Jesus christ this thing is 500 dollars

[REKTs Buttz]

Good luck with that.....and it only works with one headset.....It might be acceptable as a universal model ...........but seriously? just the index....lol

[neunzehn76]

I was waiting for such a device to get rid of the cables, but I am with you. Also, it is just some kind of WiFi device. I own the Index and did buy the quest 3 now, instead of this nofio device. It works like a charm with steam VR over Wifi and as standalone device.

[MightyBat]

While I'm a bit miffed about the price too, just the cable for the Index itself costs 140€ - which is insane just so that's said - and in my case I'd need to replace that cable sooner or later as I'm now at a point where i'm not just getting flickering pixels in dark spots but a couple weeks ago audio started to cut in and out and as of last week I get loud 'clicks' while the audio is still playing.

I had hoped Valve's new VR headset would be released by now but that didn't happen so now my choice is between finding a wireless setup solution, which this is, or buy a new cable which might fail before their new VR headset makes an appearance and then I have to pay another 140€.

Also I would be able to get rid of my cable management so that's a bonus.

[REKTs Buttz]

Originally posted by MightyBat:

While I'm a bit miffed about the price too, just the cable for the Index itself costs 140€ - which is insane just so that's said - and in my case I'd need to replace that cable sooner or later as I'm now at a point where i'm not just getting flickering pixels in dark spots but a couple weeks ago audio started to cut in and out and as of last week I get loud 'clicks' while the audio is still playing.

I had hoped Valve's new VR headset would be released by now but that didn't happen so now my choice is between finding a wireless setup solution, which this is, or buy a new cable which might fail before their new VR headset makes an appearance and then I have to pay another 140€.

Also I would be able to get rid of my cable management so that's a bonus.

Valve is dragging their feet to bad....im gonna wind up just getting a quest 3

[celerun]

lol, yeah f**k that, get a Quest 3 for that money

[ChaosTao]

Agreed, this is just stupid.

[Abestar]

All of you people saying just get a Quest 3 are the idiots bad/no sound, worse quality images, terrible tracking and the icing on the cake you get Facebook spying on you, yeah, no thanks.

[Flame Soulis]

To be fair, I backed this because of the tech. Yeah, this version is going to cost a bit more, but later on it should go down. Ironically, look at the Quest itself, and how the price has remained about the same, yet the features are expanded.

Hell, I still have my DK2, and look at where Oculus is now? ♥♥♥♥ gets better with time.

[REKTs Buttz]

Originally posted by Abestar:

All of you people saying just get a Quest 3 are the idiots bad/no sound, worse quality images, terrible tracking and the icing on the cake you get Facebook spying on you, yeah, no thanks.

Lemme tell ya sumpsin sparky pants.....I have a vive 1 and pro with wireless adapter.....a quest 2 and 3.....The tracking on the quest 2 and 3 works perfectly fine minus the the occlusion from putting the controllers behind you which is an issue 0.003% percent of the time.....the color saturation of the vive is better.....NOT BY MUCH and not 600 dollars better.......Ive used an index and wasnt impressed enough to change from my vive pro. I only play vr wirelessly which limits my options and right now my quest 3 makes me 98% happy as my daily driver for pcvr. It has a much sharper picture than my vive pro and an index at the cost of some color saturation.......which im willing to live with for the clarity.......theres no excuse to charge 500 dollars for this thing......The quest was able to accomplished more than good enough visuals with 200mbps bandwidth.......theres no reason they couldnt have made a perfectly serviceable wireless adapter using less than a few gigabytes per second in bandwidth using existing wifi 6 tech......instead they used expensive 6e tech for bragging rights and marketing

[noob]

I heard there were a lot of issues, like latency, fps drops etc. can anyone confirm? Or is it just bad apples trying to smear?

[Deeeker]

Originally posted by noob:

I heard there were a lot of issues, like latency, fps drops etc. can anyone confirm? Or is it just bad apples trying to smear?

I bought it in Sept 2022 and don't have one still. They deserve any smearing people give them.

[Firepanther]

I paid $500. and never received any product. I can't even see how bad the product is as reviewed. A total scam.

[General E. Annoying]

Originally posted by Abestar:

All of you people saying just get a Quest 3 are the idiots bad/no sound, worse quality images, terrible tracking and the icing on the cake you get Facebook spying on you, yeah, no thanks.

both the visuals and the tracking are a ton better on a meta 3. I have both and the index is ass in comparison. however I use a bigscreen now still the tracking is ♥♥♥♥ on my index controllers vs. meta 3. Turning off haptics on my index helped the tracking but then there is no haptics........
wireless is better than the vive wireless by far with a puppi device. almost unnoticed latency. I still win at pavlov...
Index has better sound but I have no problem hearing my meta 3 and if meta spying on you bothers you get rid of windows it has a key logger dude. I do turn mine to the corner of the room when not in use. I don,t VR porn so it,s not a problem. LOL

[SirProsik]

I would not buy this because of the EXTREME delay in providing the product to people who pre-purchased. I did put my name on the email list more than two years ago. Pure incompetence on the part of hardware acquisition. Either they are trying to manufacture it themselves with bubble gum and paperclips 3d printing it themselves or they PAID in advance for manufacturing by some Chinese company and got ripped off themselves.

As far as Meta/Facebook never going to happen again after the Oculus CV1 screwups. They were watching live streams of people using their device and got caught at it for crying out loud.