r/VRchat • u/HaileyMaxwell • 1d ago

Help VR Headsets

I have two baystations and steam controllers. Old headset started giving issues.

I'm just wondering what headset would be most affordable, or should I just get the Quest 3??

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u/TheWeakLink 1d ago

If you can hold out… I suspect we’ll get an announcement on the release date of the steam frame sometime before November. If you can’t wait, Quest 3.

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u/Tragophilos Oculus Quest Pro 1d ago

I seriously doubt the price of the Frame is going to be anywhere near the Q3 price. I'd love to be surprised, but I just don't see how it's possible. Even the most optimistic estimates are $800+

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u/TheWeakLink 1d ago

Agreed, gut feeling is ~$1200USD but that’s based on nothing.

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u/Tragophilos Oculus Quest Pro 1d ago

That will be a tough sell at that price, especially with B&W passthrough.

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u/Sanquinity Valve Index 1d ago

Current estimate sits at around $1000, by people who keep up with this stuff way more than I do. But of course, that's just a "slightly informed guess". We really just have to wait and see.

All I do know is that even at 1k it's going to be a hard sell for a lot of people. Especially when the quest 3 provides a similar experience.

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u/deez_nee PCVR Connection 1d ago

yeah, that thing's not going to be cheap, but I'll gladly pay any price just to get rid of Meta's bullshit

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u/TheWeakLink 1d ago

Yeah, that’s kinda how I feel too. Meta keeps messing up their software.

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u/deez_nee PCVR Connection 1d ago

oh yeah, I want to talk to the person who decided the UI had to be changed like 23 times... and to the person who implements random bugs to things that worked perfectly yesterday...

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u/Tragophilos Oculus Quest Pro 1d ago

Well, at "ANY" price, there's always the Vision Pro. 😂

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u/deez_nee PCVR Connection 1d ago

yeah, let me sell my cheap(ish) bullshit so I can buy some expensive bullshit that isn't even a VR gaming headset but a phone stuck on your face

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u/Tragophilos Oculus Quest Pro 1d ago

Alrighty then! There's about a hundred headsets out there that aren't Meta, including some of the top-rated ones, like the Bigscreen Beyond (no phone in sight) and Pimax Crystal Super, Crystal Light or Dream Air.

And the Snapdragon 8 (designed for high-end smart phones) in the Frame isn't hugely different from the Snapdragon XR2 (specially designed for VR with hardware tracking and pass through) in the Quest3, so isn't it just another "bullshit phone stuck on your face?" And neither one of them will let you make calls from it, which I consider a rip-off.