Everything You Could Buy Instead of a Meta Quest Pro - CNET

1,860 Pairs of Firework Diffraction Glasses

Have you ever watched fireworks oregon walked done a plot of vacation lights with diffraction glasses on? It's amazing, these insubstantial glasses diffract airy truthful colorful shapes are added to what you're seeing. This peculiar acceptable adds rainbow hearts to what you're watching, which is conscionable plain fun. You could bargain a brace of these for each idiosyncratic you cognize and each spell ticker fireworks oregon circuit vacation lights for hours and person a large time. Can't bash that with a Meta Quest Pro.

Buy a Meta Quest 2, and usage the leftover currency to buy...

At the extremity of the day, Meta's caller "Pro" headset is not going to amended the wide prime of your VR acquisition by capable to warrant the terms arsenic a location user. It's made for high-end usage cases, similar prototyping and firm grooming environment. That's large for those uses, but if you're conscionable trying to person amusive astatine location you could person a large acquisition with the Quest 2 and inactive person $1,000 near over. And if I were you, I'd walk that wealth connected immoderate of these options:

Two much Quest 2 headsets
Playing successful VR is great. Playing successful VR with friends is adjacent better, and unluckily not everyone has a Quest 2 yet. If you've got $1500 to burn, you could wholly get 3 Quest 2 headsets, invitation 2 friends over, and play each of the large multiplayer VR games unneurotic successful the aforesaid room. All you request are 2 much friends you're good with touching your stuff, and you're bully to go. 

Get the truly bully Steam Deck
There's thing incorrect with the basal exemplary $400 Steam Deck, but if you've got wealth to walk you get a batch much retired of the afloat upgraded model. If you get the mentation with 512GB of faster retention and anti-glare durable solid it'll outgo you $650, but those bragging rights volition past you a bully agelong while. 

A bully laptop to adhd to your Quest 2 experiences
You don't NEED a machine to thrust the Quest 2, but you tin bash immoderate further chill things if you person one. There are higher prime games and apps you tin play, oregon you tin conscionable bring your machine surface into VR and bask multitasking. And it turns retired determination are respective truly bully Windows laptops you tin get for good nether $1,000 including the Dell XPS 13 our ain Josh Goldman recommends successful our Best Laptops article. 

Get a caller Xbox AND a caller PlayStation
If you are excited astir the Meta Quest VR experience, you're intelligibly into gaming. If you're intelligibly into gaming, you should diversify arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable and conscionable get each of the gaming experiences. And if you're into playing with friends, you'll find determination are a batch much of them connected Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. 

Other Highly Capable VR Headsets

If you privation portability, convenience, and a ton of games for a tenable price, there's nary uncertainty Meta quest 2 is wherever it's at. But if you're going for a "Pro" headset, determination are really a clump of options disposable for either the aforesaid terms oregon noticeably little than this caller Quest Pro headset. 

Valve Index
From it's awesome "knuckles" controllers to the prime show and head-tracking, Valve offered up a precocious extremity PC VR acquisition you tin bargain successful idiosyncratic pieces oregon scoop up the full kit for $1,000. Not lone would you beryllium redeeming $500 with this headset, but you'd inactive beryllium capable to entree a immense fig of Meta Quest games done the PC app. Check retired Scott Stein's afloat review for much details.

HP Reverb G2
The Windows Mixed Reality honeymoon whitethorn beryllium over, but HP's VR headset inactive has immoderate of the champion displays you tin bargain successful a VR headset today. You'll prevention rather a spot against the Quest Pro, arsenic this headset is presently discounted to a shocking $350 and inactive works large with each of the champion PC VR apps and games. You could easy bargain this headset, a Quest 2 for portable VR, and inactive person a mates 100 bucks near over. 

Pimax Vision 8K X
If you're going to driblet superior currency connected a "Pro" VR headset that pushes the boundaries, I'd similar to present you to Pimax. This headset has a brace of ridiculous 4K displays and a 200-degree Field of View, truthful arsenic agelong arsenic you person a PC susceptible of delivering prime visuals you volition beryllium blown distant by however wide everything is. The included headphones besides present large audio, and SteamVR is acceptable to enactment with this headset. And with each of that onboard, this $1,170 headset is inactive cheaper than Meta's latest offering.