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The Beginner’s Guide to Oculus Quest 2

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Beginners Guide to Oculus Quest 2

Beginners Guide to Oculus Quest 2

Recently updated on October 10th, 2024 at 12:53 pm

Hi guys, maybe you just heard about this wonderful stuff called “Oculus Quest 2” or recently known as “Meta Quest 2” from your friends or social media. From their excitement, you would like to know more about this gadget. No worries. In this section, we will share the beginner’s guide to Oculus Quest 2 that might be able to help you as well.

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What is Oculus Quest 2?

Oculus Quest 2 or Meta Quest 2 is the virtual reality headset or device that is wireless. It can also be considered as a stand-alone VR headset. And it also comes with two touch controllers that is very important for you to interact with the virtual world. It also able to perform hand tracking as well.

In terms of processing power, it use the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 with 6GB of RAM. On the resolution, it has 1832×1920 px per eye.

This cool VR headset was released to the market on 13th October 2020. Before the birth of Oculus Quest 2, there is already an Oculus Quest or nowadays popularly known as Oculus Quest 1. As a comparison, Oculus Quest 2 has 50% more pixels than Oculus Quest 1 which is a really, really significant improvement. Hence, we can say that it is the successor of the first Oculus Quest.

Who Created Oculus Quest 2?

Oculus Quest 2 is created by a company called Oculus. Besides Quest, it also produce other VR headsets such as Oculus Rift and Oculus Go. To add, Oculus company is a subsidiary of Facebook Inc. During the early days, the name of the company is Oculus VR and it was founded in 2012 in Irvine, California. In March 2014, Facebook acquired Oculus for US$ 2.3 billion.

Facebook and Oculus

What You Can Do With Oculus Quest 2?

With this device, you can play great VR games and increase your immersion level when playing it. You can also use the social VR apps to hang around with your friends or also conduct meeting with your officemate or boss. Furthermore, you can also perform workout or exercise using the virtual fitness apps.

You can also watch the 360 immersive video that makes you feel like you are really there. If you are an artist, you can create your masterpiece in a full 360 degree view. Simply said, there are so many things that you can explore with this device. In case you want more solid and strong reasons to have it, perhaps this article can help you to decide…

Where You Can Buy Oculus Quest 2?

There are only few places where you can buy this device. It is quite challenging to find it because it is not something that you can find everywhere. Perhaps because virtual reality is still a niche market.

You either can buy it via online at the Oculus website or at some online and physical stores. If you would like to know more about where you can find the device, you can read it in the article below….

In case you are wondering which version or specs that you need to buy, perhaps this article can help you with that…

How Oculus Quest 2 Looks Like?

For those who are wandering how this VR device looks like in real life, perhaps this article can help you with it. It comes with screenshots that can help you to further visualize it…

Once you get your Oculus Quest 2, most of the time people are not sure what to do next. Well, first you need to download the “Oculus App” into your smartphone.

Then, you can start follow the instruction shown inside the Oculus Support website. You can watch the video there to understand the whole process or read the section called “How do I set up my Oculus Quest 2 headset?“. It will help you a lot during the process.

Where You Can Get The Content?

To enjoy your Oculus Quest 2, you must download the games or apps that compatible with it. The easiest way is to get it from the official Oculus Store itself. Some of it are free but most of them you need to purchase.

Oculus Store

If you want more choices of content, you can get it from SteamVR store too. For this option, you need to get a PC that is VR-ready that able to run the SteamVR games or apps. To link from your PC VR to your Quest headset, you will need either the Oculus Link or the Virtual Desktop. Soon, you can use Air Link functionality from Oculus too for this purpose.

Another place where you can get the content is Viveport. The way to get the games or apps into your headset is nearly similar like SteamVR.

Other Accessories for Oculus Quest 2

There are some accessories that you can buy to enhance your experience when using the headset. One of them is the head strap that can make you comfortable when wearing it.

Some Tutorials on Oculus Quest 2

Below is the list of some tutorials that might able to help or guide the newbie or those who just bought this VR headset.

Here we also compile the list of popular games for the Oculus Quest 2.

For the free one…

Besides games, we also compile the list of popular apps for the Oculus Quest 2.

FAQ

We also prepared a FAQ or Frequently Asked Questions page about Oculus or Meta Quest 2 that you can refer for help.

So far this is what we can share with you on the Oculus Quest 2. Hope this Oculus Quest 2 guide is useful to the beginner and newbie. We will keep update it from time to time.

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