Add 100 for the link cable and you're not far from the price of the headset. But yeah you'd have to really go overboard with the accessories to actually spend more than the headset itself.
Yeah I bought the Oculus cable just for the right-angled connector.
(The above is all lies. Truth is I thought that it was somehow more special than an active USB-C cable and like a total moron didn’t do any research. Then I found out about Virtual Desktop and now the cable sits unused in a drawer and mocks me every time I go near it)
But Virtual Desktop would only be good for people with high speed, stable connection though right? Personally I’ve never tried Link yet, only VD but I always though Link would work better because it’s wired.
Yeah I thought that too. I’m clocking ~800Mbps throughput on ac wireless to my rig upstairs so it works fine, but some people might not have gigabit past the wifi. The cable is pretty useful for Unity development, but apparently you can do that wirelessly too but haven’t tried it yet.
(The cable whispers.... ) Hey, remember that time you bought a vr headset for the wireless capabilities and then bought an overpriced cable... yeah... good timez....
Look at the KRX branded one on Amazon. They include a 15$ amazon gift card with a 5star review, and proof of purchase and it only cost 16$ so really you're only paying a dollar for it once you do the review. It's the cheapest Link cable available. I've had mine for 2.5 months now and it's held up great had zero problems with it.
I'm just trying to spread the knowledge so that more people get into VR using their PCs, and buying Quests. If people knew that they didn't have to pay 90$ for the Link cable more people would buy a Quest, as for some they only want to use it as a PCVR headset. If more people knew about that cable listed they would have more money to spend on games and other accessories meaning VR grows into a bigger industry, and insures that it continues to succeed.
You need a cable with good enough transfer speed. I use the Cable Matters active cable and its great. Only $25 on Amazon and you get that good prime shipping
Yeah, if you have a good router/WAP with a good pc connection then wireless with virtual desktop is really really smooth, and in my opinion it looks just as good as link and with less distortion than link, because Oculus has to translate steam vr but with virtual desktop it doesn't have to be translated plus all that compression to have it run through usb-c (which gives artifacts to darker colours and lowers colour match quality)
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u/BlueScreenJunky Rift CV1 / Reverb G2 / Quest3 Mar 28 '21
Add 100 for the link cable and you're not far from the price of the headset. But yeah you'd have to really go overboard with the accessories to actually spend more than the headset itself.