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I’m not entirely sure how many things truly render at the native res vs up-scaling but the display resolution is important regardless of any upscaling that takes place to reduce/remove the screen door effect.

Graphically the native-quest stuff is relatively basic to run well on the hardware but for the kinds of things I enjoy most it doesn’t really matter/bother me. I use Virtual Desktops for PCVR on the quest 2 and in some cases I think the fancier graphics are worse. I prefer best saber natively on the quest because it has way less effects that reduce readability.

They are also using/pitching ASW as a method to effectively double frame rate so they can up the fidelity and maintain a high frame rate. I haven’t played anything that does this yet as far as I know but I’m a little skeptical on this technique.

I'm tempted to give it a try. I haven't used my Rift Touch in years because of how damned inconvenient it is to get running and how difficult using it with glasses can be.

I have snap-in prescription lenses for my Quest 2, but before I got them I just wore it over my glasses and that was tolerably OK. I would still recommend getting the ($70) snap-in lenses, though.

It is pretty convenient to get going, at least for onboard apps - I haven't tried the PCVR support. You pretty much just put it on and you're off and running.

Do you actually need to wear glasses? I guess maybe it depends on your prescription.

To me it seems for those who are nearsighted, wouldn't need glasses as the screen is very close to your face.

Physically yes, optically no. I don't know exactly how the hardware does it, but objects at a given virtual distance are at that focal distance, too. (Without the illusion of depth, there'd be no immersion...) If that's further than your uncorrected vision can focus, then you need correction to prevent those objects looking blurry, just as you would in real life.

It depends somewhat on what you're doing whether this poses a significant problem, I suppose, but I have found the experience more enjoyable for being able to see it without having to fuss with fitting my glasses under the headset.

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