John Karmak: Oculus Quest Will Not Replace Stationary Consoles And Will Compete With Nintendo Switch

On Wednesday Facebook And Oculus Presented Oculus Quest – an autonomous virtual reality helmet working without PC and consoles. Yesterday at the event Oculus Connect 5 Chief Technical Director Oculus John Karmak (John Carmack) shared the details of the device.

According to Karmaka, In terms of power Quest, it is not comparable to the modern generation of consoles, but with the previous. The director argues that in the device you can feel “Rift magic”, but you should not expect from Quest graphics of the AAA-Games level for past consoles.

Nevertheless, a novelty is still more powerful than ancient PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. If those in most games gave 30 frames per second at a resolution of 1280 x 720, then the Quest squeezes the picture of the 1280 x 1280 format for each of the eyes and 72 fps. Thus, the total number of pixels in the games on the Oculus screen exceeds the similar Pastgen’s indicator more than eight times.

Karmak concluded that Oculus Quest will not be with stationary consoles and will become a competitor of portable and semi-correctable devices. “We will compete with Nintendo SWITCH,” said the technical director. – I do not think that there are many people who will say: “I will not buy PS4 and instead I will take a Quest”. I think they will say: “I am a gamer, I have already chosen the main console or PC for games, so I will buy a Quest as a mobile device”. About so now and work Switch ».

Oculus Quest should go on sale in the spring of 2019.