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Oculus Quest 2 and Non-gaming Apps
I have been a very satisfied user of the first generation Oculus Quest for the past year or so.
So, when I heard that Facebook would be announcing the Oculus Quest 2 at their Facebook Connect event, I wanted to watch — that was a bit of a busy week what with Apple announcing their new iPads and watches the previous day and so on.
I’m glad that I watched the event.
The Oculus Quest 2 looks good. It’s (slightly) less heavy, has a much higher resolution display, is much more powerful in terms of processing power and to top it all, is $100 cheaper than the previous model. So I was definitely interested in getting it.
But what really interested me was the rest of the keynote where folks from Facebook laid out their future plans for Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR).
Now, I enjoy playing games on the Oculus very much. But what I really would have liked to see on the original Oculus was more personal productivity functionality and shared entertainment — for example, being able to watch a movie on a big screen not just by myself, but with my wife, sitting beside me and watching the movie with me on her own Oculus headset.
Sure, you can sort of do that already by using an app like Big Screen VR and watching…
