Inexpensive VR ready laptop? - Blu-ray Forum

plissken99 · 11-02-2021, 05:58 AM

What’s gonna be a decent gaming laptop that can handle Occulus 2 gaming? Really only care about Half Life Alyx.. possibly the Resident Evil games.

Actually if I could rent someone’s laptop and Occulus that would be ideal.

red_5ive · 11-09-2021, 10:14 PM

When I was looking into this earlier this year, I was finding at minimum I would need to spend at least $1k for an RTX 2000 series laptop with (obviously) at least USB 3.0. But even then the information I was finding was hit and miss with anything up to $1500. Mostly because there's no standard with how gaming laptops are implemented, AND VR requirements are specific. For one, most gaming laptops are equipped with an HDMI port. While you could try to use an active DisplayPort adapter, those can be extremely finicky. I ended up spending a little more for a RTX 3070 laptop which was $1350. I didn't intend to use it primarily for VR as I have a dedicated gaming PC for that, but that said, it was still an effort to get it to work. Based on my experience you need to at least spend $1300 or so, and even then those tend to be middle-rung for gaming laptops.

plissken99 · 11-15-2021, 05:51 AM

Sounds as hopeless as I’d feared. I have no other use for a desktop, but what’s the minimal required to build a desktop VR rig?

D00mM4r1n3 · 11-15-2021, 07:42 AM

You could try a cloud gaming service like PlutoSphere (I'm not affiliated and have never used it.) The service is supposed to support Steam and Epic but is in a limited beta. The requirements are 50Mbps Internet and 5Ghz Wifi 6 with an Oculus Quest or Quest 2 headset.

plissken99 · 11-25-2021, 06:07 AM

That is most interesting! I’d heard of cloud based computing, didn’t know it was here already. I may just give it a shot.

red_5ive · 11-26-2021, 04:21 AM

That's news to me as well. I knew that cloud gaming services were available, but I didn't know they had VR capabilities.

11-02-2021, 05:58 AM	#1
plissken99 Blu-ray Guru Member since:Mar 2007 Location:Colorado Springs Trading Score:6	Inexpensive VR ready laptop? What’s gonna be a decent gaming laptop that can handle Occulus 2 gaming? Really only care about Half Life Alyx.. possibly the Resident Evil games. Actually if I could rent someone’s laptop and Occulus that would be ideal.

11-09-2021, 10:14 PM	#2
red_5ive Blu-ray Champion Top ranked HT gallery Top contributor Member since:Aug 2007 Location:The 'state' of Southern California Home Theater Gallery:18 4K collection:364 Blu-ray collection:996 DVD collection:4 Blu-ray reviews: 2 Trading Score:1	When I was looking into this earlier this year, I was finding at minimum I would need to spend at least $1k for an RTX 2000 series laptop with (obviously) at least USB 3.0. But even then the information I was finding was hit and miss with anything up to $1500. Mostly because there's no standard with how gaming laptops are implemented, AND VR requirements are specific. For one, most gaming laptops are equipped with an HDMI port. While you could try to use an active DisplayPort adapter, those can be extremely finicky. I ended up spending a little more for a RTX 3070 laptop which was $1350. I didn't intend to use it primarily for VR as I have a dedicated gaming PC for that, but that said, it was still an effort to get it to work. Based on my experience you need to at least spend $1300 or so, and even then those tend to be middle-rung for gaming laptops.

11-15-2021, 05:51 AM	#3
plissken99 Blu-ray Guru Member since:Mar 2007 Location:Colorado Springs Trading Score:6	Sounds as hopeless as I’d feared. I have no other use for a desktop, but what’s the minimal required to build a desktop VR rig?

11-15-2021, 07:42 AM	#4
D00mM4r1n3 Blu-ray Guru Top contributor Member since:Jan 2012 4K collection:404 Blu-ray collection:2554 DVD collection:281 Trading Score:12	You could try a cloud gaming service like PlutoSphere (I'm not affiliated and have never used it.) The service is supposed to support Steam and Epic but is in a limited beta. The requirements are 50Mbps Internet and 5Ghz Wifi 6 with an Oculus Quest or Quest 2 headset.

11-25-2021, 06:07 AM	#5
plissken99 Blu-ray Guru Member since:Mar 2007 Location:Colorado Springs Trading Score:6	That is most interesting! I’d heard of cloud based computing, didn’t know it was here already. I may just give it a shot.

11-26-2021, 04:21 AM	#6
red_5ive Blu-ray Champion Top ranked HT gallery Top contributor Member since:Aug 2007 Location:The 'state' of Southern California Home Theater Gallery:18 4K collection:364 Blu-ray collection:996 DVD collection:4 Blu-ray reviews: 2 Trading Score:1	That's news to me as well. I knew that cloud gaming services were available, but I didn't know they had VR capabilities.

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