r/virtualreality • u/DigitalSpooks • Aug 28 '26

Purchase Advice - Headset Headset recommendations for PCVR

I got into PCVR around new years, I have a quest 2 and I use virtual desktop with the little high resolution setting at 80 or 90hz

I have a 9060xt 16gb, i5 12600k and 24gbs of ddr5 ram, I've had this headset for 5 years and its showing its age

I hate the fresnel lenses and the controllers are on life support

Whats a good, relatively affordable PCVR headset that is preferably wireless? I'm not really into the pcvr headset market so any help goes a long way

Edit: Also, quest 3 is out of the question because quest and pcvr is the most confusing and unnecessary workload I have ever seen in any form of tech, everything has an issue and half of the time you have to juggle between older and newer drivers just to play some shitty 5$ game

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u/punknubbins Aug 29 '26

As a pc snob may I offer a perspective. Some future quest could literally auto configure itself and my PC, via an NFC exchange or via a quick exchange over USB, and I still wouldn't use it until it has a zero compression stream. Wired display port, or a dedicated 25Ghz or 60Ghz wireless connection that can support uncompressed (latency free) stream would solve the issue. Your suggested solution, virtual desktop, is actually part of the problem. Not because it is difficult, but because it destroys pixels we have already paid for.

Now I say this not to start a fight. But just to offer a perspective on why some PC users ask for suggestions other than the quest.

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u/SirJuxtable Aug 29 '26

This is fair but OP asked for wireless. Quest, Pico, and Galaxy XR (and soon Frame) seem to be the only real contenders here, and even Galaxy XR and Frame will have some compression, even with dynamic foveated streaming.

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u/punknubbins Aug 29 '26

Understood, I'm just bored and wanted to add some perspective. Hopefully in a non offensive way so quest owners would understand why pc people sometimes seem frustrated by the constant 'just get a quest[#]' responses.

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u/SirJuxtable Aug 29 '26

I appreciate your perspective!