Meta Go 64GB
64 GB
Product rating for Meta Go 64GB
Buy (64 GB, memory very quickly full). combined with a 360 camera, you can make great videos on vacation or elsewhere and experience the whole thing again at home!
Had so far only with the Playstation VR collected my virtual reality experiences and was "then" of the fly screen effect by the low resolution rather annoyed and also had little fun with the part.
Now Oculus Go is here and provides an amazingly great, completely cable and hardware-free VR experience. I won't go into the technical details here, you can read the very good report from the Digitec specialist. It should be said that the fly screen effect is still present, but hardly noticeable now. The device has a much higher resolution than the PS VR.
My most used apps and experiences at the moment:
- Wander (Google Earth & Street View combined).
- Star Drive VR coaster (procedurally generated roller coaster rides through space and across a sun).
- Everything about Jurassic World
- Netflix (you sit in a virtual cinema)
- Henry (VR short film)
Pro
- Self-sufficient: no cables, no additional hardware needed
- Good picture quality, therefore very immersive
- Can be recorded with external data
- Wide range of apps
- Does not need a Facebook account for the store, etc. (because Oculus is actually owned by FB)
- Perfect for viewing pictures and videos in combination with 360 degree camera
- Integrated speakers surprisingly good
- Sits very comfortably and pleasantly despite simple mounting mechanism with Velcro straps
Contra
- Short battery life (2 hours at maximum brightness and enabled WLAN)
- Various apps still very prone to crashes and errors
- No motion detection in the room possible (coming next year with the "Santa Cruz" version)
- Quality of the apps varies from miserable to very high quality
- FOV around 100 degrees, which still results in a bit of a "diving mask" effect
What do you mean by "can be recorded with external data"? Can I connect a USB stick and watch my videos and films directly? Or is that only possible via WLAN?
No, that is not possible at the moment. But the Oculus GO is recognised by Windows PCs as an external drive (as a Mac user, I need the small programme "Android FileTransfer"). Then you can drag and drop the files into the right directories (photos, videos). Works perfectly. I use this regularly to download films from my Nikon KeyMission 360 (thanks to digitec for the great and as good as new promotional device) to the Go and watch them there :)
I use the Skybox app to stream movies from my PC or NAS.
