I have a gaming laptop to play ED. Don’t have space for a desktop and also travel a lot and can take the laptop with me. Can I run VR? It has a fairly decent spec, Intel i7, RTX 2070 with 8GB and 32GB system RAM. It only has HDMI, no display port. I can swap it for a newer laptop with mini display port if no display port is a problem. Advice please. Do I need to swap the laptop? What VR headset to get? Was thinking of the new HP Reverb. Thanks.
VR on a laptop?
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Apparently my laptop has USB-C ports with Displayport Alt technology and it works with an adapter. Found it confirmed online by someone using Reverb 2. Not that I can buy one at the moment anyway!
I'm absolutely in love with my Quest 2.
You can go wireless if you buy a cheap 5ghz WiFi dongle and set that as a hotspot and connect the Quest 2 to it via virtual desktop. Getting latency of 30 which I think is impressive.
My rig is far from current, so not tuned performance wise for the job and I do notice teeny, though infrequent judders in games like Beat Saber that have constant flowing objects. Half life alyx looks fab though.
I stick with the link.
Aparenty there is no noticeable performance impact using the Link compared to G2
Source: https://youtu.be/d70uxV5gslo
Obvs the e G2 still is the headset to go for if you're purely interested in sims. I'm still blown away with my Quest 2 though.
You can go wireless if you buy a cheap 5ghz WiFi dongle and set that as a hotspot and connect the Quest 2 to it via virtual desktop. Getting latency of 30 which I think is impressive.
My rig is far from current, so not tuned performance wise for the job and I do notice teeny, though infrequent judders in games like Beat Saber that have constant flowing objects. Half life alyx looks fab though.
I stick with the link.
Aparenty there is no noticeable performance impact using the Link compared to G2
Obvs the e G2 still is the headset to go for if you're purely interested in sims. I'm still blown away with my Quest 2 though.
If you're thinking of pre-ordering the G2 be aware - I called HP late December and they said that they were not expecting any new stock until May!
Also, the G2 will absolutely NOT work with an HDMI-DP adaptor. HP state that clearly on their website. If you have a USB TypeC Gen2 v1.3 port you should be able to use that as it would allow DisplayPort pass-through with an adaptor.
Minimum spec GPU for the G2 is really an RTX 2060 Super so, as long as your card isn't a 'chopped down' version like the MaxQ you should be fine.
I've just gone through the whole process of buying a new laptop specced to run the G2 but didn't want to wait until May so I've bought a Rift S in the meantime.
Found out yesterday that some laptop GPUs have stripped down architecture and don't have a bank of encode/decoder or something that nvidia introduced in the Keplar days. The desktop GPUs have it, some laptop GPUs have it. Link requires it.Good to know Andy as my quest 2 is on it's way
Well? Assuming all's well. What do you think?
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Hey mate. I'm lucky, I have a fairly high end gaming laptop which basically has the desktop card jammed in it
Totally love the Quest 2 quality of image, it's noticeably better than my daughters Rift 2, but the stock strap is bad. Just waiting on my Elite strap arriving before I decide if I go the whole hog and get a Halo style like the rift.
I did have a bit of an issue where the quest didn't recognise my usb 3 ports and only said it was a usb 2 port... but tried it again this morning and it's all good with 2.4 Gbps transfer and green ticks all over the place... ah well will monitor it further while investigating the wireless option... maybe
If I use a wired connection back to the Internet router and use the laptop's internal WiFi6 adapter as the hotspot to the Q2, will that work just as well? My Internet router is only 802.11ac, so I guess I could also get the cheap 5Ghz dongle and use that to connect to the Internet router instead of the wired connection.
Just getting into VR - Quest 2 to ship once Amazon gets restocked. I have played a little E : D in VR on my son's Vive Pro rig - fell in love with VR as soon as the training started up in the asteroid field. Beautiful! I sure hope that they eventually implement VR for Odyssey...
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I think as long as it is 5Ghz, you are golden.
However!
What has started happening for me is that my dongle for some reason goes 2.4Ghz or whatever it is.
There is nothing that I can do and no setting I can see that will force it to stay in 5Ghz.
It might be my old realtek dongle is just dodgy but I thought that I would warn anyway.
I haven't heard of anyone else had this problem with the Q2 but have heard people moaning about my dongle dongle keeping the 5Ghz.
However!
What has started happening for me is that my dongle for some reason goes 2.4Ghz or whatever it is.
There is nothing that I can do and no setting I can see that will force it to stay in 5Ghz.
It might be my old realtek dongle is just dodgy but I thought that I would warn anyway.
I haven't heard of anyone else had this problem with the Q2 but have heard people moaning about my dongle dongle keeping the 5Ghz.
You may need to do some googling on the chipset. Certainly back in 2016 ( when I last checked so been awhile ), there was a problem with some laptops whereby even with dGPU, the final display rendering would go via the iGPU ( I could be ( probably ) mis-remembering the details ) however, the gist of it was that not every dGPU laptop supported VR even if it had all the right ports and GPU. Ergo you need to check for you specific laptop.
I think most VR capable laptops today are advertised as such. Personally, for a laptop especially, I would forgo Oculus headsets and stick with a WMR headset. You've got much more choice, far superior quality if you want the best headsets, native support is built into to Win10 so you don't need the overhead of the Oculus bloatware unless you want Oculus titles specifically and of course you have to login to Facebook to use it ( Even Microsoft aren't that mean ). WMR headsets can run both Oculus and Steam games, WMR has features built in that you otherwise have to pay for from Oculus ( or have Oculus stopped doing this yet? ) and the built in Windows Cliff House is far superior to anything I've seen from any other vendor.
Don't get me wrong, I've said it before, Oculus are the whole reason we even have consumer VR. However, Microsteal and Valve tech is much better. That's my own opinion and I'm happy to be proven wrong because strong competition is always good.
And to the illustrious protagonists of Oculus VR; I hope the Kool-aid tastes good
Commence flame, I am ready...
I think most VR capable laptops today are advertised as such. Personally, for a laptop especially, I would forgo Oculus headsets and stick with a WMR headset. You've got much more choice, far superior quality if you want the best headsets, native support is built into to Win10 so you don't need the overhead of the Oculus bloatware unless you want Oculus titles specifically and of course you have to login to Facebook to use it ( Even Microsoft aren't that mean ). WMR headsets can run both Oculus and Steam games, WMR has features built in that you otherwise have to pay for from Oculus ( or have Oculus stopped doing this yet? ) and the built in Windows Cliff House is far superior to anything I've seen from any other vendor.
Don't get me wrong, I've said it before, Oculus are the whole reason we even have consumer VR. However, Microsteal and Valve tech is much better. That's my own opinion and I'm happy to be proven wrong because strong competition is always good.
And to the illustrious protagonists of Oculus VR; I hope the Kool-aid tastes good
Commence flame, I am ready...
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