Valve's latest SteamVR statistics suggest that Meta Quest 3S isn't as popular with PC VR players as Meta Quest 2 and 3.

Valve has released the SteamVR statistics for December 2024, and surprisingly Meta Quest 3 and 3S have seen even less growth than last month.

Quest 3S has at least improved from 11th to 9th place, but in reality it should be further ahead.

We know that Quest 3S headsets used on a PC via Quest Link and Virtual Desktop are registered as Quest 3 by Valve’s survey, and only those used via Steam Link are actually registered as Quest 3S. The Quest 3’s percentage therefore includes an unknown proportion of Quest 3S, and it would make more sense to count Quest 3 and Quest 3S together. The combined shares amount to 22.1 percent. Before the launch of Quest 3S, the Quest 3 percentage was 17.26 percent.

Overall, the growth of Quest 3S is below expectations. Both Quest 2 and Quest 3 grew faster after their launch, but we’ll have to see what happens in the following months. Although PC VR enthusiasts are likely to have primarily opted for the more expensive Quest 3, the fact that the Quest 2’s percentage has barely shrunk and still stands at 34 percent shows that many users haven’t switched yet to a newer Quest headset, even after the launch of the more affordable Quest 3S.

  • Prunebutt@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    You can block internet access via adguard home (DNS blocking), or via your router. Unfortunately, to sideload apps (like ALVR), you need to activate dev mode which needs registration and therefore internet access.

    But ALVR works really great with the quest 2 (unless you run NixOS and a Nvidia GPU) 😭

    • Stampela@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Yeah, Nvidia and Linux drivers are a bad combo. I’ve been pretty much using GeForce since the first one, because notoriously the ATI/AMD drivers were not great. Then I switched to Linux and surprise! Sometimes when they update they’re so bad the entire OS stutters. Needless to say, I have an AMD one now… (and can vouch for ALVR! Not as polished as Virtual Desktop, but works great)

          • yonder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            5 days ago

            Thanks, link fixed. Glad to hear you found something useful. I find that the website I shared does not show up in search results very well, so I mention it when it’s relevant since t’s an amazing resource.

        • Epsilion@pawb.socialEnglish
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          5 days ago

          In my brief testing, I found this to be the case as well. ALVR was constantly having a bad time (stutter, frame drops, audio drops), and the lack of reprojection in SteamVR was miserable.

          WiVRn (through Envision) was a bit jank, but worked much better.

      • Prunebutt@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        5 days ago

        It works on arch, though. The NixOS build has some weird hiccup they couldn’t resolve yet.