Looking forward to seeing reviews on it for msfs being a quest 2 owner will be tempted at the price !

I wonder if the people in Kiribati are rushing down to the store to pick up their headset 😛

Got my Quest 3 this morning. I can confirm that passthrough is excellent, enough for me to use phone for texting, virtually no lag. In fact, I'm typing this post wearing the Quest 3... The only thing is the warping when the object is near, ironically at the distance for using the phone.

Sweetspot appears virtually unlimited and have no problem wearing glasses. Color and clarity are good, but I'm not sure the clarity and FOV are better than G2. If Quest 3 is sth like 3800x3800, we'd be golden. 

Will only be able to connect it to PC when I'm home tonight. Will see how it performs against G2. Bought Virtual Desktop app and USB link cable already. Will try linked connection first. 

Edited October 10, 20232 yr by FlyIce

1 hour ago, FlyIce said:

Got my Quest 3 this morning. I can confirm that passthrough is excellent, enough for me to use phone for texting, virtually no lag. In fact, I'm typing this post wearing the Quest 3... The only thing is the warping when the object is near, ironically at the distance for using the phone.

Sweetspot appears virtually unlimited and have no problem wearing glasses. Color and clarity are good, but I'm not sure the clarity and FOV are better than G2. If Quest 3 is sth like 3800x3800, we'd be golden. 

Will only be able to connect it to PC when I'm home tonight. Will see how it performs against G2. Bought Virtual Desktop app and USB link cable already. Will try linked connection first. 

Great  will be interested to know what you think of it tethered to PC

Thanks FlyIce - looking forward to your feedback

I'm sorry to say that the PC experience was a disaster. I can only enter VR via Oculus link, but the video quality is bad (jelly/jerky and missing fine details) and I don't know how where to adjust those parameters to make things good. Especially, where to increase bandwidth and make sure best code (like AV1?) is used. I opened the Oculus debug tool but it's very confusing for me as a first time user. 

Virtual Desktop looks good but I can't enter VR, as MSFS would give an error message saying headset not found. 2D quality in Virtual Desktop is great though. I flew in the gigantic 2D screen in VD and the image quality is very satisfying. I need such quality in VR. 

Anyway, this is my first All-in-One headset and I really don't know how to get things run nicely. I probably have to wait for other people to figure these out. 

I got Virtual Desktop + SteamVR worked in MSFS but still the image is too jittery to bear. I can tell Quest 3 definitely can give an overall better image in VR (huge sweet spot, similar clarity but nicer color and better brightness), however those compression artifacts are impossible the take. Unless there are effective ways to solve them, I'll have to go back with my G2, at least its image through display port is rock solid

I see many on reddit saying they're struggling to get a smooth experience with airlink and the usb cable at the moment. Seems many have success with virtual desktop. 

Are you using the AV1 option in VD? It's getting very positive feedback regarding minimal to no perceivable artefacts at 120mb/s, or possibly less. Others have said hvec at 200mb/s is also giving minimal artefacts. All subjective i guess 🙂

Are you familiar with the oculus/meta reprojection options? (copied from another page). You can change them on the fly. I think 3 generally gave me the best results back when I was using the quests regularly. There are also some command prompt options that can change the base frequency from 45hz down to about 18hz and values in between

CTRL + NUMPAD 1 - Disable ASW and USE ATW
CTRL + NUMPAD 2 - Force apps to 45hz, DISABLE ASW
CTRL + NUMPAD 3 - Force apps to 45hz, ENABLE ASW
CTRL + NUMPAD 4 - Enable ASW to operate automatically

Edited October 11, 20232 yr by dogmanbird

Thanks for the info! I am completely new to this linked VR game and too many things to learn in a short time... 

Yes in Virtual Desktop app I enabled AV1 10 bit and the streamed desktop looks outstanding in Quest 3. I can tell the mirrored virtual screen showed at resolution fairly close to real 4K, at least a nicely upscaled 2.5K, very satisfying.  

I guess the jerky/wavy/jello VR image I experienced is mostly due to some kind of reprojection going on with Quest 3. I'll play with Oculus Debug tool carefully tonight to see what I can get. Man, if Q3 can do direct input, it for sure will beat G2 by quite a bit.