I think that’d be premature at this point... we don’t know how much the Quest 2 weighs, how comfortable it is to use, what the FoV is, what IPD range it suits, what kind of panel it is using (nor what refresh rate or exactly what resolution), how good the lenses are, what improvements have been made to link etc etc.
As much as I think the Quest 2 looks great, I don’t think it will win against the G2 for a significant number of people.
Before the details come flowing in, I’ll place my bets - the advantages of the G2 will be:
- higher resolution (2160x2160 vs something like 1900x1800)
- significantly superior built in audio
- better weight balance, less heat, more comfortable for long gaming sessions (important point for sims especially)
- uncompressed feed with no latency giving a superior image quality to the link.
- No Facebook account required, and can’t be banned from your G2.
Quest 2 advantages will be:
- Price!
- Ability to play mobile games without access to a PC
- Improved virtual desktop WiFi gaming experience due to WiFi 6
- Improved link quality due to XR2 having significantly more video bandwidth and decoding ability, still not quite up with native feed but significantly closing the gap.
- better controllers, likely better tracking overall
- Oculus’ peerless software stack with their superior ASW, ATW, passthrough+, hand tracking and easy access to oculus store games.
Ultimately I think if you are willing to overlook the Facebook practises, they will actually go very nicely together as a pair. Each has their own appeal.
If your budget doesn’t extend to both I think it will come down to where you spend your time most and whether you want to bend over for Zuck... for people like myself where the bulk of their VR is sim racing or flying I think the G2 is still where the party is at.
I paid by Debit card so dont have that CC protection
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