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im confused, its specs are amazing and on paper is more powerful than the meta quest 3, but its mainly being advertised as a streaming headset that goes from your vr spec pc (that is becoming more and more expensive these days for people).

so can it play games natively on the headset or not? i want to get it for my birthday as i see it as a worthy sucessor to my quest 2 that is amazing, but its controllers are drifiting to an unrepairable degree.

imagine no mans sky on it :0

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

It can play Android games directly on the headset so you would be able to play Meta Quest versions directly, presumably fine, but it probably won't handle running something like Alyx in standalone.

IDK how you're expected to get legitimate Android versions tho. The only way I have ever found the installers themselves is through piracy.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

They are trying to make Alyx work standalone: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2025/11/valve-looking-into-a-steam-frame-half-life-alyx-standalone-experience

But that will probably be an exception due to the amount of resources Valve will invest into getting it to work well, you're right that few other games on that level would run standalone.

[–] helimopp@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I didn't know that! You can play .apk files directly on the headset? Haha, il buy the game from steam ofc but if I can't do that then maybe I will go that route :3