I Spent 30 Days WORKING IN VR (here's how THAT went...)

Ready for Apple Vision Pro? I definitely am! But, in the meantime, I swapped my Samsung Odyssey Neo monitor for the Meta Quest 3 and spent 30 days working in the Metaverse with VR to create the ultimate Quest 3 review. I tested this new VR headset and put it through its paces by fully immersing myself and trying to make the most of the Meta Workspaces app. Want an awesome home office setup but can’t afford thousands of dollars? Get a Meta Quest 3 and have an office on the beach that you can personalise to your heart’s content!

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--SMPOST--I swapped my office for a VR headset for 30 days

[FlockofSmeagles]

People always review it with the stock headstrap. That's all of the Quests downfall. The Q3 specifically benefits massively from an aftermarket strap. The weight is almost imperceptible. I work exclusively for 5-6 hours in mine. With the occasional break between. I can safely say that within the next 5 or so years. My monitors will be going to the local goodwill.

[majormauser]

Hand tracking works incredibly well. Your hand position was the issue not the tracking.

[krayne]

Please note that a lot of the lag for Xbox Gamepass is due to Gamepass App Cloud Streaming, not the headset itself. To more closely isolate controller to headset input lag, you should do local streaming like playing 2D games on Steam Link instead of Cloud Gaming.

[FlakMagnet]

I find the hand tracking works best when the cameras can see your fingers. Try grabbing and moving virtual objects with your thumb facing towards your face and where all your fingers are visible. Basically, turn your hand over when grabbing objects 😊

[LukaSauperl]

Am I the only one that finds the measuring of the virtual displays immensely entertaining? :D

[krayne]

About the Hand Tracking:
- it looks like you were grabbing when the gesture it's looking for is pinching
- to sidestep the issue entirely, as long as you don't mind pausing whatever in between locations, you can dismiss and resummon the menu to wherever you currently are with the right hand menu gesture

[ShawnShaman]

Watching you try handtracking was killing me. Makes me wonder if you did the tutorial?

[Kairinkai]

Pete! I'm pretty sure you were trying to grab the screen instead of pinch the screen, theres gestures you have to learn

[hearmeout]

Meta Quest 3 is the only VR/mixed reality headset to own in my opinion. Amazing!

[RavenThePlayer]

I'm honestly so confused, did you not follow the hand tracking tutorial? You pinch not grab, and you need more lighting.

[larrytaylor]

Dude their hand tracking works great and I still have the older headset. I think your issue is you need to have a lot of light anywhere you are using it and your lights were low and you were walking into shadowed areas.

[MrHilland]

for the hand tracking to work its better to just pinch the edges of the virtual screens not use the whole hand

[ScibFilms]

hand tracking is great. idk why you were trying to grab it from the side and other areas where it's not meant to be grabbed. its obvious you don't spend any time in VR as the average VR user knows how to handle the VR menu without the clumsy controls

[sashogs]

Finally an honest and genuine review, most youtubers sound like they are either endorsing or selling what they are reviewing or just don't sound genuine.

[richie_]

In fact, hand tracking works pretty well. It is just you don't know the proper gestures.

[eliottvillaire]

Its not like that that you have to grab the virtual screen so Its why you have some issue with tracking

[Stephane-wl]

i am a handicapped programmer. working from bed and having 3 huge screen will definitely change my life.

[FourthMatrix]

My time traveling buddy tells me that within the next 20 years, once the wearable displays which will soon just be contact lenses with 8 and 16k displays become really outdated, human babies will be fitted with bio augmentations allowing them to see more colors, hear more frequencies and connect seamlessly to a reality we no longer will call virtual...

[itsban]

Regarding Immersed, I'm unsure if it is available in the free version, but you can tweak the resolution and encoding. It looks so much better than the stock apps and on top of that you can have like 5 monitors at the same time. That's crazy.

[CBApollo]

Hand tracking works great and perfect with the proper lighting