Better, Cheaper, Facebook-ier - Oculus Quest 2 Unboxing
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2021-05-05
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1,707 words · ~8 min read
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- Oh boy, the Oculus Quest two.
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I've been really excited for this because I don't know if you guys know,
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but I've been exercising at home with the original Oculus Quest plan, beat saver, fit X,
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I don't even remember what it's called, the boxing one. Yeah, it's one of my favorite things,
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pieces of tech to come out in quite some time so I was excited when Oculus said they were making
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a Quest two and now we have it here.
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Oh, and thanks to Oculus for sponsoring this video. Now, one of the reasons the original Quest was so cool
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is because it can be both a standalone VR headset
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and a PC VR headset. When we did the Linus tech video on this,
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me and Linus said that it was like, it's kind of like the Nintendo Switch of VR.
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I think this might even solidify that placement a bit more.
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So enough preamble, let's open the box.
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Okay, very exciting and there she is. So they went with a white color scheme this time,
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which I have to say I appreciate as a minimalist.
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Check out that video if you don't know what I'm talking about. So yeah, look at that.
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Oh, very nice. Oh, a little letter. When was the last time you played for real, man?
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(grunting) What's going on?
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Ah. (laughing)
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what's this? A shirt?
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Play for real. Hey, I'm filming over here, guys.
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- [Jono] He's playing for real dude. - I will! And what else we got?
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And a hoodie. Wow, whoa, we got all the swag.
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A stainless steel bottle, play for real.
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Okay, to be clear, that was really nice of Oculus
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to send us that stuff, but this is probably not what you're gonna get when you just buy the regular
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consumer version of the headset. Just so you know, just so you don't have some
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false expectations, you know? Okay, that's all that's in the box.
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I'm ready to play for real.
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Let's go! Okay, oh boy, that is, I mean, it's a nice looking headset.
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So the previous quest was black and it also had kinda this matte finish.
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But this is real nice, I like that they kinda switched it up. Okay, so they got this guide for the IPD adjustment
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inter pupilary distance which is something,
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if you've never played VR, that's something you need to adjust to make things
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the clearest because we all have different spaces between where our eyes sit.
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On the old Quest, there was like a slider, a physical slider to change that number,
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and on this one, it looks like you physically
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move them with your hands. I believe there are three positions, yeah.
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There's kind of like a far apart, a middle one, and then close together.
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We also have this glasses spacer which I will need to use because I'm wearing glasses.
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So I'm just gonna put that on actually right now. Okay, this goes in there.
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Oh, nice clicks. Great, I'm just gonna put that on.
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Actually no, I'm not gonna put it on yet, first let's talk about the controllers.
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Okay, so I think that more or less,
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these are a very similar design to the first Quest,
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but it has a bigger ring and I think that the overall controllers are bigger as well.
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So, oh, the battery door. This is something I believe that they worked on
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because there were some complaints with the original Quest about the battery door sliding off really easily
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because it was like a magnetic attachment. But this one, it's definitely more secure.
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Yeah, it clicks into place not with magnets, with like a little plastic doohickey so that's good.
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Okay, and finally the last thing is this box
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which has reference guide for how to get started and stuff.
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I think I already know how. And we got the USBC power adapter and USBC power cord.
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Now, I don't believe that this is meant for Oculus Link
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which probably makes sense 'cause it's only this long. So you won't be able to connect to your PC
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and have a comfortable VR experience that way. And you might ask, why didn't Oculus include
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an Oculus link-capable cord in the box
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that was long enough for you to be able to play PC VR. I mean, you know, they gotta make some compromises
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some places because remember this is a 299 headset,
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that's a hundred dollars cheaper than the first Quest for the 64 gig model.
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So you know, I can understand it.
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The sweatbands work great to kind of be a cushion between the straps, maybe some lttstore sweatbands
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just if you're gonna get a Quest two, okay, it can help a lot. The physical design of the headset is very similar;
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it's got a power button on the right side, USBC and headphone jack on the left side,
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and four sensors for tracking and the pass through
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plus feature which lets you see through into the real world. Now this is one of the coolest, I can actually
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see you right now because of the pass through feature. Look, I'm gonna come right up to Andy and go.
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(laughs) I love you man. I will say that I was a little disappointed
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not to see the old strap design return, but this one is very comfortable.
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The other one kinda has that plastic on the side that turns into.
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Actually the back is hard plastic on the original Quest as well. So I understand why they did this now because
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it is a little bit more comfortable having this fabric strap instead of a plastic crown
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on your head. Guardian feature, so one of the coolest things about the original Quest was the fact that
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it's built in tracking and the Rift S has built in tracking as well.
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But the cool thing about the Quest is that you're not tethered to a PC. So you can make your area as large as you want
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with no consideration for a cord going to anything.
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I'm gonna make it the entire area, even where you're standing, Andy. The other cool thing is that you can walk around
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in this space, look at how big my space is.
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Now, my other initial impression right off the bat is that things do look significantly sharper.
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So the Quest two has two LCD displays,
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the resolutions of which are 1832 by 1920, is that right?
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At launch, the refresh rate is 72 hertz
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which is the same as the original Quest, but they're gonna send out an update soon that
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will enable 90 hertz. And so one of the reasons that they were able
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to up the specs in that way, to support more resolution and refresh rate
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is because they're using the snapdragon XR2 chip
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which is made specifically for virtual reality
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and augmented reality applications. I know you guys want me to try Beat Saber.
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I can feel you thinking that, but I wanna try Vader Immortal first
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because it's Star Wars and it's an amazing experience.
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Okay, yeah, your hands definitely look,
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like things look sharper. Like, I can see like the leather stitching and stuff
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on the gloves. Oh, it's a light saber!
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Oh, there we go. Oh, now I have a light saber and a blaster.
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(laughing) That is just as amazing as I enjoyed it the first time.
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I gotta say, one thing I did, they said that the headset is 10% lighter.
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I'd say that's an accurate claim. As you guys probably gathered,
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the fact that I just played an original Quest title means that the Quest two is backwards compatible
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with all Quest content as well as the Oculus PC VR games
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that you can play through Oculus link. Let's play something else.
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Beat saber! Oh my gosh, people are gonna get so mad at me, I'm doing so,
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what?! So Beat Saber's really good for testing
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the speed of tracking because you know,
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I can't talk and do this at the same time.
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Oh my god. (laughing)
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I failed again. Okay, so the reason (laughing)
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The reason that I'm failing, I would guess, is not the fault of the Quest; it's definitely mine
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because I've only played this game like once. Super hot.
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Oh my God. I killed him.
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I killed him!
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Dead, dude. Okay, the other thing is I have this giant space
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that normally you don't have.
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Oh, give me this, give me that gun.
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Bottle to the face and this guy's frickin dead,
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dude, you're dead. Well, I gotta say as a regular Quest one user,
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my experience today with the Quest two has been pretty impressive.
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Now, one thing I haven't really mentioned is that you do have to log in with a Facebook account
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if you're gonna use the Quest two and I believe by 2023 if you wanna use any Oculus product,
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you will have to use your Facebook account to log in.
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And once you do that, it'll be permanently merged. There are other VR options on the market
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if that's not something that floats your boat. However, this is super compelling.
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If you've never tried the Quest or PC VR
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and you've tried like Oculus Go, it's completely different.
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This is a fully immersive room scale standing
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VR controller hand presence VR experience.
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Now, one major thing we did not look at today was Oculus Link: the ability to also function
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as a PC VR headset. And we are gonna be looking into that more in depth
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in an LTT video so make sure you're subscribed. Stay tuned for that video and thanks to Oculus
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for sponsoring that video, this video. I'll see you in the next one.
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Play for real! (laughing)