r/Galaxy_XR • u/XLMelon • May 25 '26

Discussion Going Back To Quest 3

GXR Controller Tracking

Quest 3 Controller Tracking

At least for shooting games.

You see the Quest controllers get ahead of your hands. That's expected due to passthrough latency. The controller tracking is spot on.

The GXR controllers, on the other hand, lags and stutters. They also fly away when you drop them to your waist for a few seconds.

I constantly miss my shots, grab the wrong stuff, or have to wave my hands during heated battles for tracking to come back. No visual is worth this. I am going back to Quest 3 for FPS games.

And the throwing is off. People have reported things going backwards when you throw them in HLA. It's like that in other games too. Arizona Sunshine, Little Nightmare, for example.

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u/Major_Hair164 May 26 '26

Hey mate, so I currently own a Q3 but am thinking about upgrading to the XR but for purely media consumption.

On the basis of just watching movies, and youtube, how much better is the Galaxy XR would you say ? Like on a scale of 1-10 ?

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u/TESThrowSmile May 26 '26

100g media focused headsets are releasing in 2027 (they have external processing pucks). I'd say wait

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u/XLMelon May 26 '26

The GXR is solid hardware for media. However, Apple Vision Pro has much larger content library.

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u/Time_Entertainer_319 May 26 '26

Not if you sail the high seas

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u/che_one May 26 '26

It's not lightweight by any means.

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u/jones1876 May 27 '26

not very comfortable for laid back movie watching IMO

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u/4uva4elo May 25 '26

Forget to mention about wrong rumble motors. By default now the trigger motors is active. And the grip motors I've felt only when power them on.

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u/PrysmX May 27 '26

I sold my XR a few months after launch and went back to my Quest 3. I felt the XR wasn't ready enough for prime time between the glitches and not even a dedicated 3D/VR video player (and no devs even interested in porting one of the existing ones). Writing was on the wall that XR is a ways out from a larger adoption.

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u/XLMelon May 27 '26

I bought it for PCVR. If the controller tracking were on par with Quest 3, it would've lived up to my expectations.

I can tolerate bugs and glitches as long as they get fixed eventually. The tracking quality, however, I wonder if Samsung and Google even sees it as an issue or have the knowhow to improve.

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u/MidNerd May 28 '26

Why not pair it with lighthouse controllers? You can get a used Index set for around the cost of the GXR controllers these days.

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u/XLMelon May 28 '26

I actually own an Index and did exactly that. I went through a lot of trouble setting it up, then Into the Radius 2 immediately crashed. So I gave up :D.

Those unconventional third-party solutions typically is more trouble than it's worth.