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Missing the "Old" home environments?
After a long 10-hour workday, one of my favorite ways to reset and recharge was slipping into my Quest home environment. Cascadia was always my favorite — peaceful, open, a place where I could truly unwind and reset my compass. Ryokan Retreat with its koi pond, Desert Terrace with the hot air balloons at sunrise, and Winter Lodge with that cozy vacation warmth… each one gave me space to breathe. Now, with the older home environments gone, I really feel the loss. The new ones feel confined, with boundaries that keep you from exploring. They lean toward pushing social interaction, which is great sometimes, but not what I’m looking for every time I put on the headset. I love exploring other worlds, concerts in Horizons worlds, and 360 YouTube videos of places I’ll be visiting — but I also just want a spacious, relaxing home to return to. Something that feels like my place in VR. The old environments gave that sense of openness and serenity. The new ones feel smaller, more limited. Meta, I hope you’ll bring back some of the old favorites — they weren’t just backgrounds, they were sanctuaries. Would love to hear everyone's thoughts on this and maybe we will all find our home.Valve Announces the Steam Frame VR Headset
Competition is good, we've been a bit lacking in VR options lately. Valve have announced the Steam Frame. It's a mobile headset running on a Snapdragon SOC (similar to Quests). It's also got wireless streaming (with a few interesting tricks) and uses 4 camera inside out tracking with inbuilt IR LED illuminators for dark rooms. Here's the specs. Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 CPU (more powerful than the Quest 3 Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2). 16GB ram. Micro sd card slot for up to 1TB storage. Back of the head mounted battery pack. 2160x2160 per eye LCD screens. 72-144Hz refresh. Pancake lenses. 60-70mm IPD 110 degree fov (so similar to Quest 3). Four monochrome IR cameras for inside out tracking and controller tracking. It can do pass through video, but only monochrome. Two eye tracking cameras. IR illuminators to light up dark rooms for tracking. Expansion port (maybe this could do better than USB 2.0? Don't know) Dual wifi 7. One wifi (5GHz) for internet, another separate wifi (6GHz) for streaming video audio from PC. (So internet doesn't affect your stream quality) Comes with a 6GHz wifi 6e dongle. 440g (the Quest 3 is 515g). Runs SteamOS instead of Android. Has a PC emulator, you can run PC Windows games standalone on the headset without a PC (probably very limited performance). Controllers copied from the Quest series, including using AA batteries. Slight different is the left controller has a dpad and the right controller has ABXY buttons and index finger trigger and bumper on each, so it can fully mimic a gamepad. Capacitive finger tracking on the handles. One interesting feature is Foveated Streaming. It uses eye tracking to prioritise streaming pixels where you are looking. (Foveated Rendering helps with FPS, but not streaming quality) It probably isn't going to handle USB streaming. The specs say the only USB port on it is only rated at USB 2.0. So we have a very interesting Quest 3 competitor. Slightly lower pixel count (4.5 vs 4.6 MP of the Quest 3), more powerful CPU/GPU, expandable storage, optimisations like foveated streaming and dual wifi to give the better PCVR, controllers that have feature parity with console controllers, lighter, better weight distribution with rear battery, and pancake lenses. On the other hand, it can't do colour pass through and the cameras don't match your eye position, so it's going to be like a Quest 2 with monochrome and reprojected distortion (hopefully higher res though). It's running Linux (SteamOS), so it's going to be far more open than Meta's headsets (look at the stuff Google is trying to lock down in Android to stop side loading). Also no social media account, so you aren't going to get banned from VR because somebody hacked your instagram (this forum has had years of complaints about how the accounts get tied together and Meta still can't fix it). I hope when they copied the Quest controllers they didn't copy the misalignment Meta did. No prices announced yet. It will come out early 2026. Best news (I'm sure you were all wondering), Australia is getting them on day 1, no waiting years like for the Index. Unless I hear something really bad, I'll definitely add one to my VR collection. Although I haven't read any reviews yet (been working), so maybe it sucks. :) Edit: From the Gamers Nexus video on it... turns out the Steam Controller (the new one not the old one) has IR LEDs in it so the Frame can track the gamepad position. That's cool. Another detail, the Frame has a PCIe Gen 4 expansion port (above the nose gap) that they say can handle dual camera feeds using 8 lanes at 2.5 Gbps. That sounds like there could be an optional colour passthrough addon.
Issue with sending replacement VR
Hello everyone, I am having a very hard time with Meta for some reason I sent in my Son VR that we received this April and it's no longer working properly. I reach out to Meta because it's still within the one-year warranty. They mention for me to send it in and they will send in a replacement within 3 to 5 business days. I sent the VR to them in October and here we are in November still no replacement. I have been in communication with them through the chat and they are giving me the runaround and not giving me a reason as to why they haven't sent the replacement. I really don't know what else to do, but I was thinking about getting legal involved because the device was very expensive and feels like it was stolen from us.
Cyberpunk 2077 VR settings?
Hello, I specifically am asking if anyone has settings for CP2077 with Luke Ross VR mods when using: Big screen beyond @90hz PC build: RTX 5090+9800x3d Most YouTube videos are people using Q3 and VD. If not that then a Pimax. If anyone with a BSB and the same PC build would be kind enough to share settings (mod overlay, ingame graphics tab and video tab settings) it’d be much appreciated.
Did Immersed brick ny secind monitor?
Tried to use Immersed with my Quest 3, tried it for a bit, didn't really work, uninstalled it. Ever since that my second monitor doesn't work. I tried restarting the pc, plugging in and out, using different ports, turning on and off. How can fix that and why the **bleep** did that happen?
Severe headaches after playing VR
Hi everyone, I bought quest 3 a month ago. The first day I think I played a bit too much (~3h straight), I had some derealization issues, headaches, dizziness, I didn't slept well. The next day I tried playing some more (only for like 15 minutes) but it only got worse after playing. I decided to stop playing until I feel better and it took over a 10 days until I didn't feel dizzy. I decided to give it one more try and it was better than after first try but I still get severe headaches after playing vr, looking at any screeens feels a bit werid. Is there any way I could make it better? Or should I just assume that VR is not for me?Question about casting tablet content to Meta Quest 3S VR
Hi everyone, I'd like to ask if there's a way to project iPad content onto Meta Quest 3S VR glasses? I need to create some educational content for children, so I'd like to project animations from the tablet into the VR glasses. If anyone knows how, could you please tell me how? Thank you very much.Missing my virtual homes after update
I updated my quest over night and was shocked my virtual environments all are missing. Is there a way back? I don’t like the new ones especially in the foreground as they are not realistic, they don’t blend in, design from foreground to background is not aligned. Sadly it’s not a quality update. I miss my original home environment, the dome - that was my first introduction to VR and I dearly miss it! I miss my winter lodge, my balloons, my Japanese home, my space station, my very cyber punk futuristic apartment, my hobbit cave, my mountain campfire, my forest lodge … Depending on the mood you could change them, now I feel a bit lost with the low quality environments (especially in the foreground) and my old themes missing. I would have never updated had I know the environments will be gone. Is there a way back? A hidden menu? Are there plans to integrate the old environments?Rift-S foam face replacements?
Yes the headset is very old now but it works and none of the newer ones out there interest me right now. What I'm trying to find is a vendor that still offers the replacement foam face part. I could go with silicon if they offer a cloth cover but just silicon irritates my skin. I had the kiwi set but they are 4 years old now and are crumbling apart and its time to find a replacement. Unfortunately it looks like Kiwi no longer carries them. I briefly looked on ebay but buying a 'USED' one is not something I'm interested in doing at least for the foam ones. Cloth i could wash. Anyone have any recommendations? thanks in advance.
