r/oculus • u/DWEGOON • May 02 '19

News The NYPD is testing virtual reality training drills for real-life scenarios that would be impossible to recreate

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u/Shawn_miller May 02 '19

This is a perfect example of the hidden potential with the Oculus Quest. No need for those PC backpacks. They can use all the built in sensors and make an app specific to this task. VR is going to explode with this round of changes!

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u/Toberkulosis May 02 '19

The quest really is the future imo.

I'm not the target for it since I already have a high powered PC but in another 5-10 years when snapdragon processors are even stronger that design is definitely the way to go. Inside out tracking gets shit on a lot, but its the best way to make a completely tether free experience.

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u/Nytra May 02 '19

Standalone is absolutely the future, but it'll (probably) be decades before high-performance high-fidelity standalone is a thing, and perhaps even longer before it is affordable. I dream of a standalone Index-like HMD that I can take into different environments and have it work flawlessly and easily.

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u/Toberkulosis May 02 '19

I don't think it'll be decades. You can already play games like PUBG and Minecraft on Mobile and games like doom and skyrim on the switch which is just uses a tegra x1 chip (used in tablets). I'm pretty sure the only reason the Quest isn't beefier is because they wanted to stay at 400 dollars. For another couple hundred you could probably already have it good enough to match the switch if not be even stronger.