Holy fuck it’s here, it came early.
I think it’s so it doesn’t get overshadowed by Apple unveiling it’s vr headset

I love it. Apparently the passthrough is going to be so good you could read text with the headset on, and it’s depth sensor is going to allow for so much better ar capabilities. All in full color, too.

And don’t get me started on that headset size. It’s so fucking tiny, and I love it!

Not to mention the fact that it’s going to have better resolution than the quest 2, pancake lenses, way more power, but one thing befuddles me. Those controllers.

No one knows how they track, besides the person who got to use it hands on who released limited info on it. They don’t use cameras imbedded in the controllers, or tracking rings, or lighthouse tracking or an external camera (obviously). It’s something new entirely. I’m not worried about its quality, obviously meta wouldn’t use a different tracking method if it was worse than before. No, I’m just curious on how they work, and I’m giddy to find out. My guess though is that they are still using inside out tracking, but they put the IR LEDS in the controller rather than in a ring. In which case I will be slightly disappointed, as new tracking technology would be very exciting, however this is still an improvement. Also I think the controllers are going to have better haptics than the old ones, but it’s not confirmed, they just listed it as a feature in the announcement trailer, and my guess is that if they’re announcing it and putting the spotlight on it in such a way, it’s improved.

Yeah so basically better resolution, better passthrough and AR due to superior, color, clear cameras and a depth sensor, more power, things are going to be clearer in the headset (don’t know if that goes along with better resolution, or if they did something to make things clearer), a native 120hz refresh rate, a slimmer, sleeker headset, pancake lenses, most likely a better ipd adjuster (in the leaks it showed it, and in the announcement trailer the lenses moved, smoothly, hinting at full ipd control like the quest 1), most likely better controllers (with no tracking rings, meaning they’re less likely to get in each other’s way and are more compact, just sad that you can’t stand them up anymore, lol), and hopefully the better cameras and depth sensor mean improved hand tracking

For $500, this is a steal. Definitely preordering day 1.