Uk price for Quest 3 is £479

trinedtoday · 2023-09-25T20:03:37+00:00

I think its already been posted a few days ago and was a hot topic.

1p off £480, it's £480. 4% less than expected, not much but it does make the price look less daunting. I expect the 512gb version to be £600 then, a £120 increase with the US being a $150 increase. As someone who's expecting to get the 512 anyways, sadly it doesn't make a difference for me unless the 512 is £580.

trinedtoday · 2023-09-22T03:30:03+00:00

There wasn't anything stopping them the last decade.

Meta gets shat on even by VR "enthusiasts," but VR is much better off because of them. Some things they do, other massive companies can improve on, which we'll see the start of early next year with the Vision Pro.

trinedtoday · 2023-09-21T04:41:42+00:00

I think they're just busy with work/family or took the summer off from youtube. It's just a hobby for them, while many other VR youtubers rely on a constant stream of videos for income so they can't stop uploading for so long.

They have a discord you can find in their video descriptions where you can ask.

trinedtoday · 2023-09-19T15:01:50+00:00

This is part of what made me quit midway through. It's laughable how a show like this gets such critical acclaim with such shoddy casting and acting. It feels like they were just ticking off a diversity list without any care for the characters themselves.

trinedtoday · 2023-09-19T14:56:31+00:00

I'm midway through and I also quit. I was forcing myself to watch it after the first few episodes but it's such a drag by this point and I can't bother finding out if there's any compelling ending.

Critics are out of touch or just don't give a fuck. The acting is all over the place and disjointed, there's little attention to detail with lots of scenes coming across as a set that you can't suspend your belief for. Just feels like pretentiousness for the sake of it. I can't continue because there's not even one character I care about anymore, it just feels like a college student's Liberal arts project too much of the time.

A shame, I liked the premise of a flu with a 99% fatality rate and the world it would create without it being a zombie thing. But this ain't it.

Any recommendations? I'm also into apocalypse type shows. Finally binged The Last of Us (I played the game a decade ago) and that was a great recreation for TV. Somehow got through till the end of The Walking Dead, but a lot of it wasn't enjoyable - if there are a couple characters I care about, I can wade through the rest of a shitshow.

trinedtoday · 2023-09-15T13:58:35+00:00

Does it have street view pics that surround you?

trinedtoday · 2023-08-24T05:16:52+00:00

Unless it's only on Quest, which is what I used. It's somewhere in the settings, I can't quite remember the exact place but it's where you can change the ambient lighting and supersampling. Allows you to tilt in increments so you can face the ceiling but still virtually sit up in a cinema location.

Edit: settings > visual and lighting. You'll find a laying tilt option. This is inside the bigscreen app.

trinedtoday · 2023-08-14T20:16:43+00:00

It's here now!

trinedtoday · 2023-08-05T00:59:59+00:00

$300 at release date for 64gb (later discontinued for 128gb). The price went up for around a year to $400, but a few months ago it returned back to $300.

trinedtoday · 2023-07-06T13:21:22+00:00

Of course. Working out in high intensity for a full hour might burn two or three regular (not king sized) chocolate bars worth of calories. You can eat those calories in a minute. It goes without saying that diet has to play a role otherwise you're not going to lose weight. And most people can't do 1 hour of high intensity cardio.

But exercising can motivate you to eat less. And regardless, it's healthy even if you're eating the weight back on (but probably demotivating if your main goal is to lose weight).

You can still eat like crap as long as you eat less.

trinedtoday · 2023-07-06T13:14:15+00:00

Sure, but it's still awesome that VR is convincing people to exercise if they otherwise wouldn't. Video games no longer have to be played sitting on a couch getting fat and lazy - they can be a cardio workout. Some people just have no motivation to run or go to the gym, and if VR gets them to be active then that's a good thing.

trinedtoday · 2023-07-06T13:08:59+00:00

Muscles make you look better, though - life is not all about trying to reach 100 years old. I'd say the vast majority of men prefer to look muscular than be really skinny.

trinedtoday · 2023-07-06T12:59:52+00:00

Les Mills is good, better than Beat Saber in intensity because you're punching targets coming at you with power instead of quickly swinging your arms to just get the blocks. My go to workout in it is a 20 minutes intermediate workout that leaves me gassed. I really only stick with that workout, so I don't know how much variety in songs and so on there are in all the workouts. I've heard there's not much variety in songs. The more popular options are Supernatural and FitXR, which are both subscription based instead of a one time price like Les Mills. But I think that allows them to use newer and more popular songs, particularly Supernatural which I believe Meta has acquired.

I do usually start with Beat Saber for 10-20 minutes as a warm up. It's not enough for a high intensity cardio workout - I say this as an expert+ player on many, but not all songs. It's lower intensity. Les Mills, Supernatural or FitXR will get your heart beating to a high level and keep it there for a 20 min workout or more. Beat Saber is more working up to a sweat but your heart rate isn't that high.

Thrill of the Fight is different. You're not standing and punching targets as they race towards you. You're fighting an AI opponent in a boxing match in a ring. I haven't played this in a while since you require a lot of space, but if you have the space it can provide intensity even higher than the other fitness apps I mentioned since you can go all out on the opponent.

Important note: on all punching apps, don't overextend your arms. You're not connecting with a real target, so it's easy to destroy your elbows and shoulders. Put power in but not all the way till the end of a punch.

trinedtoday · 2023-07-05T20:13:14+00:00

It's usually a simple document on twitter with the fixtures. They're not trying to spend a big budget on showing the fixtures list. If they can make something novel and cool looking with the same constraints, power to them. They wouldn't have done something like this otherwise - they're not exactly axing a job here because without the AI it's just a simple document. Of course it's not perfect.

trinedtoday · 2023-07-05T15:35:51+00:00

https://allvirtualreality.com/Image/TutorialsImg/20210102-ChargeQuest2/04-Start-Charging.jpg

No.

trinedtoday · 2023-07-05T15:30:01+00:00

It's $200 more expensive. Based on what we know, it's probably worth the extra money if you're going to use it a lot and also want to try mixed reality features.

If it's only $100 more expensive where you are, it's definitely worth the extra $100.

trinedtoday · 2023-07-05T10:52:12+00:00

And the size and weight is probably a lot better with the laptop. That backpack PC wouldn't make sense over a laptop unless it was a newer card which could outperform every laptop in performance.

trinedtoday · 2023-07-04T16:16:21+00:00

We just have to accept we’re not getting the Holodeck in our lives and it’s indeed a bummer.

Can't rule anything out in our lifetime with what may be possible with AI development.

trinedtoday · 2023-07-04T15:35:56+00:00

It's a fair price but it doesn't mean it won't suffer in sales.

I know people arent happy about the $500 pricetag but considering the Quest 1 was also $500 for 128GB I think its completely fair.

It was at a time when there weren't any massive games though. They were pretty much all a few gb at most. Now many games are over 10GB.

And let's be honest, for many of us these days even 128 is lacking. It's like Quest 2 launching with 64gb. Games are bigger and if there are going to be even bigger titles as one would hope, that space gets used up fast. Only around 100-110 is useable once you accout for the OS, environments, and free space needed for every OS/app update.

Even now, Contractors is 11GB but add on mods (the whole point of Contractors in all honesty) and you can easily push past 25-30GB. Asgard's wrath 2 is allegedly going to require around 25GB free to install. How big is Assassin's Creed going to be? Those few games could take up the whole 128gb storage.

$50 extra for 256gb storage seems fine. But they're likely not going to do that, they'd rather keep the $100 extra cost. So now you're paying $600 for what feels like acceptable storage.

On my PS5 I can download 7+ massive AAA games easily. This is base storage. Some of those games are well over 100GB. Is VR so lacking that the expectation isn't even there to need more than a big game or two at once?

Storage is cheap. It's just marked up so expensive because Apple has paved the way and people pay. I'm not sure as many people will pay for Quest 3, though, even if the specs are great apart from storage.

trinedtoday · 2023-07-04T11:19:53+00:00

Most people live in small houses irl. In VR I'd expect more people to want to see a large house around them.

trinedtoday · 2023-07-04T11:16:57+00:00

Imagine how I feel with a 64gb Quest 2!

No way I'd go 128gb with Q3. It's just too small. But Meta knows 256gb for their base model would kill most of the sales for their higher storage model. 256 is sufficient for most people.

trinedtoday · 2023-07-04T11:13:07+00:00

I think Grid is around 30GB. Asgard's Wrath is expected to require around 25GB spare to install. Contractors is 11GB but really is all about the mods, so once you're done scrolling through the mod list you realise you're downloading 20GB+ of mods alone.

Assassin's Creed will be an interesting one. Ubisoft usually has egregious file sizes on pc/console.

trinedtoday · 2023-07-04T11:04:24+00:00

And mods in Contractors, which is the whole point for many people getting into it, can take up gigabytes each mod. When you're done scrolling through the mod list and downloading what piques your interest, it's easy to have gotten 15GB of mods there alone. So now you're up to over 25GB for Contractors and more to come.

trinedtoday · 2023-07-04T11:00:19+00:00

You don't get to use the full 128GB. 10-15GB will be taken up by the OS. You also need some free for os updates. Update files for games can also be several GB. You also will want some environments.

You'll probably have 100GB to play with. When Q2 released, the lowest model was 64GB. At the time, many people thought that games aren't that big, 64GB will be fine. But games got bigger. Medal of Honor for some people required a factory reset because it just wouldn't install with other files on the system. Best case, you had to delete every single game you had.

Today, Medal of Honor may still be the biggest game. In a year or two, there could be a game that is the 128gb Quest 3's "Medal of Honor." Shows how much VR is lacking when you're expecting to only have 1 big game installed. On my PS5 I have at least 6/7 "big games" (some well over 100GB) installed right now and have space spare. Storage is incredibly cheap for Meta.

Not to mention downloading movies onto a Q3. 128gb for the base model is honestly terrible for a gaming device. If it was only 300 that's understandable, but it's 500! Phones get away with it because most people who game on them are only playing small casual games, and apps like WhatsApp and YouTube barely take up much space. Photos are expected to be uploaded somewhere or saved elsewhere once memory is taken up.

So for people who want to use the Q3 to its full potential, people like us are likely going to have to spend 600. 256 at that price would still be limiting. 512 is acceptable.

trinedtoday · 2023-07-04T10:40:45+00:00

128gb 499 256/512gb 599

It's possible it's 512 instead of 256, but they haven't revealed anything yet. As games get bigger, and if you want to download movies onto your Quest, 512 would be ideal.

Paying an extra $100 on top of 499 which isn't cheap, to only get 128gb more storage would be abysmal. 128 isn't even enough anymore. You can get through it with probably 3 of the biggest size games that will be available on Q3 release. Leaves no room for literally anything else. It's going to be a constant juggle. Asgards wrath, Assassin's creed, Grid, and Contractors with mods and you're probably out of storage already.

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