Quest 3 announced

Got mine earlier today and binged. Ive owned the Q2, Q Pro, Reverb G2 and Pimax Crystal (pimax I returned).

Q3 is a very nice and noticeable bump up in image quality over Q2. I ran through DeoVR and also stored a couple of the giant file size SLR Originals (my favorite) directly on the device. Doing so told me our clarity issue is partially a content and not a raw resolution problem because the videos that the new 8k SLR camers produce have no equal, especially on close cowgirl riding etc.

But my point is, the pores on the girls face, the dripping cum (like in the Freya Von Doom video) etc. look better on Q3 than on any headset Ive seen aside from the Pimax Crystal (and honestly with the Crystal there is very little difference with the Q3 visually for porn).

While we are still not in earth shattering, holy grail levels yet (that will come with 4k per eye micro OLED displays paired with 10k + high bitrate videos), the Q3 experience of having a giant sweetspot, along with the bump in resolution produced a noticeable stepup on the higjest quality SLR videos and to a lesser extent things like WanksVR and CzechVR (which are also nice but dont contain as much granular detail as the 8k SLR setup). As should be expected it does almost nothing for lesser 5k and 6k content, aside from the aforementioned sweetspot enlargement.

If you can't tell, while Im satisfied with the Q3 and think its worth an upgrade for porn, what we really need is more studios with a setup like the one SLR is using. I'm not being a fanboy for the sake of it, just telling you what my eyes see.

Also, I'll take my opportunity here to plug continued (and more often) close filming. When SLR does closeup cowgirl, mish, etc. you can actually zoom the camera out a bit, thus exposing a higher pixel density and better image. Their cowgirl closeup where the girl almost touching the camera with her face and boobs allows you to get a huge portion of the 32 million pixels on screen for her BODY. This does look amazing, and it highlights the mediocrity of the far away shots even more. When you have a girl giving a blow job or doggy from 6 miles away the area of focus on her body is taking up very few pixels comparatively and you thus lose out on granular detail. So SLR, film close often would be my recommendation.

What does this have to do with Q3? Again, im trying to convey a way to play to its strengths and take full advantage of the device.

petermc

You can use the horizontal off sett
Move it to the right to make the image bigger
To the left to make images smaller
But don't use the sliders use the + -
You click once and look at the image, still to big or small? you click on + or - again.

Hold both triggers to move the image

first few hrs with it...not that excited. definitely a crisper image. Unfortunately image seems washed out...but that is using it out of box and not dialing in some settings...if there are settings (hopefully). my Q1 does not have washed out image, but also NOT read the homepage for the description of clips without moving mask around my head and hoping to get lucky

hoping controllers get DIALED in pretty quick.

pairing with phone was a nightmare...but after writing them a frustrating message...i for some reason clicked on old device and saw three tiny white dots...that kinda led me to quest 3 and it was easy after that

maybe glad i didn't pair it quickly...i ended up going all around the META menus and saw MY gallery of a 1000 pics taken...that's not good as my wife has my phone all the time....fucking meta. why why why

sure it will get better but need to find out way to shut those pics down from getting to my phone from my headset

10min after posting this...figured out how to exit everything...."quick tap" on button to bring up EXIT of all apps.

Finally got mine today... I actually should have had it yesterday but UPS fucked up but what can you do.

Anyway my general first impression is positive. It's a step up in clarity of the image for sure but it's most noticeable in menus, games, etc. VR porn feels a bit more crisp but the effect is small. However the improved FOV was immediately apparent to me in VR porn and while the scuba diving feeling is not entirely gone it's really evident for me that the FOV is larger. I like that.

Pass-trough which I guess is one of the reasons most people upgrade. Well it's a powerful experience for sure. I dig it and the fact that your room appears in color are light years better than Quest 2's grey scale. It is more grainy though than I expected. Furthermore I think the fact that it's in colors now then it somehow makes the current issues of AR porn stand out more. For example an issue I encountered is that most videos feels like that unless I bend my neck 90 degrees while laying in bed instead of laying comfortable with my head resting on my pillow, well then the floating cock appears in my lower abdomen, instead of where my dick actually is. So I have to zoom out - always. Next issue is that when I finally get the model aligned then just a bit of a tilt of my head an the model shifts a tiny bit. It's annoying. Scale is also an issue that becomes very apparent in AR porn - with the exception of the latest SLR scenes then most scenes features giants. It's unwatchable in my book and I wouldn't be surprised that if those scenes were people first impression of AR porn, well they would call AR porn an abomination. Finally any scene without the male actor in a suit is useless for me. I already had it like that in the Quest 2 but in the Quest 3, well I can't watch those scenes. I don't see the point and I rather just watch a regular VR scene instead.

That said I think AR porn has the potential to really revolutionize this media as when you get it right there in the sweet spot, yeah it's just so engaging and thrilling. I do feel though there some way to go yet in needed improvements and we for sure need a far larger library in AR scenes from different studios and different performers.

ernesto90354 I have extremely good eyesight (knock on wood) and I can tell you the Q3 gets you most of the way to the Crystal when it comes to current VR porn. I found the Crystal's "QLED" to be overhyped and the colors to be almost as washed out as any other LCD. They're closer to HP reverb LCD colors than they are nice OLED colors. So that micro OLED grail is really what we need as color contrast/saturation has its own depth and detail enhancing effect outside of what raw resolution gives you.

Also, while on paper the Crystal's PPD is listed as 35 versus 25 with the Q3, I'm really skeptical of this measurement because the FOV struck me as noticeably larger than the Q2, thus stretching those 2880x2880 panels out considerably.

Now, there still is a resolution difference, and the screen door effect is less noticeable but not gone. Anyone saying 2.8k per eye has gotten rid of the SDE either has bad eyesight or simply unobservant. While not a glaring problem like on the Quest 2 level, you can spot it on background in white heavy scenes. If it's there's then, it's there always, just less noticeable on darker backgrounds.

Conclusion: buy the Crystal maybe if you're a sim fan, but it's a waste of money solely for porn.

ernesto90354 Yeah, exactly. Realistic resolution and detail beats "realistic distance" every day of the week. I'm not saying there shouldnt be any shots from the actor's head level, but they should quickly transition those closer to the woman's face/body. I'm referring to things like standing doggy that for me are boring AF from the actor's vantagepoint, sitting reverse cowgirl that's often too far away, and facials/cumshots should be closer. Even missionary when they go from a mile away to close. They should keep the close clip but ditch the distant one for somewhere in between. I realize this height might be uncomfortable for the male actor from a camera placement perspective but are you more worried about his comfort than the quality of the film? Ok, soapbox over

OliverDK Next issue is that when I finally get the model aligned then just a bit of a tilt of my head an the model shifts a tiny bit. It's annoying. Scale is also an issue that becomes very apparent in AR porn - with the exception of the latest SLR scenes then most scenes features giants

Use horizontal off set to increase and decrease image. + is for bigger - is for smaller

And turn on 6dof, the switch is usually on but you got slide the slider all the way to the right.

Imo best way to explore pt at first is in a laying position watching laying cg rcg.

i don't...apparently they just pop out like that