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OCULUS QUEST 2

Oculus has a long and prestigious history with virtual reality, as one of the progenitors of the modern wave of headsets and software, and the arrival of the Oculus Quest 2 has seen a resurgence in excitement for virtual reality. Interest in VR ebbs and flows with each new major release – and the Quest 2 has brought in high tide.

I’ll admit the Quest 2 wasn’t something that initially had me excited. Standalone VR seemed like a backwards step for someone so swept up in the £999 Valve Index. But perhaps I was hasty in my assumption that it would offer a definitively worse experience. Clearly it is the greater value proposition at its £299 price point, the only option that even comes close to encroaching on the ‘affordable’ tag, and it offers a specs list that first-gen VR could only dream of.

The Quest 2 sports a 1832 x 1920 resolution per

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