Unbox it, put the headset on, grab the controllers and you’re halfway done. Silly as it seems, this touch feels like pure class: rather than selling it separately, it’s included so anyone can play out of the gate.Īnd that’s the thing, to get started right away takes minutes.
A simple plastic spacer, it just slots between the HMD and the face covering and gives a slight separation you need to make for higher levels of comfort, which does mean you have to adjust it quite a bit to stop there being a visible gap to the outside world at the bottom. Something I was so pleased to see is that Oculus has decided to include a Glasses Spacer for those of us without 20/20 vision. It’s incredibly comfortable with the same incredible Oculus Touch controllers we’ve come to know and love, and they still have thumb and index finger tracking, and in truth aren’t quite as revolutionary as the Index controllers, but again, the price is friendlier and it’s PC free. It’s not quite on par with the Valve Index, but it’s also £700 cheaper than that, and it’s also completely wire-free unless you want to explore Oculus Link, which we’ll get to in a bit. In real terms, the Oculus Quest 2 looks fantastic. The RGB Stripe on the Quest 2 is a quality boost all by itself as we can’t see the spaces between the pixels, making for an overall clearer picture before you even get into the fact it’s also a higher resolution. But more than that, the original model used a PenTile OLED display which means there are gaps as pixels don’t actually fit together in a grid entirely perfectly. The visual fidelity has been upgraded from a 1440×1600 resolution with a 60/72Hz refresh rate to a per eye 1832×1920 which is nearly 4K when combined, and a 72/90Hz refresh rate, and if you’re new to VR then know that a higher frame rate means you’re less likely to get motion sick.
There have been improvements across the board for the Oculus Quest 2 on its predecessor. The crazy thing is that, as £299 for the 64GB storage model, it’s actually affordable, easy enough to set up that your Nan could get involved, and has a good enough library of games that I’m finally able to say this: if you’re interested in VR and have been tempted for a while, the Oculus Quest 2 is where you should jump in. As someone who has tried just about all the VR there is to try, it may not be the most expensive, or even the most comfortable (that’s PSVR), but as an all-round device, I think I have a new favourite.
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