With limited graphics yes. But to play the bigger shinier PC games you still need to be hooked up. It’s a bonus (especially for me as a former Rift owner) and gives the choice of jumping around punchy punchy or more sedate longer/bigger games like Subnautica.

Yeah I love the fact that I'll be able to use it for Alyx but nothing, yet, has been able to beat walking a few metres around a spaceship untethered

Me

Still cogitating about if and what will suit my needs. EGPU, gaming laptop, perhaps a slim factor PC or just stick with the Quest solo. Hmmmm.

yourfavouriteuncle wrote:

I’m thinking that may be my route unless it seems shit and then who knows.

It’s surprisingly good. Watch the usual suspects who review it.

Ben plays VR
Tested
Virtual Reality Oasis

Yeah, fuck cables.

I’ve got it but I’ve only played 20 minutes of training. Seems like a lot of hard work

stellavista wrote:

Superhot without a cable is, well, super hot.

Passed me by on the Xbox. People raved about it but seemed all too stylised and gimmicky. Having a Quest and listening to views saying it was amazing in untethered VR sold it to me.

Finally played the Bone version last week for comparison and what a comedown. So two dimensional and small on a big OLED telly - it was a real shock how different a game it was. Even if your PC/console has all the graphics son, it can't convey moving your body through a 3D space. Smashing ashtrays in the face of a life size assailant, then grabbing their gun with your slick move is one of the best feelings in viddy games you are going to get.

Essential.

I think I would have damaged my PC by now if I'd tried to play Pistol Whip tethered.

Cable is mostly for Alyx and those other experiences that don't require movement

Exactly what I’ve got. Great laptop and a quest. I owned a Rift. Not much difference. I’m just waiting on getting a longer cable. Contemplating the official one. It’s become the Nintendo Switch of VR. Sexy graphics and less jumping around? Plug it in. Jumpy spinny shooting and stabbing unplug.

God I’m nowhere near that. I have an MSI GS75 i7 and RTX 2070 MaxQ. At the time I needed a portable gaming laptop as I was travelling to the missus a lot. It’s more like a MacBook Pro form factor.

It’s got a nice 17” 1080p 144hz screen and steelseries keyboard but I paid quite a bit more for portability. It handles everything VR wise fine. And most games even RTX stuff fine at 1080p.

It’s about 9 months old now so I’m sure something new and better has come out. You also need to be aware of TDP limitations on smaller form factors. The thinner the chassis the closer the components and the less cooling can be fitting in. So throttling tends to be the end result. So you can end up paying for a laptop that can’t drive at full speed. I did a load of research and the MS75 had some of the best cooking with 3 fans, most in its class have 2. This generally allowed it to sustain the CPU and GPU for longer.

However this isn’t going to be as good as a thicker gaming laptop or desktop. Also bear in mind the Max-Q chips generally run slower than the desktop counterparts. I think it’s generally that they’d run at a class lower than the desktop. So the 2070 Max-Q is more like the 2050... I think. But I knew all this going in.

Having said all this I can run everything I have at least 60fps with the exception of Control and Metro Exodus with Global Illumination switched on. I usually have to balance out other settings if I want ray tracing on.

Older games like Dishonoured run at the max 144hz my screen can output.

With this and Alyx on the horizon plus all the PCVR exclusives I'm having a huge internal battle whether to get a gaming laptop. My time says no but my dick says yeah do it. Just venting.

A bargain.

SG, thanks for the advice, but like Boris and James, portability would be the biggest factor. Not the size so much, but having an integrated screen.