The Meta Quest 3 has a battery problem!
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- čas přidán 16. 10. 2023
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The battery in the Quest 3 is 19.44Wh vs 14Wh in the Quest 2. The XR2 Gen 2 is supposedly 50 percent more efficient and wifi 6e is more efficient as well (assuming you have a supporting router or access point), so presumably it's the extra cameras, the depth sensor and the dual displays which are chewing through the battery. If you get a Power Bank for it, make sure it supports 33W USB-C PD (although the Quest 3 only draws up to 27W). That way it won't start using the internal battery until the power bank is depleted, at which point you can whack the power bank on charge while using the internal battery and keep on keeping on.
I warned about the battery life before the Quest 3 was released. The GPU is up to 2.5 times faster than the Quest 2 GPU, but uses up to two times more power. Not such a great leap forward as we were told for portable devices.
I agree with you on the passthrough, videos you see online make it seem like its very good but it really is like a 90s-00s camera, I got used to it though only thing that really sucks is the battery life
So they advertise it at £480, but to be useful it needs to be the 512gb so £620,
Then it needs a better strap and battery so another £100,
A charging dock sounds very useful £130.
So £850 is the real price just for the basic thing without buying games or looking for any particular accessories to personalise it for each individuals needs.
And the reports of read so far are that the microphone is terrible and that the psvr picture is sharper and clearer, And the passthrough is only so so especially in low light.
I'm waiting for vr to become cheap AND good enough to just work convincingly and I really want to play decent flight sims in vr which so far is requiring high end pc too.
Looks like I'll be waiting a LONG time.
Yeah there's a meme about this somewhere. Something about becoming too old and dying before you ever dive into VR because "Its not perfect yet"
i got my Quest 3 this morning and i agree, the battery life sucks. Coming from the Quest 2 I went ahead and ordered an elite strap also since I knew the head strap would need to be replaced, but surprisingly, I find it more comfortable than I thought. I am loving the better resolution and the lenses though.
You can lower the brightness level to get more battery life. I usually use around 33% brightness and it still look nice to me. Well i actually lower that much cuz the higher brightness causes too much eye fatigue for me. I do notice the battery drain alot slower when compare to 100%. Might look weird at first at that low of brightness but after your eye adjust to it its look fine.
Would you please answer a question. So why does Quest3 use ANY battery when connected to PC and can get all the juice it needs from there? I would want to use it for PC gaming and I am shocked to face the fact that I wouldn't be able to play more than about 2 hours even when it is connected to my PC directly. Any device I use that has got a battery works on the same principal: they don't use any power of their batteries from the very moment I plugged them on electric wire... What's more, their batteries will charge even if the device is in use...
6:10 i knew that was gonna be an issue so i bought a 6000 mah for 30$ with the Quest 3 and put it in the headstrap, this way i haven't had a real problem with running out of battery. But i do still want to upgrade to the BoboVR headstrap with double magnetic batteries for hotswapping.
I have a 10000 mAH battery. This battery Has 4 levels on battery indicator, and On Quest2 it holds up the charging up to having just 1 indicator on, and then the Quest2 starts to discharge. On Q3, is start discharging right away, and Q3 dies before the Pack is empty because it cannot provide enough power anymore to it. I did the test yesterday. My Q3 shutdown saying (Battery Low) and the Anker Battery Pack still have around 40-50% of juice on it. :( SO, it seems it does not matter much if you have more batteries or more juice if the Quest 3 Discharcharge under his limits it will shutdown since it discharges FASTER than the charge can hold... Maybe there's a stronger batterypack (with more watts/output) that can keep up with it.
@@Kumodot The problem is not how much energy left your battery pack has but how fast can it be served to the headset relative to how fast the headset uses it. Q2 uses low wattage and so it's easier to be kept "feed".The Q2 best batteries only can give 15W (5V 3A) and the Q2 charger is 10W (5V 2A) but the Q3 charger gives 18W (9V 2A) so the old batteries, even the good ones, can't match what it needs ; I have to test this yet but on forums say that a 22.5W battery (9V 2.5A) works fine with Q3.
I have bought 2 quest 3s and both had defective controllers, after a few days the triggers got squeaky and on one of the controllers if I even lightly touch the thumb stick it make a loud click sound
Oh that sucks. I’ve not had any issue thus far
I wish they soon add a way to turn hand detection with a single and fast gesture or something. Its very annoying now using floating monitors and things like that and suddenly is starts to track my hand on the real keyboard and mouse overlaying with the pointer and eventually it do accidental clicks. Another weird things is that i can't find the START RECORDING button while i am in Virtual Desktop using the controllers. I have to change to hand control, and do a "click" with my right hand on to see the shortcut for recording video. And there's a lot of more inconsistencies here and there. Meta need to speed up polishing those fixes now that me and more people are willing to use the Headset for more time with the Passthrough. And Yes. I am using an Anker 10000 mAh battery with mine (as i was using with Q2). But Q3 discharge faster than the battery can keep up with, so when the headset hits 19% even if the Pack is at 50% it starts to say "better Low", and soon it will shut down. :(
Fun fact:
The battery is actually stronger on the quest 3 than the quest 2 but because the quest 3 is doing way more than the quest 2 so it runs for less time
I didn’t mean to ad ‘so’ 💀
Would be great if it could be optimised more in future updates but don’t know how likely that is
Can I re-charge the battery? or do I have to use a brand new battery
If only they let us upgrade the camera on the quest 3 to make the pass through look ten times better
It may have something to do with the performance impact a higher resolution camera may have. A larger sensor would be good to let more light in however.
Wait for the Quest Pro 2 or more expensive headset in the future than. This is funny when people want everything in a 500$ headset.🙄
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@@brokensword2621 I’m just saying they should let us upgrade the camera. Like open up the quest 3 and upgrade the camera.
@@brokensword2621 clearly you don’t understand the sentence “if only they let us upgrade.” It’s funny how some people think they know it all.
Have any issues with the battery draining while you properly power off the headset and let it sit over night or for a couple or hours that it will go down a few percentage points? seems like since the V60 update its been doing that wondering if anyone has any suggestions?
Great update.
The 512 gig version headset works out quite expensive once you add a battery head strap for extra comfort and more play time
Also a chargeing system adds to the cost too..
I wonder if the extra battery adds more heat to the back of the head when playing?.
I think I will get a psvr2 when the price drops..
Are you going to do a psvr2 quest 3 comparison?
You know it. All sorts of comparisons coming up
Good headset but battery life is poor. So much so that I’m using my old Quest 2 more! Hoping for a software update to improve the power situation.
I hooked a powerbank on the back with a velcro strap. Costs almost nothing. Still I’m waiting for the BoboVR M3.
Wait a little longer. bobo M3 uses the same batteries as the M2 so they don't supply nearly enough power to the Q3 to prevent it from draining at a fairly fast rate. Also the capacity is too small. I'm hearing at best 1 hour of extra playtime while the Q3 will still drain at a fairly fast rate too. Basically draining twice as slow as normal only. Bobo needs to release a new battery with USB Power Delivery at 20 watts. They also need to increase the capacity to about 8,000+ mah. This should give it about 2 hours of battery and it will have enough power to actually prevent the Q3 battery from draining.
Apple Vision Pro on sale 😅, actually thinking of buying one because of the immersive experience and feel. Great Video 🎉
can't quite compare, apple's set is strictly not VR
Good point, but atleast it is better than all the other headsets ive tried, going to buy the apple vision pro anyways @@de-ment 🙃
Nice that AR has the potential to be a game changer. For being productive, it would be nice to have hands free of those controllers, though.
The hand tracking is pretty good and will likely only get better tbh.
SOLUTION>>> Get UNLIMITED time with the Quest 3: Just get a 5m usbc cable and any USBC supply that can deliver > 27W at 9V. It has to be able to deliver 9V with 3A = 27W on the port. 9V at 2A from the original charger is NOT enough, its only 18W and the headset draws at all settings max around 24-25W. The same goes with a powerbank, there are many 20.000mah that can deliver 9V at 3A keeping the headset full and if put in the back pocket of the pants for ex are much more comfortable than on the head. Have fun! (Remember, the Quest 3 does NOT use the 12V mode, only up to the 9V! So it has to be 9V at 3A!
Q3 actually does use 12v mode aswell. I have a USB multimeter and on my PD powerbanks I have seen it pull both 9v and 12v at about 18 watts during usage depending on the powerbank/charger. While maintaining the charge of the Quest 3 while playing games.
Can you have the headset plug to charger while on it ?
yes, that is already how it works in cabled PCVR, it is also how it works with battery straps.
If you mean it as in plugging it into the wall, I would not recommend that when using.
Also the in box cable is very short. You would to invest in a longer cable. I’d recommend a head-strap with a battery on it. Two birds one stone.. but money 🫠
@@ItsSamuelJones I bought a 10 ft charging cable for my Quest 2 and even though they don't recommend using it with the cable attached, i haven't had any issues and will probably do it with the Quest 3 when needed, like watching a movie.
@@Mikel3564How has it worked with quest 3???
I found the answer. The quest 3 uses Qualcomm quick charge 4. When using chargers make sure you are using USB 3.0 to thunderbolt, and a 25W power bank charger to get it to ACTUALLY charge. Regular power banks don't put out enough juice to keep the Quest 3 alive.
I dont ahve any QC4 but I do have USB PD and it does support PD at (9v/12v) at 18 watts.
@@chan13153 that's the same wattage as the Q3 included charger plug, so it "should" work but might still drain slowly during use
@@moahammad1mohammad Hasn't drained while doing PCVR or playing native Q3 games (Dungeons of eternity, Contractors, etc). Now the battery did not increase but it also didn't drained. Just stayed at the current percentage the entire time.
My power banks are actually 20 watt and using a USB multimeter I was able to see that one power banks it pulled 12v while the other one pulled 9v. Both pulled about 17watts during gameplay.
I have also tested it on a 65 watt PD charger and the results are mostly similar. Now I didn't test it that much with the 65 watt charger. Meaning I didn't drop it below 80% to see if it would start pulling more. I mostly used it at near 97-100% and it mostly just stayed there
@@chan13153 I use 22w power banks and the quest 3 was increasing battery while under normal use. I'm assuming 18w. is the basic amount of draw under normal usage
Its the battery strap and LED light issues for me. The damn thing stays orange when both headset and strap are fully charged. I upgraded for the lenses and performance but god damn cant they get the charging bugs fixed!? Simple devices can indicate a full charge. With accesories ive spent over $600 on this fuckin thing
Im half tempted to return this. Spent $700 and it doesnt even last for one movie and doesn’t keep charge even plugged in. Useless
Battery life is garbage I've had to resort to my fishing power bank in my back pocket until i purchase a head strap with battery
I cant transfer files to my q3
THX - sehr schnell sind 25 % vom Akku weg😕
Good to know that I can lift the headset off my face to see more detail of the real world. Nice tip!
Glad I could help! It's a shame other headsets permanently fix themselves to your skull so you're trapped forever. Meta really are onto a winner with this one
The battery is more powerful but the quest 3 needs more juice so drains it faster
Battery life is terrible my suggestion is buy 2 meta quest 3s and swap them
Pass through ? ... Oh no, ok ... How long before some bloke gets pulled over wearing one of these.
I dread to think
Probably already happened
5 minutes in still hasn’t discussed the battery issue.
Theres no battery issues. Alot of people are simply using chargers/powerbanks that aren't strong enough to handle the Q3. You nee a USB Power Delivery Powerbank/charger with at least 18 watts (9v/12v). A lot of chargers people are using are only 5v at 2.4a. Which isn't powerful enough. Q3 will only pull at most 9-10watts from a 5v source. While on a PD charger it will pull up to 18 watts. This is why people are having battery issues even when plugged in.
@@chan13153 What's a good charger to get? I plan on getting a quest 3.
@@somebodyelseathome I bought the "Charmast Mini Power Bank Fast Charging, 20W 10000mAh Small Portable Charger USB C with PD3.0" It cost me $16 and the power bank has worked perfectly fine. I just put it in my pocket. I also bought "AINOPE USB C to USB C Charger Cable 60W 2-Pack 6.6ft Type C Charging Cable Cord Right Angle" for $6. You get 2 cables. I simply put the battery in my pocket. I ended up buying 2 power banks and now I just hot swap them when needed. Charge one while I use one. No more issues with battery life.
anyone else watching this on the quest 3
Check your battery!
Come on man u need a apple vision pro to cook eggs properly for your wife......Sadly that price can lead to divorce.
No charge and play with quest 3. If you have a quest 2, stick with it.
Or get a battery strap if you plan on playing for long periods of time.
queue the Why I returned the quest 3 onslaught vids
They will come but I don't agree. this is a much better headset than the predecessor... For a load of reasons! So I will be holding onto this for a while!
You killed your wife with an egg! 😮😮😮
not a justification but more battery consumption is kind of natural when the jump in performance is this big... just to say the Q2 has one display, Q3 has one per eye, more resolution and way better chip is equal more power needed... the battery is actually bigger than the previous one but the consumptions are more and if you wanna keep the design small and the weight in check (it's already heavier than the 2) you need to have compromised... Q2 battery life was lasting way more time but already pretty much every person I know had a battery pack with it anyway and you can use it with the 3 as well easily.... if you are a casual player slightly less than 2 hrs is enough in VR, if you are not you have a battery pack already anyway.
In the other hand totally agree with the price of the accessories, but even there, is not so overpriced like ppl are saying, it is overpriced, but not insanily.... I start seeing knuckle strap like the original, with battery cover, at 5 to 8 dollars cheaper, the old wireless charging dock for Q2, the good quality one, were around the 90$ marks anyway, someone over 100$, this one is 30$ more but obviously you pay for the brand, every company does the same, the partnership for the prescription lenses is actually at a good price and tbf the face mask in different color is just a novelty, no one in a good state of mind will buy it instead of an actual headstrap
Yeah I get why the battery is worse but it’s a shame. A lot of the time devices get much more efficient with later models. Use Apple as an example. Battery life normally gets better each time. But I get why
Apple is a bad example, not because is not true but because in the battery efficiency department they are wizards…
In here is different, as I said it’s a better display, better lenses that needs different technology and power to work properly, 2 display instead of one. An extra depth sensor, it’s not just more resolution and call the day, they changed pretty much everything… people akready are complaining because it’s 10 grams more than Q2
Your issues would basically be solved with a BobaVR M3 halo strap and better lighting in your kitchen.
The egg thing happened during the day in my especially bright kitchen. The strap would solve the problem but it is a shame you have to spend more tbh
@@ItsSamuelJones The strap is cheaper than the elite strap Meta itself sells - by far. $50. For $20 more you get an extra battery with double charging dock so you can swap them for ~10h runtime. I'll be honest, I've undercooked eggs even without a headset on. ;-) Keep making great content.
Sorry to say but your wife was objectively wrong. The egg most definitely reached the correct temp to kill all bacteria (surprisingly low) they just don’t like them like that. That’s why we can have runny egg dishes
Haha thank you!