Absolutely blown away by the 3S

Just bought a quest 3S recently and my god is it night and day over the Rift S. To be fair I haven’t used the rift s in over a year since it died last January but the full colour pass through and hand tracking alone make this one of the best purchases I’ve ever made.

For anyone who never tried the Rift S; the only form of camera pass through was to manually outline your boundary through black and white IR cameras that had a horribly choppy refresh rate and tons of distortion. Used to make me really nauseous and I don’t get bothered by intense vr games at all.

Trying this 3S out first time was the exact opposite experience I had to the first time I tried out my rift S, everything is so much more intuitive, the menus run so much better, noticeably higher refresh rate and lens quality (thank god for this it’s such a breath of fresh air), HAND TRACKING, the full colour pass through is solid and while not the highest quality it is miles better than the cameras on the rift S they’re not even comparable in that regard IMO. I can fully see everything I’m doing and there’s no noticeable lag which is my favourite part of it.

There is distortions around edges of objects but this doesn’t seem to bother me at all. Even looking in mirrors works perfectly which surprised me I figured the distortion would be amplified.

The hand tracking is straight out of a black mirror episode, words can’t stress enough how insanely cool it feels and it has me so excited for the future of VR tech. I have my own personal Star Trek HoloDeck for $399.99 CAD all in and I couldn’t be happier.

I know some people will probably comment saying I should have got the quest 3 over the 3s but honestly if you’re coming from an Older Gen headset like I did, I highly recommend getting the 3S. I paid half the price of what I paid for my Rift S ($780 total for the Rift S, bought it when it first released) vs $399 for a truly superior product in all regards. For this reason alone I highly recommend the 3S over the 3 unless you have the extra money to spend on the fancier lenses.

Very excited to see this technology expanded upon and hopefully their Orion headset blows this one out of the water like the 3S to the Rift S

Nice job Zucc I’m impressed👍🏻