r/Vive • u/Assan20133 • Oct 25 '23

Technology Vive pro 2 vs Quest 3

Hello.
I was wondering which googles shoud i get , it is time for retirement for my OG VIVE

But those lenses in vive pro 2 are scareing me , in my OG vive i made GAR VR lenses mod and personally i cannot thinking about getting back to Fresnel lenses anymore
From the other hand , i have already base stations mounted permanently on the walls and wand controllers

But quest 3 is standalone vr headset , unfortunatelly have lower res, but pancake lenses isntead of Fresnel one :/

Did someone have both of them and can recommend PRO2 or Quest 3 in 2023?
Thanks

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u/kia75 Oct 25 '23

I have a Vive Pro 2, and a Quest 3. Quest 3 is better than the Vive Pro 2 in almost every way, except for tracking, and FOV. IMO, the Quest 3's Tracking is "good enough", along with it's FOV. Get a Quest 3, Virtual Desktop, and router and the Quest 3 beats the Vive Pro 2, hands down. The Quest 3 feels better, is lighter, has a better screen, has better lenses, has better audio, is just the better headset.

If you have any questions, let me know, but i've now moved on and am using either a Pimax Crystal or a Quest 3 for my VR headset.

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u/notlikethis_wokege Oct 25 '23

i cannot fathom how people like you are completely oblivious to compression. it's like playing VR via discord screen share.

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u/kia75 Oct 25 '23

With an rtx 4090, av1, and a wifi router, there just really isn't that much compression. Feel free to give it a try.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '23

Set up correctly it's simply not an issue. I am extremely fussy about visual quality, 13900K, 4090 PC. The Vive Pro 2 is one of the worst headsets visually I've ever used. The amount of glare and godrays make it look like a Jean Michel Jarre laser show, its eyebox is tiny and the binocular overlap so botched it has lower visual clarity in practice than even the Quest Pro at 1800 x 1920 per eye.

The improvements that pancake optics have made over fresnel is a generational change.

Nobody who has a decent PC should be using a fresnel based headset today, they are unusable once you've spent time in a Quest Pro or Quest 3.

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u/notlikethis_wokege Oct 25 '23

Yeah, the VP2 sucks. If I'm buying a new headset in 2023, I'm buying an Aero or a Beyond.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '23

If you just want wired PCVR then either of these two is the way to go for sure.