GeForce Now is starting support for some VR headsets

Nvidia announced that they are going to launch support for Meta Quest 3, Pico and Apple Vision Pro headsets on GeForce Now. For those that are not familiar with GeForce Now, it is a game streaming service run by Nvidia that has free and paid tiers for games that you own giving priority queues to paid subscriptions and longer sessions. It is a great solution if your current set-up isn't able to run an intensive game. I have mainly used the free tier and it works well but only get an hour I believe before you have to queue again on the server. I think to be able to stream with RTX and ultra settings you have to have a sub and runs from the latest top tier rigs remotely. This is honestly good news because my current rig runs older and some new VR games but struggles with bigger newer more intensive VR titles. I currently use my PSVR2 headset on my pc but now I am thinking I might bite the bullet and get a Quest 3 soon. For Mac folks this is awesome too as it gives them a way to play big VR titles within their ecosystem by streaming although I don't know how owning the game on MAC to be able to stream it will work as many titles are not available on the Apple Store. Maybe they are planning on adding VR titles to MAC. I'm not sure. I am not too familiar with the Apple Vision Pro so maybe it already is Windows compatible and can be used on a windows pc without any Apple integration. Anyway, what are your thoughts on the support? And will this get you into VR gaming on pc? VR isn't really something I can play in long sessions so using the free tier on GeForce Now is more than sufficient for my VR streaming for newer titles. Do you think the paid sub is worth it to stream from a monster rig? I am also wondering if there will be any significant latency with VR streaming as it is more intensive in general. When I have streamed GeForce Now, I have experienced only negligible latency but I also have speedy internet.

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