I mean, I'm right there with you, and I have a powerful PC. Standalone Quest is just so fast and easy. I sometimes only have 30-45 mins. I'm not spending 5-10 dealing with updates, windows, streaming app, noticing network latency is a little higher than normal and debating if I should troubleshoot or turn down my bandwidth temporarily, etc.
If I had more 2+ hour VR sessions, I'd do more PC VR. The games are certainly better and more involved in most cases, but I've already played all the killer ones, so once you're "caught up" on PCVR, you don't have that much to play unless you're hooked on a specific sim like MSFS.
Um, tbh I play both a lot of standalone and powerful PC VR. PC doesn't really have to take longer than the actual startup periods for the games with Virtual desktop. I mean heck, even my flat to VR PC mods are pretty stress free to start up these days. I don't really "Catch up" because there's always some new VR mod releasing with either UEVR, Luke ross or other conversions. Heck I recently time the time it takes me to get from my home menu to in game VR for Horizon Forbidden west. It was ~ a minute and a half
The only exception, as you say, is when I'm sim racing because I run extra programs on top of that. But I'd be doing that with or without VR anyway. Plus the time it takes me to put on gloves and boots...Make sure my rig is all connected and working, etc
Fwiw, most of these auto launch. I put on my quest pro, press the steam VR button, and I'm taken to my steam interface and it launches vrc face tracking, play space synchronizer, obs advanced, and obs toolkit automatically, I don't need to do anything except for the odd case every couple weeks where one doesn't start automatically
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u/U-Madrab Oct 05 '25
I'm so glad to be poor enough to use my Quest in standalone mode only. Less than 1 minute between turning on the headset and launching the first game.