[seanmcdirmid]

The stock foam gasket that comes with the quest is definitely porous and easy enough to wash under water. What headset are you talking about? I can’t imagine how horrible it must have been, was it attached to a PC with a wire?

[beeskneecaps]

quest v1 no wire but like 4 hour battery life so the wire gets involved.

You also get a semi permanent line down the middle of your head that lasts proportionally to how long you've worn the headset. Also the sinus pressure of having a 5 pound device drooping from your forehead and the red ring around your face and bloodshot eyes (because you didn't blink at all) means you can't go into public for another hour after you use the thing.

[seanmcdirmid]

Ok, so I owned two oculus 1s (had to buy a replacement after the first one died after a year of heavy use) and suffered from none of those problems. It is even better with the quest 2. I don’t understand how you could get a mark on your face even after an hour of use, but I’ve never tried using it for more than 2 hours at a time.

You could have special circumstances: sensitive skin, especially acidic sweat, or just different head pressure tolerances. Also, I could never use the VR system if I didn’t have around 3 sweat bands on. I had to move away from simple cloths ones when I upgraded to the quest 2 because they wouldn’t fit anymore, and the smaller elastic ones don’t hold sweat well, so I had to triple up on them. Otherwise my sessions would end after around 10 minutes as I simply couldn’t keep the sweat out of my eyes anymore.