Anker Soundcore VR P10 Earbuds Review: Virtually Flawless - Review Geek

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Nov 28, 2022, 9:00 americium EST | 6 min read

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Perfect existent wireless earbuds for VR, decent for everything else.

Anker claims their Soundcore VR P10 earbuds are the archetypal that person been made with Meta’s standalone VR headsets successful mind. But bash they truly heighten your VR experience, oregon is it conscionable an effort to capitalize connected the occurrence of the Quest 2?

I precocious purchased a Meta Quest Pro, and despite the crushing disappointment that came with it, I didn’t instrumentality the headset. So implicit the past fewer weeks, I’ve been taking a look Anker’s caller earbuds, and assessing whether they tin heighten what was already billed arsenic the astir precocious VR acquisition connected the market.

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Setting the P10 Earbuds up Is Simple

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There are a mates of ways you tin link the Soundcore VR P10 earbuds to different device. A dongle is included, which plugs into an disposable USB Type C larboard and automatically connects the instrumentality it’s plugged into with your earphones, past there’s Bluetooth. The Bluetooth transportation is besides elemental to acceptable up. Simply property the fastener connected the beforehand of the earbuds’ lawsuit until it starts blinking, and prime the earbuds from the instrumentality you privation to link to’s Bluetooth menu.

The dongle is recommended for applications similar VR gaming, arsenic that’s what allows the earbuds to found the low-latency transportation Anker has promised. But I recovered that gaming implicit Bluetooth didn’t truly contiguous immoderate large issues. However, utilizing the dongle for VR and keeping your Bluetooth transmission escaped does person different benefits.

Soundcore’s App Adds Options

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Soundcore’s app (iOS, Android) isn’t essential. It’s imaginable to acceptable up and usage your earbuds without downloading it. However, it does supply plentifulness of customization options and is decidedly worthy getting if you privation to marque the astir of your P10 earbuds. You tin acceptable the equalizer to your liking, alteration a mode that enhances things similar footsteps and gunfire during FPS games, and alteration the colour of the LED lights connected the earbuds themselves.

You tin besides acquisition further dongles and power betwixt them utilizing the Soundcore app. This is large if you privation to rapidly and easy link to consoles and PCs arsenic good arsenic your VR headset. The app besides allows users to update the earphones’ firmware.

The Dongle Has Its Downsides

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Soundcore’s earbuds vessel with a dongle which allows for adjacent latency-free audio portion gaming, and it’s large for the Quest 2 and Quest Pro. It snaps successful with nary problems and contains a USB Type C larboard which allows you to link a charging cablegram done the dongle. I double-checked, and it doesn’t interaction charging speeds, nor does it origin issues with the audio quality; it conscionable works.

The dongle doesn’t enactment everyplace else, though. Its signifier means you’ll request a beauteous level aboveground astir your USB Type C larboard to plug it in. This rules my Alienware M15 Gaming Laptop out, arsenic the trim gets successful the way, and adjacent if it fit, it would obscure 1 of the USB A ports anyway. It isn’t the extremity of the world; Bluetooth works perfectly well. Just trial your devices retired with the dongle you person earlier you acquisition further ones.

These Help Bridge the VR/Real Life Gap

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What truly won maine implicit with the VR P10 earbuds is the quality to instrumentality a telephone telephone without interrupting your VR session. With nary earbuds astatine all, I’d find myself having to scramble for my telephone and propulsion it connected talker if I wanted to debar removing the headset entirely. With wired earbuds oregon headphones, I’d beryllium astatine hazard of missing the telephone entirely.

With the VR P10, a speedy treble pat connected either earbud answers the telephone and switches the audio input to my phone. I haven’t interrupted my game, I’m not trying to speech implicit gunfire oregon music, and I tin either archer the idiosyncratic connected the different extremity to telephone maine backmost successful a fewer minutes oregon conscionable person the afloat speech determination and then. From what the radical I had calls with told me, I sounded perfectly wide connected their end.

It’s important to enactment that this diagnostic lone works if the dongle is plugged into your headset and your telephone is connected via Bluetooth. The earbuds don’t marque usage of Multipoint Bluetooth.

They’re Comfortable, But Can Come Loose

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The earbuds travel with 3 gel extremity sizes, truthful these should acceptable the immense bulk of ears. They’re comfy capable to deterioration for agelong sessions, and the discomfort caused by the headset itself is going to get to you earlier the buds themselves do.

All successful all, they’re beauteous unafraid if you acceptable them decently and usage the close gel fitting. But VR isn’t a sedentary activity, and I’d ideate an earbud tin lone beryllium truthful secure. During definite games, these are going to alert out. I experienced it myself during a crippled of Gorn, and a league of Drunken Bar Fight wherever I landed a peculiarly saccharine headbutt. They besides fell retired during a crippled of Pavlov, but I felt the close earbud enactment itself loose, dangle, and yet drop, which makes maine deliberation that 1 was my fault. There are wide instructions connected however to acceptable the earbuds securely, and I whitethorn person conscionable jammed them successful that time.

The Battery Life is Impressive

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According to Anker, afloat charged earbuds volition past for astir six hours, portion the lawsuit itself contains an further 18 hours of charge, which means you’ll get 24 hours earlier you request to spell looking for a charging port. In presumption of earthy listening time, this puts the VR P10s connected par with the upcoming AirPods Pro, though the AirPods person a spot much complaint successful their case. In existent applicable terms, it’s astir apt much than you need.

In existent applicable terms, astatine nary constituent successful the past fewer weeks person I had to permission the earbuds retired due to the fact that they weren’t charged. I’m a dense VR user, I’ve utilized the VR P10s during each league since they arrived, and they’ve outlasted maine each time. The lawsuit gives plentifulness of announcement erstwhile it’s clip to plug a charger in, and I lone had to bash that astir erstwhile a week.

The Audio Quality Is Good, But Certain Features are Lacking

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As acold arsenic earbuds go, the audio prime offered by the VR P10s is beauteous good. VR games dependable great, and the 360 constituent of the audio seems to beryllium spot connected erstwhile you’re playing a crippled that supports it. If thing happens to my near oregon down me, I instantly cognize wherever to turn.

With music, the bass is precise decent, and if you privation to harm your hearing, they’ll spell large capable to origin you pain. Anker’s earbuds don’t travel with ANC, which whitethorn beryllium a woody breaker if you’re readying to instrumentality them connected your greeting commute. When it comes to listening to euphony successful the house, though, I’ve utilized them a fewer times and happily zoned out.

A Solid Choice, Especially for VR Enthusiasts

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Don’t fto the deficiency of ANC fuss you; these are coagulated if you’re looking for a brace of dedicated gaming earbuds — particularly astatine the price. For nether $100, which is little than the authoritative Quest Pro transportation lawsuit costs, you tin greatly heighten your VR experience. As idiosyncratic who loves VR, I tin honestly accidental I would bargain a brace of these and beryllium rather blessed with what I’ve received.

Dedicated audiophiles whitethorn beryllium capable to prime much holes successful the audio prime than I can. But for idiosyncratic who doesn’t fuss messing with the equalizer settings, I would reason these tin beryllium a coagulated brace of all-rounders arsenic well. If I’m judging these solely connected what Anker says they’re meant for, I’m struggling to find a fault. When it comes to VR audio, the VR P10 earbuds are virtually flawless.