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Bought myself a Quest 3 VR headset

So, after many years of thinking about it, I finally broke down and bought myself a Meta Quest 3 VR headset.

The price, while not inexpensive, was reasonable... at least a lot more reasonable than the Valve Index or even (perish the thought) the Apple Vision Pro heaset.

The Quest 3 can play games locally stored in its 512 GB of storage space, or it can connect to my PC to play VR games from my Steam Library. This means I can play local games like Beatsaber (one of the /best/ VR games of the day) or try my hand at impressive VR titles like Alyx (Steam's VR title from the Halflife 2 series). This works very well, even linking to my PC that Microsoft claims is too old to run Windows 11 (which really irks me -- I'll probably go into it some other time).

The living room in our apartment is just big enough to offer the /2m x 2m/ area that one needs to play VR games properly, so I'm having quite a bit a fun.

I went to BestBuy today (on /Boxing Day/) to buy a Quest 3 Elite Strap with battery to get a slightly more comfortable headband and slightly more battery capacity, so I'm all set.

Beyond games, the virtual worlds that Meta are trying to create include entertainment (like concerts -- Charli xcx is having a VR concert tomorrow night in Meta's World) and various chat and activities rooms. I'm not sure I'll be one to experience this much, but the look of some of the music concerts I've briefly attended was quite impressive.

So, will VR be just a passing fad? It does require quite a bit of hardware, but I feel that the Quest 3 might be one of the devices that enables the masses to try it. Heck, Costco had a whole stack of Quest 3S boxes on display when my wife and I went there on December 24th.

I'll keep you all posted.

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