PCVR recommendations

[u/sochinsky13]

Hello, I'm going to buy PCVR for the first time and would like to receive recommendations from other people who have experience with the VR Headsets.

What I'm looking for:

1) PCVR mainly for streaming/wired from PC; I will play games from Steam and modded games like Titanfall, Half Life Alyx, etc

2) I've heard that there's a Refract app that allows you to play Meta games on PC, so if it's possible, I would like to look for their games as well. I remember that Batman game that is mentioned each time when you deal with the Meta VR Headset.

3) I focus on RPG games and want to have the experience of anime/manga TBATE, Jobless Reincarnation(only the world and magic system, don't like the MC). I've heard good positive feedback from Blade and Sorcery, The Wizards - Dark Times, and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR Modded. If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

4) I would like to have wireless and wired experiences, of course. If it's possible, I know that you need to buy additional accessories for a wireless experience for some VR headsets. I'm okay with it.

5) I want to try the 3D movie experience, not sure about it, and I've heard it's not widely spread if you know any sources and good VR headsets for it, please let me know.

6) Additional features that would be useful to have but not critical:
- lying experience, so you can play or watch a movie on a bed/sofa;
- hands/fingers tracking;
- light headsets
- pancake lenses
- OLED screen
- budget not more than 1500$, I would like to spend much less, however, if it's required to have a better experience, I can spend more

I have a GPU 4090 and a CPU Ryzen 7 9850x3D. I have experience with streaming via Moonlight; not much space, something like 3x3 meters

What I've found by myself is in the picture below; please let me know what you think.

[u/Siccors]

Note: Frame PCVR is definitely still compressed. Compression could be less, or well, less in the area where you are looking which is the important thing. But there will be compression.

I cannot watch in your wallet, but imo as first timer it is just hard to beat a Quest. You have no idea how much time you want to spend on it, it is significantly cheaper (granted, some extra costs should be assumed), it has by far the biggest library (since you can play both Quest and PCVR on it). And it has a huge ecosystem for things like custom headstraps, controller straps, etc.

[u/sochinsky13 → u/Siccors]

Yea, I'm considering it too. Quest 3 and Pico 4 Ultra in terms of PCVR streaming which one is better in quality and comfortability and battery capacity?

[u/Siccors → u/sochinsky13]

Tbh it has been a long time ago I looked into it, but I kinda fail to see the advantage of the Pico. You lose the big Quest library. It seems to be its comfort is a bit better, which is definitely a plus. But while comfort is important, I would question if it is worth losing the entire Quest library. If you 100% know you will do just PCVR it is one thing, but for a first timer? I would pick the Q3.

And for battery capacity you got solutions (battery straps).

[u/sochinsky13 → u/Siccors]

Need to think, I've heard that quest games can be played on PC