The rear fitting mechanism of the Quest S (Image by CallThePlumber) At least it has only two points to adjust and no more three ones like in the original Quest… it should be a bit simpler. The rubberband of the Quest 1 has disappeared and it has been substituted by two elastic bands, one that goes on the top of the head and that can be fit using some velcro, and another one that goes around your head and can be tightened using something similar to one of those sliders using to fit the backpacks to your shoulders. With a choice that looks quite absurd to me, the new Quest has a fitting mechanism that looks like an improvement of the fitting mechanism of the Oculus Go. Top side of the Pico Neo 2: the battery on the back makes it very well balanced But as always, Facebook has decided to surprise me. If a company like Pico has been able to offer it in its recent Pico Neo 2, for sure an enormous unicorn like Facebook can do that. And it is also pretty weird to fit on other people, with the three-straps design that is much worse than the most modern approaches using a knob in the rear.įor this reason, I was expecting from a new Quest a design that could put more weight on the back of the device, plus a fitting knob. Some tweaks and gadgets can help in solving it (like using the Vive DAS, or Rebuff Reality‘s power bank), but the plain vanilla Quest is very uncomfortable. The biggest complaint on the Oculus Quest has always been about comfort: the headset is too front-heavy, and so it results very uncomfortable because it applies too much pressure on the face.
Seeing it close to the controllers in the renders, I have the impression that it can also be a bit smaller than the Quest 1. This poor design is also confirmed by the rear strap, about which I will talk quite soon. The Quest S is all made in plastic and seems less cool and elegant overall. The Quest 1 was covered in fabric, following the spirit of the Daydream headsets (RIP) that says that fabric make headsets feel more like a piece of clothing than a tech gadget, and so we wear it with more pleasure. The elegance of the new headset is also inferior to the one of the Quest 1 because of the use of only plastic for its shell. The first photo leaked by WalkingCat, where you can see the design of the headset and the controllers (Image by WalkingCat) IMHO, the all-black design was far more elegant. The color black remains only on the internal facemask and on the top pad of the controllers, for a dual-color design that personally I don’t like at all. The new Quest (from now on, I’ll call it the Quest S) has more or less the same design of the original Quest (the Quest 1, from now on), but it has a completely different color. And even if the photos were authentic, Facebook could still decide to tweak the design before the actual launch, so take everything that is written here with a grain of salt) A new look (Just a little caveat before going on with this post : the article is based on various leaks that are still UNCONFIRMED. But how is it? Well, let’s examine the photos…
I think that at this point we have enough material to be sure that a new Quest is coming. And some days after, a redditor called Calltheplumbe r shared some real photos of some pre-production devices of the same headset. While all hints were making us dreaming about a new Quest, the famous leaker Walking Cat (that already predicted the Samsung Odyssey and the HP Reverb G2), posted a render of a new headset, very similar to Quest, but white. Bloomberg reported that Oculus was working on a new Quest with 90Hz display, with better resolution and improved ergonomics, Chinese magazine Yivian stated that Goertek was going to increase its annual production of VR headsets because of the manufacturing of a new Oculus Quest, and Japanese publication Nikkei announced that a new Quest was going in production at the end of this month. Various rumors and leaks in the past weeks hinted to an upcoming release of a new Oculus Quest headset. Oculus is going to release a new Oculus Quest
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