Oculus Quest All-in-one VR Gaming Headset – 128GB

As a long time follower and fan of VR the Oculus Quest is now here to spread VR goodness to everyone regardless of how much computer power they have around the house. Being wireless, easy to set up and totally portable makes a huge difference in how you play and relate to virtual worlds. I find the image quality to be excellent and use it to watch Netflix and my own collection 3D movies in perfect comfort without bothering anyone around me. Being able to play in the large area of my garage makes all the difference in feeling like you are in an almost unrestricted virtual world.The selection of games and experiences are also first rate and experiencing ILMxLAB's Vader Immortal is worth the price of the headset alone and shows what the future of interactive entertainment has in store for us. Another favorite experience is creating artwork with Google Tiltbrush as being untethered makes a lot of difference in working on your artistic creations. Although the graphics on the Quest are not as detailed and refined as you can get with a high end computer with a beefy graphics card you will soon forget this when involved in an exciting game experience. I have also been using this terrific headset to enjoy and share 360 videos and 180 3D videos and pictures taken with a Vuze XR camera. This is the perfect platform for enjoying these new VR type cameras like the Vuze XR and Insta 360 EVO. Truly amazing.So the bottom line if you have any interest in trying out the VR experience now is the time to jump in with this great new product from Oculus. The price is right and the software is here with more on the way. It will change the way you play video games as I find it hard to go back to a 2D monitor and mouse after BEING in the game using both hands and 6 degrees of freedom. And who wants to just look at a picture you've taken in an album when you can re-experience the setting of your photo just as you remembered it. I highly recommend this product.

We got this with some research, however you never really know what it will be like until you use it. It is fun. I mean, a LOT of fun. The touch controllers are pretty intuitive. Even me (who doesn't play a lot of games) can do it without a ton of instructions from my kids. My son plays a ton of games and he is even better at it. We did see that a lot of people are having technical issues with it, such as battery charging issues. Ours is a little finicky to get to charge when the battery is really low, but it does charge. We only had that problem once, so maybe it was because the batteries were at zero.Overall, it is indeed awesome, but it almost feels like the whole system itself isn't quite finished. The headset is great (if you don't have any difficulties), but there are difficulties. It is hard to share screen shots and videos with friends or the casting to tv. We play this as a family most times, not alone, so we need it to cast. I mean, what are the other people going to do while one person is wearing the headset. We only have one headset, so we haven't tried interacting with them...yet! Our favorite games so far are Job Simulator, Beat Saber, VR Chat and Moss. We have only had it a few days now and I am sure as the platform expands and we explore more, we will find other favorites.For casting, we did get it to work by sort of tricking it. We cast from the quest to our phone, then on the phone, we cancelled the cast, but requested cast on the tv. That seemed to work. There were occasional stutters or freezes, but it was minimal. We have both a televition with ChromeCast built in and a dongle. The casting would not work at all with the built in ChromeCast, but did (with the phone method) using the little ChromeCast dongle thing.The VR itself is amazing including the touch controllers. The overall experience of playing VR games is great and it i very fluid and comfortable. You actually believe you are in the VR world, but the overall user experience is still a little rough around the edges. However, it shoudn't be an issue within a few months with updates. It isn't cheap. My kids pooled their money from birthdays and graduation to help get it and I was hoping they didn't make a mistake. So far I think they made a great choice!