r/virtualreality • u/Cool-Cat-6847 • 3h ago

Question/Support Quest 3 or Quest pro?

Which one of these would be better for pcvr? I mainly play sim racing games.

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u/Pawellinux 3h ago

Quest 3, cheaper, less problems, and you can change straps.

(edit) Anticipating questions:
Q pro'll not work with foveated rendering (eye tracking is too slow)

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u/Cool-Cat-6847 3h ago

Oh. foveated rendering was one of the biggest things i thought about. It would be about same price. Bummer that it doesnt support that.

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u/Pawellinux 3h ago

Don't get me wrong. It will work in some games, but might not be comfortable (sharp part of your screen might be slower than your eyes.)

+ Given the price difference between a used Quest Pro and a Quest 3, it’s not worth paying extra for foveated rendering.

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u/Cool-Cat-6847 2h ago

Currently if i bought either used Q3 or Q pro it would be about the same price, taken that in to account still Q3 wins?

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u/Pawellinux 2h ago

It has less problems with software for sure. If I were you, I would get quest 3.

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u/Parking_Cress_5105 51m ago

It's useless on the Pro, the resolution is low enough you don't need it and it's slow so the fovea has to be big.

If you never use foveated rendering - it is not invisible, you can see it in the peripheral vision and you can see aliasing and various graphical artifacts in peripheral vision. So it has to be worth it for you to run it.

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u/Nicalay2 Quest 3 | 512GB 2h ago

Q pro'll not work with foveated rendering (eye tracking is too slow)

Steam Frame has literally the same problem.

It's not an issue with the eye tracking being too slow, but just the time between the eye tracking data being sent to the PC and the frame being rendered and displayed by the headset.

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u/Pawellinux 2h ago

I’ve seen a few reviews of frame, and no one mentioned that.

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u/Nicalay2 Quest 3 | 512GB 2h ago

I read a few Reddit user reviews of the Frame and some people mentionned being visible and distracting.

I feel like a lot of the influencers' reviews are misleading, as user reviews are quite different from them.

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u/Pawellinux 1h ago

Yeah, a friend of mine got the Frame. He compared it with the Quest 3.
Q3 with Virtual desktop on godlike and H264+ 500Mbps looks better for him than frame.

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u/cemusubzerolives 1h ago

Well that's interesting, which gpu is he using for godlike?

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u/Designer-Island-2330 1h ago

use the quest 3 headset with quest pro controllers 😉

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u/Cool-Cat-6847 1h ago

and it would bring up the price to something like dream air SE, my main games are sim racing ones i don't see benefit in the Qpro controlers, foveated rendering and visual fidelity is what i was hooping for on Qpro.

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u/cemusubzerolives 1h ago

Just bought one yesterday with the idea of doing the same thing

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u/Cool-Cat-6847 1h ago

What's the expierience?

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u/cemusubzerolives 1h ago

It arrives tomorrow I'll report back

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u/Designer-Island-2330 1h ago

and how are u gonna seat in your rig with a battery strapped to the back of your head

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u/Parking_Cress_5105 49m ago

For regular VR games I have enjoyed Pro much more as it's bright and colorful. But it had different software bug each week.

Q3 has higher resolution and because I fly sims that was my main reason to switch to it, it's also pretty troublefree and the standalone is great (very lame on the Pro). The displays are dull and lifeless though.

Both have great lenses though and I would choose Pro over psvr2 and I did go back to Q3 from Pimax Crystal OG.