Description: My Project Diary of Coding, Making, and Tinkering
I broke my HP Windows Mixed Reality headset I bought five years ago in 2018. I made a repair effort, but the results are questionable with risk of electrical faults . I’m not comfortable risking damage to an expensive video card but I also appreciated having an excuse to upgrade.
A lot has changed in those five years. Most 3DOF VR garbage have faded away as the market realized that they sucked. Facebook poured a lot of money into virtual/augmented reality, including buying Oculus, spurring investment from others as well. Oculus launched the 3DOF Go headset (not interesting) followed by the 6DOF Quest headset (worth considering). Now we have the relatively affordable Quest 2 and the high-end Quest Pro. Both of which has onboard computing power to run standalone: no tether to break! B
HTC, the other half of old PC VR duopoly, still exists and continues to evolve their line, releasing products across a price range that doesn’t dip as low as Quest 2 at the low end but definitely gets to Quest Pro on the high end. As far as I can tell, evolution has been incremental improvements without any significant innovation like Quest and their standalone operating ability.