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I only use it for watching movies at times but nothing beyond that.

Have you tried the Meta headset for movies?

When traveling, the Xreal Air 2 glasses are fantastic for watching video or playing games on your switch or steam deck. It’s light and comfortable, the FOV is good enough IMO, and the image quality is pretty solid (plus it’s using OLED). They don’t have to be charged at all and you don’t stand out as much as if you were wearing a full headset.

And they’re 120hz.

I’ve come to really enjoy my Xreal headset. Though, I just don’t use it often. I dislike how much effort it is to put on and take off when I also have a gaming headset on.

Thanks so much for sharing this! I had no idea non-HEADSET stuff had evolved this much. Just picked up a pair after doing a bit more research.

Only for playing games though. I don't own a Vision, but had a meta quest 2 for a short while and used only for playing games. Given it away to a friend who is also using it for playing games or for some VR sims. Nothing more. It gets claustrophobic very easily.

I have a q3 and it’s pretty solid for a couple hours. I do use a neck fan as I’m a sweaty person. Graphics are good though, and the quest doesn’t abstract away the filesystem - I can plugin a flash drive with content or literally scp movie files over to the filesystem on the headset. Just took an international flight and it was great with their airplane mode.

Am not a fan how Apple doesn’t let you treat devices as actual computers. Quest is android and didn’t lock us out of that.

I do not use Facebook products since they jacked my Oculus 1 with a forced Facebook login.

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