Meta Quest

These headsets are a little bit, a lot more, far more advanced than what we had in the 1960s.

And if you just look from, say, the MetaQuest original to the MetaQuest 3S or the MetaQuest 3, there is an exponential advancement in the technology.

And everybody using those devices, buying those devices, is participating.

And it's like when you use chatbots or you use those search assistants like Gemini or ChatGPT or whatever, you're assisting, you're training these things.

I think it was introduced too early.

This stuff has to come about naturally, and it is coming about naturally.

From the MetaQuest to Xbox and PlayStation, you can get VR for that.

Apple vision pro that is something that i've never tried it's a premium option it's thousands of dollars i can't afford that even if someone gave me three thousand dollars and buy one i would say i don't think i'm going to spend three thousand dollars on a headset so i can lose myself in a fake world however i can tell you this i tried the quest Never thought I would do it.

Oh, we should dust it off.

mate it's fantastic and that was one of those experiences where i tried it in very early beta loved it joined the discord and kept track of it for a while i think until i stopped using my meta quest but brilliant and then it came to it blew up because of that and now it's like a full release wow great but yes i don't want psvr2 to die i just don't want it to die but at the same time when's the last time i used mine You know? Yeah.

Yeah.

Exactly.

It is just Sony's.

And that's why it's a bit sour, I think.

But then your argument or what you said of it's a hassle to get out and everything, it makes me think about the meta quest and all this technology going to meta.

Yeah, because when I had the Meta Quest, or when I used my Meta Quest, just pop it on.

I've read Game Discovery Co. on LinkedIn and on your own LinkedIn page.

An update on the MetaQuest VR game charts and what's going on there in September and October.

And specifically, there is a new free-to-play sandbox superhero game called Hero Hero or Hero X Hero, depending on how you read your anime titles.

Yes.

and it is absolutely crushing it at number one.

Tell me a little bit about this game, but also tell me, like, who is the VR audience these days over on MetaQuest?

Yeah, it's interesting.

I mean, I would describe it as a little Roblox adjacent in many ways, because I looked at Hero X Hero, and I was like, damn, that looks a lot like a lot of the popular anime Roblox games.

And, uh, even when Elder Scrolls came out everyone was like, "Oh, I can't wait to, to explore Skyrim with VR," and it ended up just none of it worked, you know? So, like, I think they're, they're l- stepping back and looking at it as, as maybe it was not the best investment.

But y- like, with Meta, like, the Meta Quest headset, like, it, it's all right.

You know? Like, I played the Gundam, I played a Gundam game, I played a Batman game in, in Meta Quest.

Like, it, it's all right, you know? It's not, um It's not terrible.

So I mean, I, I think if anyone has the resources to, like, make VR better, it's going to be Meta.

Like definitely more so than what Sony is right now.

And so much so that like the Steam Frame came out from Valve and it's just too expensive because the Me- the Meta Quest 3 people are doing comparisons to, and it's like, man, it really isn't that much better than the Quest 3.

And in some cases the Quest 3 actually is able to beat it out for battery life here in this scenario, or even just performance.

And a lot of that's because Meta is willing to subsidize the Quest 3.

You need to retime the frame, which is usually not ideal for anything that is cinematically intended this way.

There is the color space as well, because the MetaQuest family of headsets and Galaxy XR and the Vision Pro do not necessarily have the same color space.

But on top of the technical part of that, they don't necessarily have the same color space feeling, which means that even if the same color space is applied to the same screens, you may want to bump certain colors in certain headsets simply because the screens are different.

So there is the color space part that's a challenge.

Then there is also the fact that the best quality shots done on the Apple Vision Pro are done with the URSA Cine Immersive, which made a technical choice to use a non-standard fisheye, which has its reasons because it's making the immersion better, it's making the reproduction of the lens more accurate with the actual physical device.

But it means that you then need to reproject your fisheye to make it available in side-by-side on MetaQuest, for example.

So those are the challenges.

But I am, let's say, lucky enough to work with the amazing team over at SpatialGen.

Ooh, sequel

... sort of successor and sequel to, to Cosmic Smash called C-Smash, which we released as a PSVR 2 launch window title, and it came to the Meta Quest, and now it's also playable as a, in third person on the PS5, uh, as well.

And you can even play online versus against PSVR 2 players in third person on your PS5 if you want to, uh, et cetera.

So, so I love that game very, very much, and that's a really interesting one because the story of that one actually, and this also kind of sort of goes back to...

It's the Meta exclusive.

You have to have it on a Meta Quest headset, probably the 3.

Arkham Shadow, I think maybe it was called-

Arkham Shadow

They just do.

Yeah.

Um, so I often forget that one 'cause, uh, my bias is no game on the Meta Quest exclusive plat- platform can be that good.

[laughs] Um, but, but, uh, that's not true.

And in a lot of ways, making products that were preceding, uh, an audience.

Like, they were making products that were very high-end for an audience that was very niche, and the hope was that this would compete with something like a Meta Quest, but in a lot of ways, this is worse than a Meta Quest.

Um, it's an all-integrated device, but unfortunately, a lot of the criticism from the reviews is that it's not that powerful.

Um, it's a comfortable light headset but unlike the Vision Pro, the passthrough is very bad.

But overall, the actual headset, I don't think there's too much to be excited about there, especially if you're not already super interested in, in VR.

And if you are super interested in VR, I imagine there are probably, um, other ite- other headsets out there.

Meta Quest.

Well, the Meta Quest is a good one too, yeah.