i mean i haven't
had vr so this is obviously very new to me i've never had owned it personally um just from doing
that yeah i'm already getting those same vibes so apologies if i just have a massive smile on
my face when i'm doing this and i've got little pointers oh so you can't see what i can see so
this is this is a bit of a weird thing to film um but i'm gonna try and record as soon as i
can so if i go like that and then what is weird though is that i because it's all in like sort of
stretched out it's not quite it's hd but it's not like 4k or anything you can make out all of
the pixels so as soon as i take this off i know i'm gonna feel like i'm in like sort of some
weird hd land please stay seated luckily i'm not to be standing up so that's fine i'm just sort
of like bubble and connect to the internet oh look at this it's like a little keyboard
this is cute i'm just linking my account with my facebook account so it's pretty simple obviously
you don't have facebook i think you can just create your own um choose how you'll appear sam
it's samuel jones just use this bad boy
that works that's fine i need to add some payment information
bloody typical this is what have i got i've got the quest two
looking for headset all right it's wanted me to stand up now so i'm pretty sure it's so
what i'm going to do is i want to stop there and i think i'm ready to get actually set up properly
and have a go with this thing okay so here i am in this new virtual world and it is absolutely
mental but basically i'm just going to go over some of the cool simple things that i've
been doing and learning whilst doing this and how i sort of got used to it
and i'll come up later with a sort of full review at some point so obviously you start off in this
like sort of weird place and it is really surreal um you have to sort of draw a boundary literally i
know there's obviously there's the novelty side of it where um things just are a bit of like a
new experience but it literally it's getting me every single time i put the heads on it's
just absolutely phenomenal but i'm i'm just gonna play a couple of games and and see how we get on
that was very cool
so this is a vr is a free-to-play multi-player um sort of cross between i'd say football well soccer
a proper english football and ultimate frisbee so you basically you've got to
get the frisbee and a goal and you're working with a team onward okay i got it
so my initial thoughts on the meta quest 2 well it is something that everyone needs to try
like genuinely your mum your nan your dog stick it on them and watch it blow their
minds is an absolutely incredible piece of kit i've had it for a few days now
and literally every time i put it on i still just get that overwhelming wow feeling i'm gonna do a
review at some point on this um probably when some of the novelty of it has worn off um just to see
what i actually think of it as a sort of long-term gaming solution am i gonna be playing this
or my xbox what if i gonna sort of lean towards as my main gaming experience so guys if you
want to see that please subscribe and i will see you in the next one