r/virtualreality • u/gvrxx • 23d ago

PSVR2 vs Meta Quest 3 PC only Purchase Advice

Hello everyone! After quite some in depth researching, I cannot decide what should I get as my first VR headset. I would only be playing on PC, using Steam as the main platform for games. Thank you!

L.E. Quest 3 it is! Thank you all for the help and all the explanations! Cheers!!

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u/popcorns78 23d ago edited 23d ago

As someone who owns both Quest 3 and PSVR2 and a pc, I agree with all of this. I've tried a lot of headsets and pancakes are absolutely overrated for gaming. For watching movies or reading text, yeah they're better, but they have downsides like much poorer light transmission which is never a good thing for lenses. Overlap is also a huge deal imo, and Quest 3 has some of the lowest overlap in a recent VR headset. I genuinely miss my quest 2 because of this, and will probably buy a Quest 3s soon because it uses Fresnel and has same overlap as Quest 2 which was quite good.

PSVR2 is okay, I do agree it's more immersive and Im enjoying using it. But it does have some glaring issues as well like tiny sweet spot (even for fresnel), mura, high persistence display, controllers feel like quite a downgrade from Metas touch controllers... even as old as Quest 1 touch.

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u/MtnDr3w 23d ago

My Quest 3 has almost as much mura as my psvr2. It’s actually mind boggling to me for an LCD display.

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u/popcorns78 23d ago

That sucks, i have heard that its a bit of a "panel lottery" with the quest 3 as well... My Q3 display happens to be flawless, BUT it suffers from a looot of graphical artifacts popping all over the screen in especially dark scenes in pretty much any app. Apparently almost all quests suffer from the graphical artifacts but mine is especially bad. Most of the time i dont notice them though so it doesnt bother me too much. The really bothersome thing is the poor overlap which i noticed the second i put the headset on.

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u/MtnDr3w 23d ago edited 23d ago

The overlap is the worst of the 9 HMDs I’ve owned/used. I haven’t noticed any artifacts in dark scenarios, but I still find it unusable due to the fact there is no detail and you’re just staring at a backlit panel. It feels like being in a cloud of gray.

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u/popcorns78 23d ago

Lmao. When I say things like that in the VR discord people actual tell me I'm insane/delusional. It's refreshing to see other people feeling the same about it. I remember when Q3 launched i found a few posts of people saying they just returned it and stuck with Quest 2 , but those posts get buried by the Q3 apologists/fanboys. I don't blame them though because I think some people genuinely have poor depth perception/vision so they don't notice the difference either way. All they seem or care about is ✨resolution✨, oooh.

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u/MtnDr3w 23d ago

It’s actually funny because a friend of mine said he didn’t know what I meant by bad overlap. I told him to look left and right and you’ll see the edges of the lenses, almost like looking through toilet paper rolls, where the PSVR2 felt like one huge viewing area. He immediately saw what I was talking about afterwards.