Best VR for Subnautica?

[Sviothiod]

Hey, I've been thinking about playing Subnautica in VR but wasn't sure which VR device to go for. What do you recommend?

[Weaver]

VR is all about price vs performance. It's also largely going to be determined by your PC specs as a high end VR headset is meaningless without a PC to back it up. At the lower end is Quest 2, at the high end is stuff like Valve Index. Note Subnautica in VR does not use hand tracking. Subnautica will work for just about any PCVR headset and is included in the base game, so it shouldn't be what you determine your VR purchase from.

[Doom]

Originally posted by Sviothiod:

Hey, I've been thinking about playing Subnautica in VR but wasn't sure which VR device to go for. What do you recommend?

Quest 1 works. Quest 2 should work too. Pimax is said to have superior FOV and resolution compared to everything else, but the price point is high.

Please note that Quest 2 has higher resolution than index, so if you're on budget, you could just grab it Quest 2, as long as you don't mind having a Facebook account.

And like the other guy said - you'll be still playing with a gamepad.

[norman.cates]

Erm, do a quick search for VR and Subnautica, and you will find that VR in Subnautica is rickety and unplayable. But there are some mods out there that appear to make it playable in VR. https://www.nexusmods.com/subnautica/mods/173

[UCEY]

Don't play Subnautica VR

[piddlefoot]

The best VR always boils down to a couple of main things, for me the first is resolution, and anything less than 4k per eye is pathetic but 8 k per eye is much better but sheeeeeesh do you pay out the nose for that stuff right now, VR is much trickier to master than most folks realise.
Second is frame rate, refresh rate, frequency.
Its an amazing experience if you havent tried it, go try it.
Games like DCS, flight sims, you wont look back, NOTHING beats that heads up VR display, nothing, because its just like the real jet and the fly by wire system.

VR has some really really strong points and it also has weak points where games just dont code dedicated for VR first and formost, which always leaves it a bit of a, what it could have been'', potential feeling playing many of these games with VR.

You want the best, try these suckers, The Reverb G2's.
They smash the steam oculus one [ though steam helped to develop this one also ] and pretty much all others out there also.
Higher resolution see.

There is another that has a higher refresh rate at 120, the one above is refreshing at 80htz this one below is at 120htz BUT its resolution is lower.

Refresh rate: 120Hz (144Hz experimental mode) Field of view: 130-degrees. Tracking: 6DoF. Weight: 1.79 pounds Valve's Index headset is the latest and greatest in PC-based VR that will fill each of your eyeballs with 1,440 x 1,600 pixels at a refresh rate of 120Hz.

[Sviothiod]

Those are all great suggestions! Thank you for your thoughts and help!

[The Knight of Faerie]

Note, while it's amazing... Subnautica VR is clunky and not particularly good. You CAN use the Quest's touch controllers (or any VR controller, probably)... But it wont work well. Last time I tried it was impossible to change equip items from your hotbar, or switch what hotbar item you had up. Also nearly impossible to see what you're doing when using the inventory.

Using keyboard/mouse works in VR, except you can't see the keyboard. So it's harder to control. Using a bluetooth controller such as an Xbox One or PS4 controller works best in VR. Expect your neck to get tired after a while. Also, there's some issues with the camera not lining up properly with the avatar. Especially when you first start a game. Still amazing, but not well done. There's a reason why the devs decided not to go with native VR support for Below Zero.