Quest or Rift S?

Halliggye

Halliggye
Hi

I've been lurking in the background for a few years playing on and off. My wife borrowed a quest the other day and I was so impressed that I have decided to revisit ED but rather than investing in a tri-monitor setup or sim-pit i'd go down the VR route. This now leads me to the question; for gaming which is the better buy Quest or Rift S? Does the wired Rift S have any advantage over the wireless quest other than battery life and weight? The Quest can of course be used whilst charging but then you do end up tethered....

Thoughts very much appreciated.

Hal
 
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aXeL

A
In my personal view, if and I stress 'if', you're only concerned with seated game play, e.g. ED, flight simming etc, then I would go HP Reverb. Visually it's so far ahead ( in my entirely subjective view ) of anything Oculus have that it's not even worth the comparison. Oculus was great in it's day but now they ( and HTC for that matter ) are so far behind Pimax, HP, Samsung and Valve, it's not even funny. But... this is just my two pence worth from watching all the 'through the lens' side by side comparison videos, for which there are many. I should emphasize however that I have no personal experience of the Rift-S and the above therefore is based entirely on watching the online comparison videos.
 

Arioch

Arioch
I posted this in a previous Quest thread:

Oculus Quest

Does anyone here use the Quest to play ED on the PC? If so, was it easy to set up, and was it worth the expense?
forums.frontier.co.uk forums.frontier.co.uk

“My cable arrived early, so I’ve just had a quick try with ED. Some thoughts:
  • easy to set up, “add headset” in the Oculus software, plug in the headset, select “link beta” in the headset menu (took me a while to find that at the bottom of a settings menu!)
  • deep blacks and vibrant colours as per the Rift CV1
  • Godrays as per the Rift CV1 :(
  • Tracking slightly looser than the CV1 or S, game menus shift very slightly when moving my head, looking around the cockpit is a wobblier experience
  • Not as crisp as the S, better SDE than CV1, closer to the CV1 for clarity.
I couldn’t see any pseudo foveated rendering as mentioned by @Jordan Qwent (which is quite noticeable in, say, the native Quest version of Vader Immortal), though I’d say the sweetspot wasn’t as large as the S.

Game performance was worse with a fair few stutters (I went through several training scenarios with the Quest and S on the same game settings), the frame rate monitor showed the game dropping into ASW (32fps) quite often so I’m not sure if that is working as good as it does on the S.

It’s still early days and beta software, so I’d expect improvements to be coming along.

TL;DR - the Rift S is staying on my bonce for the time being :)

i7 8700 & GTX 1080

...and there is some useful info in that thread regarding setting up the Quest wirelessly with Elite (the “official” PC link is a tethered connection).

I’m going to wait on further software updates before trying the Quest again, the tracking was just a bit too loose and the performance wasn’t as good as the S.
 
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