Stuff - UK (2020-11)

The successor to Stuff’s reigning gadget of the year gets a beefed-up display and

better processor... the only snag is, you can only play it by sucking up to Facebook

FIRST TEST OCULUS QUEST 2

Wild wild Quest

t’s fair to say we

quite liked the

original Oculus

Quest. We were

so impressed, in fact, that after

much debate and only a brief

bout of Greco-Roman wrestling

we named it Stuff’s 2019 gadget

of the year.

The all-in-one VR headset

blew us away with high-end

performance that didn’t require

a powerful PC, nor a roomful

of sensors and wires. It was

VR, then, without faff, without

barriers – and provided the

easiest and cheapest way to

experience the best of what

this exciting new medium has

to offer. But the Quest is last

year’s toy. Replacing it is a new

headset with a design overhaul,

a beefed-up spec sheet and,

perhaps most impressively of

all, a lower entry price.

You should know, however,

that this is the first Oculus

headset that requires you to

log in with a Facebook account,

even if you already have an

Oculus one. Otherwise, you

can’t use it at all. Those who

don’t want to hand even more

data to Zuckerberg and friends

might have to think twice...

although, at the time of writing,

our infrequent visits to Facebook

haven’t seen us bombarded

with VR game ads.

So there are caveats, but

surely the specs put the Quest

2 in pole position to steal the VR

crown from its seemingly inferior

predecessor? Time to strap in.

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from £299 / stuff.tv/Quest2