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Apparently, Meta sold as many Quest 2s as Microsoft sold Xbox Series X/S consoles (~20 million).

The metaverse is nonsense, and the Quest Pro flopped. But apparently the main Quest devices are pretty compelling toys.

I wonder if this is a high point, or if they’ll maintain the momentum. Also interested to see if they can ever really build out + monetize their game library .

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_co...

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Yeah the Quest 2 was amazing, my first VR headset. I got my wife one, and she enjoyed messing around with it so much I ended up getting one, and we often play games together in VR.

Mostly though we use it for various workout apps.

What are your favorite workout apps?

Honestly Beat Saber burns calories like nobody’s business.

Boxing games are great too. I literally need to pause and rest when I’m playing Thrill of the Fight, but it never feels like a “workout,” just like I’m doing a thing and it’s physically hard.

Heard good things about Fit XR, but I think it’s a subscription, which sucks.

Thrill of the fight is brutal lol, I just take all the time during rounds and still get exhausted by the end.

Thrill of the fight requires lots of space though. Beat Saber and Fit XR (and most other rythym games) can be done in place.

Thrill of the Fight has the highest average calorie burn in VR right now.

I busted my elbow with that one and it never got better.

I thought about getting a boxing game for VR, but I worry about injuring my elbow by punching forward and hitting nothing and having all the momentum get absorbed by the limit of my elbow joint.

Do you just avoid punching directly forward, or do you pull your punches, or what?

It is basically shadow boxing, which requires its own techniques to avoid injury, because ya, no bouncing off of something to stop or even return your energy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowboxing

Yep, keep your arms tight and stop your arm and bring it back after a punch. Lots of posts on reddit of shoulder injuries from playing these boxing games without being careful:

https://www.google.com/search?q=reddit+quest+boxing+shoulder...

Can’t really understand why thrill of the fight (which has the best engine of the boxing games) only lets you play against realistic, male characters. It would be tons more fun if you could play against fantasy characters and even politically incorrect ones. Everyone i talked to seemed to agree. Once another studio fills this niche, and provided that their engine is just as good, i think TotF will be sidelined.

Besides what the other person said, I subscribed to Supernatural for a while, and I thought it was doing good things for me, but it just seems like too much money monthly for what they provide. But it could be right for some.

FitXR is only $10/month, and it has been my go to for a few years now. It was even cheaper when they just sold the app without a subscription, I have the option to revert to that as well if I stop buying the subscription (an option not available anymore).

My wife uses Supernatural almost every day, and while it's a bummer to be subscription, she really enjoys the new content that keeps coming in.

I liked it too, but did not think the value was there at $18 a month.

I’m hoping Apple comes through with better packaged with apple fitness.

Les Mills Body Combat is a good non-subscription option.

My wife uses Supernatural almost exclusively, and I use Beat Saber.

It's my third headset, and yeah, it's amazing. My HTC Vive and Oculus Rift both just sit in a box somewhere. I just took the Vive lighthouses off my walls last week because it's obvious I'm not going to use it again.

If the Quest 3 can do every thing the 2 can do with better optics and controls, I'm 100% sold on it. They didn't mention linking it to the computer, but I have to assume that'll still be a thing.

It's so strange to me - so many devices sold yet I don't hear much about them at all. I hear about Xboxes somewhat, but maybe that's because I got one mainly as a Blu-ray player.

I hear about Beatsaber way more than I hear about anything Xbox exclusive.

The metaverse stuff (both the stuff directly attributable to meta and the way the NFT people grabbed onto the term) made it all mildly embarrassing to the masses and killed the pretty significant uptake they had.

Quest 2 had an extremely strong first few months. I'd be interested in seeing how spread out the sales have been

Software sales have taken a real beating. Saw a game launch post-mortem a week ago that had the Quest store beating the Steam release by ~2x. This is actually a lot worse than it sounds given VR’s niche status and the fact that devs were reporting a 10-20x multiplier a year or two ago.

The Quest game achievements leaderboard is semi-public and, doing some rough backwards math, it looks like some fairly high profile recent-ish releases (eg: Moss 2) sold atrociously.

The thing about the Quest is two things matter for VR: - Ease of setup. Quest has always been great about this. - Content / library. Again, Quest has typically had the most content and titles.

I am excited for the Quest 3, more than anything from Apple. I spent hundreds of hours with the Quest 2. Most people didn't spend that much time with it, but there is an audience for this and I am one of them.

Quest 2 + virtual desktop to wirelessly stream from the PC is perfection.

My son uses the quest 2 daily to play Blade & Sorcery.

Not being locked down by cables is basically a requirement to me now.. I was in from the very first DK1 but once I got a Quest2 the cable free reigns supreme, even though I'm giving up a little bit of tracking compromise (cameras on device vs the steam/vive room tracking).

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