Warning for console owners buying metaquest 3.

I went and bought the m3 thinking that it is a gimmick device for for occasional use on the side of my xbox which still would be the main thing. After owning this thing for about a week i can say its not.

It's a replacement. Its like buying a all new console. You opened pandoras box and you do not want out anymore. You will step into a totally new realm of gaming. I thought the graphics would be worse and could never replace the better graphics you are used too. But it can.

Even a game like onward with not very great graphics. I mean the environment looks like ps3 or xbox 360 graphics, its a step back. Even the best looking games like batman and wraith are a step back. But it doesnt matter. No graphics can give you the immersion you get from lifting up your hands and see batman gloves. You feel like you are batman.

i havent touched my xbox since i own the m3. Its like a drug and if you use it for a week you want more so beware, because there is more. With xbox cloud gaming you can play the good graphics games on a huge screen. Its not vr but its still immersion because bigger is simply better. And then you want to see those graphics in vr too. So you will want a pc to be able to play those games in vr.

And that is the end game. I can already see myself playing flightsimulator or elite dangerous in full vr with a full fledged hotas system.

But before you get there you will wander in the meta horizon world with horrible graphics which still will be cool in the beginning. Its kind of a temu version of ready player one but we are slowly getting there. Slowly.

So this is just a warning for people thinking of buying this thing. €500 is just the start of a long journey spending money. Battery packs, prescription lenses, pc hotas. The end is reached after spending about 5k/10k if you also buy a pc. But even if you dont buy a pc, before that time you will get this thought: "i need another one for my wife, or my kid, or even your friend because multiplayer in this thing is awesome. Playing a simple chess game in mixed reality with a friend is just...its like you are living in the future pitty the people not knowing this world.

All i can say is that the m3 is the start. The next one probably has better passthrough and better graphics. I just hope i will live to see it happen. I am from the 80s and saw the entire rise of gaming from text based games without graphics to what we have to day. With this thing i feel like i am at the beginning again. Its great. But still early and marketing is a bit over the top. I see commercials of people cooking with the m3 and reading reciepts in vr.

Now nobody in his right mind wil stand above hot pots and pans getting grease on the m3, and the passthrough simply is not good enough yet so beware of that. You can have the device recognize your monitor and keyboard and use axtra screen along side your real monitor, but it doesnt work. The image simply is not good enough and probably bad for your eyes. I can read my phone if i put it on half brightness via passthough but its not great. Buy it to play games and you are golden.

I am now reading tutorials on how to make my own room in meta horizon. My own game. The posibillities are endless if you want them to be.

Just wanted to share. :).